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After seeing the rather click-baity title, I've now got visions of seeing wild pizzas roaming the plains of Italy waiting to be plucked.

peanut_worm 5y ago
I don’t think that qualifies as click bait lol
- klyrs 5y ago
  A sufficiently pedantic reading of any headline will reveal that it does not capture the nuance writ plain in the linked article. (except when the title is the full contents of a solitary linked tweet)
  - yifanl 5y ago
    Arguably, even that can be construed as clickbait since it hides the metadata that the full article is the full article ;)
    - klyrs 5y ago
      Upon review of my tautology, I've realized that some might interpret the existence of a headline as an indication that there's something of more substance behind the headline. I deduce that all headlines are clickbait.
blakesterz 5y ago
That headline reminded me of the old BBC prank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU The spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama. It told a tale of a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the fictitious spaghetti tree, broadcast at a time when this Italian dish was not widely eaten in the UK and some Britons were unaware that spaghetti is a pasta made from wheat flour and water. Hundreds of viewers phoned into the BBC, either to say the story was not true, or wondering about it, with some even asking how to grow their own spaghetti trees. Decades later CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled." Or the Pizza Farm from Funny or Die! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0weSjPKi4cs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0weSjPKi4cs
- KineticLensman 5y ago
  The Guardian had a similar April fool about the island of San Serriffe [0], “a small archipelago, its main islands grouped roughly in the shape of a semicolon, in the Indian Ocean”, which was apparently celebrating 10 years of independence. But coming back to roaming Pizzas. Another anecdotal food myth (in the UK) is the haggis that roam the Scottish highlands. They allegedly have shorter legs on one side so that it is easer to go round and round the hills. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/archive-educational-resource-april-2012 https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/archive-educa...
  - jfk13 5y ago
    Hey, San Serriffe is not to be taken lightly. It even has a central bank; you can check the current balances here: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
- dspillett 5y ago
  Or the episode of the original Dangermouse where herds of bagpipe were stolen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln4JOPb20l0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln4JOPb20l0
- legerdemain 5y ago
  Do not feed the house hippo: https://youtu.be/NBfi8OEz0rA https://youtu.be/NBfi8OEz0rA
- fanf2 5y ago
  There are even restaurants called “Spaghetti Tree” named after this ancient joke
- deleted 5y ago
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jaclaz 5y ago
And they are not anyway pizzas (unless you stretch the definition of pizza to "anything that has a layer of bread at the bottom"). Not so casually the only actual pizza in the list is the one that is called pizza (pizza al taglio[1]) all the others are different specialities that may (or may not) be overall similar to a pizza. In Italy there are tens or hundreds of regional variations of "focaccie" (that are not pizza) or similar "bread with something", the traditional diets all revolve around bread or pasta (i.e. flour+water), (olive) oil, vegetables and cheese, i.e. the most economical ingredients, more or less always the same and people had centuries to invent variations on the same theme. [1] which is common enough, literally "pizza for cut", it is actually a "normal" pizza cooked in largish rectangular pans that is sold in rectangular slices.
- detritus 5y ago
  Dunno - my Italian partner refers to fresh thick focaccia when we're in Italy as 'pizza', so I think there's a little missing from the translation into English. Suffice to say, I think Italians have a wee bit more of a right to define the word than I do.
- occamrazor 5y ago
  In some parts of central Italy, including Rome, the soft focaccia is called _pizza bianca_ (white pizza) and it’s eaten as-is or sliced in half and filled with charcuterie, typically mortadella. Source: am Italian too.
  - mrlonglong 5y ago
    Are pepperoni pizzas valid dishes?
    - jaclaz 5y ago
      What do you mean by "valid"?
      - mrlonglong 5y ago

peanut_worm 5y ago

I don’t think that qualifies as click bait lol

klyrs 5y ago
A sufficiently pedantic reading of any headline will reveal that it does not capture the nuance writ plain in the linked article. (except when the title is the full contents of a solitary linked tweet)
- yifanl 5y ago
  Arguably, even that can be construed as clickbait since it hides the metadata that the full article is the full article ;)
  - klyrs 5y ago
    Upon review of my tautology, I've realized that some might interpret the existence of a headline as an indication that there's something of more substance behind the headline. I deduce that all headlines are clickbait.

blakesterz 5y ago

That headline reminded me of the old BBC prank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU The spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama. It told a tale of a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the fictitious spaghetti tree, broadcast at a time when this Italian dish was not widely eaten in the UK and some Britons were unaware that spaghetti is a pasta made from wheat flour and water. Hundreds of viewers phoned into the BBC, either to say the story was not true, or wondering about it, with some even asking how to grow their own spaghetti trees. Decades later CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled." Or the Pizza Farm from Funny or Die! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0weSjPKi4cs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0weSjPKi4cs

KineticLensman 5y ago
The Guardian had a similar April fool about the island of San Serriffe [0], “a small archipelago, its main islands grouped roughly in the shape of a semicolon, in the Indian Ocean”, which was apparently celebrating 10 years of independence. But coming back to roaming Pizzas. Another anecdotal food myth (in the UK) is the haggis that roam the Scottish highlands. They allegedly have shorter legs on one side so that it is easer to go round and round the hills. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/archive-educational-resource-april-2012 https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/archive-educa...
- jfk13 5y ago
  Hey, San Serriffe is not to be taken lightly. It even has a central bank; you can check the current balances here: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
dspillett 5y ago
Or the episode of the original Dangermouse where herds of bagpipe were stolen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln4JOPb20l0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln4JOPb20l0
legerdemain 5y ago
Do not feed the house hippo: https://youtu.be/NBfi8OEz0rA https://youtu.be/NBfi8OEz0rA
fanf2 5y ago
There are even restaurants called “Spaghetti Tree” named after this ancient joke
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jaclaz 5y ago

And they are not anyway pizzas (unless you stretch the definition of pizza to "anything that has a layer of bread at the bottom"). Not so casually the only actual pizza in the list is the one that is called pizza (pizza al taglio[1]) all the others are different specialities that may (or may not) be overall similar to a pizza. In Italy there are tens or hundreds of regional variations of "focaccie" (that are not pizza) or similar "bread with something", the traditional diets all revolve around bread or pasta (i.e. flour+water), (olive) oil, vegetables and cheese, i.e. the most economical ingredients, more or less always the same and people had centuries to invent variations on the same theme. [1] which is common enough, literally "pizza for cut", it is actually a "normal" pizza cooked in largish rectangular pans that is sold in rectangular slices.

detritus 5y ago
Dunno - my Italian partner refers to fresh thick focaccia when we're in Italy as 'pizza', so I think there's a little missing from the translation into English. Suffice to say, I think Italians have a wee bit more of a right to define the word than I do.
occamrazor 5y ago
In some parts of central Italy, including Rome, the soft focaccia is called _pizza bianca_ (white pizza) and it’s eaten as-is or sliced in half and filled with charcuterie, typically mortadella. Source: am Italian too.
- mrlonglong 5y ago
  Are pepperoni pizzas valid dishes?
  - jaclaz 5y ago
    What do you mean by "valid"?
    - mrlonglong 5y ago