What The Paper In Your Pizza Box Is And Why It's In There - Chowhound

5PH/Shutterstock Even when pizza is bad, it's still pretty good. But one difference between good pizza and great pizza comes from that thin sheet of paper you may have seen in your pizza box. Chances are you've never really paid much attention to it — there's hot pizza to be scarfed, after all — but it's got a pretty important job to do. This paper is called dry wax paper, and it's a fairly common fixture in most…