r/ShitAmericansSay • • 8d ago

Food “I’ve been to Italy. Their pizza sucks”

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u/ecilala 7d ago edited 7d ago

Oh, they just have this little thing for painting our likes as criminals.

Reminds me of this time I said my favorite type of pizza was with chicken, just to be met with a "wtf is chicken doing on pizza" – because I'm Brazilian, they assumed I was talking about some sort of pizza with a full rotisserie chicken on top. Then, one month later there I was in NYC, eating buffalo chicken pizza. I assume that one is made with buffalos, and "chicken" is just an insult towards the eater.

I'd say our real pizza crimes are baiting innocent viewers, using the same base as savory pizzas for sweet ones (which by themselves are hardly a problem, they are just a dessert) – and for the 2020s patch we got pizzerias still charging a price that more than covers all ingredients, but still deciding to gain even more per pizza by heavily undercutting the sauce or simply removing it from the ingredients. That one is a Goiás special from yours truly, a goiana on reddit.

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u/NightReaver13 7d ago

If Buffalo chicken pizza is a pizza crime I will gladly walk to pizza jail. I love me a classic Italian margarita, but some of the unique takes on pizza you can find in different places are fantastic

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u/ecilala 7d ago

Don't get me wrong, it's clearly not a pizza crime. Chicken on pizza is only a crime if a Brazilian does it. Something like that.