Thread: Ok, smart TD posters.

wonder what it is in it?

all pizzas, even home made ones?

Originally Posted by klongmaster

ok smart ass

Have you ever wondered, "Who invented the circular thing that keeps the pizza from hitting the inside of the box top?" Well wonder no longer the package saver for pizza and cakes was invented by Carmela Vitale of Dix Hills, NY, who filed for US patent #4,498,586 on February 10, 1983, issued on February 12, 1985. Special thanks to Howard Olivier, owner of the Flying Pie Pizzaria in Boise, Idaho, for sending us the right answer.

Ok, smart ass? My feelings are hurt from this KM. I am not smart, ok?

Now, everyone while the research has ben excellent thus far the original question remains. What is the white plastic thingy actually called?

And remember, my 9-year olds could not use the internet!

Originally Posted by DrAndy

but pepperoni is the winner. I even bring some with me to a couple of pizza places in CM and ask them to add to their pizzas, cos they dont have good stuff

Pepperoni is definately the best! What a classic pizza topping.

I used to work at a pizza shop during college so I should really know what they are called but I don't! I just know what they are used for, thats enough for me.

Originally Posted by hillbilly

plastic thingy actually called?

Derek??

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Ok, smart ass? My feelings are hurt from this KM. I am not smart, ok? ....And remember, my 9-year olds could not use the internet!

that's what i mean by smart ass

you are gonna turn up with some obscure fokin hillbilly yank thing
and then berate all TDers as stupid for not knowing the answer

then you wonder why seppos get so much flak

anyway the thread has produced some lively discussion about the vagaries of good pizzas...well done Hb

Originally Posted by klongmaster

a trivet = a three-legged stand used for various tasks, all related to cooking

okay...thread closed

I thought that was what you left behind when you've missed your golf ball three times in succession!

Originally Posted by hillbilly

And the correct answer is? tick-tock-tick-tock...

A TRIVET!!! ARE YOU BLIND HB?

ahhh

tricycle?

A waste of space?

I think he might be looking for doodad, or doohicky.

Thingamajig

A pizza stand.

Tripod as Doc said.

Cut and pasted with the stands....sorry!

Will edit if I can

Heller: In your book Small Things Considered, you begin with an analysis of the little tripod used in pizza boxes to prevent the lid from sticking to the cheese. It certainly is a useful device (and is fairly recent too). Is the measure of good design how it solves the intended problem, or whether it provides unintended solutions as well?

The caller's enthusiasm for the object made it clear that she thought the pizza-box insert was the epitome of design. She told of washing and saving the little tripods, expecting someday to find new uses for them. The host of the show again nodded her silent approval. The engineer confessed to having saved some of the humble devices as examples of clever functional design that he thought he might write about someday. No one called in to ask for a better description of the throwaway thing, or to offer its name. But such identification was not needed for it to be recognized, admired for its ingenuity, and appreciated for its purpose. After the show aired, another listener, an artist, sent an E-mail message, saying that she also admired the design of the white plastic objects, which she called "triangle platforms." She described shortening their legs and using them as spacers between stacked palettes in her paint-storage box. She had also used them for a different purpose, turning them upside down to support, like little Atlases, spherical objects for display. Things are often used for purposes other than what their designers intended or even imagined.

Another fan of the plastic tripods finds them ideal for holding eggs, to which she applies sequins, beads, and other festive trim to make Christmas-tree decorations. For this admirer, the simple devices are definitely not throwaway items. In fact, on the illustrated Web site describing her utilization of these objects, they are lightheartedly evaluated:

The plastic tripod is very expensive, costing somewhere around $10 US, but it is worth it for the ease of working with the eggs. It's probably the packaging that makes the tripod so expensive. It comes packaged with a Pizza Hut carry out pizza. The pizza and the cardboard box protect the plastic tripod, though some would assert that the box and tripod protect the pizza.

so it looks like it does not have a name that is universally used!!!

Originally Posted by poolcleaner

What's with the sushine KK?

BTW, watched 'Revolver' and didn't like it much.

Wannabe, 'Fight Club' or "Usual Suspects' but without anything lovable contained within!

Thanks

LoL, yep too clever for it's own good (or wanting to be clever. I still don't know if I 'get it' 100%!).

Would've preferred a film more along the lines of Snatch and Lock, Stock!

This device is a plastic tripod (see Figure 1). It is obtainable from pizza home delivery companies, and is normally used as a box supporter to stabilize the pizza. This device is completely free of charge.

Figure 1 Tripod device.

Still descriptive rather than a name per se.

I've got someone contact the old pizza place she used to work for in the States to see what the street name and that is for it.

Should know by Monday

^ Yeah but they call rum (Sam Song) whisky mate

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