Can you imagine anything more romantic, personal, and memorable than a proposal at a pizza chain? Pizza Hut is offering a deluxe Valentine’s Day proposal package that includes an engagement ring (no diamonds though -it’s ruby), photographer, videographer, limousine, fireworks, and a ten dollar pizza! The cost? Just $10,010. Better hurry and reserve your package, because they are only selling ten of them. But hey, if you miss out on the deal, you can a) make your proposal a surprise, 2) do it in a more personal place, and c) save enough money to pay for a nice wedding and/or honeymoon. Link -via Jezebel

Sure he looks cute, but the toppings are far from evenly spread…and how on earth would you divide it up between your guests? Worst of all, it probably is covered in cat hair.

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By now, you’ve all heard about cupcakes and pies in jars, but can classic pizza pies be made in a jar? The concept is the same, just add your dough and other ingredients and bake. While I love pizza and the cupcakes and pies in a jar sound tasty, something about pizza in a jar just seems soggy.

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If Garfield were real, this brilliant combination of pizza and lasagna would be enough to give him a heart attack…assuming he didn’t already have one as a result of his terrible diet and lethargic lifestyle. The idea’s pretty simple, just pile some thin crust pizzas into a casserole dish with a little extra sauce and cheese and voila…pizzagna. It would go great with your pizza beer.

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Love pizza and beer? Well then, why not combine them with Mamma Mia! Pizza Beer? It’s brewed with basil, oregano, tomato and garlic flavors…yummy?

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Meet Rita Lawlor, a seven-year-old girl from Sarasota, Florida, who recently became the youngest person to receive an award from her local fire department for saving her mom's life:

When seven-year-old Rita Lawlor couldn't wake her mother up, she did what many have probably never thought of doing.

She slapped her with a slice of pizza. [...]

When this didn't work Rita realised her mother may be in serious trouble and rang for help.

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Chinese steamed buns stuffed with meats or other delicious fillings are always a treat, but Japan might have just upped the ante with their new pizza buns found at the local 7-Elevens.While the reviewer at Serious Eats doesn’t seem to be too fond of the actual product, I think we can all agree that the idea has a lot of great potential.

What do you guys think? Yum or yuck?

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But why should we wait for the Super Bowl? When you have recipes like Smokey Jalapeño Cheese Dip, Spicy Bacon Cowboy Chili Cheese Fries, Barbeque Beef Pizza, and Bacon Explosion, you want to try them out now! Shown here is the Black Bean-Habanero Lime Dip, with looks as yummy as it sounds. Link

Why make one? As President Kennedy said of a somewhat similar ambition, we Americans do great things like this “not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” Nick of Dude Foods — the man behind the chocolate covered deep fried triple double Oreos — added nineteen cheeses to a Domino’s Wisconsin 6-Cheese Pizza. View his list of cheeses and more photos at the link.

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It's certainly inconvenient if your password is hacked and your identity stolen. But if the CIA's password is hacked, it may mean a death sentence for its covert operatives.

Recently, there was a huge setback for the CIA when its spies in Iran and Lebanon were caught because their password was cracked. What was that password? PIZZA:

In Beirut, two Hezbollah double agents pretended to go to work for the CIA. Hezbollah then learned of the restaurant where multiple CIA officers were meeting with several agents, according to the four current and former officials briefed on the case. The CIA used the codeword "PIZZA" when discussing where to meet with the agents, according to U.S. officials. Two former officials describe the location as a Beirut Pizza Hut. A current US official denied that CIA officers met their agents at Pizza Hut.

From there, Hezbollah's internal security arm identified at least a dozen informants, and the identities of several CIA case officers.

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Why? Because life is short. Live it to the fullest. Also, that’s all that’s in the pantry. While hunkered down in his home in New York City during Hurricane Irene, Adam Kuban made do with his available resources to create this culinary masterpiece. Bravo, sir.

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Red bell peppers, olives, mushrooms and whatever that yellow stuff is have never looked so menacing on a pizza before.

