What does Pizza mean, you know, in Italian, or where ever it originated from?

Answer 1

Pissa is late Vulgar Latin (9th century) flat bread, and apparently came to mean a flat bread with a cheese topping by the 14th century in some Italian dialects.[1] Pizzo, which means "point" in Italian, may have been an influence.[2] Many languages around the Mediterranean have similar words meaning flat bread or unleavened bread, see pita.

It was originated from Napoli, Italy. (--,)

Answer 2

Well it was supposedly originally Italian but other cultures have picked up the idea and ran with it. I bet most of the pizzas cooked in my town are by Turkish and Pakistani people. The Doner kebab pizza is as far removed from the Italian orginal as the Chicago style.

Answer 3

Pizza (pronunciation: [ˈpiːtsə] ) or pizza pie is the name of an oven-baked, flat, usually round bread covered with tomato sauce and cheese with other toppings left optional. While originating as a part of Italian cuisine, the dish has become popular in different parts of the world.

The innovation which gave us the particular flat bread we call “pizza” was the use of tomato as a topping. For some time after the tomato was brought to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century, it was believed by many Europeans to be poisonous (as are some other fruits of the nightshade family) However, by the late 18th century it was common for the poor of the area around Naples to add tomato to their yeast-based flat bread and so the pizza was born. The dish gained in popularity and Pizza became a tourist attraction as visitors to Naples ventured into the poorer areas of the city to try the local specialty.

Until about 1830, pizza was often sold from open-air stands and street vendors out of pizza bakeries. The world’s first true pizzeria, Antica Pizzeria Port’Alba, opened in Naples in 1830 and still serves pizza from the same premises today. A description of pizza in Naples around 1830 is given by the French writer and food expert Alexandre Dumas, père in his work Le Corricolo, Chapter VIII [1]. He writes that pizza was the only food of the humble people in Naples during winter, and that "in Naples pizza is flavored with oil, lard, tallow, cheese, tomato, or anchovies".

Answer 4

I've never tried a real Italian pizza. I'd love to go to Italy and try their pizza though and I don't even like pizza that much.

Answer 5

Origin of the name Pizza is not completely clear but the most common theory is that Italian term comes from the past participle 'PINSA' of the Latin verb "Pinsere" that means in English ' to press, to squash' and hence 'pinsa' is meaning
'pressed, squashed'.

Answer 6

Pizza in Italian means "pie". Which makes the term "pizza pie" redundant.

Answer 7

Pizza literally translates to pie

Answer 8

Pizza Face haha
Pizza is pie and pie is Pizza

Answer 9

It means (to) bite, or (a) bit. I always thought it meant pie. Turns out it has German origins.