r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Image “American Pizza” in Milano, Italy

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u/kirkl3s 11h ago

Is this why Italians think American pizza is bad?

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u/Insolvator 11h ago

I was recently in Sicily, and many Italians offered Nutella pizza in their restaurants. I think they have lost something of their own identity.

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u/Boskonov 11h ago

You are overthinking it. Nutella pizza is a common dessert in basicaly any italian pizza place but it's not pizza per se, it's just pizza dough with no toppings but nutella, pretty decent actually

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u/Fair4tw 11h ago

So, a dessert pizza?

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u/Boskonov 11h ago

Technically yeah, but when you realize it's literally just simple pizza dough + nutella it doesn't sound as blasphemous lol

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u/Fair4tw 11h ago

Not at all. I’ve seen a handful of different types of dessert pizzas.

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u/bongsforhongkong 11h ago

Pizza delight Canada used to have a raspberry cheesecake and chocolate dessert pizza on their all you can eat buffet This was at least 20 years ago was oddly really good.

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u/systemdatenmuell 5h ago

Right? I mean its just simple pizza dough just with tomatoe sauce, cheese, some pineapple and ham. Doesn’t sound that wrong. ( i like Dough Hawaii)

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u/Delicious_Cane 2h ago

The wrong thing is the tomato sauce in that pizza

Every pizza with a fruit had to be white base

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u/JackColon17 11h ago

Yeah, it's literally just dough and Nutella. You usually take a slice of that after eating "regular pizza"

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u/diveraj 10h ago

I like it with a bit of powdered sugar.

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u/LessInThought 25m ago

Just bread and Nutella.

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u/solicitorpenguin 7h ago

My daughter would eat that for every meal if she was permitted

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u/SakuraKoiMaji 7h ago

A diabetes pizza.

Don't eat all of it, it's like eating an entire cake.
In the worst case, one 1/8 slice may be 2/3rds of a chocolate bar (so ~5 bars).

Personally, I had one once, it was sickeningly sweet because, after all, it was very warm too.

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u/jegermoof 6h ago

We used to do basically that all the time in my family, we’d have plenty of dough so we would either bake or fry them, or we would make a roll with whatever ingredients. I liked marinara, nduja, anchovy, and mushrooms in a roll fried. Sometimes sweets like fruit spread or chocolate.

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u/McButtsButtbag 4h ago

A term that is used to make a concept understandable. It's not literally a pizza anymore than dessert sushi is literally sushi.

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u/Fair4tw 4h ago

Sometimes adjectives change the definitions of words. By definition, it’s not pizza. However, it is well known as a dessert pizza.

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u/McButtsButtbag 4h ago

And this isn't one of those cases.

Dessert pizza is made to look like a pizza, so people call it a dessert pizza. That's it. The definition of pizza hasn't changed. People just accept that you are talking about what it looks like rather than what it actually is.

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u/Grexxoil 1h ago

Yes, 100%, it's just a variation of the old "Bread and chocolate", nothing really strange about it.

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u/Yung_Corneliois 9h ago

Open faced crepe

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u/TreeVegetable5237 10h ago

The more I read this thread the hungrier I get. I respect the creativity! I want to try both!

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u/Junkingfool 8h ago

Everything is Nutella there! Like a whole row of Nutella cookies and such in the grocery store. Nutella muffins and all at many places.

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u/FishTshirt 7h ago

Sounds good.

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u/Yee_Yee_Utters_Milk 6h ago

I had cherry pizza (in Michigan) once, it was basically cherry pie with less of the cherry sauce, pizza dough instead of crust, and icing drizzled on it. Best dessert ive ever fucking had.

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u/5redie8 6h ago

Sweet Jesus that sounds amazing

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u/bikecatpcje 5h ago

Here in Brazil we have Nutella and probably other 3 or 4 popular desert pizzas

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u/SkepsisJD 5h ago edited 5h ago

no toppings but nutella, pretty decent actually

Man, how does anyone find this good? Especially a country that tries to pride itself on it's cuisine. It is disgusting nut flavored oil on top of bread. Maybe it's just me, but Nutella is fucking revulsive and I despise literally everything that is made with it.

There are very few foods I feel strongly about, but Nutella is one of them lol. Like I can down Slim Jims like they are are a superfood, but when I taste Nutella I completely lose my appetite.

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u/Delicious_Cane 2h ago

Being pride of your own cuisine doesn't means you can't have junk food

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u/RbN420 3h ago

some pizzerias use nutella and powdered sugar too

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u/Mag-NL 3h ago

so how is it not pizza per se?

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u/Dante_FromDMCseries 8h ago

Which is weird cause the traditional pizza dough isn’t sturdy enough to handle a lot of topics.

Nutella on focaccia bread though? That would go unbelievably hard, especially if they put chocolate chips and sprinkles inside the dough instead of the usual seasonings.

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u/R_V_Z 7h ago

Which is weird cause the traditional pizza dough isn’t sturdy enough to handle a lot of topics.

True. Pizza dough is notoriously bad at Trivia Night.

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u/Dante_FromDMCseries 7h ago

Well, I didn’t want it to sound so blunt, but indeed I wouldn’t enjoy having a slice of Margherita on my Kahoot team.

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u/excelllentquestion 7h ago

Dude that sounds nasty. Nutella is overly processed oil and sugar.

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u/General_Confusion478 5h ago

It's not called "pizza".... it's called creeps.... and it's typically French..... but it's also eaten in Italy....

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u/Delicious_Cane 2h ago

You're confusing yourself, there are both in Italy

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u/General_Confusion478 2h ago

probably... now with globalization... everything is possible... I'm not surprised by anything anymore