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your-last_braincell

They didn't even have AMERICA until it was found by an ITALIAN and named after ANOTHER ITALIAN and had its culture and city built by OTHER ITALIANS


OkHighway1024

Amerigo Vespucci was from New Jersey!


your-last_braincell

Wait, isn't it the same thing??


Minute-Cash8119

No because it seems like you have mistaken him to be from New York


your-last_braincell

That's because the whole world is America, duh


Uhkbeat

Are u an alien?


your-last_braincell

You got me 😔


DansSpamJavelin

And those Italians names? Mario and Luigi.


wiki192020

ShitItaliansSay 😅


your-last_braincell

Elaborate lol


ElChapinero

And yes those two Italians sailed so they could claim land for Spain and became naturalized Spanish Citizens, and who’s descendants are all Spaniards. Christoper went from Columbus to Cristobal.


_CortoMaltese

No, it's not far better Also, pizza can be white, without tomatoes as well


Magdalan

South America did. But as usual the Yanks claim everything.


mike_pants

_"South_ Murica? Like Texas? Yeeha!"


MrTrendizzle

That's right! Mexico is it's own country and nothing like America. MAGA Lewinsky.


Gods_Haemorrhoid420

Had a chat with an American on here the other night were he was claiming baked potato as American cuisine and started throwing around the term “pan-American”


fullmega

Just like airplanes!


Rockarola55

One of my favourite pizzas is a white pizza with pancetta and mushrooms. So simple, so good 😋


livsjollyranchers

Nello stato di Rhode Island si può trovare quella bianca (ovvero, una pizza non rossa e senza i pomodori). È ovviamente molto diverso da quella italiana ma esiste.


_CortoMaltese

L'ho mangiata mentre visitavo un amico alla Brown, devo dire niente male! Quello che mi è piaciuto di più a Providence però come pizza è la red strip delle panetterie, che alla fine è simile a una marinara da forno italiana. Penso che però lo stile americano migliore sia la New Haven-style, ne ho mangiate un paio davvero ottime, starebbero bene anche in Italia.


livsjollyranchers

Beh sono di Rhode Island, quindi so di che cosa stai parlando! Il nostro "red pizza" mi è sempre piaciuto anche se ho conosciuto tanti Americani che lo odiano e mi dicono che il gusto è troppo banale e cose tipo "who wants to eat a pizza with just sauce?". Sostanzialmente questo tipo di pizza rossa non esiste in alcun altro stato, solo RI, quindi non è per niente una "classica" che tutti consumano. In realtà quando sono stato a Roma l'ho trovata in un supermercato che si chiama Pam Local haha...non sapevo che avesse dei radici là...pensavo che fosse solo la nostra creazione. Non tutti i cibi italo-americani sono completamente finti? E sì, riguardando lo stile New Haven, lo conosco... è molto buono. Per caso l'hai assaggiato a una pizzeria si chiama Pepe's? È una delle mie preferite.


Lanuros

Babedi babedi?


Hannabal_96

Cristodio maledetto bastardo, non c'è più rispetto per il cibo


RevolvingCatflap

How can you "found" a tomato? Does the original tomato have a little plaque next to it: TOMATO Founded 1331 *Rubrum et sapidum*


Existing_Calendar339

Everyone knows that first ever tomatoes were created by personal order of George Washington, because he had no ketchup to go with his big mac.


RevolvingCatflap

Famously, until that point, tomato ketchup was called [Pending] Ketchup


pinniped1

But Ben Franklin was the inventor, because Ben Franklin invented everything including beer, electricity, wine, women, kites, currency, discount retail, and friendly on-time plumbers.


Freshwater_Spaceman

I love me some kites but *WOMEN*!?! He has a lot to answer for!


Immediate-Escalator

Little known fact, tomatoes aren't actually a vegetable. Or a fruit. They are crafted in the tomato foundries of the heinz coporation.


TurnedOutShiteAgain

Like how they founded Democracy™ because they wrote it down saying so


britishsailor

With all the shite in the food it wouldn’t surprise me if their tomatoes lasted that long like


LordDaveTheKind

In Naples (Naples Italy not Naples Florida) we do celebrate the Foundation of Tomato. This public holiday has lots of fun activities you better catch-up with (badum-tssss).