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Every year, we announce the results of Danielle Spencer’s Jell-O Turkey Mold Competition and for those of you who have been waiting to see the results this year, they’re finally up. Here’s the #2 winner, entitled School Lunch. Just look at that delicious vegetable serving.

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This is why I like thick, soft crusts over thin, crunchy ones. They’re so much more comfortable. Extra cheese is nice for that gooey feeling around my limbs, too. Etsy seller brookish7 made this sleeping bag with all of our favorite toppings for her BFA thesis.

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Now this is super-sizing! Behold the Pizza-Size Burger from Burger King of Japan:

Wide is what you get with Burger King Japan's 8.8 inch (22cm) diameter Pizza-Size Burger. Note that only the buns are extra-wide, in between are four regular Whopper-sized beef patties arranged in a four-leaf-clover pattern. The fillings and toppings are also normally sized but at least they're provided in abundance.

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Who knew big cats were so into pizza?…Or at least the residual smell of it left on the boxes.

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Employees at the pizza parlor noticed that their new customer looked “agitated,” but were not otherwise suspicious. He ordered a beer and some pizza, and then had a seat in the back of the dining room. According to an employee, “As he sat down a cop walked in and saw the guy. Then the cop asked me if the guy had been here that long, and I told him 10 minutes tops…. That’s when the rest of the cops came in.”

You may be thinking, that’s a pretty good response time. It is, but on the other hand the cops did not have too far to travel, since the Yuma police station is basically also right next door to the bank:

The story is very similar to another robbery in San Francisco, which you can also read about at Lowering the Bar. Link -via Boing Boing

This video is an ad for the Korean chain Mr. Pizza. Viewers said this must be a product of a US agency, as Korean advertising is rarely humorous or self-deprecating. It seems they are right. Link -via Metafilter

It looks like a pizza and is made from a bunch of pizza-flavored ingredients, but it certainly isn’t a pizza and almost definitely tastes nothing like a pizza. This “meta-pizza”is made from Pizza Supreme Doritos, Pizza Pringles, Flavor Blasted Xplosive Pizza Goldfish Crackers, Pepperoni Pizza flavored Combos and Pizza-flavored Tribe hummus. Yummy? I’m not so sure.

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A while ago, I posted an article about someone requesting a picture of Yoda riding a tauntaun in the “special instructions” section of Domino’s online ordering form. Well, they’ve done it again as you can see in this great pic where they’ve drawn a giraffe fighting a unicorn with the wrong scale.

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According to a trade organization for the pizza industry, America gets about 100 acres of this food on a typical day:

For those of you yet to take lunch, we think it’s the perfect time for a hunger-inducing stat of the day. The Daily tells us, in a profile of healthy pizza purveyor Naked Pizza, that the United States pizza industry “serves about 100 acres of pizza a day.” This figure comes from the National Association of Pizza Operators, an organization that aims “to create and foster a community of independent and small chain pizzeria operators and their industry suppliers where doing business with one another is mutually beneficial.”

If this includes Chicago-style pizza, then the measurement really should be in cubic feet. Link -via First Things | Photo by Flickr user roolrool used under Creative Commons license

Fresh Slice Record Player Pizza Cutter – $11.95

Are you feeling melancholy?  Are you lamenting your lost youth?  It might be time to grab your Fresh Slice Record Player Pizza Cutter from the NeatoShop and drown your sorrows in some store bought cheesy goodness. You may be old, balding, and have a hint of gout, but vinyl will always be king.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fabulous Cooking Gadgets!

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Michelangelo of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was noted for his preferences for grotesque pizza toppings, such as chocolate sprinkles with clam sauce. These dedicated fans took up the onerous task of preparing and then eating 29 of Michelangelo’s recipies. Let us salute their courage.

Content warning: increasingly foul language through the video (which is perhaps understandable, given what they’re consuming).

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No Royal Wedding is complete without pizza! Papa John jumped on the Royal Wedding bandwagon with this solid entry: Prince William and Kate Middleton Pizza: Link

When you order a pizza online, a lot of the places have a text area for you to include any special instructions you might have, like extra sauce or a code to get in to your apartment complex. When the blogger who writes for Awesome Robo got to this section on the Domino’s online order form though, he decided to ask for a drawing of Yoda riding a tauntaun. Surprisingly, the Domino’s staff was happy to oblige with this little doodle.

