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Message: [QUOTE="ClifSpliffy, post: 4065664, member: 9260"] all lies! 'The word "pizza" first appeared in a Latin text from the town of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaeta']Gaeta[/URL], then still part of the Byzantine Empire, in [B]997 AD[/B]; the text states that a tenant of certain property is to give the bishop of Gaeta [I]duodecim pizze[/I] ("twelve pizzas") every [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas']Christmas Day[/URL], and another twelve every [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Sunday']Easter Sunday[/URL].' and, for us junior etymologists playing along at home, '[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Greek']Byzantine Greek[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin']Late Latin[/URL] [I]pitta[/I] > [I]pizza,[/I] [I]cf.[/I] Modern Greek [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pita']pitta[/URL] bread and the Apulia and Calabrian (then [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catepanate_of_Italy']Byzantine Italy[/URL]) [I]pitta,[/I] a round flat bread baked in the oven at high temperature sometimes with toppings.' i don't get the general lack of holistic understanding aboot the 'pizza' and 'pita' connection. just...too...freaking...obvious. and, im sticking with US za got started in Bridgeport, Connecticut, cuz of the whole factory workers, hot lunch thing. Bridgeport had a crazy amount of factories back in the 19th century, and Italian immigrants, too, but, ok, i hear that New Haven had a couple, tree, factories, too. lol. [/QUOTE]