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a flatbread so good it survived going to space and dodging gravity-free cheese disasters
means A round flatbread baked with toppings, classically tomato, cheese, and whatever else you can fit before the crust gives up.
from From the Italian word 'pizza,' attested in Italy as far back as the 10th century in the Naples region, where it named a flatbread long before tomatoes ever showed up. The deeper root is debated: some trace it to the Greek 'pitta' (flatbread, cousin of the modern pita), others to a Germanic word related to English 'bit' or 'bite,' or to Latin 'picea' (pitch-black, as in a scorched crust) or 'pinsa' (from 'pinsere,' to pound or flatten dough). No single thread has won, so the honest answer is that pizza's name is as layered as its toppings.
- space delivery
- Pizza Hut delivered a pie to the space station in 2001
- royal origins
- Margherita named for Italy's queen, mirroring the flag's colors
- insurance policy
- Domino's once insured a chef's taste buds for millions
- daily appetite
- Americans eat roughly 100 acres of pizza every day
- leaning seller
- Italy's Pisa shares its name's root with the dish
neapolitan pizza — unesco-recognized traditional style from naples, italy with specific flour, water, salt, yeast requirements since 18th century
al taglio — roman pizza cut by weight, sold by the slice at shops throughout rome since the 1980s
detroit style pizza — rectangular crispy-edged pizza from detroit, michigan bakeries, topped to the edges, popularized 1940s-50s