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A fire alarm alerted police to a break-in at Paesan’s Pizza in Rotterdam, New York about 1AM Friday. They found Timothy J. Cipriani wedged in an air duct with his legs dangling over a fryer in which the oil was still hot!

Cipriani allegedly told police he was trying to crawl inside the pizza parlor when he became trapped in the narrow vent. He was charged with burglary and possession of burglar tools.

Brown said a second person may have been involved, but disappeared before officers arrived.

Cipriani broke into the restaurant by first scaling a nearby tree and traversing the roof, Brown said. Once on the roof, he used a hammer to smash open air ducts.

Police took several photographs at the scene and shared them with reporters.

Police took 30 minutes to free Cipriani, who was taken, still covered in grease, to the Schenectady County jail. Link -via Arbroath

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How was he caught?

Chitwood said two of his officers happened to be eating lunch in  Verona Pizza on West Chester  when Galiatsatos, 47, entered the business carrying a bag and then asked to use the bathroom.

When the owner of the shop inspected the bathroom, he found footprints on the toilet. The owner checked it out and discovered a bag stashed in the ceiling of the bathroom.

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Every day for the last three years, Jean Wilson has called her local Domino’s pizza place. She always orders a large pepperoni pizza. Suddenly she stopped calling.

Jean’s regular pizza delivery driver, Susan Guy, became very concerned and went to check on her. Susan knocked on the door and banged on the window of Jean’s house. She even went and talked to neighbors. Finally she called the police.

Guy quickly called 911.  When police arrived, the broke down the door to Wilson’s home, and found her lying on a floor inside.

They soon learned that Wilson had fallen on Saturday, and couldn’t get over to a telephone to call for help.  Investigators said it’s possible that her pizza-only diet may have saved her life.

Nick Kenney of WMCTV has more: Link

Snifty Scented Pen – $1.95

Is all the joy being slowly sucked from your life?  Well, the Snifty Scented Pen from the NeatoShop is here to put a little fun back in your day.  Nothing says I am desperately clinging onto the happiness of my youth like a pizza smelling pen.  Oh, pizza smell how you bring me back to elementary school!

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more pen-tastic fun!

Jen made little pizzas that resemble the flags of some of the countries she’s visited. Not only do they look like flags, they are topped with foods representative of that nation’s cuisine. She shows us how she created a few of them at Tiny Urban Kitchen. Link -via Everlasting Blort

Megan Mountford made lollipop-sized pizzas. Each one is about three inches across. At the link, you can find detailed instructions about how to make your own, as well as how to make calzone lollipops.

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Artist John Riepenhoff and pizza chef Jason Todd made the above work entitled “Physical Pizza Networking Theory.” In an interview about it, Riepenhoff said:

Physical Pizza Networking Theory is meant to address the ontology of the social as material in art. Using mise en abyme to illuminate a relationship between the layers of material and our experience, and meta symbolic experience of pizza as a hearth, as meeting point, as cultural convergence, as party, as sculpture, as gift, as collage, as pie, and individuals as ingredients within pieces of a social pie adding up to something greater than their whole in a deliciously simple way. This work of art celebrates the event and temporal moments of art-as-happening, document, and experience. Take a slice, be a part of Physical Pizza Networking Theory.

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Without a doubt, this has got to be the world’s most awesome pizza oven. Adam Lindsley of This Is Pizza blog took this photo of a pizzaria in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:

In pizzadom, wood-oven bakers refer to the cooker’s opening as the "oven mouth." This might be taking the term a little too far. But it also might be the coolest pizza oven ever.

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Burger King has just released a new food item that will surely have purists (and perhaps normal people) seething in rage: the bastard child of the unholy mating of burger and pizza:

The New York Pizza Burger ($12.99) is a 9-and-a-half-inch wide burger made with four Whopper patties topped with pepperoni, mozzarella cheese, marinara sauce, and Tuscan pesto sauce.

