What is this "pizza" you speak of?

[HoreTore]

Alright, everything called pizza is pizza. I have no problems with that.

My point in ze other thread was about which country has the best pizza. And the best I have ever had is the Italian variant. And the greek one which is basically the same.

But I still enjoy the thicker american variant, of course. But the thin Italian one is something special, it honestly can't be compared to the thicker variants.

And of course, the more prominent a dish is in a region, the more people specialize in making it, the better it will be, period. American pizza is one dish out of 100 others. In Italy, pizza is more special than it is in the US; and they have thus become better at it.

Kinda like how turks and pakistani immigrants make the best kebab, while ethnic norwegians make crap kebab.

Pizza is one of those foods like potato chips or milkshakes that it just doesn't make sense to have "gourmet" or high quality, fancy recipes. They taste good because they are chock full of unhealthy fats and carbs that we find tasty because it was an evolutionary advantage to do so. And since those ingredients are cheap, papa johns is the best pizza. I've had lots of other pizza that's as good as papa johns mind you, but the people who claim it's better are the types who automatically downgrade something if it's mass produced. Coke is the only product I've ever seen be immune to that.

Yes, the american version is chok full of unhealthy stuff... The italian version isn't.