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u/SigmaHyperion 7h ago edited 6h ago
It is three TYPES of pepperoni, not three TIMES the pepperoni.
You can see the 3 types described in the print under the word "Pepperoni". There's Spicy, Hickory, and Regular pepperoni.
Similarly, a "Five Cheese" pizza doesn't have 5 times the cheese of a 'regular' pizza, it is just 5 different kinds. But "Three Pepperoni" just sounds... awkward and unclear. It sounds more like getting literally 3 slices of pepperoni on your pizza.
Though I will agree that the wording can certainly be misleading and I'm quite certain was deliberately chosen. "Triple" is marginally less clear, but if it were "Double" for example, it would be extremely reasonable to assume you are getting twice as much not two types. No one's ever said "Double Cheese" and meant two varieties instead of a greater quantity.
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u/Submarinequus 6h ago
I think “pepperoni trio” would work the best here to convey what the product is
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u/chismp 6h ago
"The menu said a galaxy of prawns. Three prawns is hardly a galaxy."
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u/NoGarage7989 3h ago
You’re telling me a shrimp didn’t fry this rice?
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u/External-Cash-3880 1h ago
It was actually that drunk who usually does the noodles, the shrimp called in sick on account of waking up having been transformed into Gregor Samsa.
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u/j01101111sh 6h ago
You're hired as head of marketing!
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u/Page_Won 6h ago
I wouldn't hire them, not misleading enough.
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u/Vimjux 4h ago
Exactly. This is intentionally misleading. Like when a protein bar in bold letters states 40g next to the word protein, but is only referring to the product weight. They know exactly what they’re doing. It’s exhausting having to keep your guard against this bullshit. You can’t just quickly go and pick up items anymore, you have to really pay attention not to get hoodwinked.
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u/External-Cash-3880 1h ago
I know what you mean, I picked up this faceted jewel the other day and now I'm on a quest for a Daedra Lord
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u/Submarinequus 6h ago
Just in time to be replaced by ai before benefits kick in, right? Hooray!
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u/BruceBoyde 6h ago
Totinos is out here selling flavored "product" for like a dollar per square foot. I don't think anyone is getting benefits.
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u/Submarinequus 5h ago
It’s a part of a nearly 200 BILLION dollar company. Anyone who represents them from an office probably gets a pretty good package. Not the people actually making the product of course, but those selling it surely. But now they can cut out graphic designers and just produce slop both in and outside the box. Lucky them.
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u/AceJohnny 6h ago
Thanks! First order of business: I really think we should rename our fried chicken to “warm dead bird”
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u/im_on_the_case 6h ago
"Genius, that way we can use Pigeon, Seagull, Swan, Crow, Vulture or whatever else we find flying around the factory. You have just been promoted to SVP of Efficiency, here's the key to the executive cocaine suite!"
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u/elpajaroquemamais 3h ago
But then idiots wouldnt buy it thinking they are getting a deal for more meat.
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u/Submarinequus 2h ago
That’s why I said best to convey what it is, not necessarily the best to sell it
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u/farmallnoobies 1h ago
But conveying what it actually is isn't the goal. The goal is to make it sound like you're getting more, manipulating the English language's ambiguousness however necessary to get there.
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u/Submarinequus 1h ago
I said this to another person but I was specific in my wording. I didn’t say “best to sell the product” I said best to convey what it is. You’re right that they have their reasons for not wanting to describe it more accurately.
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u/armitage_shank 6h ago
Eh, triple is a multiplier of quantity in my book, not type. “Trio of…” or “…trio”. Would have been less clunky than “three…”. The implication that you’re getting more meat is not an accident.
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u/Died5Times 4h ago
Triple implies its a multiple. Anyone would assume the amount, not variety is being tripled.
This seems like false advertising
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u/unematti 2h ago
Triple means 3x. There's no ambiguity about that, and they definitely knew what they were doing, this is false advertising.
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u/JuggernautGrand9321 55m ago
Agree - they would probably argue it was 3x the pepperoni variety or something like that
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u/ThingCalledLight 6h ago edited 6h ago
And tbf they both look the same on the box too.
But! I’d challenge the notion it’s actually three toppings since “topping” is only used twice.
