Mint Discs turns Pizza plastic naming into fan vote

Mint Discs turned the naming of its Pizza plastic into a public vote, handing fans the final say on a release that already carried the company’s offbeat brand identity. The Austin-based maker previewed submissions ranging from Arcane Doughy Lepto to Deep Dish Mozz, showing how a routine product step can become a crowd-driven moment before the disc ever reaches more bags.

The June 16 post said Mint asked customers last month to submit plastic-name ideas when they bought the disc, then left the contest open a couple weeks longer than planned. Mint is now asking the community to vote on the best submission, and the company made clear that not every entry was allowed through. Even so, the sample it shared sketched the tone of the campaign: playful, food-themed and sometimes absurd, with names such as Nada Zilch Bohemian, Hand Tossed Presto!, Calzone doughminator, Pepperoncini Royal but Not Mulched, Chewy Relic, Thin Crust Noble, Jelly Partylite, Anchovie Parmesean, Aristocrat and Poor.

That approach fits a company that has built its identity on specifics. Mint Discs was founded in 2015, says it spent two years on development and research before launching its first disc, the Alpha, on April 21, 2017, and continues to emphasize detail, artwork, local community growth and a unique serial-number system. The Pizza vote extends that philosophy into marketing, letting buyers shape the language around a new run rather than simply reacting after the fact.

The disc itself is not a throwaway side project. Mint’s Pizza product page says the fairway is manufactured in Dalton, Georgia by Prodigy Disc, and that its first run of recycled plastic has more dome than the first run Eternal blend. Mint also said the recycled material is similar to Prodigy ReBlend and first appeared in the 2025 Mystery Box, before the retail Pizza was offered for National Pizza Party Day on May 15 at $9.99 each.

PDGA records line up the release with a related Mint disc listed as Mystery Box (2025), approved on Nov. 17, 2025, under certification number 25-171. The listed measurements, 21.2 cm diameter, 1.7 cm height, 1.1 cm rim depth, 1.9 cm rim thickness and 176.0 gram max weight, underline that Mint is treating the Pizza line as a real equipment release, not just a novelty.

That is why the voting post matters beyond naming. Mint’s homepage already references The Pizza Slayer, signaling an active Pizza-related line, and the contest gives the brand another way to turn a molded disc into a story. In a disc golf market where smaller manufacturers compete on personality as much as plastic, Mint is using fan participation to build loyalty, collector interest and buzz before the disc is even in play.