Arguably, Pizza originated in Naples, Italy.–It’s thought, instead, that the concept of Pizza was stolen by Marco Polo during one of his journeys in China or S. Korea. Little it matters where Pizza was originated; the concept of a flat doe with tomato sauce and cheese, on top of it, isn’t exactly comparable with creating Calculus, as our dear friend Newton did, but definitely the craft of making Pizzas was mastered in Italy the following hundreds of years.

Our RATT video editor, Nguyen To Uyen, went to Venezia (Venice), Italy, with the idea that Dominos’ Pizzas or worse, Little Cesar’s Pizzas, were straight up vomit compared to the authenitc Italian Pizza; little she knew that the real Italian pizza was a huge disappointment. She was able to finish only half of it, that’s right; in Italy Pizzas are so thin, that you are actually expected to eat a whole one by yourself, on a single sitting. It’s not your Papa Jhon’s large Pizza, where you expect to feed your family of four and also expect to have leftovers, for the next meal. In Italy, Pizzas are like Hamburgers: you finish the whole thing, and you still might have some more space on your stomach.

She couldn’t say exactly what made her not to love the Italian pizza, as much as I thought she would, but she just didn’t think it was this ‘amazing thing‘ that you’d expect from an Italian restaurant, in Italy. Little I knew, that most Americans that go to Italy, to kill one of their yummi pizzas, discover that their Pizzas aren’t that delicious to them after all, and they would just rather stick with their classic $8 peperoni Domino’s Pizza.

The biggest related issue, appears to be the consistency of the Italian Pizzas; Italian Pizzas are too thin for American standards. It seems that Americans enjoy more the ‘bread‘ part of the Pizza (the doe/crust), rather than the mixture of the Mozarella cheese and tomato sauce. Also, Americans don’t seem to welcome the idea of putting extra virgin Olive Oil on their pizzas, you see, “if it’s not Ranch Sauce, then fuck off.”-This appears to be their mentality. What can we expect from those who love their spaghetti with ketchup, rather than tomato sauce?

By Lorenc Hoxha

RATT Reporter Founder

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