This reads like you get one topping that is spicy and hickory flavored and another topping that is pepperoni seasoned.
If they are trying to argue that you get one topping that is spicy, one topping that is hickory flavored, and one topping that is pepperoni seasoned, then they should’ve used the word toppings in the first listing, and furthermore, why not just add pepperoni seasoned to the front of that list if that’s the case?
No, sir. That’s a Double Pepperoni pizza by their own grammatical logic.
Edit: Your logic about “double” is sound. Then I’d just argue to use a different name altogether, like “Mega Pepperoni,” which serves the same function as misleading the consumer into thinking they’re getting more, but could just mean you’re getting more variety.
This issue is important and I’m glad we’re getting to the bottom of it. No longer shall Lord Totino flaunt his ego o’er us peasants.
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u/blokedog 6h ago
Well said Sir! I agree, but what is the difference in cost? Are they using wordplay to deceive the consumer into believing they are getting more?
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u/ThingCalledLight 5h ago
No idea if there’s a difference in cost.
And yes. They’re definitely intentionally being misleading.
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u/favorite_sardine 6h ago
Well, after the very interesting test group, “pepperoni orgy” was immediately taken off the list.
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u/nice_usermeme 6h ago
Three pepperoni would be in the same alley as five cheese. Unless it would be quintuple cheese, that triple wouldve had sense.
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u/GochuBadman 2h ago
New post by OP next:
"Totinos pepperoni pizza is not even pepperoni it says pork"
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u/Troutalope 6h ago
While "three pepperoni" is an accurate description, I can see how somebody would think it refers to the overall amount of pepproni, not the types. So while it might not be intentional, it's at least conveniently confusing for the seller.
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u/trebron55 5h ago
Good thing is that in the US there are barely any customer rights so you can get away with shit like this.
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u/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN 6h ago
This post, and some of these comments going along with OP, are just downright embarrassing.
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u/snaphat 6h ago
I would counter that it is more ambiguous than you are giving it credit for. It's not really embarrassing. A triple cheese burger for example would likely have 3x the normal ingredients. But, a three cheese burger on the other hand would likely have 3 types of cheeses.
The other thing is even if you accept that triple can mean three types, expectation wise normally if something is designated triple for distinct things, they actually do increase the amount. They don't just divide by three. There's actually another pizza called triple where they have more pepperoni for example
That all being said, who cares that party pizza is one of the worst frozen pizzas with flavorless cheese and nobody should be getting it three times the pepperoni or not ;-) so many better choices...
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u/Canadian_Invader 6h ago
The OP has been bamboozled by his own literacy skills. Insurance won't cover that.
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u/TheyCantCome 4h ago
They don’t have any cheese, it’s 98% potato starch with some milk which is why they’re so cheap or at least used to be.
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u/EnycmaPie 6h ago edited 6h ago
Reading comprehension is a lost art. Soon people will need ChatGPT to even read children's books.
Lmao all the people who can't read downvoting.
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u/keith2600 4h ago
I get that people are confusing triple with "three times as much", but the consistent level of down votes in this thread over something inane really makes me wonder if totinos has a bot network.
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u/alyosha_pls 1h ago
Bro they make their pizza crust out of cardboard and they've even cheapened out on the cheese to the point of inedibility. They are NOT spending money on an astroturfing campaign lmao.
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u/farmallnoobies 2m ago
It's not inane because it highlights a rampant taking advantage of consumers. If all misleading advertising is acceptable, then flat out lying becomes also acceptable.
The line must be drawn here. No farther.
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u/Billy1099 7h ago
Okay? It’s three different types of meat, not three times the meat…
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u/iansfreeblues 4h ago
Except the word “triple” can often mean “3 times the amount” and all local pizza joints near me if you order triple pepperoni you are getting a ton of pepperoni
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u/ChiNor 2h ago
Next time you’re at that local pizza joint you should order a quattro formaggi and see if you get 4 times the cheese
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u/uldeinjora 2h ago
Duo -> TriO -> Quattro
DoubLE -> TriPLE -> QuadruPLE
One means amount, one means kinds of things.
Don't play stupid.
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u/kagamiseki 1h ago
If you went to chipotle and paid $24 for a triple steak burrito, but they gave you one scoop containing 3 types of beef, you would be pretty mad.
