• Skates
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    5 months ago

    The base is bread. The pizza is defined as the base + cheese + tomato sauce + various toppings.

    a dish of Italian origin, consisting of a flat round base of dough baked with a topping of tomatoes and cheese, typically with added meat, fish, or vegetables.

    Source: the dictionary.

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      5 months ago

      The base is not bread. Even your definition doesn’t call it bread. It’s pizza. And a random American dictionary is hardly a source.

      Also, pizza is older than tomato in Europe…

      Here’s an Italian dictionary, if talking with an Italian wasn’t enough

      https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/pizza/