Why is Pizza so well-known and liked in the U.S.?
@everwonderwhy (6697)
February 24, 2019 9:43am CST
Did you ever wonder how this Italian flatbread savoury relish became an American sensation?
Such huge love for pizza that Americans eat 150 acres of pizza a day? That would be 400 slices of pizza per second?
Like most Americans, pizza immigrated, as well. 4 million Italians of the 20 million immigrants legally entered USA between 1880 and 1920. All the exotic, epicurean tasty cheeses and sauces came along with the Italian immigrants.
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Pizza, back in Naples, Italy, were traditional diet and staple served on family dinners, made and sold to busy working class.
Did you know that pizza is not Italian to begin with? Naples was founded by Greek settlers around 600 BCE, and pizza is known to have existed there before the city was unified with the rest of Italy in 1861.
And Italian cuisine businesses became popularly introduced until the 1940s with their pizza pride and medal.
Do you agree that the sumptuous cheesy meat and savoury flatbread delight, called, pizza, was much more American than Italian?
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@DianneN (247219)
• United States
28 Feb 19
I never knew about pizza being formed by the Greeks. I've had Italian pizza in Italy several times, and truly love the pizza in the US much more. More variety and much better crusts, especially those restaurants in the Italian neighborhoods of New York and Little Italy in New Haven, CT.
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@DianneN (247219)
• United States
20 Jun 19
@antonbunot Neither do I. Ewwww! lol
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@everwonderwhy (6697)
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24 Feb 19
Thank you. I agree, original Italian pizzas, cooked by genuine, bonafide Italians, are still the best in town!
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@everwonderwhy (6697)
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24 Feb 19
@norcal Delicious Italian pizza is the best choice any day.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
24 Feb 19
LOL... I never even saw pizza until I was a teenager and then it was not at home. Dad thought that it looked disgusting lol!! Poor man, I wonder if he would have liked it if he had tried a bite??
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@everwonderwhy (6697)
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24 Feb 19
@LadyDuck That's strange for an Italian to find pizza "disgusting" 
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@everwonderwhy (6697)
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24 Feb 19
@Hate2Iron I wonder what about pizzas that your father never approved of? :-D
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@antonbunot (11092)
• Calgary, Alberta
13 Mar 19
O, my favorite Hawaiian Pizza that Italians hate .. I wonder if our good friend @LadyDuck hates, too! Haja
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@everwonderwhy (6697)
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14 Mar 19
@LadyDuck 
American 'preposterous' taste buds are playing tricks on them, aren't they? My daughter used to be the Chef for 3 years in an Italian-owned cafe restaurant. She knows the genuine epicurean taste of Italian cuisine. 
And I worked there as a Kitchen Hand.
American 'preposterous' taste buds are playing tricks on them, aren't they? My daughter used to be the Chef for 3 years in an Italian-owned cafe restaurant. She knows the genuine epicurean taste of Italian cuisine. And I worked there as a Kitchen Hand. 1 person likes this
@MarshaMusselman (38684)
• Midland, Michigan
8 Mar 19
I've no idea if it's more american than Italian, but I can say that many families probably eat pizza every week at least. They also eat some Mexican and some eat asian foods too. The younger generation eat pizza even more often than their parents ever did. When I grew up we had it some, but not as often as we had it when my kids were young.
In fact, ,we had it so much back then, but only on a weekly basis that I finally became tired of eating any pizza. After a few years I tried a thinner crust pizza and that's the type I now enjoy.
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@antonbunot (11092)
• Calgary, Alberta
19 Jun 19
@MarshaMusselman You got to try once . .eating tinola with rice. Nutritious!
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@antonbunot (11092)
• Calgary, Alberta
14 Mar 19
O, Asian foods are good! Especially, those laced with anchovies! I love Asian foods like the Filipino dish called tinola with boiled rice . . yummy! 
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@MarshaMusselman (38684)
• Midland, Michigan
14 Mar 19
@antonbunot I don't like anchovies, although I do like Chinese foods I don't have them much right now.
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@LowRiderX (22907)
• Serbia
24 Feb 19
I never tried American pizza, but I so enjoyed the real Italian 
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@everwonderwhy (6697)
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24 Feb 19
It's not surprising why so. The original is my choice, too.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
24 Feb 19
I love pizza - interesting history
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@Aquitaine24 (11653)
• San Jose, California
25 Jun 19
There are mmany ways ti make it.
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@everwonderwhy (6697)
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26 Jun 19
Well,we are a humanity of many gifts, talents, and intelligence to enjoy and benefit the world. :-D Pizza-making is one of them. :-D
Pizza-making is one of them. :-D @antonbunot (11092)
• Calgary, Alberta
14 Mar 19
I don't know much about the history of pizza! Our friend @LadyDuck is Italian and, of course, she knows much about pizza. Mama Mia, I did not even know that there is a white pizza! Let me keep reading all comments here to learn more about pizza. There is one thing that I can say about pizza - - Hawaiian pizza was born here in Canada not in Hawaii!
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@LadyDuck (459742)
• Switzerland
14 Mar 19
@antonbunot As I said in another comment I am a northern. I eat pizza may be three times a year. We are not pizza eaters in the north, it's not at all a dish we like and eat. Imagine a garbage pizza! I do not even want to see it.
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@Hannihar (129625)
• Israel
25 Feb 19
@everwonderwhy
People eat pizza I believe all over the world.
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@antonbunot (11092)
• Calgary, Alberta
14 Mar 19
@everwonderwhy I am guessing . . . it was popularized by Canadians.
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@everwonderwhy (6697)
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14 Mar 19
I wonder who popularized pizza. Americans or Italians? Italian Americans? Or American Italians?
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@Aquitaine24 (11653)
• San Jose, California
5 Mar 19
What is the biggest differences between Italian and American pizzas?
@everwonderwhy (6697)
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8 Mar 19
@porwest Probably. But all pizzerias in any state and local areas get their ingredients or meat from a common suppliers. It's probably the style or method?
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@porwest (78759)
• United States
7 Mar 19
@Aquitaine24 Honestly flavor and toppings. Italian pizzas are very simple. Americans use more spices and add many more toppings to their pizzas, including stuffing crusts etc. I actually had traditional spaghetti once from an Italian woman I knew who made 'authentic' spaghetti and I thought it was very bland and runny. Ours in the U.S. is thick and loaded.
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@jvicentevalera (13671)
• Santiago, Chile
24 Feb 19
Well I am ignorant about Pizza background, all I know is that I love eating it as much as I can! Mamma Mia!
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@antonbunot (11092)
• Calgary, Alberta
15 Mar 19
@Sheali Ha! Where are you from? ! They even have Hawaiian Pizza in the Philippines.
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@antonbunot (11092)
• Calgary, Alberta
14 Mar 19
@Sheali How about Hawaiian Pizza? I think it is more nutritious than cheese pizza . . If I am not mistaken it is loaded with vitamin C, potassium, Calcium, magnesium, iron, and so on.
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@Sheali (7461)
• India
15 Mar 19
@antonbunot We don't think.. we get those pizzas here
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@Aquitaine24 (11653)
• San Jose, California
14 Mar 19
I think pizza was actually invented by the Greeks.
