Pizza Arbiter

[avram]

Way, way back in the golden age of the late 20th century, around 1995 or ’96, shortly after I first started at Crossover Games and was learning about the technical side of the web, I had an idea for a web app: The Pizza Calculator. The idea was that you’d enter in how many people were splitting the pizza, how much they wanted to eat, what kinds of toppings they liked/disliked/were neutral about, and it would spit back an order (“Two pies, one with pepperoni and half mushrooms, the other with pineapple and half anchovies.”).

I didn’t get far; turns out it’s a pretty daunting problem, which explains why it can take so long for a large group to agree on a mass pizza order. Someone else has come up with a more elegant solution — The Pizza Arbiter. You register your LJ handle, tell it what toppings you like, and it can construct pizzas that any given group of registered LJ users can share.

Want to find out what pizza you and I can share? Put your name in the box next to mine and click the button to find out!

Comments

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Goodness. That is one scary pizza.

[avram]

I'm pretty sure it's just a list of all the ingredients we've got in common. If four or five people were sharing pizzas, the list'd probably be shorter. And we could order by just choosing three or four items off it.

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

A pizza for agrumer, cattitude, elisem: Tomato Sauce, Mozzarella, Gorgonzola, Asiago, Gouda, Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Bell Peppers, Roasted Red Peppers, Black Olives, Green Olives, Kalamata Olives, Fresh Tomatoes, Fresh Basil, Garlic Cloves, Garlic Chives, Basil Pesto, Pork, Bacon, Sausage, Ground Beef, Shrimp, Anchovies, Basil, Oregano, and a perfectly-baked crust.

Fun with pizza toppings at The Pizza Arbiter

That's three of us. Who else wants to join the order?

I see we've still got anchovies on it. Maybe we three really should go out for pizza sometime.

[celestialabyss.livejournal.com]

I don't think I know cattitude or elisem, but we got rid of the anchovies... *S*. (I don't mind one or two off on the side, in the salad somewhere.)

This is fun.