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> A thing as basic as a bread staple to have different names in the same region seems very significant. Nah. It's just the result of a long history. In Italy,
by toyg 3y ago
> A thing as basic as a bread staple to have different names in the same region seems very significant.
Nah. It's just the result of a long history. In Italy, different towns can call the same specialties with completely different names (crescentina / gnocco fritto, etc...), often simply out of spite or because of some long-forgotten feud.
40 years ago, in Rome a pizza was often called a "torta", which is the word the rest of Italy uses for sweet cakes.
- detourdog 3y agoI would think that also but I'm hung up on some details. Pita is a pretty basic word for a human staple. Large regional areas use a very similar word for millenniums. One culture doesn't and is just as interspersed as through time and space as the others. In fact they share many texts. I think this is different than the examples you provided. I would describe some pizza's in Berkshire Country as a Torte.