The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread


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Gradine

The Elephant in the Room (she/they)
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Cadence

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Must be a regional thing. Before the Internet I’d never heard of calzone or Stromboli. Never saw that on a menu.
That can't be right!

Goes to newspapers.com and looks up Calzone back in 1950 just to pick a date.

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!??!?

Stromboli didn't help...

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Edit: They both seem to be the Pizza relative by 1980 in papers across the country, although the film Stromboli gets mentioned too still.
 

Mad_Jack

Hero
Must be a regional thing. Before the Internet I’d never heard of calzone or Stromboli. Never saw that on a menu.

Outside of occasionally being sold at a supermarket that makes its own fresh food, you mainly only find them in Italian restaurants or maybe non-chain grinder shops.

Well, the real thing, anyway.
 

Cadence

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Supporter
Of course I could have just asked google directly... "when did calzones become popular"

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Asking the same question about stromboli says 1949 but refers to the Island spotlighted in the film. It looks like the movie inspired choosing the name for folded over pizza in 1950 for a near-Philly restaurant.
 

MarkB

Legend
Outside of occasionally being sold at a supermarket that makes its own fresh food, you mainly only find them in Italian restaurants or maybe non-chain grinder shops.

Well, the real thing, anyway.
Stromboli isn't familiar here, but in the UK I think Calzone started showing up on takeaway pizza menus around the early 90s.
 

Hussar

Legend
Outside of occasionally being sold at a supermarket that makes its own fresh food, you mainly only find them in Italian restaurants or maybe non-chain grinder shops.

Well, the real thing, anyway.

While I did grow up in rural Canada, it’s not like I lived on the moon. We actually do have Italian restaurants. :).

Granted now that I live in Japan it truly sucks. In Japan they seem to think that the only Italian food in existence is spaghetti.

What I wouldn’t give for manicotti or ravioli. Hell even lasagne is impossible to find in a restaurant here.

Sigh.
 







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