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The basic idea of Pizza comes from Italy, but the idea of a crust with red tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni and sausage on top of it seems to be more of an American thing -- while there's a pizzeria in New York that's been in business since 1905, there's definite evidence that pizza in the style we know today was being sold in the Northeast under the name of "Italian Pie" as early as the mid-thirties, with the greatest concentration of its popularity in and around Hartford. It was being sold by the slice or by the pie in Lewiston, Maine -- a town with no discernable Italian population, but a lot of French-Canadians -- by 1937.
That is one of the things that makes me laugh when people go to Italy and expect to get an American pizza. lol lol lol good luck. You might get the crust with tomato sauce and some cheese if you are lucky. It really looks more like this in old Napoli:
This guy is on the cutting edge though. lol lol