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My world is so much better because of immigrants
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Couldn't agree more except one little nitpick. Pizza was invented in America.
Not sure where you got that idea. Pizza was brought to America by Italian immigrants, but it has existed for long before that. Modern pizza is well known to have originated in Naples.
Hmmm, I've "known" that for a long time. I know pizza in Italy is not the same as pizza in America and is typically eaten with a fork and knife. Maybe that's what I was thinking or maybe I'm confusing it with a different supposedly Italian food.
You might be thinking of the classic spaghetti and tomato sauce with ground beef?
I believe that one originated with Italian-American immigrants
Could be. Really thought it was pizza. Gonna be hard to unlearn this.
But either way, Italian immigrants freakin' rocked the American culinary world and I'm eternally grateful
Absolute agreement there.
Afaik that varies by region
You American's lost your manners the moment you sent off that declaration of independence huh? The civilized people on this side of the pond do tend to use utensils for their food.
LOL. Yeah, we're animals man.
Inspired by Italian Immigrants, Refined in the United States.
This should be the slogan of every pizza place lol.
Not in Canada. Unless they want to go out of business.