On Neopolitan Pizza

Stumbled on this via Twitter (on a decidedly non-food-related-thread) and guffawed. Source appears to be the San Francisco Bulletin from 1861.

“The pizza cake is your only social leveller, for in the pizza shops rich and poor harmoniously congregate: they are the only places where the members of the Neapolitan aristocracy - far haughtier than those of any other part of Italy - may be seen masticating their favourite delicacy side by side with their own coachmen, and valets, and barbers. The pizza shops are about the filthiest in Naples, and whoever knows Naples will admit that is saying a good deal.”

I think we’ll have pizza for dinner.

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