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Shoulda summoned Raen, he's better at this stuff than I am, lol.
Only cause I play fakecat and cat >
When you're thinking about Samurai (GKT), especially with respect to meat vs pizza, consider the following:
1. Do you do more melee damage or weaponskill damage?
2. Does Attack affect Tachi: Gekko on most mobs?
3. Therefore, to which portion of my damage is that Attack helping and is this the larger or the smaller portion?
4. Which portions of my damage do Accuracy and Haste help?
This is the thought process you want to go through (and can be applied across to other jobs where this debate comes up). The answers you will hopefully get are
1. WS (~65%/35% or so)
2. No
3. Melee damage only, smaller portion
4. Melee damage and WS damage (through frequency (greater TP gain = more WSs))
Basically, on Samurai you will only find meat besting Pizza if you don't sacrifice even a very small amount of accuracy/haste since the meat is only going to enhance your melee damage output which I'm sure any SAM will agree is a rather inconsequential segment of your damage.
If we're talking Polearm, think of it like any other job: Attack is also helping your weaponskill damage, so the meat is affecting both portions of your damage. Accuracy adds weaponskill consistency (and potentially damage relatively speaking if you have to swap offensive gear off to make it viable for a meat build) but Haste adds nothing, so in some cases on other jobs you
will have meat builds (even Coeurl Subs) beating Pizza, though this is generally not the case and you certainly wouldn't want to give up too much for it).
Red Curry is the only food which can compete with Pizza given a loss of accuracy/haste which isn't incredibly minor on the Red Curry's side, and even then it's down to many variables.
Tl;dr: Unless you know the situation and your equipment etc perfectly and can anticipate them (finding meat to be superior per the criteria above), use Pizza.
EDIT: Oh, and to answer your questions directly:
1. Due to the aforementioned point about melee/WS damage splits, PCC will actually outdamage Justice Torque if all accuracy can be used (unlike the food example, you -can- swap gear for melee and WS, so you only consider the STR/Atk difference from JTorque to be adding melee damage, whereas the accuracy from PCC is giving you extra TP AND adding damage if you see what I mean).
However, since you will be using Pizza a lot, JT is a good piece.
2. Ace's Helm has the odd perfect use on DRK (Red Curry build, Apocalypse aftermath etc), Polearm SAM sometimes and that's about it (unless your GKT SAM isn't capped acc at birdies but close enough that sushi is a waste - again, situational).