[throw82473751]

> I think its because they are used to shitty dough.

Whaaaaat? The best and only original Pizza is the thin stone oven baked one, please visit Naples to experience it.

The thick fake ones you can also call pizza because they are round, but it is just stuff on shitty sugar white bread, ludicrous to me you just don't eat a toast or a baguette then

[dredmorbius]

True traditionalists insist on rosewater and sugar.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=h6XvMKdD2tY

[fartcannon]

I have! It's fine. Could be better.

[graftak]

> sugar white bread

You mean cake?

[dTal]

Cake has eggs.

[shaky-carrousel]

> Pizza is an American invention (at least as we eat it now).

"We" meaning Americans, which are a minuscule part of world population, and a less minuscule but still small amount of world pizza eaters. It's like Venezuelans claiming baseball is a Venezuelan sport.

> Italian pizza is a completely different thing and America has spent a lot more time refining the idea of a pizza in the first place so American pizza is more advanced.

I see you got confused and used the wrong words. Instead of "refining" you probably should use "defiling", and instead of "advanced" you probably should use "degraded".

> So those flat pizzas aren't really what pizza is anymore.

I'm afraid the land of deep fried, sugar imbued everything is not in any position to claim what pizza is or is not.

This is probably the most blatant case of appropriation I've seen ever. You have every right to take a pizza and pervert it as your pleasure, but to claim that now you make the true pizza is so smug, and so ignorant that it baffles me. As I said in other comment, I don't know why, but it is a typical American trait for some reason, being smugly ignorant.

Ignorants are everywhere, but that cultural thing, "we are the best country in the world, the chosen people" that seeps through American culture, makes American ignorants specially smug.

[Fnoord]

I have been to both USA and Italy and ate the specific style of pizza in each country. I regard American pizza as a regression. When someone says pizza I assume Italian style. They can shove the American style in a place where the sun does not shine (oven!) as in I ain't paying for it. I will pay a good amount for an Italian style pizza though.

[alex_smart]

This comment is hilarious to me because this is the first example i have seen of white people getting their culture appropriated.

I suppose an Italian reading this might feel the same way I felt when I learnt that the British claim chicken tikka masala as their own.

[gpderetta]

I feel we already had this argument before, but the modern Pizza Margherita [1] was already "codified" well before the first Italian diaspora.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Margherita

[FabHK]

I'd certainly concur that American Pizza seems to have more variety.

[theodric]

Winner for most American comment in the thread. There are more people in the EU than the USA, and I think you'd struggle to find many who prefer Chicago Deep Dish to a nice flat Italian. But I wouldn't be surprised if one of them replied to me telling me how wrong I am.

[tigershark]

No, it’s not. Stop spreading disinformation.

“ Pizza (Italian: [ˈpittsa], Neapolitan: [ˈpittsə]) is a dish of Italian origin”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza

The only thing that the Americans invented is that cardboard stuff full of toppings that you outrageously call pizza, because you were not able to cook a proper pizza.