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by toopok4k3 1608 days ago
It's always amazing to think that Pizza existed long before tomatoes were brought to Europe.
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not only that, but pizza comes from a long tradition in many countries of making foods using bread that double as a plate! It's certainly come a long way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trencher_(tableware)

It blew my mind when I realized 'pizza' was probably etymologically related to 'pita'.
I just discovered "pide" [0] from a local restaurant which is roughly the same thing from the next region over.

There's a neat pattern around the eastern Mediterranean where lots of cultures eat roughly the same foods (because they have been exchanging cultural concepts along with their trade goods and humans for millennia) but because of parallel historical tensions, each culture is vitriolically convinced that they invented their foods.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0%C3%A7li_Pide