Who Invented Pizza?

**~~Epirus DNA~~** · 02-20-2020, 01:43 AM

Originally Posted by PaleoEuropean

Tomatoes are American and Pizza is American

The first tomatoes were brought to Europe from what is today Peru by Spanish conquistadors, where it was being called tomatl, an Aztec word that is a very clear influence for the word tomato.

**PaleoEuropean** · 02-20-2020, 01:43 AM

Also Pizza is made with American Mozzarella not regular Mozzarella.

**~~Epirus DNA~~** · 02-20-2020, 01:44 AM

Epirus DNA somehow single-handedly trolled the entire internet by creating dozens and dozens of websites falsely claiming that pizza was invented by the Greeks.

8 Bogus Pizza Myths, Debunked
Did Italians really invent pizza? Does a great pie require San Marzano tomatoes? We assembled a panel of experts to separate fact from fiction.

https://firstwefeast.com/eat/pizza-myths-debunked/

While the flatbread-sauce-cheese version of pizza most likely originated in Naples, Italy can’t quite take credit for inventing pizza. “The broadest definition of pizza is a yeasted flatbread with ingredients baked into it. That had its origins with the Greeks,” Helstosky says. “There’s archaeological evidence of bread ovens and pictorial and visual evidence of what appears to flatbreads with spots on them. The ancient Greeks’ bread, called plakuntos, became a meal in and of itself.” Because Naples was founded as a Greek port city, the pizza that developed there may be part of the lineage of Greek flatbreads, but pizza had a history preceding its rise to popularity in Italy.

**MinervaItalica** · 02-20-2020, 01:51 AM

"American Mozzarella" what is this a joke? It's soon for April Fools.

**Dorian** · 02-20-2020, 01:54 AM

Pineapple pizza is Greek too

Greek-Canadian Sam Panopoulos claimed that he created the first Hawaiian pizza at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, Canada in 1962. Inspired in part by his experience preparing Chinese dishes which commonly mix sweet and savoury flavours, Panopoulos experimented with adding pineapple, ham, bacon and other toppings which were not initially very popular.[1][2][3][4][5] The addition of pineapple to the traditional mix of tomato sauce and cheese, sometimes with ham or sometimes with bacon, soon became popular locally and eventually became a staple offering of pizzerias around the world.[6] Panopoulos chose the name Hawaiian after the brand of canned pineapple they used.

**~~Epirus DNA~~** · 02-20-2020, 01:54 AM

Originally Posted by MinervaItalica

"American Mozzarella" what is this a joke. It's soon for April Fools.

Yeah... Buffalo NY. Thats why they call it Buffalo Mozzarella! Duh!

**~~Daos777~~** · 02-20-2020, 01:55 AM

It was actually Thracians

**~~Epirus DNA~~** · 02-20-2020, 01:55 AM

Originally Posted by Dorian

Pineapple pizza is Greek too

Greek-Canadian Sam Panopoulos claimed that he created the first Hawaiian pizza at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, Canada in 1962. Inspired in part by his experience preparing Chinese dishes which commonly mix sweet and savoury flavours, Panopoulos experimented with adding pineapple, ham, bacon and other toppings which were not initially very popular.[1][2][3][4][5] The addition of pineapple to the traditional mix of tomato sauce and cheese, sometimes with ham or sometimes with bacon, soon became popular locally and eventually became a staple offering of pizzerias around the world.[6] Panopoulos chose the name Hawaiian after the brand of canned pineapple they used.