As an American of entirely Italian descent, fuck you, pineapple on pizza is fucking delicious.
I’ve had pizza in Italy, and as a New Yorker, I gotta tell you… it wasn’t special. Hell, I’d hesitate to call it ‘good.’
Pizza as we know it was invented in New York City around the turn of the 20th century (and became popular because factory workers would buy a pie in the morning and leave the box on a radiator to keep it warm until lunch). The stuff they had in Italy prior to that was basically just a variation on bruschetta.
Pineapple on pizza is indeed fucking delicious, and not even the weirdest pizza topping I’ve enjoyed (that honor goes to salami & cream cheese).
^ I knew I married him for a reason.
The Husband is correct! Sort of. By the mid 19th century, pizza in Italy was still mostly of the type called the marinara – called so because it largely made by the wives of seamen (heheh, I am like 12). The thing that makes the marinara not quite like modern pizza is that it had mostly no cheese. Which like, who even cares at that point.
The margarita introduced big ole globs of mozzarella and basil in 1889 to honor Margharita of Savoy, Italy’s Queen consort at the time.
But these pizzas aren’t really anything like a good pizzeria pizza today. It was poor Italian-American New Yorkers in the early 20th century who set that standard.
So basically I am very suspicious of the motherland’s opinions on what makes a good pizza.
delete america
… pizza marinara is named marinara because IT HAD VERY LITTLE INGREDIENTS SO SEAMEN AND NOT THEIR WIVES COULD MAKE IT. IT’S CALLED MARINAR*A*, FEMININE, BECAUSE PIZZA IS A FEMININE WORD AND SO THE ADJECTIVE GOES WITH THE PIZZA. wives of seamen my ass. shut the fuck up that’s just the top of the iceberg
PIZZA IS CANCELLED FOR AMERICANS
NO MORE PIZZA FOR YOU
MA DA DOVE CRISTO LE LEGGETE CERTE BOIATE
Put the fuck you want on your fucking pizza, but why the fuck do you Americans have this compulsive need to call other people’s heritage and culture American and belittle them at the same time? Like. Who the fuck do you think you are, you fuckwards.
Lmao this American girl walked up to a Hungry Jacks (Burger King) register with her drink and really, really loudly (I was at the other side of the place) proclaimed:
“I asked for Lemonade, you gave me Sprite” in a really bitchy, entitled voice.
The cashier (and everyone within earshot) just looked at her like “the fuck is wrong with you”
In Australia, Sprite IS lemonade as far as we’re concerned.
Yeah this is correct. Lemonade is sprite. Clear fizzy liquid type thing. Solo is closer to what American lemonade is but we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade anyway so she was never going to get what she wanted lmao.
Y’ALL AIN’T GOT LEMONADE?!?!??
madness…
“we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade“
That entire continent exists on a different realm of existence
IT IS THE SAME DAMN THING. You Yankees and your fifty brands of the same 😛
LEMONADE AND SPRITE ARE NOTHING ALIKE
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I’m pretty sure the same is true in the UK at least was in 2010 except Sprite didn’t seem to be a common brand so I’d ask for Sprite get blank looks eventually figured out to ask for lemonade
Sprite is a recognised brand here, but it’s not omnipresent, it is also considered a brand of lemonade.
This is fucked up.
Sprite: lemon-lime soda (pop/carbonated beverage).
Lemonade: lemons, water, and sugar. Still.
LEMONADE IS NOT CARBONATED WHATT HEFUCC CK ARE YOU ALL DOIGN
Living? Sensibly?
Also on what planet does Sprite have lime in it.
Sprite, the lemon-lime flavored
carbonated beverage, is made on Earth.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets, and the only astronomical object known to harbor Sprite.
The people of Earth are known as “Earthlings” or “Spriteloids” interchangeably (although not to each other).
At least in the UK, if you order lemonade you’ll sometimes get Sprite, but if it’s proper it’s a lemon soda akin to the Italian gassosa – less sweet than Sprite.
Oh shit, I’ve had gassosa, it’s AMAZING.
I just want to say that the whole ‘lemonade and Sprite are interchangeable’ is pretty common throughout Asia as well, in my experience
You guys have orange juice at least, right? Grapefruit juice? In the US, Lemonade is a juice, like orange juice, but made with lemons instead of oranges. You can buy “fresh squeezed lemonade” at many restaurants and fast food venues. Typically it’s diluted a bit with sugar water, so the sour flavor of the raw lemon juice isn’t so overpowering.
In the south, it’s very common for people buy whole lemons and make their own lemonade at home using a citrus juicer.
In Germany, you’d ask for “Limonade” and yeah, you may get a Sprite or a Fanta; it’ll always be a fizzy nonalcoholic drink and usually come in lemon, lime, orange flavor. Only in healthfood or hipster establishments would it ever be an actual juice drink.
As a fan of homemade rosewater lemonade, I am twitching at the thought of sickly sweet carbonated beverages that taste like they were invented by someone who may have been in the same room as a citrus fruit once but can’t remember what it actually tastes like being called lemonade.
Wtf did y’all think beyonce was talking about????
oh wow I hadn’t even considered that. Like millions of people worldwide hearing the album title but not understanding what lemonade means even on the most superficial level.
This is so epically disturbing. Lemonade is such an integral part of spring and summertime. I just … this breaks my brain and my heart. The cultural references too. Just, all the American shows that reference lemonade and people in other countries are thinking Sprite? There’s a reason kids do freshly squeezed lemonade stands. You can’t buy it like that from a store. And there’s nothing quite like screwing it up and getting the sugar ratio wrong. And parents grinning through the too sour or too sweet mess and praising your efforts. Lemonade Is a Thing.
Wait does that mean Aussies make Shandies with sprite?????
Does this mean a significant portion of the global population don’t know what to do when life hands you lemons?
Yes, Australians make Shandies with our carbonated soft drink lemonade, though if you’re using it as a mixer, you’re less likely to be using Sprite and more likely to be using Schweppes, which looks like this:
Like. We absolutely have a concept of flat, juice-based lemonade, but as an earlier commenter said, it’s a niche hipster speciality rather than the default, and even then, it’s still going to be premade rather than fresh.
This is literally horrifying to me on so many levels…
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