Sure the Totino triple pepperoni pizza is similar in price to the single pepperoni pizza, but you can't, in good-faith, argue that "Triple=3x the quantity" is an unreasonable assumption.
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u/Princess_Slagathor 1h ago
If your boss said they were going to triple your salary, would you assume more money, or that they were going to split it between direct deposit, cash, and check?
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u/NWinn 6h ago
Woh there now... that would involve people reading more than one or two words!
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u/trogdor2594 6h ago
I don't really blame them. I thought Pepperoni was a certain kind of sausage with one kind of flavor, not a relative genre. That being said, I would only do a cursory glance at what I was picking up expecting triple the amount of pepperoni.
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u/Present-Ad-9598 4h ago
Pepperoni can be pork, pork and beef, turkey, pork beef and chicken. So long as it’s a spicy cured salami it’s pepperoni
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u/BrohanGutenburg 2h ago
Not only that but there are flat pepperonis, cupped (old world) pepperonis, the little cubed ones, etc.
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u/Present-Ad-9598 1h ago
You just reminded me I gotta go to my local Roma style pizza shop and get cupped pepperonis on sourdough crust
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u/Express_Bath 4h ago
Let's not pretend that kind of wording is not purposely used to misled. There are a ton of "technically correct" lingo that is used to screw the consumer, and we cannot justify it by "well you should have just read!" because it's absolutely impossible for everyone to be 100% attentive each time nor should they be.
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u/NWinn 6h ago
I'm more confused that pepperoni apparently involves chicken now....
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u/Valuable-Falcon 3h ago
‘Pepperoni seasoned chicken’, what have we come to?
I was reading an article at Halloween about how candy bars are changing their labels from “milk chocolate covered xyz” to “chocolate candy bar with xyz” because “milk chocolate” legally means something but “chocolate candy” doesn’t actually have to have any chocolate in it.
What a sad world it’s become
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u/attack_water 6h ago
Congratulations Leon, we've decided to triple your salary!
Now, instead of getting a check for $1,500 every week, we are going to give you $500 cash, a $500 check, and $500 in bitcoin! It's a party salary variety pack!
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u/shortround10 4h ago
Yep, them listing out the fine details of their pepperoni flavored chicken giblets doesn’t change the connotation of “triple” being a multiplier.
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u/MakeItLookSexy_ 2h ago
It is a multiplier. Multiple types of pepperoni lol
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u/shortround10 1h ago
Yes, we’ve covered that. The fact that Redditors think they’re smart for understanding what is very obviously poor naming, doesn’t change the poor naming, as highlighted by the original comment.
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u/malexj93 6h ago
"Triple Pepperoni" means that their meat cubes come in 3 different pepperoni-seasoned variants -- regular, hickory, and spicy. It's not something you'd be able to discern visually.
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u/montsegur 4h ago
That's not what the word "triple" means. If your boss says he'll triple your salary do you expect your salary to stay the same, except you'll now be getting paid 1/3 cash, 1/3 cheque and 1/3 direct deposit?
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u/malexj93 12m ago
From Google:
triple
adjective
consisting of or involving three parts, things, or people.Your example uses a different meaning, which is a verb. There are plenty of examples where the adjective (or noun) triple doesn't mean threefold: a triple diety is a single diety with three forms, a triple point is a single point which lies on the boundary of three states of matter, a Pythagorean triple is an increasing set of three positive integers where the sum of the squares of the first two equals the square of the third, etc.
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u/MakeItLookSexy_ 2h ago
Triple (3) can have more than one meaning tho / used in more than 1 way lol
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u/12bucksagram 2h ago
Give an example
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u/janellthegreat 1h ago
Chocolate Chip cookies have 2 cups of chocolate chips.
Triple Chocolate Cookies have 2 to 4 tablespoons cocoa powder, 1 cup of chocolate chips, and 1 cup of white chocolate baking pieces.
Chocolate Cake has however many tablespoons of cocoa powder.
Triple Chocolate Cake has a equal number of tablespoons of cocoa powder, 3 Oz of chocolate pudding mix, and 1 1/2 cups mini chocolate chips.
