Seems like the UK has it wrong on the name, then. The margherita pizza I am familiar with has large slices of mozzarella, a chunky tomato sauce, and basil on top.
Ordering a margherita pizza and getting a generic pizza made with shredded cheese and marinara sauce would be a major disappointment.
Ordering a margherita pizza and getting a generic pizza made with shredded cheese and marinara sauce would be a major disappointment.
Andy: Okay. You guys ever had Margherita pizza? Stanley: What’s that? Andy: Fresh tomato with a dollop of mozzarella cheese. Stanley: That’s pizza. Pam: That’s regular pizza. [pizza arrives, Andy looks in the box] Andy: Ah, their interpretation of Margarita pizza. Fans of classic pizza will be psyched.
The margherita pizza I am familiar with has large slices of mozzarella, a chunky tomato sauce, and basil on top.
That’s a margherita pizza in the US.
Ordering a margherita pizza and getting a generic pizza made with shredded cheese and marinara sauce would be a major disappointment.
Imagine my chagrin when, traveling in Europe, I ordered a margherita pizza and received a cheese pizza. I thought they got my order wrong. It took me like three tries on separate days before I found out that that’s just what margherita means outside the US…
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. I related a personal experience about when I learned there was a difference, but that doesn’t mean I thought it was wrong.
Just a humorous way to laugh at myself while saying “the world is bigger than you think, and words can mean different things in different places.”
Wouldn’t it be the other way around. The comment that spawned this entire thing was literally about what Americans in america call it. And we use different words for the two things. So this is a case of Europeans being confused that Americans call two different ways to prepare a pizza by two different names.
I mean, I’ve had margherita pizzas outside of the US as well and they matched my expectations. At least in Asia and South America. So I guess it just leaves me puzzled as to how much of Europe (maybe just the non-NA Anglosphere) is getting it wrong when Italy is right there.
I’ve also seen pizzas that I would describe as margherita pizza when visiting Scandinavia, but if you’re in Sweden and you’re having anything other than the banana curry pizza, you’re doing yourself a disservice
leaves me puzzled as to how much of Europe is getting it wrong when Italy is right there.
That’s the part you’re not getting. Europe isn’t the one “getting it wrong.” If you want to claim that only one way is correct, then the US is the incorrect way.
A country’s proximity to italy is irrelevant. There’s literally an Italian in this thread who says margherita pizza in italy just means cheese pizza.
It’s like claiming Germany does bratwurst wrong because it doesn’t taste like the ones you get from the supermarket in the US.
Checking various lists from countries this is as far as I can tell EXCLUSIVELY a problem of western Europe.
All three of the Americas, china, Russia, japan, Scandinavian, and basically everywhere else I can find. Use two different terms to separate a cheese and margarita pizza.
So this is just a case of Europe is infact wrong. In fact Naples where the pizza style was invented uses the same terms as america.
The USA copied Naples.
The UK and much of western Europe. Like normal, is bastardizing what foods are called while the rest of the world just steals the terms from where it’s invented.
Seems like the UK has it wrong on the name, then. The margherita pizza I am familiar with has large slices of mozzarella, a chunky tomato sauce, and basil on top.
Ordering a margherita pizza and getting a generic pizza made with shredded cheese and marinara sauce would be a major disappointment.
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That’s a margherita pizza in the US.
Imagine my chagrin when, traveling in Europe, I ordered a margherita pizza and received a cheese pizza. I thought they got my order wrong. It took me like three tries on separate days before I found out that that’s just what margherita means outside the US…
Americans easily gets confused when people are using different terms and words for things than Americans are.
The point is that what you encountered wasn’t wrong, it was just different from what you were used to.
Ok, but it’s also actually incorrect to call a plain cheese pizza “margherita”. And I learned that while in Italy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Margherita
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. I related a personal experience about when I learned there was a difference, but that doesn’t mean I thought it was wrong.
Just a humorous way to laugh at myself while saying “the world is bigger than you think, and words can mean different things in different places.”
Wouldn’t it be the other way around. The comment that spawned this entire thing was literally about what Americans in america call it. And we use different words for the two things. So this is a case of Europeans being confused that Americans call two different ways to prepare a pizza by two different names.
I mean, I’ve had margherita pizzas outside of the US as well and they matched my expectations. At least in Asia and South America. So I guess it just leaves me puzzled as to how much of Europe (maybe just the non-NA Anglosphere) is getting it wrong when Italy is right there.
I’ve also seen pizzas that I would describe as margherita pizza when visiting Scandinavia, but if you’re in Sweden and you’re having anything other than the banana curry pizza, you’re doing yourself a disservice
That’s the part you’re not getting. Europe isn’t the one “getting it wrong.” If you want to claim that only one way is correct, then the US is the incorrect way.
A country’s proximity to italy is irrelevant. There’s literally an Italian in this thread who says margherita pizza in italy just means cheese pizza.
It’s like claiming Germany does bratwurst wrong because it doesn’t taste like the ones you get from the supermarket in the US.
Checking various lists from countries this is as far as I can tell EXCLUSIVELY a problem of western Europe.
All three of the Americas, china, Russia, japan, Scandinavian, and basically everywhere else I can find. Use two different terms to separate a cheese and margarita pizza.
So this is just a case of Europe is infact wrong. In fact Naples where the pizza style was invented uses the same terms as america.
The USA copied Naples.
The UK and much of western Europe. Like normal, is bastardizing what foods are called while the rest of the world just steals the terms from where it’s invented.
Pizza margherita is pizza margherita. American cheese pizza is pizza quattro formaggi.
Source: Italian.