Why does pizza come in round boxes?

Hi friend, so glad you said it was a good !question, thought it might get me banned as being an inane one liner. Excellent response re the economics of square boxes. Anyway it's got me thinking, aren't hat boxes round? I've never been into hats as they mess your hair up but sure they are round, could that be because the hats cost more than the pizza?

As per usual you are right about hat boxes being round .... and as for this being an inane question. Well an occassional fun question which also provokes inane thought is good for your soul. Now where's my slice of pizza

per usual you are right about hat boxes being round Funny how these little questions do get fast responses but my friends here still have the knack of turning them into interesting discussions which provoke thought. As for your slice of pizza I am considering trying a new pizza place complete with wood oven tonight, on the invite of a friendly fisherman. I have to weigh up the pizza against the inevitable kamaki but if the pizza wins I'll save you a slice, hope you like pepperoni and onion

Hi Jacksy, excellent answer considering you've just woken up, you could be right. But if it was a round box it could easily be slid onto a round plate!

Thanks for agreeing with me.

Hello dpk, now that's an interesting thought and when I think about it it is actually true. When I stop for a boogatsa it is oblong with the obligatory four corners, and I don't really like the corners as it tends to be dryer pastry with no cream filling reaching into it. So I usually pull the top off it before eating and leave the bottom ones as they are big enough that I don't need to eat the whole thing. But I can't say it is some childhood influence with me, I think it is just really because I don't want any bit of my boogatsa without the delicious filling and it just doesn't reach the corners.

Hi friend, I can't believe my ten year old has started all this with all these brilliant brains now working overtime. Jaxcksy already thought of the same answer as you so you'll need to come back with another one, same answers not allowed.

Ah, sorry, i didn`t notice Jaxcksy`s answer, it was a near repetition by mistake, but, if you notice carefully, my answer is quite different from the Jaxcksy`s. Now, i don`t get any more reasons for this. If i get, i will certainly let you know. Happy Mylotting!!

Hi again Jaxsky, brainstorming indeed, maybe I should encourage my 10 year old to think up more fascinating questions. Now I can never order a pizza to be delivered as it wouldn't be in any shape at all when it arrived due to being bumped around on pot holed roads and guaranted to be cold on arrival. If I do go into my local pizza place the pizza is definitely served on plates but they do have square boxes for collectable take outs, maybe I'll engage the owner in this question and see what he comes up with.

Haha too true, I'd suggest if you 10 yr old is hitting you with these 'Gems' then get him logged on here! :) Or you can continue to steal his thunder:P A very good question though, reward him....food maybe......something round:)

I'm afraid he did get on here himself, briefly I should add as children aren't allowed and he could have got me banned. He added lots of car and computer game interests to my lists and typed up a few questions before I caught him at it. Fortunately his spelling passed as mine but our interests were not really the same so I had to go back in and delete them all. I told him to dictate the comment to your first response and he returned with "that's right". I told him I needed more and he said that's it, I quit

Hi Ace-Anime, a gravitational answer, that's a good one, i hadn't considered the weight of the actual pizza being directed in a certain direction but will take your word for it. I don't agree with a square box being easier to open and if both types of boxes were carried flat I don't see the difference there either. thanks for responding to this.

But it wasn't until the 1889 that the tomato sauce was added. True mozzarella cheese came from China at taht time so probably was pretty expensive and hard to come by. Tomatoes were unknown in Europe until the Spanish conquistadors took them to Spain. For a long time they were thought to be poisonous. I love learning food facts. Thank your son for giving you the idea for this discussion

Hi deebomb, I don't really get that, a round box would have nearly as much room to print on especially if it was bigger than the pizza. We don't have any pizza chains round here in this area, a couple of taverna's do pizzas and the best ones are done in the wood ovens. Did you know it is a fact well known to Greeks that they actually invented pizza? I'm sure my son was taught that in school.

