Sorry, but this is absolutely false. The US was not the only country to receive immigrants during the two Italian diasporas [1], and so you are not the only cou

Sorry, but this is absolutely false. The US was not the only country to receive immigrants during the two Italian diasporas [1], and so you are not the only country to develop a taste for Italian cuisine. Australian pizza descends directly from the Italian style. We do have the American style as well, but it's a minority preference. Our pizza usually looks like this [2]. It's also notable that Starbucks failed to make a dent here [3], because our coffee culture is truer to its Italian roots than yours. Given the circumstances in which this happened here, it stretches credulity to imagine that the preferences for pizza across Western Europe, South America, and Africa have been filtered through American preferences when Italians have been there making pizza for just as long. Please check your exceptionalism, thanks. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_diaspora#Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_diaspora#Statistics [2] https://www.idealista.it/en/news/lifestyle-italy/2019/06/10/2491-most-popular-authentic-italian-pizzas https://www.idealista.it/en/news/lifestyle-italy/2019/06/10/... [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/starbucks-australia-coffee-failure.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/starbucks-australia-coffee-f...