Italians can suck my short toe. They didn’t even come up with the pizza, it was italian heritage immigrants. Same thing for people who complain about deep dish pizza (which is really just a weird lasagna/casserole) not being pizza.
Not OP, but maybe they’re alluding to the fact that tomatoes were exclusively native to the Americas, so pizza in Italy never even had tomatoes before 500 years ago. A quick Google search shows that the first modern pizzas came from Naples about 300 years ago. So no, not American, but not possible without moving tomatoes from the Americas.
Italian immigrants brought pizza to America and it caught on.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
Italians can suck my short toe. They didn’t even come up with the pizza, it was italian heritage immigrants. Same thing for people who complain about deep dish pizza (which is really just a weird lasagna/casserole) not being pizza.
Dewe@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Which ‘Italian heritage immigrants’? Are you saying pizza is an American invention?
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Not OP, but maybe they’re alluding to the fact that tomatoes were exclusively native to the Americas, so pizza in Italy never even had tomatoes before 500 years ago. A quick Google search shows that the first modern pizzas came from Naples about 300 years ago. So no, not American, but not possible without moving tomatoes from the Americas.
Italian immigrants brought pizza to America and it caught on.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Chili peppers are native to Americas too, by that logic Thai, Indian, Korean, Ethiopian and Szechuan cuisines are American too?
kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
America doesn’t even have pizza! They use the word to refer to some kind of large open-faced oven-baked sandwiches.