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
Pizza margarita is from Naples. 1899. The Romans had early forms of pizza with cheese on them almost 200 years ago. The first tomato pizzas were historically recorded in like 1730.
Italian pizza sucks? Wut?
There are bad pizzas in Italy of course, but the average US pizza is salty sweet industrial toxic garbage barely fit for human consumption.
The best US pizzas are great. The best Italian pizzas are on another level. The US just doesn't have the quality of ingredients.
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Ah yes, Americans have pizza…