DefinitionClassest Pizza refers to the hierarchical stratifications between individual slices or collections of slices in pizza parlors or lunch fare bistros. Usually individuals slices are grouped into pizza classes based on characteristics such as crust stratification, topping hierarchy and how drunk you are when you order the pizza.

Contents
- Introduction
- Class Structures
- Topping Hierarchy
- William Loyd Warner and Crust Stratification
- Theoretical Models
- Drunk versus Sober
- Determinants of Class
- Ethnic Pizza: A Dilemma
- Economic Applications
- Cultural Applications
- Aztec
- British
- French
- Chinese
- Indian
- Japanese
- European (not Italian)
- EURM CUFS
- Italian
- Communism and Pizza class
- Religion and Pizza
- The relevance of Pizza class today
- Consequences of Pizza class
- The 1989 "Avoid the Noid" smear campaign
- Medieval Catacomb Corpse Crisis [MCCC]
- Famous Quotes about Pizza
Introduction
Most civilizations seem to have some notion of pizza class. The factors that determine pizza class vary wildly in society, with different group having different ideological preferences on what makes a “higher” or “lower” slice in the pizza hierarchy.
Class Structures
Slices aren't often left alone and are usually found grouped with six to eight other slices. Often these slices are contained into one or two classist structures that rarely mix. This does not limit the diversity or variety of slice or pizza classes. However, this sometimes leads to inbreeding.
Classes of Pizza Slices include:
Barbeque
Hawaiian
Meat Lovers
Topping Hierarchy
Classest preference in toppings vary from region to region and are highly controversial in commonplace clas
sest pizza debate.
A classic (not classest) example is that while Americans favor sausage and hamburger on their pizza, and Japanese favor seafood and mayo, Europeans continue to favor corpses dug out of medieval catacombs and the blood of first born sons.
It is widely acknowledged that types of meat and cheese have outranked vegetables in classest pizza civilizations. In American societies, pepperoni is the 'higher' class pizza, in
A recent study however, have discovered a variant to this well held phenomenon. According to the results of a 1993 double-blind study, plain cheese pizza is preferred in children under 12. This is especially the case for eight-year-old boys who are accidentally left behind when their families fly to
William Lloyd Warner and Pizza Crust Stratification
An early description of the current pizza stratum class model was developed by the sociologist William Lloyd Warner in his 1949 book, Social Crust in
Based on social anthropology, Warner divided American pizzas into three crusts (upper, middle, and lower), then further subdivided each of these into an "upper" and "lower" segment, following the Domino Pizza formula for crust class distinction:
Upper-upper crust. "Classic Crust" Crisp on the outside, soft and light on the inside (See Earl of Shrewsbury, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller).
Lower-upper crust. "Triple Cheese" 2 layers of cheese, topped with mozzarella and a topping
Upper-middle crust. "Deep Pan" Thick and Hearty
Lower-middle crust. "Cheese Burst" Creamy Cheese between crusts
Upper-lower crust. "The Edge" A Thick, crispy crust which is disproportionally close to the edge of the pizza slice. Also known as the "working crust."
Lower-lower crust. "Thin n' Crispy" Wafer thin base. (See: Homeless)
Theoretical Models
Logic, the study of the principles of valid inference and demonstration is often used to solve or further confuse sociologists in regards to classest pizza structure.
Beginner
If a hunter-gatherer societies does not have enough resources to produce pizza pies, and classest pizza stratifications require enough resources to produce pies, than can a classest pizza society be maintained?
(Answer: No)
Moderate
If classest pizza hierarchical structures are a societal human construction and the societal human construction is destroyed by a large comet, does the classest pizza slice phenomenon even exist and most importantly is there a meaning to life after death?
(Answer: No)
Hard
If in the future European society runs out of their natural resource of medieval catacomb bodies and the first born blood of innocents, and in Europe medieval catacomb bodies and the first born blood of innocents are required in order to make traditional classest pizza can the classest pizza hierarchy be maintained?
