Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Stupid pizza label

There's a label on the front of my frozen pizza box that says:

"Each half pizza provides:
- 479 cal
- total sugars 7.6g
- salt 1.8g
- sat fat 9.5g
- fat 17.0g"

It doesn't look like that - it's presented as a pie chart (pizza chart?) but a very badly done one because all five slices are the same size. That's just dumb because clearly 1.8g of salt should have a considerably smaller slice than 17.0g of fat. And there must be some overlap between the calorific content and the other listed ingredients.

But that's not my main problem with this label.

My main problem is: Who the f**k would eat half a pizza? What possible use is there in knowing how much content half your meal has? Is it a bold bid to increase the mathematical ability of dieting fatties? It's not like you can easily cut a frozen pizza in half and have it on two separate nights. It's far too hard. You'd have to use a chainsaw. And I honestly don't believe that frozen pizza is the sort of food you'd ever share with a loved one. I'm pretty sure it's eaten solely by lonely singles.

Having half a pizza would be like having half a cat or half a hat or half of a haircut ie it's wrong. Idiots.

2 comments:

Agent 31 said...

Those pizzas are awfully hard, aren't they?

And a pie chart is misleading. One might think that they could simply avoid the sliver that had all the salt in it.

Chip said...

You do have half a haircut - it's only spiked on one side of your head.