A Proto-Pizza Emerges from a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall

Re:A Proto-Pizza Emerges from a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall by toyg on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:00AM (#36507451)

> A thing as basic as a bread staple to have different names in the same region seems very significant.

Nah. It's just the result of a long history. In Italy, different towns can call the same specialties with completely different names (crescentina / gnocco fritto, etc...), often simply out of spite or because of some long-forgotten feud.

40 years ago, in Rome a pizza was often called a "torta", which is the word the rest of Italy uses for sweet cakes.

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Re:A Proto-Pizza Emerges from a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall by detourdog on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:07PM (#36510265)

I would think that also but I'm hung up on some details.

Pita is a pretty basic word for a human staple. Large regional areas use a very similar word for millenniums. One culture doesn't and is just as interspersed as through time and space as the others.

In fact they share many texts.

I think this is different than the examples you provided.

I would describe some pizza's in Berkshire Country as a Torte.

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