[ringmaster]

it seems hard to find a calorie count for regular pizzeria pizza. how much do you count for it? plus and minus crust? and if you blot some oil off with a napkin (I think that takes some fat calories off)?

[rschroed]

Everything depends on how big a piece of pizza is, and what the bread-to-cheese ratio is like.

I eat at a pizza place that has slices similar in size to chain pizza (Domino's or whatever) and so I go by those figures, and estimate pan crust slice of cheese pizza at about 300 calories a slice. There's not a ton of cheese on these pizzas, or else I'd knock up my figure a bit. Thin crust pizzas plummet in calories, but I don't find them as satisfying.

Food Detectives looked into the effectiveness of dabbing pizza with a napkin, and they found it did reduce the calorie count somewhat (nothing earth-shattering, maybe 10%?) on pizzas made with lower quality cheeses, but that a lot of people are just dabbing up "cheese sweat"--water with a *little* bit of fat in it. If pizza's been sitting around for a little while--which it usually has if you buy it by the slice--most of the fat has been reabsorbed by the cheese.