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> a pizza bianca without mozzarella is a focaccia It is completely wrong! Pizza and focaccia have a completely different mixture.

• Isamu 10y ago
  A fundamentally different bread dough? Please do tell. My mind is open!
  • phillord 10y ago
    Depends on the leavening agent (or not). I would argue that flat breads, yeast leavened, and sour doughs are all pretty different. Sour dough pizza is pretty nice. Not sure it's allowed according to the book though...
• kidmenot 10y ago
  To complicate the matter, if you ever find yourself in the Italian region of Apulia (and possibly other southern regions), you should say "focaccia" even though you really mean "pizza", because "pizza" stands for "penis".
  • gpderetta 10y ago
    [citation needed]. My wife is from Apulia, and we visit the region multiple times a year. Never heard of this, always called a 'pizza' by its name there.
    • kidmenot 10y ago
      https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cazzo https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cazzo Look for "Puglia". Looks like what I said is true for Taranto, but my ex girlfriend was from Brindisi and she was the one who told me about this. Might depend on whether you actually speak dialect, methinks.
      • gpderetta 10y ago
        Great citation, have an upvote. My wife is from the southern Salento where, as the wikipage itself shows, a different term is used. As it is common in Italy often dialects radically change withing a dozen kilometers. Anyway, I do have good friends from Taranto, and this never came up; then again, there are so many synonyms of 'penis' in Italian and its dialects that if we were to avoid all of them we would have to rip out half of the dictionary.
        • kidmenot 10y ago
          True that :) Yes, dialects change even from my hometown to the next, which is at about 30 km. They have a similar but different word for "Thursday", for instance. Not to mention the change in accents within the same province. This kind of richness is going to get lost as fewer and fewer people are taught the dialect of their own region (I reckon many parents think it is "uncool" or something), but I'm getting off topic :)
  • _ZeD_ 10y ago
    What?
• ithkuil 10y ago
  To complicate things further, different parts of Italy call different things focaccia, and there are also many kinds of pizza. But generally speaking it's true: a focaccia is thicker and usually contains more olive oil. This requirement might be reflected in a slightly different mixture.