Hi deebomb, I have passed on your thanks to my son, no doubt now he's going to be coming up with lots of ideas. I actually thought this would be dismissed as a one liner with no responses. I had no idea mozzarella came from China! I always thought it was an Italian thing. I love foodie facts as well, I started a topic a while back about what foreigners think of what other people eat whilst in said foreign country and it bombed but the idea was fascinating to me. Thanks for the info deebomb, this is getting interesting.

Now that is a true and good answer Jo.

Hi zhuhufien, the cost of the packaging has been raised many times so far, as has the storage of boxes in flat piles but never mind it's nice as always to hear your input my friend. The amazing thing is that I actually made an error when typing and unwittingly wrote why does pizza come in round boxes, when I meant to say square, an no one has noticed as everyone of course expected to see the word square.

Hi kprofgames, well that's a first. I've never heard of warming bags! Pizza isn't delivered locally here but in the big town there are many pizza delivery men tearing round on motorbikes, helmets on their arms and pizzas on the back. In town they have special pizza places I believe but locally there are a couple of tavernas which offer pizzas but it tends to be late evening when it cools down enough to light the pizza ovens.

Hi skycritter, thank goodness you read my whole introduction and actually mention something else alongside boxes, well done to you. We don't get bread sticks served with anything out here, just azle basket of bread. But the taverna that has the good pizzas goes one step further and sort of toasts the bread with olive oil drizzled onto it and brings it with a bowl of olives. Really good.

Hi ethereal, yes the stack of square boxes is probably why, but it would be just as easy to have a stack of round boxes I believe. The harder to make round boxes has been raised several times already and seems to be perceived as the main reason why the pizzas come in square boxes rather than round boxes. Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Hi busky, well I'm still almost certain that somewhere I've had square pizza rather than round. I think it must have been at one of these big Greek do's where someone perhaps cooked it in a big square tray then cut it into pieces, it must be much harder to cook a round pizza at home than a square one. In fact if they were made in a tin they could be any shape at all.

Hi homeshoppers, is that from the shopping channels ? We've had the cost effective answer already but you're the first to mention the need for a special machine and the need to protect the pizza.

lol... yes there is... actually i just heared it before...

Hi nixxi, thanks for saving me, after the first few responses I was struggling to respond to the same answers here, I needed some originality. Now I've only ever seen pizza cut into triangular pieces and I've probably never encountered a large pizza as I struggle to eat more than a couple of slices of a normal one. Do they really do that? Of course they can't, you can't cut something that is round into square pieces unless you squared off all the edges to start with - you nearly got me there!

Hi nitu, indeed it was a rather silly question but it has drawn you, along with many others, to actually respond to it. Initially the answers which were given were interesting enough to start a discussion rather than just a list of answers. An answer does exist to this question and a child often poses a question which has probably never been given much thought before at all and he has enjoyed seeing the responses. I could then pose the question why do people bother to respond to silly questions, is it because the one liner is perceived as the easy option to respond to. Anyway thanks for not replying that square boxes are easier to make, it is getting old fast

Hi shumanaja. if the circular box being more difficult to make than the square one is a silly answer then join the crowd of sillies on here, this answer is coming up again and again now and it's getting difficult to think of something original to answer with - I blame my child now - how could a ten year old come up with such a popular question?

Hi koalapenguin, I would agree that generally boxes have four corners, but only if they are square or oblong of course. If a box was round it would'nt have any corners at all and of course hat boxes are round without any corners and someone has managed to make those and manufactured them. Maybe we should recylce hat boxes into pizza boxes.

Hi radx, another one with a square pizza scenario but I really can't see the problem with eating a square pizza, something square wouldn't look at all awkward if cut into halves, we often halve our toast after all, but then again you would argue that the majority cut their toast cross wise. Actually sandwiches do look better cut cross wise so maybe I concede the point.

Hello anoopsareen, actually pizza does not come in round boxes but square ones even thought the pizza is round so I think perchance you may have misundertood the question but it does not matter at all. You have given the answer to why pizza ought to come in a round box rather than a square one and I agree that it would receive less damage.