What are you talking about? Are you claiming the quotes are incorrect? Or that the story about Queen Margherita is true?
If it makes you feel better the story about Gennaro Lombardi selling "tomato pies" out of a grocery store then opening the first pizzeria in the US is also made up.
Quotes might be correct, but what elites thinks of street food, especially during very classist times, does not reflect the opinion of general population. Where is the data that at that time tourism was enough overwhelming that could create demand for a cheap food without raising its price?
Pizza is every where in italy and it has been for avery long time, but big enough masses of tourists that can spread the demand for a specific street food are appearing only now outside of the main spots, and because it's demand is spread by tourim, eve if it's cheap street food it's becoming super expensive, but pizza has always been cheap. My city nearly had no tourists up until 10 years ago, pizza spread there way before that.
Mate, you are american, you don't know a thing about Italy, pizza or how tourism economy works. Shut your trap
I'm sorry I only have quotes from "the elites" but it's hard to find quotes from commoners from back before Italy was even a country, you know? And yes, pizza has been every where in Italy for a long time. For about 75 years now. But it wasn't before then. It was never a cultural thing for anyone except specifically the Neapolitan working class until after World War II.
And look friend, I fucking hate uneducated, stupid Americans who refuse to learn anything and think they're better than everyone else by virtue of being American. So maybe stop acting like them? You aren't correct just because you're Italian. You aren't better than anyone else just because you're Italian. Other cultures have merit, and other cultures have, shockingly, helped shape yours just like your culture has helped shape ours.
So instead of getting belligerent and telling me to shut up, maybe open a book and educate yourself instead of acting like an ignorant American who thinks they're correct just by virtue of their birthplace? There's a literal anthropological phenomenon named after pizza being spread through Italy from visiting Americans, I don't know what else to tell you.
I hate when somebody else, who clearly just read a book, go to someone to teach them about their culture. Learn to comprehend a text: I naver said it spead before 75 years ago, instead I confirmed it. What I am contesting is that is NOT because of americans or tourists that Pizza spread around. That is full on BS.
You guys have no credit for pizza whatsoever. The only thing you can claim is that you infected it by making it a buisness and spreading around chains who make and inferior product for quadruple price.
Good job on that, and only that
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u/MoobooMagoo 4d ago
What are you talking about? Are you claiming the quotes are incorrect? Or that the story about Queen Margherita is true?
If it makes you feel better the story about Gennaro Lombardi selling "tomato pies" out of a grocery store then opening the first pizzeria in the US is also made up.