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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pizza is Iranian (not joking earliest information about dish that was described to look like pizza are from Achaemenid Empire)

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

Probably older than that, the oldest pieces of flatbread are almost 15,000 years old, and it's not a big leap to put stuff on top of it

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 months ago

Most likely. This would still be somewhere in the fertile crescent though, not in Italia.

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

mamma-mia where-a to-a the pizza-ria

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

and it's not a big leap to put stuff on top of it

Nobody thought of putting anything on bread until the singular genius of the Earl of Sandwich.

Great Man Theory of History.

[-] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Pizza is Turkish!!! 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Wheaten dough with tomato on it post-dates the Columbian Exchange

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