“When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza box” isn’t exactly how the song goes, but for Flatbush’s Scott Wiener, “that’s amore.”
Wiener has the Guinness World Record for his collection of 595 pizza boxes. But now that the number has risen to 1,525 (mostly unused), he may have to slow down saving them.
“I am not actively stopping the collection, but I am pumping the brakes a little bit because I am running out of space,” he tells The Post. “Don’t even get me started on my pizza T-shirt collection … that’s becoming a problem!”
The pizza aficionado, who runs Scott’s Pizza Tours, neatly packs his boxes into his two-bedroom apartment. The diverse collection — with boxes from Antarctica to Italy — is artfully displayed paired with pizza-themed baseball hats in his office, piled into neat stacks on the dining room floor, or flattened and shelved in his closet.
The New Jersey native started collecting boxes after a 2008 trip to Israel. There, instead of a NYC-style white box with red logos, Wiener’s pizza came in a colorful box — yellow with blue writing. He realized not all boxes are created equally.
“I can collect them myself, or people can mail them to me,” he says. “All the pizza box companies know me because I’m literally the only civilian that collects them.”
Wiener covets boxes with time-sensitive content — ones with political figures, celebs or marketing tie-ins. “There’s an Obama box out there in Italy, but I missed my chance to get one,” says Wiener, whose boxes date to the 1990s.
As they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
“This collection shifts the way we see pizza boxes … not just as something disposable, but something with cultural value,” says Wiener, who published “Viva la Pizza: The Art of the Pizza Box” in 2013. “Shift the context of a pizza box and it goes from being trash to being art.”
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