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And The Award For The Best Pizza Box Goes To…

By Elizabeth C.

SCOTT FROM SCOTT’S PIZZA TOURS GETS REALLY EXCITED ABOUT PIZZA BOXES.

So much, in fact, that he has friends send him boxes from pizzerias around the world. Consequently, Scott’s become a de facto expert in the arcane subject of pizza box design.

Above, he gives us a look at his collection and shares with us his vote for the best pizza box in the world: Rossopomodoro in Italy.

His reasons are myriad: the cover graphics spell out how the company’s pies meets the Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) of Italy’s Neapolitan pizza pies as designated by the European Union. It has 17 slits for ventilation to avoid the “soggification of the crust,” Scott says. The interior has a reflective polyester lining that keeps the pie warm and prevents oil from being absorbed by the cardboard to enable recycling.

“As of right now, as of this moment, this is the best pizza box on the planet, It’s just everything about it, even from the design elements — look at it, to the um, to the engineering. I think it’s absolutely beautiful.”

You know what they say about beauty and the beholder, so we won’t raise an eyebrow toward Scott but compliment him on his enterprise for making tours of pizzerias a working gig.

Oh, you got a pizza box you want to share? Email him at [email protected].

“I would love to get your pizza box,” he says.

Via BoingBoing.