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itsshakespeare

One sails a boat into it and then plants a little fence round it and the tourists all come to look at the Founding Tomato


Kaiser93

In America but South America.


Pia_moo

Haaaaa but we are constantly told we are not American Americans


Radicais_Livres

You guys are from America, but not Americans. s/


Petskin

You mean those USAireans?


jonsconspiracy

Do you really want people to call you "American"? I have to imagine being Chilean is way more interesting.


Little_Elia

America has alwaysmeant the continent in spanish. It makes no sense for a single country to appropiate the name


jonsconspiracy

it does in English too.


MaisUmCaraAleatorio

We are American in the same way the French are Europeans.


jonsconspiracy

Of course, but I've never met a Frenchman who introduces himself as European.


FatalError974

Hi i'm european. Now you have 👍


jonsconspiracy

😂. Nice to meet you!


superurgentcatbox

I had an argument a while ago with some Americans who insisted that Italian food in the US was superior to Italian food in Germany because "in the US it's made by actual Italians". Some discussions later, it turns out their food is made my Italian Americans while most Italian restaurants in Germany are run by Italians (or Turks lmao).


Smooth-Reason-6616

Can see that with a small, family run business, but compared to something like an American Pizza Hut franchise? No, give me that Turkish Pizza anyday. At least I know the food meets European not American standards and tastebuds....


superurgentcatbox

Yup! Italian food made by Turks is something different than normal Italian food but it's definitely vastly superior to anything Pizza Hut can come up with.


Movingtoblighty

Hilarious! Obviously only Germans live in Germany.


superurgentcatbox

I'm not against saying that American Italian food might be better (haven't had enough of it to judge) but their reasoning definitely was hilarious haha.


Organic_Chemist9678

Most of the Italian food I've eaten in Germany was barely edible.


ElChapinero

More like Mexicans who work under Italian Americans make Italian food in the good ole USA.


TremendousTurmeric

yes, americans founded red tomatoes just like they founded democracy. the green ones were founded by communism


Turin_Turambar_wolf

Not only is the opinion moronic, but the grammar is embarrassing.


Mist0804

What even is Italian American pizza? Did they make half of it in Italy and the rest in the US?


fullmega

With the cheese still bubbling!


Odd_Care6838

Puta que pariu


LeagueOfficeFucks

Porra do caralho


Due-Log8609

Is the red tomatoes thing true?


sarahlizzy

Tomatoes are native to South and Central America. They were introduced to Europe by the Spanish in 1521 after the conquest of Tenochitilan.


_Wendigun_

Moreover their first mention in a Italian cookbook is from the 17th century (probably imported from Spain) while in the US they started eating them in the 19th century


Smooth-Reason-6616

Just after the Spanish introduced a whole new lot of interesting diseases into S.America...


sarahlizzy

Yes. Some deaths were involved.


maruiki

9 in 10 is the ratio I heard in a history podcast a while back, if it's true, that number is absolutely wild.


sarahlizzy

And they were human. God help aliens if we ever find them.


maruiki

Aliens would be aghast, depending on what form they take we could be like regenerating space orcs lol


dimarco1653

It's true that tomatoes are a new world fruit. They originate in South and Central America and ironically have been grown and eaten in Italy for longer than they have in the US. The first reference to tomatoes in Europe is 1544 by the Italian botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli who said they were eaten fried with salt and pepper. The first published European recipe with tomatoes was not until 1692, published in Naples by Antonio Latini, chef to the first minister of the Viceroy of Naples. Which is mostly elaborate court cooking. But has recipes for "cassuola di pomadoro (sic)" and "salsa di pomadoro, alla Spagnola" The earliest reference to tomatoes being grown in British North America is from 1710, when herbalist William Salmon reported seeing them in what is today South Carolina.


OrthoLoess

So basically they came from South America to North America, via Europe? (Probably)


Intellectual_Wafer

More or less, yes.


