The History of Pizza, Ancient and Storied

Kaige said:

I'm still stuck on tomatoes being a wealthy food. Someone explain so I can move on with my life.

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fanaskin said:

Aren't tomatoes a new world food? so they didn't exist before like 1550 to anyone in europe

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Yes, tomatoes didn't exist in Europe before trade began, they were a central american crop. And while, like a lot of fruits, they are now seen as as a cheap additive to other dishes, for the most part before refrigeration all fruits were rather expensive relatively. Most meals consisted of cereal products, and vegetables (Which keep a lot longer). In season you'd have seen them eaten, but mostly they were typically food for the wealthy. When you're fighting famines, food that doesn't keep well just doesn't make sense to grow.

Not to mention, back then tomatoes didn't look like you think a tomato does today. Even the fruit itself was radically changed. The modern tomato you eat is really, really different from what was found being cultivated here--its bred for shelf life, and be transportable and have more flesh.

Big Phoenix said:

Mayans invented pizza?

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We wuz pizza kangz

Lithose said:

Wow, so pizzas with tomatoes were in ancient Greece before tomatoes. Neat trick. Or your a fucking retard that clearly doesn't read the context of the word Pizza here and tries to sound super smart by acting like an English word that developed from Pitta, which used to mean pie, and came to mean anything on the flat bread that took its name sake, had anything to do with what someone connected to "Pizza" today, except the same basic shape and that it had cheese. (And the cheese on most decent pizzas, not the low moisture shit, would have been for extremely wealthy people back then--if Mozeralla had existed, which it didn't for said reason.)

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Lay off him, he saw it on a Snapple cap once and thought that the moment was his

Lithose said:

Wow, so pizzas with tomatoes were in ancient Greece before tomatoes. Neat trick. Or your a fucking retard that clearly doesn't read the context of the word Pizza here and tries to sound super smart by acting like an English word that developed from Pitta, which used to mean pie, and came to mean anything on the flat bread that took its name sake, had anything to do with what someone connected to "Pizza" today, except the same basic shape and that it had cheese. (And the cheese on most decent pizzas, not the low moisture shit, would have been for extremely wealthy people back then--if Mozeralla had existed, which it didn't for said reason.)

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dont even bother. americans with no italian descent think what they're eating is the the same thing they're serving in Rome to non tourists.

Chukzombi said:

dont even bother. americans with no italian descent think what they're eating is the the same thing they're serving in Rome to non tourists.

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Like everything else, America does pizza better

Chukzombi said:

dont even bother. americans with no italian descent think what they're eating is the the same thing they're serving in Rome to non tourists.

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The only thing more disappointing than ordering a pizza in Italy is ordering a good old-fashioned Chimichanga in Mexico.

At least the PF Changs in Hong Kong could do a decent General Tso's Chicken.

Ritley said:

Like everything else, America does pizza better

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its different. better is subjective.

Zapatta said:

How the fuck did I get a week long time out for talking about hurricanes and SPAM but Pizza derails goes a whole day? Buncha anti-Hawaiian racists up in here, gonna report you all to the 9th circuit.

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because everyone loves pizza. only weirdos love soggy lips and assholes.

Mcdees lost me with thieir shitty app deals and requirement to know where i am 24/7.
Bitch you know where i am? i aint in your fucking restaurant. i'll turn locations on long enough so you know i am enjoying a Dave's double combo for 5 bucks at Wendy's.

This is apparently the current vibe of this thread.

Kiroy said:

probably the first neg i've passed out in a year or two

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In other words this forum is still the same bunch of pathetic sheep that got sucked in to the Obama cult of personality, and have now just mindlessly latched on to the next shiny new thing.

Kiroy said:

gotta create the virtual porn BECAUSE of feminism

and dumbshits thought it was nukes and what not that ended civs. it's so obvious, it's always been cancerous woman

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if they had just shut their yap and got us the fucking sandwich we asked for the world would be a better place. but they never do it.