(Answer: Complicated)
Sober vs. Dru
nkThe theoretical debate over the definition of class remains an important one today. Sociologist Dennis Wrong defines class in two ways - sober and drunk.
The sober definition relies on clear taste boundaries, aesthetic value, hierarchy of toppings, and crust stratification to which people adhere in order to create classist pizzas.
The drunk definition of class in contrast focuses on the characteristics of pizza at
Determinants of Class
Pizza which attain a position of power will often adopt distinctive lifestyles to emphasize their prestige. Often the adoption of these stylistic traits include daily deals such as Two for Tuesday, and honorary standings such as Meatza Feast. Oftentimes a 'higher classed' pizza will include an entourage of lesser classed food groups which can include:
- Buffalo wings
- Mozzarella sticks
- Chicken strips
- Onion rings
- French fries
- Cinnamon sticks
- Garlic bread
- Jalapeno Poppers
Finally, fluid notions such as ethnicity can have widely varying degrees of influence on class standing. Having characteristics of a particular ethnic group may improve one's class status in many pizza slice classes.
Such classes include:
Greek Pizza
Sicilian Pizza
Mexican Pizza
Ethnic Pizza: A Dilemma
Ethnic pizzas considered "racially superior" in one society can often be exactly the opposite in another. Prejudice in pizza classes means that some classes of pizzas are overlooked in some geographical areas and are not offered as many opportunities as other pizza classes.
In some instances there have been cases of pizza class genocide, where one class of pizza is discontinued just because of its "lack of popularity"
Ethnicity is still often the single most overarching issue of pizza class status in some societies (see the articles on apartheid pizza, the Caste system of pizza in Africa, and the Japanese Burakumin pizza for examples). However, a distinction should be made between causation and correlation when it comes to ethnic pizza and class. Some societies have a high correlation between particular classes and ethnic pizzas, but this is not necessarily an indication that ethnicity is a factor in the determination of class.
Economic Application
Economic inequality is one of the most important consequences of pizza class.
There is consistent data that show those slices in higher classes have higher prices than those in lower classes. This inequality still persists when considering crust status. Those in the upper-middle crust and middle-class crust are generally are more respected, enjoy more diversity, and are able to exhibitsome authority. Those in lower crusts tend to feel more alienated and have lower satisfaction overall.
and a general style of living.
A higher pizza class for example might be served in a banquet hall at a top secret event as part of a elite business lunch with politicians and celebrities in way that kind of reminds you of "Eyes Wide Shut" with dancing naked ladies wearing masks.
In contrast a lower class pizza may be found in the back of the fridge late at night when you are alone, so very alone, and starving but far too lazy and depressed to change your life in any form, never mind get out of the house and get something that doesn't taste like crap.
Pizza class lifestyle also affects how one raises his or her children. For example, a working-crust person is more likely to raise their child to be working crust and middle-crust children are more likely to be raised to be middle-crust. This perpetuates the idea of crust for future generations.
In an extreme this is similar to the pizza class system presented in H.G.Wells The Time Machine.
Or not.
Cultural Application
Aztec
Aztec society was one of the oldest societies recorded to divide themselves by social class. They were also one of the oldest societies to own slaves. The high class was the pipiltin (nobility). The second class was the macehualtin (peasants), the third was the tlacotin or slaves.
Unfortunately the Aztecs were completely decimated by the conquistadors because of their lack of pizza.
British
In the Victorian Era of the United Kingdom classest pizza became a national obsession, with nouveau riche industrialists in the House of Commons trying
to attain the status of classiest classest through attempts to eat the best pizza and talk in an upper crust manner.
It was the Victorian middle crust who tried to distance themselves from the lower crust with terms such as working crust which seemed to imply that their pizza had jobs even though everybody knows pizza are inanimate objects.
Chinese
In Pre-Confucian China , the feudal system divided the population into six pizza classes.
The first four classes were what the king (王) dukes (諸侯), great men (大夫) and scholars (士).were allowed to order from their local "Confucius's House of Pizza"
French
France was an absolute madhouse for most of its history, with the king marrying a horse, having orgies left and right, and telling the starving peasantry. "Let them eat pizza."
