Pizza?

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http://inventors.about.com/od/foodre...ns/a/pizza.htm

Regardless of what historians have put on the web, pizza was invent in 1930s America.

The first pizzeria in North America was opened in 1905 by Gennaro Lombardi at 53 1/3 Spring Street in New York City.
The first "Pizza Hut" a chain of pizza restaurants appeared in the United States during the 1930s

[n2ize]

Of course, it all depends on what you call pizza, any flatbread with or without topping qualifies in some circles. Since it simply means pie in English even a failed cake would be pizza. Napoli? Uh uh, let's look a bit closer at Pisa and a famous physics experiment when Sir Fig of Newton dropped an iron cannonball and a pie from atop that famous leaning tower. While the cannonball emerged unscathed from a little hole in the ground the pie didn't fare so well, it flattened and spread out with a resounding SPLAT. In an attempt to salvage an otherwise useful pie and hungry as he was Sir Fig covered it with tomato sauce and cheese and put it back in the oven. What emerged was such a tasty delight it soon caught on but with such a crowd atop the tower it almost fell over so it was decided that another approach was needed and eventually the the more or less modern Pisa pizza was born. Small problem, it sounds so much like a stutter the Pisa was dropped by everyone, except for Little Caesar that is.

In commemoration someone in Des Moines back in the 1960s opened The Leaning Tower of Pizza restaurant and they quickly spread across America. Some still survive but I'm sorry to say the one on Rte. 22 didn't. Frankly I'm surprised Shep overlooked it but really, how COULD he miss such a standout amid the rest of the roadside grubble? I wish I had a picture but I don't, I guess this one somewhere amid the clutter of Americana will have to do.

http://ltpizza.com/

Well, turns out the New Yorker who bragged was wrong but who really wants to argue with attitude? I guess if you listen hard enough you can hear the faint echo of Ensign Pavel Checkoff... "It vass a Russian inwention."

Didn't Shep do a whole thing on Route 1 ?? The Diner. The abandoned drive in and other odyssey's ?

[WØTKX]

Uh uh, let's look a bit closer at Pisa and a famous physics experiment when Sir Fig of Newton dropped an iron cannonball and a pie from atop that famous leaning tower.

[pizza breath]Galileo did it.[/pizza breath]

[KG4CGC]

[pizza breath]Galileo did it.[/pizza breath]