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'Pizza' painting found in ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii
Reuters ^ | June 30, 2023 | Reporting by Cristina Carlevaro, editing by Alvise Armellini and Angus MacSwan

Posted on 07/02/2023 8:31:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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A fresco depicting what might be an ancestor of the Italian pizza on the wall of a house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
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via Reuters TV

1 posted on 07/02/2023 8:31:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Please note: no pineapple. Those of us who fight against the pineapple-on-pizza atrocity are upholding ancient tradition


2 posted on 07/02/2023 8:33:30 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Many ancient cultures, particularly those of the Near East and around the Mediterranean, had flat breads as part of their dietary regimen.


3 posted on 07/02/2023 8:35:12 AM PDT by nwrep
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4 posted on 07/02/2023 8:35:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: j.havenfarm

Pineapples, like tomatoes, are a new World import, that only became known after Columbus’ discovery.


5 posted on 07/02/2023 8:36:35 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: SunkenCiv

The Pedosta brothers get around.


6 posted on 07/02/2023 8:37:13 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: SunkenCiv

What an amazing still-life! Looks like it could have been made during the Renaissance!


7 posted on 07/02/2023 8:37:48 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Ancestor” of pizza? That looks like the real deal. Look at that big, puffy, crunchy crust! And all the needed toppings and sauce are sitting next to it.


8 posted on 07/02/2023 8:38:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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I think I see mushrooms and cheese on it, anyway. Don’t know what other sauces go well on a pizza that isn’t tomato, though.


9 posted on 07/02/2023 8:39:24 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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[snip] Pizzas as we know them today, with tomato and mozzarella, weren’t baked in Italy until the 1800s. Instead, the Roman fresco likely features a flat focaccia — food that was commonly eaten in the town before it was destroyed in the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. [/snip]

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/2000-year-old-not-a-pizza-fresco-discovered-in-pompeii


10 posted on 07/02/2023 8:40:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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I agree. The realism is stunning. This could be something by Caravaggio 1500 years later.


11 posted on 07/02/2023 8:41:30 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: BradyLS

The Romans used something like alfredo sauce since toms weren’t available.


12 posted on 07/02/2023 8:41:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Near the Fresco was a sign written in Italian: “15 minutes or it’s free!”


13 posted on 07/02/2023 8:41:57 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I'm surprised they didn't show this famous Pompeiian mosaic of a couple of pizzaiolos at work.


14 posted on 07/02/2023 8:45:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Pizza! Pizza!

15 posted on 07/02/2023 8:46:04 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: OrangeHoof
:^) Regular price, 4 denari, 4 denari, 4 denari.

16 posted on 07/02/2023 8:46:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

No tomatoes though; and I wouldn’t call anything lacking a tomato based sauce a pizza.


17 posted on 07/02/2023 8:49:09 AM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: SunkenCiv

Exquisite! Gotta get back to Pompeii one of these days.


18 posted on 07/02/2023 8:49:59 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Don't be obtuse)
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To: nwrep

To say nothing of Canadian bacon.


19 posted on 07/02/2023 8:51:26 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SunkenCiv

my eyes are tired- arte those anchovies on the pizza? Or soem kind of small fish?


20 posted on 07/02/2023 8:52:14 AM PDT by Bob434
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