i'm not saying Italy doesn't have fast food, or that food trends around the world don't influence each other, I'm saying at the time these questions were raised

i'm not saying Italy doesn't have fast food, or that food trends around the world don't influence each other, I'm saying at the time these questions were raised about "is pizza American or Italian?", fast food was an American export in the same way pasta was imported from Italy. The famous Italian Slow Food movement is explicitly making that claim.