Pizza. Do you call it 'pie'?

[WayneLigon]

Only a few times have I ever heard a pizza referred to as a 'pie', and then always in the comics or in the Archie comics I read when I was a kid. I don't remember hearing the term in books or movies, though I have seen references in very old magazine articles.

Is it a regional thing? A generation thing?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I think it is a generation thing. My sister and I just call it a pizza. My mom, (raised in NY) always follows the word pizza with the word pie.

 

[diaglo]

That's Amore...

like a big pizza pie...

 

[mojo1701]

I don't refer to it as a 'pie,' other than in song. Though, it probably is properly referred to as a "pizza pie," but "pizza" has become the generally-accepted.

 

[Desdichado]

Might be regional. I've heard it a lot more often since I moved up here than I used to in Texas. In Texas, I only ever heard it when watching Moonstruck. Here, people do occasionally say pizza pie. I wonder sometimes if those people aren't from either NY or Chicago, though. Seems even more common there.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Pizza is pizza. Pie is pie. The two should not be confused.

 

[Ambrus]

What I want to know is why they're pronounced with a 'T'; "Peet-zah" rather than Pee-zah.

And how about submarine sandwiches? I call them "subs" but I've heard them referred to as "hero sandwiches", "hogies", "footlongs", ect.

 

[Jdvn1]

Pizza is pizza. Pie is pie. The two should not be confused.

Exactly!

... But isn't pizza a type of pie?

 

[Desdichado]

What I want to know is why they're pronounced with a 'T'; "Peet-zah" rather than Pee-zah.

Because the 'zz' in Italian is always pronounced like 'ts'. Since the word was borrowed from the Italian, and saying 'peetsah' isn't difficult for English speakers, the original pronunciation (more or less) was borrowed along with it.

 

[Jdvn1]

What I want to know is why they're pronounced with a 'T'; "Peet-zah" rather than Pee-zah.

I always thought it was a K, as if it were "Peek-sah" or spelled "pixa."