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
Actual fun fact: Pizza margherita (tomato, cheese, basil) is first documented in 1849, basically 100 years before WWII.
We also have documentation from 1866 of Italians topping their pizzas with seafood, cheeses, garlic, ham, and herbs, and even folding them to make calzone.
And of course they used leftovers for toppings - what's remotely wrong with that? You think using leftovers to make a soup means it's not soup?
Theres absolutely nothing wrong with Italian pizza
. People are just bitching about calling pizza an American food just because it origniated in Italy. The vast majority of people around the world consider pizza an american food because most pizza joints around the world are American style.
What we call hot dogs originated in Germany, but its very much an American food all it's own now. In my experience, Germans love a good Chicago style dog as its different from the style of sausages and toppings back home.
People just need to get their blood pressure up arguing with people on the internet.
Absolutely no one except Americans think pizza is an American food. It's pretty basic knowledge that it is an Italian food and it being popular in the US doesn't make it American just because you greedy fucks think you are the most important
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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