for reasons best known to her, my mother used to put sugar on salads, as well as vinegar.

But you guys know what's really yummy?

Bread, wet up in eggs (not boiled), and fried on a pan, and covered in sugar :bleh:
It's not as disgusting as it sound. But I only have it like once a year or something..

Italian immigrants to the US invented pizza. Just about any style pizza (except something like peas and carrots, which my wife and I found in a Hungarian pizzeria thirteen years ago) is American. :D

Do other countries get Pizza Hut?

Or is that Australian only?

Yes French Toast. Love it. :ok:

But we make it differently, we mix a couple eggs with milk and sugar, soak the bread in it. Then fry it, and add a little salt on top.

Italian immigrants to the US invented pizza. Just about any style pizza (except something like peas and carrots, which my wife and I found in a Hungarian pizzeria thirteen years ago) is American. :D [/b][/quote]
Actually, I made an essay on the subject few years ago.
It were greecs who invented it. Poor people, who had flower, some vegetables and stuff. So they just made pizza. Then later, rich italian guys discovered it, and loved it ;)

@Iron, we have Pizza Hut here. But I never go there..

Well here Pizza Hut is more popular than Domino's. I prefer Pizza Hut.

If Italian pizzas are "real" pizzas than there shouldn't be any tomato in it...
I ate pizzas in Italy few times, and I never got tomato in it!!
oh, and ofcourse by tomato I mean tomato sauce or ketchup, not sliced fresh tomato...

Not even tomato paste?

Don't pizza's have to have tomato paste?

I wouldn't think it was a pizza without the tomato sauce. Otherwise it would just be Cheese on Toast, with toppings. I love pizza with lots of sauce, and I always looked forward to having a real one in Italy.

Types of pizza


Authentic Neapolitan pizza ('a pizza Napoletana)

According to Associazione vera pizza napoletana, genuine Neapolitan pizza dough consists of flour, natural yeast or brewer's yeast, and water. For proper results strong flour with high protein content, as used for bread-making rather than cakes, must be used. The dough must be kneaded by hand or with an approved mixer. After the rising process the dough must be formed by hand without the help of a rolling pin or any other mechanical device. Baking the pizza must take place on the surface of a bell shaped, wood-fired, volcanic stone oven. The oven temperature is between 400°C and 450°C, and the pizza is cooked for approximately 2 minutes. It should be soft, well cooked, fragrant, and enclosed in a soft edge of crust.

The classic types and their respective toppings include:

* Marinara or Napoletana: tomato, olive oil, oregano, and garlic.
* Margherita: tomato, olive oil, fresh basil leaves, grated parmesan cheese, and fior-di-latte (mozzarella made from cow's milk) or mozzarella di bufala. Said to have been created by Raffaele Esposito in 1889, with the toppings in the colours of the tricolor flag of Italy, and named for the wife of King Umberto I of Italy, Queen Margherita of Savoy.
* Formaggio e Pomodoro: tomato, olive oil, and grated parmesan cheese. Basil leaves are optional.

Turnovers in the pizza family:

* Ripieno or Calzone: fior-di-latte or mozzarella di buffalo, sometimes also ricotta cheese, olive oil, and salami, other meat, vegetables, etc.
* Stromboli: mozzarella, meat, vegetables, etc.


Others

Pizza has become an international food since the toppings can be extensively varied to meet local variations in taste. These pizzas consist of the same basic design but include an exceptionally diverse choice of ingredients, such as anchovies, egg, pineapple, eggplant, lamb, couscous, chicken, fish and shellfish, meats done in ethnic styles such as Moroccan lamb, kebab or even chicken tikka masala, and non-traditional spices such as curry and Thai sweet chili. A "white pizza" (pizza bianca) uses no tomato sauce, often substituting pesto or dairy products such as sour cream. Pizzas with "non-traditional ingredients" are known in the United States as "gourmet pizza" or California-style. It is also simple to make pizzas without meat for vegetarians.