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Uhm, sorry but no. Pizza has never been looked down in Italy. Because most Italians have most often been poor and miserable wretches that couldn’t afford to loo
by eecc 7y ago
Uhm, sorry but no. Pizza has never been looked down in Italy. Because most Italians have most often been poor and miserable wretches that couldn’t afford to look down onto any kind of food in the first place.
Perhaps just during post-WW2 we had some form of cultural colonization and shame of the past that - peaking in the ‘80s - made us love and ape anything Made in USA.
Food, music, movies... just look here https://youtu.be/fJ8o26ovKjM https://youtu.be/fJ8o26ovKjM
But no, even thinking that the “origin culture” is just claiming as own American-made derivations is frankly shameless hubris
- vraivroo 7y agoYou misunderstood. It's not "Pizza" that was looked down upon in Italy, it was "toppings on pizza". There are 3 official types of Neapolitan pizza, for example, and none of them have any of what Americans would traditionally consider "toppings". Putting anything other than tomato sauce, mozzarella, and seasonings on a Neapolitan pie is, simply, "looked down upon".
- viklove 7y ago> Neapolitan pie It's a bit ironic you would put these two words together in your comment. No one would call a Neapolitan pizza a pie -- that word probably originates from deep dish (aka Chicago style) pizza, which actually resembles a pie.
- RandallBrown 7y agoPizza pie was used for decades before the invention of the deep dish. https://www.crustkingdom.com/why-is-pizza-called-pie/ https://www.crustkingdom.com/why-is-pizza-called-pie/
- KozmoNau7 7y agoThere is more to Italian pizza than Neapolitan pizza. Roman pizza is distinctly different. It's either Focaccia-like thick and made in rectangular pans, or round, thin and crispy, much closer to NY-style pizza, and much more adventurous with the toppings. If anyone in Italy looks down on Roman-style pizza, they're idiots.
- eecc 7y agoIn fact, nobody does... really. Nobody