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older, at least 2000 years now https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/world/europe/pizza-mural-pompeii.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/world/europe/pizza-m

• anthk 3y ago
  Dishes similar to pizza (bread with stuff on top) existed across all of the Mediterranean since forever. Back in the day people had no proper phyisical dishes (read: recipients) and they just ate food on top of bread slices.
  • rombuu 3y ago
    Trenchers... but it was old bread and you didn't necessarily eat it. Or sometimes you gave it to the poor after your meal if you were being gregarious.
    • anthk 3y ago
      There wasn't something like "old bread" at old times except if it had mold on it. You just placed it near fire and made a toast of it, or you softened it either with wine or homemade liquors. If you were a loaded guy (not rich but the one who had a TV in the village in the 60's), you for sure culd acces milk at a daily pace.