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You use a knife a fork in Naples

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Both looking pretty tasty!

Recently discovered nduja...!

These pizzas look amazing

nudja or nduja?

Nduja! Nudja is when you’re eating it naked, sorry!

Those are well done pizzas, are you in italy?

Yes, Sorbillo in Naples! Michelin star :)

Let's hope the New Yorkers don't notice

Some of the comments are cracking me up. Clearly Italian pizza and they’re not in the US. Some comments “those are well done and are you using a fork”. More than 1 way to have pizza.

One thing I can’t get over in Italy is it’s standard to order your own pizza and it’s a lot of food!

I went there this year too, the best pizza I ever had! Had to order 2. Enjoy!!

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Awesome! What did you get?!

We did Margha, Nduja and marinara, all fantastic. I would totally go back

looks amazing but the mozzarella pearl on the right one is comically small and is cracking me up (as is “nudja”). brilliant post!

I'm sure the pizza was good, but what made you think the restaurant has a Michelin star?

Gino Sorbillo in Naples seems to have one so maybe he was there.

Now that's what it's supposed to look like! I hope it tasted just as perfectly as this photo makes it look!

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I was extremely uncomfortable for a minute as I thought that was a boiled egg for some reason 😂😂

Yes waiter, I paid 40 bucks for this pizza. Could you fucking cut it?

Pizza looks delicious

Meet you there in 5

Michelin star = small food 😔

Because it has one

It was an experience ☺️

May I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?

Not in Naples ma boi. Also this was €12, and it’s the fancy Margherita. Normal is €8.70.

Never been in a pizzeria in all of Italy that wasn't a tourist trap where a single pizza costed more than 10€ (talking about the most expensive ones).

And yeah we usually like to cut our own pizzas

I'm glad you're enjoying Italy!

Also weird to see nduja in somewhere that's not Calabria

perfect you ordered a third pizza for me. yummy🤤

Underrated reference

Better be quick, its getting cold and eaten

Yummy.

Too much area without cheese. Hard pass

You must be American

I just came back from holiday in Naples this place is amazing they also have the best deep fried pizza in the smaller sorbillo stores and also deep fried pasta which was also amazing !

And since you’re here, could you chew it for me please?

First of all, in Italy usually they do not cut the pizza for you at the restaurant, unless you ask for it, so you are given a fork and a knive and you are free to cut the pizza as you like it.

Second, here nobody cares how other people eat pizza.

Moreover, pizzas can be very soft in the middle so if the topping is heavy and you try to lift a whole slice the topping can fall making a mess. So a common or at least possible strategy is to eat the pointy part of a slice with fork and knife, then finish using your hands (if you are so inclined).

In general, probably because there is not a developed "dipping culture" (commonal bowls of sauces or melted cheese where people dip things like in US) we are less inclined to make our hands greasy if not really necessary.

In the rest of Italy as well.

In general we do not care about how people eat pizza. The approach also changes depending on the stiffness of the pizza base and the heavyness of the topping.

In Italy we are not used to have the pizza cut for us (clearly one may ask).

I would be rather disappointed if I was served a pre-cut pizza in a restaurant, because I prefer to cut my pizza in a specific number of slices which also depend on the stiffness of pizza base and weight of the topping.

Holy Fork.....

You have no idea how to eat real Neapolitan pizza, do you?

There are some places which use fancy ingredients (and a lot of chutzpah) where a pizza can cost much more than 10 euro, see this one for example (not far from where I live).

Wow. Yum. I want a bite of each lol.

Fuck Joe Biden

> In general, probably because there is not a developed "dipping culture" (commonal bowls of sauces or melted cheese where people dip things like in US) we are less inclined to make our hands greasy if not really necessary.

While it exists, dipping pizza is not that common in the US either. If there is a dip, it’s usually for the crust.

Bing bong

That's Amore

Yeah, I didn't mean dipping the pizza, but the general idea of using hands to dip things in sauces. I strongly dislike to have greasy hands, maybe because often I read Reddit on the cell If I'm eating alone...

Next time, ask for an n'duja pizza, except also with the salami from a diavola, and fries on top.

still looks so good!! I’m a heathen though and will always need more cheese even on amazing traditional pizzas like this…

They do look very good, but I gotta say, I need more cheese on that shit.

I would guess that it is a small burrata.

There's also nunya.

I wonder if it's a back and forth thing. Is Nduja now more common in the North because of the American popularity? I was one of the people who did the original US Nduja, so it's kind of cool to think we caused this to happen (if indeed it has happened).

Edit: wtf? No idea why such an innocuous and true statement is getting downvoted. People get offended by the weirdest shit.

It’s all about balancing flavours

It’s not even underrated and you wrote that at the same time it was posted

Could you not have taken a wild guess?

Americans want to take credit for everything

>I was one of the people who did the original US Nduja

Not exactly sure what you mean or where this sentence comes from..

Nduja is a typical product of the southern parts of Italy. As far as I know, it's not really that popular, but if it is... that's got nothing to do with America.

You’ve been repeating that for days. It’s so pathetic

We're talking about gourmet here... though yeah, I guess I should have specified I was talking about "normal" places.

EDIT: btw looks like a nice place, shame it's too far from me.

The American product is a bit different. The Italian product doesn't exist in the US, but the americanized version we created has gotten pretty popular.

There are now several brands making the americanized version we developed. Since it's become much more popular in the US that could explain how and why it's spread out of the South. Wouldn't be the first time this happened. It's a pretty normal thing really.

Again note that Nduja was not typically found outside Calabria. Now it's more commonly found outside Calabria. What has changed is that now it's trendy in the US. Sorry. Thought all this was already clear.

Who gives a shit how you eat it. Slice the fucking pizza

I love nunya. Goes great with a side of ligma

....it's pizza

Why? They look good to us too.

