[lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity

[Wendy Lyon]

On 9/10/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  There's no such thing as "traditional" pizza. Pizza is an american
> invention.

I'm not sure those two things are mutually exclusive, but in any case,
here are some pages that say otherwise:

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpizza.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza

I had a discussion about this just last week with an Italian
acquaintance, and this seems to be a rather sore subject with them.