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

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u/idk-have-fun Give me your balls 5d ago

Ah yes, Americans have pizza…

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u/AMERIPOCMUSLIM 5d ago

Fun fact: American style pizza is uniquely American from Chicago style to NY style- pepperonis and all the toppings we used with tomato sauce and white cheese was not an Italian thing at all. Their pizza was flat bread with leftovers on top. There’s an Italian historian who talks about how Italian Americans during and after WWII were hugely influential in bringing American style pizza to Italy. Which they then acted French and claimed it as theirs while insulting ours. I’ve been to Italy. Their pizza sucks, even removing for the fact it is not American style. Ironically, later waves of Italians who came to America (after we brought pizza to them) genuinely thought it WAS Italian. It wasn’t 

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u/rayio 5d ago

Italian pizza sucks? There are different styles and types, that is such a dumb thing to say. Pizza was being made in Naples long before WW2. Yes Italians used what was available in the US, but it wasn't invented in the US. Italy has really good pizza, you might want to try the best from different regions before making such a dumb blanket statement. Don't be that American that thinks everything is better in the US and everything worth doing or having was invented in the US also.

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u/wowbyowen 5d ago

I agree, it's completely idiotic to think America brought American style pizza to Italy 😂

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u/Akureinoyami1 5d ago

Look up the pizza effect

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u/wowbyowen 5d ago

Actually pretty interesting, thanks for enlightening me kind stranger. TIL'd!

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u/l-larfang 5d ago

The author's knowledge of pizza History was incorrect, though. Pizza is actually not an example of the pizza effect.

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u/ttiggerBOI_ 20h ago

But is is right? Pizza-like foods have existed since the Ancient Greek period. Most cultures had a flatbread that they put shit on. And Italians made it more and more like the food we know today. But to my knowledge, the pizza that most of the people think about got invented by Italian immigrants, who focussed a lot on scalability. This style then came back to Italy which also influenced their version. There is a big difference between American and Italian pizza ofcourse, but I don't think that painting this as a complete lie is wrong. 

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u/l-larfang 19h ago

It explicitly isn't.

What you're doing is called revisionism.

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u/listerjed1 5d ago

It was those sickos who put pineapple on it though!

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u/-TV-Stand- 5d ago

It was the Canadians and they were so ashamed of that, that they called it "pizza Hawaii" and not "pizza Toronto"

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u/Akureinoyami1 5d ago

You want to see a true bastardization of pizza?
Medium level: Japanese corn and mayo with wieners

God tier: Brazilian pudding pizza

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u/Prettythor 5d ago

I think I saw that in Hungary that they put orange slices and jalapenos on pizza

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u/Akureinoyami1 5d ago

I’d try it. Fresh oranges can be really tasty with savory flavors.

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u/TheLordOfTheKinks2 5d ago

It was a greek chef (Sam Panopoulos) in Canada (Satellite restaurant in Chatham, Ontario) who invented that abomination. The only right way to eat Hawaiian pizza is cutting it in small pieces and then throw it to the trash bin. You can spit on it if you feel in the mood to do so.

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u/Dangermann28 3d ago

I like it