Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?


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A client (and friend of mine) just got back from his trip to Naples, Italy, and was devastated to learn that pepperoni pizza is an American invention, and not an Italian one. Sure, he could find pepperoni (salamino picante) on lots of menus, and he could order it, but it was always listed under "American toppings" or whatever and that bothered him.

"And I had to tell them I wanted sauce!" Seriously, dude? You flew 6000 miles to tell them that? Did you think they forgot?

Anyway. The moral of the story, if there is one: don't let "authenticity" tell you what's good.
I lived in Naples, Italy for 3 years and aside from the part about pepperoni not being a thing, American toppings or having to ask for sauce wasn't a thing I ever saw. Unless of course the pizza combination specifically said it either had white sauce or no sauce. American toppings sounds like something you'd find in a place catering to tourists in Rome or something, Naples wasn't exactly a top tourist destination for um.. reasons.
 




" Although it is too small to end human civilization," dang it
Well, it depends on who it hits, I suppose.

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