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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Piment@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Pizza is Iranian (not joking earliest information about dish that was described to look like pizza are from Achaemenid Empire)

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Probably older than that, the oldest pieces of flatbread are almost 15,000 years old, and it's not a big leap to put stuff on top of it

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most likely. This would still be somewhere in the fertile crescent though, not in Italia.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

mamma-mia where-a to-a the pizza-ria

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

and it's not a big leap to put stuff on top of it

Nobody thought of putting anything on bread until the singular genius of the Earl of Sandwich.

Great Man Theory of History.

[–] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

Pizza is Turkish!!! 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wheaten dough with tomato on it post-dates the Columbian Exchange