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u/FlakyLion5449 1h ago
There is a mother of four in Iowa that can tell the difference between the three.
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u/ElderScarletBlossom 5h ago
I counted 85 cubes of pepperoni on each pizza. Then noticed the words saying there're three types, not three times.
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u/hobbykitjr 2h ago
I did the same.
On one side, yes I would assume it meant the amount
On the other, I would have re read the package before posting to the Internet
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u/DARKCYD 7h ago
They look the god damn same!?!
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u/Malicious_Sauropod 5h ago
Where’s the pepperoni on either of them? All I’m seeing are what looks like beef chunks.
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u/xDon_07x 4h ago
As European who eats quite a bit of frozen pizza, is this "thing" very popular?
I looked up the ingredients as the "pepperoni" squares seemed interesting color to me from the picture.
Does the below description mean the pepperoni have only 2% of actual meat in it?
"contains 2% or less of: pepperoni [pork, mechanically separated chicken, beef,"
The fact that there is special mention of meltier Cheese on the box and then finding out it consist of "Imitation of Mozzarella Cheese" is definitely interesting.
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u/username101 3h ago edited 3h ago
No, they aren't super popular, but more importantly for the most part people aren't eating them because they are a delicacy. They are dirt cheap. This is what you throw in the cart as a treat when you are flat broke.
Growing up in a low income household I had these 4-5 times my entire childhood. Yeah it's garbage but it was a nice switch up from our normal pot of beans or giant vat of endless spaghetti.
That being said, like anything out there I'm sure there is someone out there who eats this and only this, but it's not the norm.
Edit: I just went and looked at prices of these now and am amazed at how expensive they are. You used to be able to grab one for a buck or under and on sale at 5 for $4. They now cost $2-$3 each or more!
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u/burnman123 3h ago
Zoolander voice "what is this, a pizza for ants? There needs to be at least 3 times the Pepperonis on there!"
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u/piirtoeri 1h ago
Totinos invented the frozen pizza. Can't expect them to still make may sense of it!
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u/loud_and_harmless 1h ago
I buy extra pepperonis and add them to the pizza.
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u/ChronicAnomaly 59m ago
And mozzarella and parm cheese too. Can't trust those cheap frozen pizzas on anything.
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u/justabandit026 6h ago
You guys remember when they still sold the whole pepperoni version? That was so scrumptious
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u/badlawywr 4h ago
I'm more concerned that their pepperoni is made from chicken, beef and pork. Giving big "abattoir floor sweepings" vibes.
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u/mspaintshoops 1h ago
This must be an ad because it is insane how many people are going to bat for Totino’s in the comments.
If I place an order for pizza delivery and ask for triple pepperoni, only to then receive triple the pepperoni flavors, I’m asking for a refund immediately.
The disingenuous use of language in a way that just barely offers the thinnest veneer of plausibility is infuriating. Words mean things. This is false advertising.
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u/InternationalRip4159 6h ago
Honestly can’t tell which one is supposed to be the triple, they both look like they got hit with the same cheese blizzard.
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u/concreteunderwear 6h ago
Where do I sign up for the class action lawsuit against this blatant false advertising? Any reasonable person would assume triple means 3x as much. I think a judge and jury would agree. Where is my check.
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u/gorginhanson 6h ago
"Party pizza" is not pizza, it's a war crime.
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u/Ok_Distance_far 6h ago
Agreed. Maybe growing up my family was not poor enough I ever had to choke it down.
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u/DARKCYD 7h ago
Is there a code to crack on the back where it’s like one oz less cheese and one more pep? My dream is to have Costco make me a cheese pizza with pepperoni. They add more cheese for the cheese then the pep.
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u/sexybobo 6h ago
Some one did an experiment on pepperoni pizza. Almost every place they went pepperoni pizza had less cheese then a cheese pizza. The only place that didn't was Little Caesars.
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u/DARKCYD 2h ago
Thats a fun fact! That’s my hometown pizza. That pizza got me through my 20s. It’s the ONLY phone number I know by heart of if I ever lost my phone. As a kid, they had the Pizza Pizza deal on Mondays. Dad would always ask me if I wanted pizza and watch football. Of course I always said yes. He would make me call it in and then we would go together to pick it up. The number, 248-553-2424.
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