• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      15 days ago

      Like all things, we have seized it and made it our own. Like how getting Chinese food in an American restaurant only vaguely resembles Chinese cuisine. 💪

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        15 days ago

        I mean, tomatoes are a fruit native to the Americas, so even though pizza was invented in Italy, its invention is still tied to the America side of the Atlantic in some ways. Pizza has a very interesting past!

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            14 days ago

            I would argue that the modern understanding of pizza in Italy and across the globe is one that includes tomatoes. Things prior to that called pizza would likely not pass as pizza today. And it’s pretty accepted that pizza and tomatoes are very linked. Imo you’re being pedantic.

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      13 days ago

      You clearly have never had Italian pizza. Not even close.

      Pizza is American unless you want to claim every flatbread is a pizza.

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    14 days ago

    I don’t know any European that would only eat a slice of pizza instead of the whole thing.

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      14 days ago

      The only time an European eats a single slice of pizza is the next morning after they have overestimated their ability to devour the entire thing.

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      14 days ago

      I’m on my way home from Amsterdam atm, a slice of pizza was €10.

      I skipped that and left hungry, because i’m buying two pizza’s and a big bottle of coke when i get home in about an hour.

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        14 days ago

        Damn, you can get an entire large pizza for $10 at Costco. Granted, your only options are pepperoni or cheese, and the quality isn’t the best (far from the worst, though), but it’ll feed 1-3 people.

        Still, I miss the days when you could a large pizza with unlimited toppings at various chain restaurants for $10. But that was over 10 years ago.

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          14 days ago

          Domino’s still regularly has €5 pizza’s on monday for pickup, at my old job during the late shift we had €17 per person to spend on food and 2 people in the shift.

          We used to order 2 family xxl with their thursday 50% off for second pizza and a regular sized cheeseburger pizza+ drinks for that €34.

          We both ate half our xxl and shared the regular size one, the remainder came home to feed our wives while the company covered the cost.

          They even paid us a pretty decent wage too, but unfortunately the head office decided to build a new automated warehouse right when covid started that ended up only doing 30% productivity and they closed us down as a result.

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          14 days ago

          A large Costco pizza will feed way more than 1-3. I’m not even trying to act like bird food eater here. I’m 225lbs and 6’2” so I know how to eat.

          That said, I absolutely love Costco pizza and my safe zone is like 2 slices because they are enormous.

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    14 days ago

    I once went to a Polish restaurant and the starter was pork fat on toast.

    And a hazelnut vodka.

    There are many ways for a heart to implode.

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      14 days ago

      Pork fat is less processed product and certainly more healthy. America isn’t actually great at much but one thing we do have is the least healthy food to ever exist.

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        14 days ago

        Truth. Heart disease wasn’t nearly as prevalent back when we cooked everything with lard. And then Crisco came along, started producing that overprocessed “vegetable oil” garbage, marketed it (and continue to market it) as “healthy”, and people actually fell for their BS. Hell, judging by the amount of downvotes you got, half the public still believes this lie.

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          14 days ago

          A lot of this is because people had to do a lot more exercise during the day than we do now. Not that the lard was better for us. This is where a lot of the downvotes come from. Even the rich had to do a lot more walking. If we could return to the amount of exercise we averaged 50+ years ago, you would see a lot of this decline. The next big thing is the amount we eat. We consume significantly more calories now than we used to. In the past 100 years it has increased ~20%. All the while we have been doing less physically. The third big factor is where the shitty food comes in. Having sugar/highly refined carbs added to just about everything promotes over-eating, while also fucking with your insulin production, and other endocrine issues, that promote fat retention, while also increasing addictive eating disorder likelihood.

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      14 days ago

      Polish hazelnut booze is awful. Granted I only know Solpica, but one shot tastes the whole day and maybe longer.