• Skates@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    What is this, Theseus’ pizza? How many of the traditional ingredients can you replace and still consider it a pizza?

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      5 months ago

      What defines something as pizza is the base, not the toppings. Of course there are some common and more classic toppings, but those include also no cheese pizzas

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        5 months ago

        The base is bread. The pizza is defined as the base + cheese + tomato sauce + various toppings.

        a dish of Italian origin, consisting of a flat round base of dough baked with a topping of tomatoes and cheese, typically with added meat, fish, or vegetables.

        Source: the dictionary.

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          5 months ago

          The base is not bread. Even your definition doesn’t call it bread. It’s pizza. And a random American dictionary is hardly a source.

          Also, pizza is older than tomato in Europe…

          Here’s an Italian dictionary, if talking with an Italian wasn’t enough

          https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/pizza/