At one point a few years ago, our local pizza hut began offering a different sauce. Coming from Northern Illinois, where there are a lot of Italians and authentic pizza shops, having to eat pizza hut is a very poor substitute for the real deal. If you can’t get the sauce right, you might as well hang it up. Of course, most of the locals here in Oklahoma have never had authentic pizza, so they think the hut’s is just fine. (They also think Simple Simons and Mario’s make good pizza, both started by non-italian Okies, who obviously hadn’t had the real deal, either.) Nothing wrong with not being Italian, but you should at least know what real pizza tastes like. That’s my rant.
Italians have nothing to do with pizza other than the word. If someone is offering you “real Italian pizza” they are either promising you bad food or calling you an idiot to your face.