This I heard became a major cause of the French Revolution.
Indian
Traditionally, the Indian Pizza caste system has been one of the oldest and most important systems of social class with peculiar rigidity (in the sense that it lacks upward or downward mobility and cannot be physical bent, and that if you put it on a table it stands upright.)
In India pizza makers were most often born into his particular trade of slice making, determining how many slices and what type of slice one could consume based on their social caste.
Gandhi was said to have said, "Yes Please!" to New York Style pizza.
Europeans (Excluding Italians)
Love Pizza.
In fact, the entire EU (European Union) depends on a constant supply of pizza of the highest class (European style) in order to function properly. However, the highest class of pizza contains medieval corpses from catacombs and the blood of innocents for its main ingrediants.
Europe is now facing a shortage of corpses which could lead to their society's collapse.
(See Medieval Catacomb Corpse Crisis [MCCC])
The Monster Controversy
In 1994, an organization called EARM CUFS (Europeans are Really Otherworldly Monsters Consuming Us for Sustainous) rose into temporary popularity as they purported that Europeans talk like us and look like us but are in fact another species that eats human flesh to survive. However, by 1995 the group ran into disarray and abandoned as all members mysteriously disappeared.
Italians
Hate pizza.
Although they invented pizza, they regret it everyday. They hate talking about it and they hate making it.
Also, they highly resent other European countries from using their catacombs and crypts for pizza toppings.
Please, if you value your life, do not mention pizza in Italy.
Japanese
Japan is rooted in centuries of honorific conduct and ritual which is why their complete laissez-faire approach to pizza classes is so ironic. Japanese slices will and can have any combination of ingredients but will always have mayo and seafood and can only be found in vending machines.
Japanese people have been known to eat pizza for breakfast even though pizza is not thought of as a traditional breakfast food.
Japanese are expected to eat their pizza with chopsticks under penalty of seppuku, a type of honor suicide which translates as "stomach cutting" in which violators cut their stomachs open with katana swords and empty themselves of their offending pizza bites.
Samurai are the only class that can hold swords in public and so are the only class of people in Japan who can cut pizza slices. Because of this, pizza making is considered an art and largely a samurai occupation. Samurai tribes often have ornate recipes and a long apprenticeship period to guarantee quality.
In present day Japan, Samurai are often seen making pizza and fighting each other.
Communism and Pizza Class
It was in Victorian Britain that Karl Marx became the first person to attack the privileges of the upper crust by removing all classest notions of pizza and treating each slice equally. He demanded that there should be free pizza, and that men and women should not be paid in money but by pizza rationing.
Stalin, however, kind of screwed this up in Russia.
Thanks, Stalin.
Religion and Pizza
Different religious factions have different ideologies about the usages of pizza. Most religions
permit the classing of pizza, but may have limits or dieting restrictions on different classest pizza. Still other religious groups use pizza for ceremony or medicinal purposes.
Some Christian communities such as Catholics believe pizza to be the body of Christ and Pepsi to be his blood. Evangelicals have gone so far as to replace the "Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes" to "Miracle of the Pizza and Pepsi". Other Christian communities believe this ides to be cannibalism similar to the "Damned European Union" (Excluding Italy)
Jehovah's Witnesses often come bearing pizza when stopping door to door to teach the word of Christ. Unsuspecting homeowners, confused by the pizza, will invite the Jehovah's Witnesses into their home. The Jehovah's Witness will then return later at night to feast on the blood of the unsuspecting victim and leave "The Watchtower" magazine in their bathroom. This method has become such a success that many Jehovah's Witnesses also moonlight as pizza delivery drivers.
Anabaptist communities such as the Amish are only allowed to have modest plain pizza as pizza with an ornate amount of frills is said to be "worldly" and "full of sin"
In Eastern Religion, those that practice Buddhism believe in pizza fasting as in order to achieve self-actualization one must not consume pizza for 48 hours.
