Thread 21537355

>pizza started because the rich italian nobles used stale bread as plates, then the 'plates' which absorbed the grease and sauce got donated to poorfags after the banquet is done
>fast forward a few hundred years, those poorfags' descendants now act like it's something sacred that can't be modified

>>21537355 (OP)
many, many culinary traditions were born out of poverty, especially in italian cuisine

>>21537413
>t. poorfag cope

>>21537355 (OP)
that's not how it started at all
it started in ancient greece when people would top flatbreads with oil and herbs and goat cheese

>>21537355 (OP)
Yeah retard, people get weird about food and tradition because it's things they grow up with. If your gene pool isn't diluted to the point of being an endless admixture, you could look back to the roots of a lot of your people's beloved foods and traditions and see how stupid they were, too.

>>21537442
lol Gottem

>>21537355 (OP)
According to Virgil's Aeneid, Rome itself was founded by the eating of flatbread trenchers. Aeneas' army became wandering nomads, exiled after losing the Trojan War to the Greeks, and it was prophecied by the Oracle that they would be cursed to wander until "they chewed at their own tables in hunger". One day, when exploring up the Tiber river in Italy, his soldiers were given a particularly sparse supper, so many of them resorted to eating their trenchers in attempt satisfy their hunger. Aeneas realized this, and in his native tongue a similar word was used for plate as for table, and proclaimed the prophecy to be fulfilled, and their wandering to have ceased, and upon that site they settled and built their town, which would one day become Rome.

>>21537490
Studying the classics is so fun and interesting. I miss my college English classes.

Anyway, I don't think pizza was invented anywhere, kind of like the pasta debate. It was esoterically invented outside of the legends and in more than one place, in more than one instance probably around the world nearly at once.

I used to live in NOVA/DC, and one of my favorite things to do was to morph storebought Za'atar bread, which was sold on the bread like like a literal stack of pitas, soft and fresh, into a pizza in my own oven. I had nothing to do with arabic flavor or fusion, nor pizza, it was just easy mode insanity that was terrifically delicious. The bread had an olive oil component that browned crispy too. I blows my mind that zero brands sell it that way around the country. Lavash is not the same, nor is Naan.

>>21537442
I ate da north. Look downa der noses at us like wea fuckin peasants. PWOOT

>>21537355 (OP)
And "ketchup" was fish sauce imported from Asia until Europeans started substituting the fish with different, cheaper, options for poor people until landing on tomato, which is why some brands even still specify on the bottle it's "tomato ketchup".

it's to protect established and universally loved recipes from meming faggots who add their gimmicks to it

>>21537355 (OP)
>dozens of different pizza varieties in Italy alone
>can't be modified

Stop getting information about the world from shit memes for twats.

>>21539326
Interesting spacing.
Muscle memory is a bitch. Isn’t it?

>>21539331
Please explain what is wrong with the spacing?

What is it with the smug faggots on this board always going "UMMM ACTUALLY THIS SUPER DELICIOUS FOOD IS PLEB PEASANT FOOD,BET YOU FEEL LIKE SUCH A LOWLIFE NOW FOR EATING LOBSTER HUH"

>>21537355 (OP)
>rich people 1000 years ago were eating wheat bread, chicken, almonds and black pepper
Wow, I guess anybody can be rich these days.

>>21539336
Not OP and his line of thinking is retarded but i totally understand why lobster and crab are poor people food. They're alright but way more trouble preparing/eating than they're worth

>>21539347
Its fun that people think that the crab and lobsters served up to prison inmates in the 19th century would be anything like how it is in a fancy restaurant.

>>21539334
The lady you're responding to thinks that it is "reddit spacing" because she is a newfag. Very, very fresh. Probably an avid reader of know your meme or something similarly pathetic.

>>21539348
They'd be better.

>>21539145
wrong, it's thick soy sauce and it's malay origin called kecap manis