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Re: The Origin of The Pizzas
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 203.96.111.202
Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2001, at 13:13:06
In Reply To: Re: Now here's an interesting case of false advertising... posted by Grishny on Wednesday, January 10, 2001, at 06:14:59:

> I read somewhere once that pizza was originally invented by the Greeks, not the Italians.
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> I also read somewhere that what we in the USA call pizza is a totally American invention. We still call ours a "pizza pie" sometimes, but the original pizzas actually *were* pies.
>
> Gri"Papa John's Fan"shny

The original pizzas were what the Romans used their old stale bread for. I'm not sure what exactly they put on it, but I think it was your basic piece of stale bread with cruddy leftovers piled on top and cheese melted over.

Brunnen-"many pizza places continue this fine tradition even today"G