America Before Pizza

The Atlantic ^ | DECEMBER 21, 2023

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America Before Pizza

BEFORE PIZZA

AFTER PIZZA

[Fuzz]

Deep dish pizza? Get behind me satan! 😁

[Brian Griffin]

https://www.ctpost.com/food/article/New-Haven-apizza-Pizza-historians-study-the-16230802.php

[Fuzz]

Nice.

YouTube has a lot of people reviewing New Haven pizza places that are fun to watch.

I have an affinity for Modern because my father’s church was across the street when I was a teenager, so I’d go there a lot. The clam pie, delish

[fishtank]

Matrix cats

[x]

In “Splendor in the Grass,” a movie set in the 1920s, Warren Beatty asks, “What is pizza?”

[Bonemaker]

That’s when pizza first hit US. The first time I heard of it was early 50’s. Heard pizza pie for dinner one night and thought it was a pie pie. Looking for sweets which I dearly loved but was shocked at the reality!!

[Jim W N]

Was there an America before pizza? No way...

[Telepathic Intruder]

bread, cheese, and sauce

Don’t forget the toppings, which is meat and other things. And more cheese.

[Jim W N]

AKA from the 80's...

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN...

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS...

[Jim W N]

Wow, you must have liked that post...

[Jim W N]

Do we have consensus on the best pizza place in NYC?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I was born in ‘51 and grew up in upstate NY. I honestly cannot remember when I first heard (or had) “pizza.” My mom had a dish she liked to make called “meatza pie,” but that might have been when I was in high school (I never told mom it was “meh” at best — she always thought it was a treat for us).

My wife is a native Californian and doesn’t remember it as a kid, either.

The first pizza we can remember was around 1980 or so at a little pizzeria in midtown Palo Alto. We ate more pizza when the kids came along in the mid and late 80s.

[Jim W N]

What if the Earl of Sandwich had never invented the sandwich?

Maybe pizza would have arrived here sooner...Mama Mia...

[Fuzz]

I don’t.

Honestly, if I venture into nyc nowadays I’m not eating pizza. Not because it isn’t good, but because I’ve got reservations somewhere much better. 😁

[Jim W N]

You’re from Palo Alto? So am I. What was the name of the pizza place you went to?

Do you remember Magoo’s Pizza in Menlo park where an early Grateful Dead played?

[Boiler Plate]

Thirteen percent of the United States population consumes pizza on any given day.

I think that number is a little low.

[Freest Republican]

Fun fact-

although tomatoes were eaten by tribes for hundreds of years-

it wasn’t until pizza was invented in the late 1800’s that civilized society consumed them.

[Fuzz]

Depends what you consider civilized society I guess. They were in Europe and eaten in the 1500s

[9YearLurker]

Pepperoni?