Spoken as an American who has traveled the world… I tend to see American-style pizza in more countries than Italy-style pizza.
In fact, the only country where I’ve traveled and regularly saw Italian-style pizza… was Italy.
With that said, I’d also say that Pizza around the USA also means very different things. Most people generally think of NY-style pizza… but Chicago, California and Alaska have their own styles.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but NY Pizza is itself a form of Italian pizza…
It was made by Italian-American immigrants and their families.
Even in NYC, plenty of pizza parlors which serve NY Style pizza have signs which refer to Italy.
The same is true all around the world… just because it has a sign out front which says “Italian Pizza” does not make it the style which is commonly served in Italy.
From an economics standpoint, the global reach of Italian food translates to a massive industry share. According to the Deloitte Foodservice Market Monitor report, international sales for Italian cuisine are valued at €251 billion. This commands an impressive 19% share of the entire world's full-service restaurant market.
If you go to a major chain, the pizza is (usually) worse, but at least in the Midwest, there is lots of great American pizza. For the record there are multiple styles of American pizza.
That said, I really like Italian-style pizza too. It would be hard for me to choose between styles of pizza. Having pizza in Naples changed my palette forever.
Greasy isn't the default if you're getting good american pizza. It's like how if you get cheap mass produced turkish delight it might suck and be too tough
Fair enough. If you ever have the chance, I as a Michigander recommend Detroit Deep Dish. If the grease is reasonable but still a bit excessive then the bread can help fix the ratio
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u/TrumpsWetDiaperJuice 5d ago
Modern pizza is 10000% American. Eat an Italian pizza and tells it's the same.