• FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Demanding historical accuracy from the video game where a prominent plot point is ancient aliens reincarnating themselves through genetic memory is kind of like asking for an authentic Italian style pizza from a California Pizza Kitchen

    • Cochise@lemmy.eco.br
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      4 months ago

      Demamding historical accuracy and then complaining about a historic accurate character in that setting.

      • EllenKelly [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        4 months ago

        Pizza is Neapolitan. It’s a distinct speciality of Naples, developed at at time when Italy didn’t even exist as a nation. Saying pizza is Italian is like saying haggis is British. It might be technically true, but not really.

        amazing

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          4 months ago

          It’s not even true lol, first recorded usage of word “pizza” is from Gaeta in Latium and historically similar food appeared in many cultures going back as far as VI century BCE Persian Empire and possibly even to ancient Troy.

        • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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          4 months ago

          You shouldn’t be, even if you choose to define Neapolitan Pizza as the first “real” pizza, it and other styles - such as the pan baked Sicilian - were widespread across central and southern Italy well before the 20th century.

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              4 months ago

              All Pizza is bread with toppings. If it’s not a pizza because it uses the wrong type of bread, so is every single american version of pizza, none of which use a neapolitan dough.

                • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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                  4 months ago

                  You’re trying too hard to be contrarian now - I said “all pizza is bread with toppings”, not “all bread with toppings is pizza”. Open faced turkey sandwiches are assembled after the constituent parts have been cooked, rather than the bread and toppings being cooked together.
                  You’re not going to terrorise any italians by claiming pizza isn’t italian, they’re just going to think you’re a stupid american, and possibly a redditor when you try to “well acshully” them. If you want to terrorise italians you need to suggest heavily preprocessed foods as pizza toppings, ask how they make their spaghetti bolognese, or yell the names of pasta dishes at them when they’re speaking in Italian.

                  • LaughingLion [any, any]@hexbear.net
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                    4 months ago

                    your not going to convince any italians that “sicilian pizza” is pizza either anymore than your silly criteria that defines most focaccia as “pizza” theyll laugh you out of the pizzaria with their silly hand gestures

                    also “all pizza is bread with toppings” and “all bread with toppings is pizza” is the same construction because it supposes “bread+toppings=pizza” and it doesnt matter if you restructure it as “pizza=bread+toppings” its the same equation einstein

                    finally i said ill be insufferable about this and you thought this was a motherfucking game?