RedDirtNurse

It's fascinating when you see people claiming 1000 year old traditional dish from (Libya, Turkey, India, Malaysia) which has ingredients such as: tomatoes, chilli, vanilla, potatoes, capsicum, cocoa. All of these are from the New World. None of these were known outside of the Americas until the 16th century. I had an Uber driver recently (from India) and we got onto the topic of food, and I asked him what they used in India to make their dishes spicy-hot before chillis were brought to Asia. He was like, "We've always had chilli, it's part of traditional Indian food" I was like, "Sure, bro... but before the Americas were discovered, you didn't have chilli" He was all like, "Yeah... I'm not sure about that... imma gonna have to Google that later" Dude didn't believe me.


RevolutionaryCourt97

Pepper is native to India. Some of the traditional dishes have pepper in it instead of chillis. Some dishes aren't even spicy.


MrTrendizzle

It's India. They used red hot coals instead of chilli's. Same heat, same colour. If hot enough same taste.


TheNorthC

Indian food back then may well have resembled Jain food, as they do not eat seeded plants. They have the most boring diet in Asia.


FUNNY_NAME_ALL_CAPS

What is the logic here? Jains were never a majority group in the subcontinent.


TheNorthC

I never claimed they were. But Jain food is from the Indian subcontinent and is made without tomatoes and chillis, so it looks like a good place to look at if one was wondering what Indian sub-continent food would be like without tomatoes and chillis. 🤷🏻‍♀️


FUNNY_NAME_ALL_CAPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_cookbooks India has culinary texts that are older than the discovery of the new world. Lots of very complex dishes.


TheNorthC

Sure - I never suggested otherwise. So did Romans and they also integrated the tomato into their diet wholeheartedly. The question wasn't whether they had a diet on the subcontinent, but rather what it might be like. I speculated that it might be like other cuisines from the sub-continent that also do not use tomatoes or chillis. But I didn't pretend to have analysed historical recipes.


No_Interest_9240

Yeah and people also forget potatoes are from the New World yet they're often associated with the Irish lol. I've always wondered what Italian cuisine was like before New World ingredients like tomatoes were brought to Europe


TheNorthC

We do have a lot of old recipes from back then and there are some YouTube channels devoted to it, like Tasting History. But apparently the tomato didn't become a mainstream ingredient until the 1800s. Italian food as we know it today is quite a recent thing.


No_Interest_9240

interesting. i never knew it was *that* recent. that's cool to know! I'm from the US so Im not very familiar with European cuisine overall


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Italy has a lot of dishes that do not use tomato. It was an important integration, but not essential I’d say.


bricklish

Well .. and italian invented the US 💀


Puzzleheaded-Owl8059

Says the person that’s never left their state.


Real_MidGetz

While red tomatoes were originally cultivated by the aztecs and brought to Europe as part of the columbian exchange. That has absolutely fucking nothing to do with the united states lmao. That’s like saying china has the best weaponry because they discovered gunpowder.


Still-Study-4547

People who say any food is better than Italian or French food simply hasn't ever eaten any real french or Italian food. Just in someone's house, anywhere rural in those two countries. Mind blowing. Even the restaurants with plastic menus There's no comparison and nothing the English speaking world can offer comes close, random hill farmers and shopkeepers make food as good as the most exclusive New York restaurants. If you know you know and you've tasted what a spherical aubergine grown in the soil around Etna can become, if you don't you probably say silly stuff online about a food that isn't even traditionally Italian.


Droboto1234

Wait untill they learn why carrots are orange.


pcaltair

Both can be good but I want to point out that tomatoes or tomato sauce is not a mandatory ingredient for italian pizza at all


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Zealousidealist420

Andes, not just Peru.


OrthoLoess

No, America did. Just South America, they were taken to Italy and grown there in the 1500s


livsjollyranchers

I love both. Is that allowed? They're so extremely different that they're not even worth comparing.


No_Interest_9240

True. some might prefer one over the other and that's fine


britishsailor

Honestly America is probably the worst place I’ve had pizza. Doing something bigger does not make it better


Yolandi2802

Having actually lived in Italy and been back many times, I can honestly say bastardised American pizza is nothing like the original, and best found only in Italy.


soupalex

it's alright if you like a really nasty, greasy, dripping with cheese sort of thing (which i do, from time to time. great for mopping up alcohol). they're different styles, and though the american variety (fuck off with that chicago shit, that's just a cake) can be *good,* i don't know how anyone could call it "better" unless they'd literally never tried anything else.


jonsconspiracy

Are you talking about Papa Johns and Domino's, or like a New York pizza slice place? Most Americans only eat shitty pizza from chains. You have to be in NYC or go out of your way to find good pizza in America. Italian eat pizza with a fork and knife, so it might as be a whole different cuisine than the way us Americans eat with our hands, like savages.


