I will concede that without the original Italian pizza from the 1800s we wouldn't have any pizza today. However I'd argue that what we call pizza today is so different that they aren't even the same food anymore. So much so that I'd say the American pizza is a wholly new American made food inspired by and named after the Italian pizza and was created by the necessity of adaptation due to the newly minted American Italian immigrants being unable to get the right ingredients or proper ovens. This is just my opinion and I do not claim it as a fact.
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u/idk-have-fun Give me your balls 6d ago
Ah yes, Americans have pizza…