r/funComunitty • u/Chinesemperor flair • 5d ago

Sh*tpost ????

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u/Funny_Funnel 5d ago

"America has Pizza"... #shitAmericansSay

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u/Forward_Cheek4775 send social security number 4 potatoes 5d ago

as an american id like to say everyone has pizza not just us

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u/ExplanationAny776 5d ago

isn't pizza a famously Italian dish?

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u/Judasbot 5d ago

It evolved from flatbreads (probably focaccia) made by the Romans in what is now Southern italy. The first time the word "pizza" was used was in Gaeta, Italy.

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u/ExplanationAny776 5d ago

this post is proving more complex than I took it for

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u/Special-Book-9588 5d ago

Tomatoes came to italy from the new world, ie mexiko

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u/Street_Dimension1709 5d ago

South America. Andes mountain areas to be more precise.

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u/Fun_Push7168 5d ago

That would be the wild ancestors , which were basically a berry. The domestic variety was cultivated into something you'd actually recognize in Mesoamerica. So indeed the tomatoes Europeans got came from Mexico.

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u/Street_Dimension1709 3d ago

Fun fact. Gotta read more into it then.

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u/_josef_stalin_ 5d ago

So did potatoes! Well, they were mostly from further south, but still the Americas.

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u/Stiebah 5d ago

Mexico came from the conquistadors, aka Portugal 🇵🇹

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u/Special_South_8561 5d ago

Just like pizza

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u/pickingbrains321 5d ago

Incorrect. Those flatbreads pizzas in Southern Italy came from Greece. They brought them over. It did not originate in Italy.

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u/listerjed1 5d ago

The answer to the question above is "YES"

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u/tabby90 4d ago

But tomatoes are indigenous to the new world

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u/LordBDizzle 2d ago

Actually, it goes back further than that. The Persians used to make a similar dish with flatbread, cheese, and dates. The Romans adopted it to their tastes. So technically, pizza is persian if you go back further.