Where do you think pizza comes from?
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Like all things, we have seized it and made it our own. Like how getting Chinese food in an American restaurant only vaguely resembles Chinese cuisine. πͺ
I mean, tomatoes are a fruit native to the Americas, so even though pizza was invented in Italy, its invention is still tied to the America side of the Atlantic in some ways. Pizza has a very interesting past!
Pizza existed before they had tomatoes tho
I would argue that the modern understanding of pizza in Italy and across the globe is one that includes tomatoes. Things prior to that called pizza would likely not pass as pizza today. And it's pretty accepted that pizza and tomatoes are very linked. Imo you're being pedantic.
You clearly have never had Italian pizza. Not even close.
Pizza is American unless you want to claim every flatbread is a pizza.
I don't know any European that would only eat a slice of pizza instead of the whole thing.
The only time an European eats a single slice of pizza is the next morning after they have overestimated their ability to devour the entire thing.
The third whole pizza*
I'm on my way home from Amsterdam atm, a slice of pizza was β¬10.
I skipped that and left hungry, because i'm buying two pizza's and a big bottle of coke when i get home in about an hour.
Damn, you can get an entire large pizza for $10 at Costco. Granted, your only options are pepperoni or cheese, and the quality isn't the best (far from the worst, though), but it'll feed 1-3 people.
Still, I miss the days when you could a large pizza with unlimited toppings at various chain restaurants for $10. But that was over 10 years ago.
You only need to be a cosco member and hopefully not have any previous experience with pizza
Domino's still regularly has β¬5 pizza's on monday for pickup, at my old job during the late shift we had β¬17 per person to spend on food and 2 people in the shift.
We used to order 2 family xxl with their thursday 50% off for second pizza and a regular sized cheeseburger pizza+ drinks for that β¬34.
We both ate half our xxl and shared the regular size one, the remainder came home to feed our wives while the company covered the cost.
They even paid us a pretty decent wage too, but unfortunately the head office decided to build a new automated warehouse right when covid started that ended up only doing 30% productivity and they closed us down as a result.
A large Costco pizza will feed way more than 1-3. Iβm not even trying to act like bird food eater here. Iβm 225lbs and 6β2β so I know how to eat.
That said, I absolutely love Costco pizza and my safe zone is like 2 slices because they are enormous.
Hah! In Scotland we dip pizza in batter and deep fry it. With a deep-fried Mars bar for afters.
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/five-glaswegian-chip-shop-delicacies-11462402
Time to make a pilgrimage
Guys, guys, there's no point in intercontinental squabbling, we should focus on the real enemy, uh... teleporting space squid
Wait... is that a reference to the original Watchmen comic?
I'm from the Midwest and never had Costco food before. Tbh, it'd probably kill me too, lol.
Obesity is a natural reaction to an unnatural food environment
Looks like half the calories of a swiss fondue. We are not really European though.
not really European
Wdym by that ?
Switzerland is geographically in Europe but we are not part of the European Union. We don't want to share our cheese.
EUROPEAN (adjective) Belonging to or relating to Europe or its people.
That cheese got in your head.
Yeaaah maybe I missed some subtlety of the adjective, sorry.
Hopefully I can catch some of this cheese in my head with my tongue.
I'm not sure if that thought is hilarious or disgusting :D
I once went to a Polish restaurant and the starter was pork fat on toast.
And a hazelnut vodka.
There are many ways for a heart to implode.
Pork fat is less processed product and certainly more healthy. America isn't actually great at much but one thing we do have is the least healthy food to ever exist.
Truth. Heart disease wasn't nearly as prevalent back when we cooked everything with lard. And then Crisco came along, started producing that overprocessed "vegetable oil" garbage, marketed it (and continue to market it) as "healthy", and people actually fell for their BS. Hell, judging by the amount of downvotes you got, half the public still believes this lie.
A lot of this is because people had to do a lot more exercise during the day than we do now. Not that the lard was better for us. This is where a lot of the downvotes come from. Even the rich had to do a lot more walking. If we could return to the amount of exercise we averaged 50+ years ago, you would see a lot of this decline. The next big thing is the amount we eat. We consume significantly more calories now than we used to. In the past 100 years it has increased ~20%. All the while we have been doing less physically. The third big factor is where the shitty food comes in. Having sugar/highly refined carbs added to just about everything promotes over-eating, while also fucking with your insulin production, and other endocrine issues, that promote fat retention, while also increasing addictive eating disorder likelihood.
Polish hazelnut booze is awful. Granted I only know Solpica, but one shot tastes the whole day and maybe longer.
Why would you get the ice cream/froyo AND a soda?
Can you go to Costco without getting a hotdog?
I've been a member for 3+ years and literally never bought the hotdog. Why would I go to Costco hungry? That sounds like a good way to buy a bunch of junk I don't really want.
What? That's like going to Ikea and not getting meatballs
IKEA is a furniture store. This is not a good comparison.
If you insist. But I'm my eyes they're both warehouse style outlets known for a wacky food item.
Also, it's just a joke. Please settle down
Why there is only one slice of pizza?
He ate the rest before he could do a photo
Italians will cook your pasta inside a whole wheel of cheese. Spaniards deep fry pork belly and serve it as a snack. Last time I was in Eastern Europe I thought something was a sweet only to discover it was a lump of straight-up pork fat. Just raw. To munch on.
Americans may be more consistent at eating gross murderfood regularly and in large quantities, but they sure aren't the only ones to have it.
The big difference is in the details.
Italians dont cook your pasta in that wheel. They throw it in there and shove it around. Its no comparison to that center console by any stretch. The countries that munch on raw fat are usually freezing cold and very rough in terms of manual labor conditions. People burn through double the amount of calories or more if they have heavy manual labor and cold climate.
Maybe not the spaniards though. ;)
You've never been to the Po Valley. We fry mortadella here.
Oh god... I can feel it, I can feel the East Germans commenting "that's a JΓ€gerschnitzel" and then the flame war with the Austrians kicks off.
As someone on a diet: fuck OP for posting this