Well, yeah, people have been calling pizzas pies for a long time.
Deep dish especially.
That’s Amore - Dean Martin 1953
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie…
Reminds me of the scene in Hot Shots 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAjAfBdwD40
Weird thought - pizza dates to 997 CE, that’s over 500 years before tomatoes were introduced in Italy. Most of the existence of pizza has been without tomato.
Technically even 2500BC in ancient Sumer they had flatbreads and the ability to bake them with toppings, I think potentially you’re underestimating the age of the pizza by an order of magnitude.
True, I’m just looking at it linguistically. We’ve had a thing called “pizza” in continuous use since 997 according to Wikipedia (I was unable to locate the source cited, but I don’t think it’s a contentious issue, so Wikipedia is probably correct).
Oh that makes more sense, yeah. However, I’m not sure theres 100% an unbroken line but Ancient Greeks had the word pitta, meaning flatbread and *bheid- is the Proto-Indo-European root meaning to split or to bite that it comes from. So it seems potential time travelers asking for pizza by name stand a decent chance of getting the point across right back into the neolithic.
Now that’s a shower thought! I love it.
Someone’s had Chicago style deep dish for the first time I see.
Depends on how much sauce is used. I’ve had plenty where it’s little more than a thin veneer.
Where I live, we have a food that’s basically flatbread with toppings. One of the popular toppings is apple slices and raisins, which looks just like an apple pie. And we do like to joke that pizza is simply the tomato variant of it, too. 🙃
