Someone call Jackie Chiles... #seinfeld #kramer #pizza

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00:00It looks like a real-life pizza place stole Kramer's genius idea.

00:03Over the course of Seinfeld's nine seasons,

00:05Cosmo Kramer sure came up with a lot of wacky business ideas.

00:08From the coffee table book about coffee tables,

00:10to his legally dubious plan to pay sub-minimum wages to unhoused rickshaw drivers.

00:15One of Kramer's most intriguing proposals was for a new kind of pizza restaurant.

00:19Forget that, I got a better idea.

00:20A pizza place where you make your own pie.

00:22It was also one of his earliest ideas,

00:24and it was first brought up way back in season one's Male Unbonding.

00:27Look, I'm telling you, you know, people, they really want to make their own pizza pie.

00:31I have to say something, with all due respect.

00:33I just never, I can't imagine anyone in any walk of life,

00:38under any circumstance, wanting to make their own pizza pie.

00:41Years later, in season six's The Couch,

00:43Kramer's dream came very close to happening after he partnered with Poppy.

00:47Unfortunately, their plans fell apart due to a disagreement

00:49over whether or not cucumber can be considered a pizza topping.

00:52Cucumbers?

00:54Wait a second, what is it?

00:56It's cucumbers.

00:56No, no, no, you can't put cucumbers on a pizza pie.

00:59Well, why not? I like cucumbers.

01:00That's not a pizza.

01:02You'll taste the term.

01:02Yeah, but that's the idea.

01:03You make your own pie.

01:04Yes, but we cannot give the people the right to choose any topping they want.

01:09It turns out this idea actually does exist,

01:12and the founder of the Evansville, Indiana-based chain, A Zip Pizza,

01:16revealed that he owes a great debt to Kramer.

01:18But despite piggybacking off of Kramer's ideas,

01:20the chain doesn't let customers actually apply their own toppings themselves,

01:23as he was envisioning.

01:24And thankfully, this setup does address Georgia's concerns

01:27about people routinely suffering third-degree burns.