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Re:A Proto-Pizza Emerges from a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall by datavirtue on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:10PM (#36511117)
Pizza evolved in America. High gluten flour, tomatoes, and mozzarella. Don't confuse pizza with Italy.

American wheat flour has been the key innovation. No one else has the gluten to hang. People import Americanized flour from Italy with Italian names and such but you can get better in the US. The lower gluten flours from Italy are good for the style they make over there...margherita (the Italianized version of pizza--very thin, high temp).

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Re:A Proto-Pizza Emerges from a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall by cyberneticist on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:34AM (#36520892)
There also has to be an aspect of the price of mozzarella in the post WW2 boom in America or else we wouldn't use such an indulgent amount of cheese as standard.

Even Canadians I know will take home an American pizza because of the ridiculous amount of cheese we put on pizza compared to Canada.

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