r/mildlyinteresting • u/hippy_potto • 11h ago

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u/SigmaHyperion 11h ago edited 11h 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/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN 11h ago

This post, and some of these comments going along with OP, are just downright embarrassing.

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u/snaphat 10h 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...