America doesn’t even have pizza! They use the word to refer to some kind of large open-faced oven-baked sandwiches.
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Dewe@lemmy.world 9 hours agoWhich ‘Italian heritage immigrants’? Are you saying pizza is an American invention?
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MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 8 hours 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 6 hours ago
Chili peppers are native to Americas too, by that logic Thai, Indian, Korean, Ethiopian and Szechuan cuisines are American too?
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
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.