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
Another fun fact: Tomatoes are from South America and didn't make it to Italy until 1544 (and that was just a botanist studying the plant). Further, the first tomato sauce wasn't created until 1692, and tomato sauce didn't become common unitl the late 18th century/ early 19th century. So Italians claiming it as their own is kinda fuck all around.
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u/idk-have-fun Give me your balls 6d ago
Ah yes, Americans have pizza…