Those who are Agnostics have not made their minds up about pizza and believe that it is impossible to know whether or not there is significant evidence to support a decision. They are often very indecisive over what they want to order.
Atheists on the other hand do not believe in pizza altogether.
The Relevance of Pizza Class Today
There have been fierce debates in the area of sociology about whether or not pizza class is even relevant at all.
Jerry Seinfeld has been quoted as an pro-classest argumentor asking,
"What IS relevant anyway???"
Despite this, pizza class is still ignored by most political candidates because of its controversial nature.
The majority of arguments suggesting that pizza class is longer relevant are brought forward by supporters of postmodernism. These supporters are otherwise known as futurists or cyberpunks.
The most common held belief still remains however,
that areas of pizza still rely on class based explanations of slice identity.
An example of this is if one identifies a Hawaiian style pizza slice as 'the one with the pineapple' one might receive pizza with pineapple but without any of the complexities of the Hawaiian pizza one had wanted to order, with such toppings as slices of ham or pepper.
Consequences of Pizza Class
The 1989 "Avoid the Noid" Smear campaign
In the late 1980's, Domino Pizza created a villainous smear campaign titled "Avoid the Noid" to detract negative attention away from their lower classed pizza. In 1989, after Mr. Noid lost his job as a bank teller because of the negative press against him, he took a .357 magnum revolver and held two employees of a Domino's restaurant hostage. After forcing them to make him a pizza and making demands for $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel about secret societies in an 18th century Parisian prison, Noid surrendered to the police. Noid was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, extortion and possession of a firearm during a crime. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Domino's Pizza has yet to apologize.
Medieval Catacomb Corpse Crisis [MCCC]
The Pizza Catacombs of San Gennaro were a network of underground burial galleries built beneath
The Pizza Catacombs of San Gennaro are said to be the origin of European Pizza. The use of skeletal remains on the many flavored flatbreads of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean dish is not fully understood.
Various other catacombs have been discovered in such places as:
Peak Catacomb relates to the point in time at which the maximum rate of catacomb extraction for classest pizza is reached in which the rate of pizza production goes into terminal decline.
Logic problems have been used by sociologists but the situation remains hotly debated. Theorists have claimed that in the year 2012, the classest pizza system currently in place will result in a major catacomb shortage.
Frank Pepe, sociologist professor at the
In his theorem, the shortage of catacomb corpses will result in the breakdown of the current classest pizza and will lead to chaos.
However, in the same argument, he maintains that following chaos, the breakdown of the hierarchical classest pizza system and the storming of the Bastille, a new form of classest pizza can be established. This however is wildly debated as a communist pizza system would result in everyone eating the same amount of pizza before starving to death during the Russian winter or Socialist pizza where everyone gets free health insurance and taxed a lot without receiving much pizza at all.
Famous Quotes About Pizza Classes
Aristotle: If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in pizza, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in slices to the utmost.
Shirley Chisholm: The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of slices begins when a cook says: It's a slice.
Voltaire: All the slices of a pizza cannot be equally delicious but they may be equally free.
Thomas Jefferson: Equal slices for all, special toppings for none.
Confucius: Those who know pizza are not equal to those who love it.
Oscar Wilde: Pizza slices means simply the cutting of the pizza by the people
Albert Einstein: Before God slices are equally tasty and equally delicious.
William Faulkner: To live anywhere in the world today and be against slices because of crust or toppings is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
"I notice she's big on the phrase 'pizza,pizza'."
"Is 'pizza, pizza' bad?"
"No, pizza, pizza's good. She's very succinct."
"She is succinct. It's like you're dating USA Today."
-Jerry and George, talking about slices in "The Pizza, Pizza"
Gangster ‘Johnny’: Hey, I tell ya what I'm gonna give *you*, Snakes. [pulls out machine gun] I'm gonna give you to the count of 10, to get your lying, yellow, no-good keister off my property, before I pump your guts full of lead!
1... 2... 10
Keep the change ya filthy animal!














