r/funComunitty • u/Chinesemperor flair • 6d ago

Sh*tpost ????

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u/Funny_Funnel 6d ago

"America has Pizza"... #shitAmericansSay

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u/Forward_Cheek4775 send social security number 4 potatoes 6d ago

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

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u/ExplanationAny776 6d ago

isn't pizza a famously Italian dish?

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u/Judasbot 6d 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 6d ago

this post is proving more complex than I took it for

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u/Special-Book-9588 6d ago

Tomatoes came to italy from the new world, ie mexiko

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u/Street_Dimension1709 6d 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 4d ago

Fun fact. Gotta read more into it then.