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wex52 t1_itl9wvc wrote

Interestingly, the fact that I have no idea what a mm/meter of pizza means delayed my understanding of almost every other aspect of the graph by about a minute. I’d drop the length axes and change energy to calories.

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Tambury OP t1_itleyom wrote

Cheers, I appreciate the feedback. It's a difficult concept to convey pizza as a linear unit, especially when most people intuitively think of pizza as an 11-ish inch diameter circle cut into 8 slices. In hindsight, keeping the headline '1 metre of pizza' but using number of slices as the primary axis.

As for energy, I wasn't quite thinking of global appeal when I made it. Kilojoules is standard for energy and is on product labels, though calories is understood. Perhaps I could have added ticks to the other side of the energy axis in Cal at the risk of clutter.

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wex52 t1_itliard wrote

You know for a split second I wondered if calories weren’t universal. I actually didn’t know it wasn’t. I should have realized that if they were, nobody would suddenly opt for kJ.

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