I can't resist following up with this quote from that page: """Stephen Jenkins noted that the feedback phenomenon could continue; in the case of pizza, he wrot

I can't resist following up with this quote from that page: """Stephen Jenkins noted that the feedback phenomenon could continue; in the case of pizza, he wrote that the return of pizza to Italy again influenced American cuisine: "...pizza-loving American tourists, going to Italy in the millions, sought out authentic Italian pizza. Italians, responding to this demand, developed pizzerias to meet American expectations. Delighted with their discovery of "authentic" Italian pizza, Americans subsequently developed chains of "authentic" Italian brick-oven pizzerias. Hence, Americans met their own reflection in the other and were delighted.""" -- Stephen Jenkins (2002), "Black ships, Blavatsky, and the Pizza effect: critical self-consciousness as a thematic foundation for courses in Buddhist studies", in Victor Sōgen Hori; Richard P. Hayes; James Mark Shields, Teaching Buddhism in the West: from the wheel to the Web It's the sort of feedback mechanism that really brings out the cool effects various cultures have on each other. Not only can one culture co-opt an idea, but the original may take it back and own it, only to have it co-opted again. It's a sort of cultural evolution. (And let's be honest, brick-oven pizzas really are superior to everything else, so I'm not going to complain.)