[familyop]

Back during the early 1980s, some Italian folks in their 80’s told me that pizza was certainly not an Italian food. Spaghetti, rice and beans, yes. Pizza, no.

[miss marmelstein]

Pizza is Neapolitan. It's certainly Italian and came out of that region.

[hinckley buzzard]

...some Italian folks in their 80’s told me that pizza was certainly not an Italian food.

They were correct. Pizza originated in China.

[I cannot think of a name]

“Back during the early 1980s, some Italian folks in their 80’s told me that pizza was certainly not an Italian food. “

Not correct, but somewhat almost right anyway. My grandmother's grandmother had immigrated from Italy. My grandmother still cooked Italian food the way she he had been taught by her mother and grandmother. This meant she was basically using recipes from the 1840s-1850s. And every so often she would make a “pizza pie.”

And it was HORRIBLE!

Pizza Pie was basically a way to get rid of leftovers>. It had an upper and lower crust, with whatever was left over in the middle. I absolutely hated it.

When I was in high school we had these places called Shakey’s Pizza open throughout the city. Everybody in school went on and on about how good it was. I of course thought they had to be idiots.

One day I relented and tried it. WOW. As I told my then girlfriend, “I don't know what this is because it is sure as heck not pizza pie, but it is darn good!”

What was called pizza pie in the 1800s in Italy and what was called pizza in the US in the 1960s, were two entirely different things.