Link – Thanks Larry!

Update 8/20/10 – Oops, the original posts and photos are from Me So Hungry and A Hamburger Today – Thanks Robyn!

Deliver Me To Hell is an interactive zombie movie that contains the things you love: zombies, violence, mild gore, scantily-clad women, iphones, and pizza. You decide which directions the plot takes, and if you don’t like how the story turns out, just start over again. I wish life were like that. Produced by Hell Pizza of New Zealand. Link (embedded YouTube clip)

Pizzacone is a new Manhattan restaurant where you can buy the contents of a pizza stuffed into a cone:

The dough cones are shipped to Pinto daily from a Connecticut bakery, and each Pizzacone is made to order at the counter; you tell them what ingredients to add, and then it’s cooked in the oven for five minutes. The result, according to one early guinea pig, is as convenient as it is delicious. “Tastes like a pizza,” Victor Nelli, a TV producer, tells the Daily News. “You can totally walk with it, and you don’t have the oil dripping all over you.”

What say you, Neatoramanauts: awesome or disgusting? Or both?

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I can’t compete with John Farrier’s discovery of the Hello Kitty Ferrari, but how about this one instead? Behold, the incredibly cute Hello Kitty Mini Pizza by Flickr user LoveBones – via Hello Kitty Hell

The quality of the ingredients is very important. I have scoured the lands, trying every brand of flour, tomato and cheese I could find. I’ve had cheese flown in, paying $75 for enough cheese for just one round of pies, I’ve even made my own cheese from scratch, starting with just milk. I’ve tasted every brand of tomato I could find and peeled and blanched my own from local tomato growers. And theses things do make a difference. But there’s just no getting around the simple truth of ‘the big three’ – High heat, good natural yeast, and mixing technique. Getting these right will cover a lot of sins and getting these wrong will screw up the best ingredients.

Varasano even praises and ranks other pizzerias and gives directions to them! Link -via reddit

Semde’s boss, Frank Grecco — a retired NYPD detective with 22 years on the force — called the teen “very courageous” but added, “I told him, ‘Next time, leave the pizza!’

“He now realizes that he may have done something a little bit crazy,” said Grecco, who owns the East Harlem Famous Famiglia.

Semde agreed.

“It’s crazy. I think it’s better not to fight,” he said.

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Inspired by the book Pizza Fun by Judy Bastyra, Flickr user hale_popoki (that’s Hawaiian for "Cat House") made this Cat Pizza. Actually, it’s supposed to be a brown tiger pizza, but it sure looks more like a cat. I can haz pawperroni?

Urlesque blog has many more examples of pizzas shaped like things that aren’t pizzas (and vice versa): Link

This microwave safe and dishwasher safe stoneware pizza plate is divided into the first eighty-eight digits of the constant pi, should you ever desire to calculate its circumference.

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Have you ever found yourself driving your car and saying “Hey, I’d like to have a freshly-baked pizza right now, but I don’t want to stop driving”? Well, you’re in luck! You can plug this 12-volt pizza oven directly into your car’s cigarette lighter.

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Democrat Party councilman Jim Graham says the late-night “Jumbo Slice” pizza shacks operating on the popular Adams Morgan club and bar strip in Ward 1 attract the element that is likely to commit crime.

“Even though it’s a legal business and everything, they have become a nuisance,” Graham said. “Behaving the way they do in terms of music, in terms of letting people hang out and also in terms of tolerating a certain level of violence.”

Needless to say, the pizza joint owner is not amused: Link

This unexpected puzzle creation takes Sudoku a giant step forward: it is also very tasty, especially if you like your pizza with exactly 9 toppings arranged differently on each slice. So what’s the logic in this culinary invention? Well, this probably depends on how hungry you are but if you want to find out here are the 9 steps and the list of ingredients:

Instructions for making this pizza are included, as well as a look at other puzzle derivatives in the post 9 Creative, bizarre and unexpected ways of using logic puzzles. Link -via Unique Daily

What’s your favorite?

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