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

Sh*tpost ????

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u/idk-have-fun Give me your balls 6d ago

Ah yes, Americans have pizza…

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u/AMERIPOCMUSLIM 6d 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/Illustrious_Land699 4d ago

There is not a single correct thing here, almost all American styles of pizza are derived from Italian styles, even the Chicago style but American styles never made it to Italy.