The Big Lou 42"
Posted Oct 27, 2011, 7:00 PM UTC
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Where is this?
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San Antonio, TX. I believe that Man vs. Food showed up there.
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I love that there is a 37" pizza in addition to the 42". Because sometimes 42" might be too much, but only by a little.
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"Yea, what's your largest size pizza?"
"42""
"JESUS CHRIST, do you have anything smaller?"
"37"?"
"That sounds about right...how long will it take?"
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Watch the video on their website. You can only get the 42" for dine in because it won't fit through the door. You can get the 37" to go.
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Actually the area of pizza increases quadratically with respect to the radius, so those five inches buy you a lot of extra pizza.
Area of 37" pizza = pi*(18.5)^2 = 1075.21 in^2
Area of 42" pizza = pi*(21)^2 = 1385.44 in^2
Just for comparison, a 19 inch pizza has an area of 283.52 in^s.
TL;DR: The extra 5 inches buy you more than a whole 19" pizza's worth of pizza.
EDIT: I believe the appropriate way to describe the amount of pizza you get with that 42 incher is "a fucking fuckton of fucking pizza".
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It doesn't sound like it's much bigger/smaller, but the 42" is almost 30% more pizza!
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That is correct. I was actually there when Man vs. Food was.
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Wasn't that "Big Pie in the Sky" in Atlanta? It's funny watching them open the double doors to get a pizza out of the restaurant.
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He did Big Lou's too
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awesome
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???
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Greatest pizza in San Antonio!!!!!!!! http://imgur.com/a/kvgfW
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Haha your pictures are much better than mine, all this karma should be yours.
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that is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen covered in cheese
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And it tastes just as amazing as it looks.
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it tastes big?
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Best use of giant-ray ever.
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Did you guys finish it?
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We almost always do. We've done it with as few as four people, but we like to get 8+ to go so we don't kill ourselves haha.
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Pizza is my favorite food on the planet. If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, PIZZA. No question.
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I don't think anyone can not like pizza.
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Maniac Magee is allergic to pizza. :(
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I know a girl who doesn't like pizza.
We're not very close.
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I've never understood this. Aren't the slices so stupidly large that they're neigh impossible to effectively eat? Don't they flop every which way and eventually devolve into some kind of savage display? Then again, I find novelty food in general stupid. Oh shit, eight patties on a burger? Yeah, fitting that in my mouth is going to be awesome.
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The slices are pretty slim so you can fold them in half though some use a knife and fork. It's not difficult to eat at all.
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But isn't it cut like a normal pizza? Meaning your slice would be 21 inches long? How do you hold that?
I've never eaten there, so I can't really speculate on the quality of the pizza, but the bigger is better thing generally seems like a gimmick to me. If it's an otherwise excellent pizza place, I don't want a slice that takes two hands to hold. If it's okay pizza but really big, I don't think I'd be there in the first place. I don't understand the whole concept.
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Well when I first start eating it I pick up the side I'm eating from (leaving most of the pizza on the plates). Hopefully that makes some sense, I'm not really sure how else to phrase that. As far as quality, I think it's my favorite but people have different preferences, especially when it comes to pizza. I suppose the concept is generally to go as a big group to a pizza place then just hang out and eat. I totally understand why someone wouldn't want to go, everyone is different.
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It's not that I don't want to go, I just don't understand pizza of that size. Couldn't you order two 24" that would fit the same bill, and be able to get reasonable topping selection? Much less not needing to leave pizza on the plate. Again, it's me, and I understand the novelty (particularly if you've been out drinking) of huge food, it just seems kind of stupid for the average person.
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only in america
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America fuck yeah!
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Tomorrows lunch = pizza
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How much would one cost?
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I think it's around $50 for the cheese pizza, I'm not sure about when you add toppings.
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Where may I get this amazing food product?
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At Big Lou's in San Antonio, Texas.
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SO how many of you eat one? At $50 + whatever tax I sure hope it is worth it. Here at my house I can get two 16in Cheese pizza for $13 and they are damned good.
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We like to go with a pretty big group (8+) but we've finished it with 4 people before.
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Hmmm 4 people for $50 as much as that sounds like a grande ole time seems a tad over priced for that amount of people. 8 is a nice medium but it is just pizza after all. How good it is? Is it quality or is it just the gimmick surrounding it?
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With this 42" pizza, you get 7 times the area of a 16" pizza, so that's almost the same price per square inch!
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Using real math would conclude that to be true. You are very correct. good ole 3.14 really what matters most is Quality and if he says its good then price is less notable.
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Tried going last friday. They were having a biker rally. The wait for the pizza was projected to be well over 5 hours. We skipped it.
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Yeah, when you go you have to expect at least an hour wait and that's on a good day. Ever since they finished that parking lot, there's exponentially more people going.
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San Antonio native here... If you're in town...try it. You will not be disappointed.
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That pizza looks so appetizing when it is away from someone who is attempting to eat the whole thing.
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Bonus: 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything (LUE).
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Not as long as both of my 24" pythons, brother!
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FoodPorn !
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wow! double wow! fat fucks of America rejoice.Just got off a 12 hour shift as a nurse and my back appreciates all the extra calories you ingest to be cool. Look forward to taking care of all your future needs.
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Thanks! And me too! Give Danger a belly rub for me!
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LOU! You don't know where I've been, Lou!!!
Who am I? There's a sign on the front that says Big Lou's. I'm fucking Lou, who the fuck are you?
hey! ive been there! upvote for san antonio redditor
I don't know what you are talking about, but thanks for the upvote!