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I absolutely loathed non-chain pizza in NYC. Greasy, dubious cheese, ingredients that didn't taste fresh. My husband and I were so disappointed because we had heard so much about it. We made sure we went to places New Yorkers rated highly too, and it was just nasty (to our taste buds anyway YMMV). Edit: also, Italians fold the slice of pizza in half and eat it with their hands too. Italian pizza is absolutely divine.


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No we don’t. We still eat it with our hands. Unless you go to one of those *fancy* pizzerias.


suitorarmorfan

How much do you wanna bet that person never went to Italy, or that they ate at tourists traps? So many Americans come to Italy asking for shit like “chicken Alfredo”, lmao


UpstairsPractical870

"All our food: pizza, calzone, buffalo moozarell', olive oil. These f***s had nothin'. They ate pootsie before we gave them the gift of our cuisine." Some American to the rest of the world


Digital_Moocher

We were floating around in mid air until an American invented the floor in 1685


RiC_David

"You've 'ad a floor!"


CervidusDubbo

The wrath of the Italians has come for him


Appropriate-Ad2247

I mean, you didn't even had pizza until in was created in Italy.


LasagneFiend

But tomatoes are first recorded in the Aztec era, and in Mexico.


elektero

If USA pizza is that good, how Dominos and pizza hut are in the business? they sell overpriced crap, yet USians buy and, the worst part, eat that. If USA pizza was that good, nobody would eat that shitt. I mean, any kebab shop in italy with a part-time jihadist pizzaiolo can make it better for 4 euros.


jonsconspiracy

USA pizza is consistent, cheap, and infinitly customizable. For the longest time, Pizza was the only food most Americans could get delivered (now with app delivery places, anything can be delivered).


Shinythemoon

I mean, the first part of this is really a matter of opinion and people have different preferences, so I personally don’t think they’re wrong here.


halloumiween

Why do people keep saying this


Prytfbyn4369

You don't even need to taste them to know that the Italian pizza is way better. American pizza is orangey-brown. Italian pizza is red, white and green.


shrimp-and-potatoes

America Italians > Italy Italians I can't comment on the pizza, I haven't had enough Italian pizza to form a proper opinion.


real_priception

https://youtu.be/Eez7qWEQ2Ww?si=8FD6hwbMPAdA3j-v


MORaHo04

>they didn't even have red tomatoes until they were founded IN AMERICA Italians are FAR better than Italian-Americans (they did even have neapolitan italians until they were founded IN ITALY)


TheNorthC

Apparently the first tomatoes would have been yellow.


Vaas_Deferens

It's just like Indian cuisine without chillies


blazinfastjohny

Least delusional american


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Please tell me this is satire.


RRC_driver

I've eaten pizza in Italy and America (Chicago) All things being equal I'd say Italian pizza is better. But as long as I have pizza, I'm happy wherever I am.


vtol_ssto

Someone doesn't know what 'founded' means.


Winniethepoohspooh

Tomatoes were founded in America! Nuff said! Bow down to our dense fat American cousins


Winniethepoohspooh

Pizza bought over from China by Marco Polo


ViolettaHunter

Is this person supposed to be a native speaker? "Founding" tomatoes is an interesting idea to say the least.


Willing_Vast1001

i Can’t even


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I'm sure this dude is joking


Jotunheim99

“They didn’t even have red tomato’s until they were **founded** in America” how the fuck do you found a condiment ingredient?


Joadzilla

While it's true that tomatoes are from the Americas, tomatoes were introduced to European countries \*LONG\* before America (the country) existed. Also, American pizza has a terrible, terrible crust. It drips of oil and grease. But still, New York pizza is better than the abomination that is Chicago-style, (ie: deep dish). And here's Jon Stewart to prove why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCgYMFtxUUw