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Pizza is a tomato pie.
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Someone's had Chicago style deep dish for the first time I see.
That's not an edgy take. Pizzas have been traditionally referred to as pies for a long time. It's fallen out of favor in the last few generations, but there was a time when it was common to refer to it as a pie.
How else would you refer to a whole pizza? That's almost always called a pie in my experience, even though people don't say "a pizza pie" so much.
I call a whole pizza "a pizza"
That's just a fancy way of saying a tomato smoothie on bread/pastry
Correction; a tomato pie with pineapple.
My favorite
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Tomato pie is already a thing.
And it is indeed suspiciously similar to deep dish pizza.
TIL that tomato pie is a thing. And I want it not to be.
It's delicious though
It is really good. I make it from scratch sometimes,basivally foccacia with a thick and flavorful tomato goop on top. It's super rich with a lot of olive oil in the recipe, but for me it's the garlic, red pepper, and sugar that make the dish what it is. No cheese required here.
It's half a cheese toastie with tomato sauce.
Well, yeah, people have been calling pizzas pies for a long time.
Deep dish especially.
Weird thought - pizza dates to 997 CE, that's over 500 years before tomatoes were introduced in Italy. Most of the existence of pizza has been without tomato.
Technically even 2500BC in ancient Sumer they had flatbreads and the ability to bake them with toppings, I think potentially you're underestimating the age of the pizza by an order of magnitude.
True, I'm just looking at it linguistically. We've had a thing called "pizza" in continuous use since 997 according to Wikipedia (I was unable to locate the source cited, but I don't think it's a contentious issue, so Wikipedia is probably correct).
Oh that makes more sense, yeah. However, I'm not sure theres 100% an unbroken line but Ancient Greeks had the word pitta, meaning flatbread and *bheid- is the Proto-Indo-European root meaning to split or to bite that it comes from. So it seems potential time travelers asking for pizza by name stand a decent chance of getting the point across right back into the neolithic.
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