Would you ever order a margherita pizza?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0eGUQWENMc

josh i have gone through the etymology of this already! any rolled out dough is basically the same word: pizza, pasta, pita, pastry etc

don't know if "pie" quite makes the cut here tho

Well, I did learn that it is largely an American thing, and that it (pizza or pizza pie) doesn't really enter the English vernacular until the 20th century, possibly a mishearing of "pizzapaia." As someone pointed out in that link, "The paia is the sound an Italian (maybe even Neapolitan or Sicilian) would reproduce seeing the letters in pie, those who were literate."

Anyway, pizza is not a pie. But I like all the etymological connections anyway.

in another, more accurate sense, there is nothing that is not a pie

Calzone = pizza pie pie

Well, I did learn that it is largely an American thing, and that it (pizza or pizza pie) doesn't really enter the English vernacular until the 20th century, possibly a mishearing of "pizzapaia." As someone pointed out in that link, "The paia is the sound an Italian (maybe even Neapolitan or Sicilian) would reproduce seeing the letters in pie, those who were literate."

Isn't that a circular reference? 'Pie gets used because of pizzapaia which comes about from Sicilians trying to say pie after they saw it written down about pizza'.

How about this for a cobbled together etymology? Almost all Italian American immigration is from the 'Two Sicilies' - effectively Naples and Sicily. When the round, Neapolitan, shape started to take hold and define what pizza was, the rectangular, Sicilian shape tried to claim it was just as good - literally 'pizza paia', or pizza equal. This became 'pie' in English to differentiate between the shapes and over the intervening years got (mistakenly) applied to both kinds. Sounds as plausible as anything else.

I don't know if it's circular so much as redundant, which sounds like just the sort of thing Americans at the turn of the century would do with this exotic Italian import.

pizza is pasta, is the point i was trying to make

controversial, but I like where you're going with this

No need to bring the spaghetti pie into this
https://www.aspicyperspective.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/baked-spaghetti-pie-recipe-23.jpg

I am now wondering what a pepperoni pie would be like

you mean a peperoni in the shape of a pie, to scale?

Ordered a personal size margherita pizza and a personal size garden pizza (spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, black olives), and split each with my wife, for lunch today.

AND?????

HE SPILLED HIS GUTS ALL OVER THE STAAAAGE

my mom just requested a taco pizza from the Godfather’s pizza chain, but her dad just died so I am not questioning anything

listen to your mother

yes, and condolences to you both

it was a good pizza experience

have you ever masturbated in front of a margherita pizza

a marg pizza is a symbol of restraint unless it’s especially savory or decadent. perhaps in Italy a prime example or, if you live a life of decadence.. these things could happen

I ordered a pulled pork bbq pizza tonight and mentally flipped double birds at this thread as i did it

never knew there were people who thought margerita pizza wasnt a thing