Pluggers by Rick McKee for April 16, 2014

But what does he want as toppings? Me, I’ll go for sausage, onion, bell pepper and mushroom.

A larger Pizza ia almost always the better value: .http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/26/282132576/74-476-reasons-you-should-always-get-the-bigger-pizza

Some are lovers of crust, he must be one of those crusty old guys.

It also depends on how those other pizza stores make their sizes as well.

Don’t expect the kid to understand

I have actually done similar calculations like this.

My husband will do this with gas. He will go out of his way to save one cent on a gallon. I tell him one cent is like paying 10 cents more. It just doesn’t register. My favorite pizza is thick crust pepperoni, mushroom and black olive.

Pepperoni, olives, mushrooms, possibly extra cheese. Thin crust preferred.

Get the large pizza, but tell them to cut it into only 6 pieces because you can’t eat 8.

Maybe a small is a 12", and a large is a 17", in which case the two smalls are 288 x PI/4 square inches, while the large is 289 x PI/4

Hmmmm: Why does this comic strip look familar? This reminds me of Tom Lehrer explaining how to do “New Math”. It’s like doing base 8 instead of base 10. It’s just doing it with 2 fingers missing. Either way, I don’t the kid would understand it.