• Dewe
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    132 days ago

    Which ‘Italian heritage immigrants’? Are you saying pizza is an American invention?

    • @MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
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      142 days ago

      Not OP, but maybe they’re alluding to the fact that tomatoes were exclusively native to the Americas, so pizza in Italy never even had tomatoes before 500 years ago. A quick Google search shows that the first modern pizzas came from Naples about 300 years ago. So no, not American, but not possible without moving tomatoes from the Americas.

      Italian immigrants brought pizza to America and it caught on.

      • @Rusty@lemmy.ca
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        Chili peppers are native to Americas too, by that logic Thai, Indian, Korean, Ethiopian and Szechuan cuisines are American?

        • No? Like I said, Italian immigrants brought pizza to America. They didn’t come to America and then invent pizza. Trade routes brought chili peppers to those areas and they did new and interesting things with them to incorporate them into their cuisine in fundamental ways. I’m just saying that those dishes are recent, not completely coopted.