Italy declares authentic pizza can only be made in Naples.

[Dauphin]

Absolutely no body implied that. It seems more then a bit of inference on your part.

"Any modern company could not trademark a name 500 years after it had gone mainstream; example calling a photocopy a "xerox"."

It's not an inference. A literal interpretation is that you implied it, a generous interpretation is that it was hyperbole, and an inference is that you are useless at the construction of analogies.

[Dauphin]

I don't believe you meant that xerox is 500 years old. But what you said is not what you meant.

[N35t0r]

To be honest, Neapolitan pizza is supposed to honour the colour of the Italian flag, so it can't be more than 150 years old.

[MikeH]

Or a brilliant bit of re-marketing of an existing product happened 150 years ago.

[Dinner]

What I don't like about real Neapolitan Pizza is if done "right" using the right ingredients and made in the wood fired oven then it usually has a soggy middle. Even when you go to Italy Neapolitan Pizza has a soggy middle. It gets so soggy that you even see Italians eating the center with a fork and knife which is just sacrilege for a pizza.

[MikeH]

In my experience the italian style thin crust, wood oven baked ones are least likely to have soggy middles.

Anyway the new mark would mean you could look for authentic ones and avoid them.

[classical_hero]

To be honest, Neapolitan pizza is supposed to honour the colour of the Italian flag, so it can't be more than 150 years old.

I thought it was the Margherita that was the one that did that, not the Napoli variety.

[N35t0r]

Doh, i was getting stuff mixed up.

[Sprayber]

I set out to find an American example of this and found out that Vidalia onions can only be grown in certain parts of Georgia. Interesting.

[Dinner]

That's just a stupid law. The reality is those onions will grow any where.

[Ecofarm]

Well, now we know why it is "special"...

Italian prosecutors believe pizza in the southern city of Naples may be baked in ovens lit with wood from coffins dug up from the local cemetery, Italian daily Il Giornale reported on Monday.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.32bc00250df8502d22e8f206780b432f.131&show_article=1

I wonder what's in their ice cream. What sort of 'container' might they utilize?




ps.

Neapolitan pizza was invented between 1715 and 1725, with the world-famous Margherita variant first cooked up in 1889.

cited above

[KrazyHorse]

That's just a stupid law. The reality is those onions will grow any where.

I've heard that the soil (rain?) there is low in sulfur, which is important to flavour. I cannot attest to the accuracy of this claim.

[KrazyHorse]

Hey ecotard, I thought you were leaving forever.

[MRT144]

The soil for the tomatoes is somehow the most awesome thing ever but seriously, napoli pizza is overrated.

[Ecofarm]

Later means for a bit. Needed to take a break. Still do, but I'll be around sometimes. I'm bored while waiting on my passport renewal.



Georgia has a pretty rare soil. Highly oxidized clay (clay not normally being good for onions, but it can be amended). At Ft. Benning (basic training, infantry and jump school), we called it "baby sht" because of its texture after rain, which made walking uphill difficult.