The guy behind all of this is an Italian Marxist historian. His work is actually great. It's fascinating, often hilarious, and explicitly designed to piss off nationalists.
Pizza is a prime example. “Discs of dough topped with ingredients,” as Grandi calls them, were pervasive all over the Mediterranean for centuries: piada, pida, pita, pitta, pizza. But in 1943, when Italian-American soldiers were sent to Sicily and travelled up the Italian peninsula, they wrote home in disbelief: there were no pizzerias. Before the war, Grandi tells me, pizza was only found in a few southern Italian cities, where it was made and eaten in the streets by the lower classes.
Umm, actually sweaty arepas (Columbian pizza essentially) pre-dates the KKKolumbian killers' arrival and includes a bit of tomato, thus, by yer logic, pizza is South-American and pre-Columbian
unironically correct. pizza was imported into the US with immigration from italy, primarily southern italy, at the end of the 19th century and then became more popular in italy than it ever had been during and after ww2 due to influence from american GIs stationed in italy
Having flashbacks to being in Germany, ordering pasta and a salad (maybe a seafood salad... it was a long time ago) from an Italian restaurant that delivered, and getting an aluminum baking pan with hot vegetables and tentacles.
Never figured out if i was being messed with or not. The pasta that I also ordered was though.
Is the argument that traditional Italian pizzas are expensive and eaten for an occasion and only the rich can afford to regularly eat woodfire pizzas while American slices are proletarian food?