[dp0622]

How did a conversation about pizza get this far before I was made aware??!?!?!

Italy pizza is Very different from ours.

They call our pizza lasagna :)

[dayglored]

Here in Ithaca, NY, there was a Cornell Collegetown bar called "The Nines", that originally served New York style thin pizza. But many decades ago a small Chicago blues band on tour played at the bar, and two of the bandmembers were so enamored of Ithaca that later they moved here. And they brought Chicago style pizza to the Nines.

They also brought Chicago Blues to Ithaca, and the Blue Monday Jam at the Nines was fixture for many decades. I joined in a hundred times or so over the years.

Anyway, when you went to the bar, you could order either style. Fights broke out from time to time regarding the relative merits of the two styles, but were generally settled with quantities of beer.

Alas, the Nines closed down a few years ago. But its memory remains.

[oldvirginian]

I noticed you hadn’t chimed in therefore the ping.

I should have called it New York style pizza. But it was brought to the US through NYC by the Italian immigrants (as the Lord intended) and the troops returning from Italy after WW2 had developed a taste for the Italian pie and Bobs your uncle a pizza boom was born.

Several years ago I was trapped (alone unfortunately) in a motel room because of an 8 foot snowfall in Denver.
Nothing to do but watch basic cable.
One channel was nothing but food, history of food and food facts.
I was amazed to learn that what can be called pizza in Italy is tightly controlled by law. From each individual ingredient in the crust and sauce to how it is cooked.
Very serious about their pizza those Italians.

About 30 years ago a friend went to Italy. The guy loved Italian food.
He was very bummed to find that Italian and Italian-American are worlds apart. :)