In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the phenomenon which occurs when you and your friends each select your own favorite toppings while ordering pizza, yet everyone else ends up eating the masterpiece that you created.
Steve was the victim of pizza envy when his friends devoured his barbeque chicken pizza, leaving him to either 1) eat the inferior sardine-and-jalapeno pizza which his friends insisted on ordering or 2) go hungry.
by Even Steve February 09, 2010