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The only knife brave enough to admit it's actually a wheel.
means A rolling wheel-blade tool used to slice pizza into pieces without dragging the toppings off.
from Compound of 'pizza' — Italian for the flatbread dish, itself of uncertain origin (possibly linked to Greek 'pitta' or Latin 'pinsere', to pound dough) — and 'cutter,' from Old French 'coutre' via Latin 'culter,' meaning blade or plowshare. The wheel-style cutter itself is a modern kitchen invention, rising alongside pizza's spread outside Italy in the 20th century, built simply to solve the problem of cutting round, saucy, cheesy things without a tug-of-war.
- redundancy champion
- most homes own one despite owning actual knives
- physics flex
- rolling blade cuts cleaner than slicing motion
- storage problem
- always drawer-jammed, never found when needed
- rocker variant
- mezzaluna rivals exist and spark real kitchen feuds