Why do Pizza Shops often show the Italian flag ??

Answer 1

Because it's a way of saying "We're authentic" - because we (at least in America) still strongly associate pizza with Italy/Italian food.

Answer 2

Pizza is true Italian food which is prepared and made in Italy.
The sauce and its ingredients are also made in Italy. So when
the Italians immigrated to America, they, of course, opened up
shops selling original italian pizzas. Thus, to show loyalty to
its origin, they fly or show the Italian flag at their pizza shops.
(One thing for sure is that the American Italians are very loyal
and proud of their original place - Italy).

Answer 3

While certainly ancient, the earliest origins of pizza are not at all clear. One interesting legend recounts that the Roman soldiers returning from Palestina, where they had been compelled to eat matzoh among the Palestinian Jews, developed a dish called picea upon gratefully returning to the Italian peninsula.

Most sources, however, agree that an early form of pizza resembling what today is called focaccia was eaten by many peoples around the Mediterranean rim, e.g., by Greeks, Egyptians etc.

These dishes of round pita-like, cooked bread with oil and spices on top are the ancestors of pizza, but are not properly speaking pizza. The tomato was unknown and the Indian water buffalo had not yet been imported to Campania, the area around Naples.

With the discovery of the New World, the tomato made its way to Italy through Spain. It was considered a poisonous ornamental and so in the first centuries of its import was not eaten.

The Neapolitan people seem to be the first to wholeheartedly adopt the tomato into their cuisine, so that in our day the (plum) tomato is the most characteristic element of Neapolitan cuisine.

Over the centuries, a veritable tradition of pizza was developed among the Neapolitan poor. It is not surprising, then, that a modern pizza, that is, with mozzarella di bufala and tomato was made in 18711 in Naples for Princess Margherita of Savoia by Raffaele Esposito. This patriotic pizza, of basil, tomato and mozzarella, in honor of the new tricolor Italian flag's red, green and white, became the pizza alla Margherita. This form of pizza was then made known, popularized and adapted in all the world through waves of emigration from Naples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Answer 4

Because there isn't a New York city flag...Pizza was invented in New York by Italian Americans. So pizza places identify with Italy...but you can only get a real pizza in New York.

Answer 5

Pizza is Italian and a lot of pizza shop owners are themselves Italian.

Answer 6

Pizza is Italian-American.

Answer 7

Pizza is italian. During World War II, the allied forces in Italy, saw it being consumed by italian farmers as a staple diet, since it was cheap.

Answer 8

i was once told that the Italian Flag is shown in most pizza shops because of it's sauce, usually it is imported from Italy.

Answer 9

Because pizza was invented by the italians

Answer 10

I think Pizza was invented by Italians.