Chicago pizzas on the other hand…

Not the pizza...the knife and fork

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It's not a good idea to cut the entire pizza right away, it gets cold way sooner, we never do that in Italy anyways, you can use a fork and a knife can you?

This is real pizza my dude

I always ask myself why northern world people distort names. 'nduja is a type of sausage, not difficult to write

Sounds like you are due for some ligma, it’ll help you feel better

Source on the Michelin star?

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Nice comment, really, you could come to the suburb in Palermo and joke with some youngster. Maybe you make him smile... for 3 seconds....

At first I was perturbed by what I thought was a soft boiled I egg in the middle of that pizza. Viva fresh mozzarella

what are u even talking about

>one thing I can’t get over in Italy is it’s standard to order your own pizza and it’s a lot of food

Can I ask what do you means by that? Just the fact that we eat the whole thing instead of individual slices?

I don't know what's unclear. Nduja used to be unseen outside of Calabria. Then the American version was made and it got really popular. Now it's seen all over Italy. Those things could plausibly be unrelated, but probably not.

Worth noting that my view here was informed by listening to Italian chefs and salumi experts. Except they just present it as fact while I hedge with "probablies."

None of this should be in any way contentious. More reddit with sticks up butts for no reason.

You think northern Italians know anything about fake Italian food y’all do in America? I don’t mean to shit on you, every country makes up their own version of foreign food, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

But to think that a certain dish had to pass through the US to get from Calabria to northern Italy is simply stupid. Don’t you think maybe, just maybe, geographically and culturally we’re closer to each other than we are to the US?

Remember pizza? Yeah, we discovered it in Naples, tweaked the ingredients a bit making our own version, and we popularized it in northern Italy and then in all the world.

Source: Murica

I can’t believe you just said that.

And it’s up to our customs how the fuck we wanna eat it

Yeah, why not? Why not perpetuating American stereotypes? Nice job

I like my pizza digested

I wouldn’t dare be that optimistic

Where’s the cheddar bro?!

You don’t believe I was making fun on the guy you replied to?

Your customs suck

I just realised and you replied before I had a chance to edit my comment. Americans have actually said nearly the exact same thing though.

No. I'm not saying anything like that. But American culinary trends do most definitely impact Italian culinary trends. There are too many American tourists for a nation with so much tourism to just not care. So of course they follow trends. You know, like everyone who caters to tourists. Do you think Italian chefs don't pay attention to the American culinary scene?

So really, you don't find this plausible? From whenever Nduja was invented until the early 2010s it was almost unseen outside Calabria. Then it got really trendy in the US. Now it's seen throughout Italy. You don't think those things could plausibly be connected? Has to be just a coincidence? Come on. I'm not saying it's definite, but its very likely. Certainly plausible.

Incidentally, while still not exactly widespread, American style pepperoni did a similar thing. Started as a southern Italian salami, got changed in the US, and now there are producers of their take on it all over Italy. The US is fucking historically rich. Of course that has an impact.

Also the American version is not fake. It's fucking delicious too.

That's a lie, the first slices of pizza kills everyone's mouth

Ok then, you asked for it. Maybe if you had the energy to cut your own food and put it in your mouth by yourself you wouldn’t weigh 300 lbs. go eat a bucket of something, please

Let them do what they do best

Never seen a fat Italian?

nunya business mate.

His pizza places in the US are not as good as italy

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I use ketchup on my spaghetti and there is nothing you can about it.

Seethe

You’re seriously comparing 10% with over 40%?

According to my teenage daughter not dipping your slice in ranch should be a crime but I want to stress that she's a teenager and she's got lots of questionable opinions about lots of things.

I'm not against it, it's fine, but it isn't for me.

10 percent what? Doing research? Never seen an Italian trying to catch his breath in-between eating a sandwich and wiping his face off with his hand. America is also a larger heavily populated country. (No pun intended). So 10 percent of what population?

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I bet this post would have more upvotes if people were looking at it on an empty tummy.

Edit: Also take my upvote

Yeah the size of pizza in the image is what I’ve always had in Italy. It felt like too much for me to eat in a meal. But when I get a pasta dish in Italy it’s always a reasonable amount or slightly too small.

The US is opposite. A personal pizza is almost too small, then portions of pasta are always massive!

Yeah, it’s cause pizza is a whole meal, while pasta is a first course, so you’re supposed to have a second one, say meat.

Bruh, I need some more Italian friends to explain this prior. Been to Italy twice and it seems I’ve been doing it all wrong! Either way I’ve never gone hungry in Italian with all the amazing food.

Lol, also there’s no problem if you realize the dish is too small as a main course and decide to order something else. It will take longer to prepare and you’ll have to wait, but they’ll be happy to do it. Restaurants cost more than pizzerias for obvious reasons, but usually a reliable way to tell if a dish will be enough is by the price. Tho it depends how expensive the place is

The Michelin Guide. Where else?

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😂😂😂😂

Sounds like you need some bofa

Bank of America?

Yes, your in dire need of a financial advisor, you keep spending too much money to play with BOFA DEEZE NUTS

Unpopular opinion as a person who loves both fancy and trashy food - if you serve me a pizza and I’m expected to cut it with a knife and fork I will be pissed off and never order pizza from you again. We both know what a slice of pizza should look like, it will always be a shitty sloppy mess making me cut it myself just use the pizza cutter and get your head out of your ass full stop

May I also offer you a nice egg in these trying times too?

😔

You’re wrong and your opinion is narrow minded.

Send Nduja's

Nduja is the best. We bring a couple back to the UK when we can get to Calabria. You can get it here now, which is nice but it's not the same. Melty nduja on crusty toast with a drizzle of honey is favourite late night snack. Those pizzas look amazing!

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People are downvoting because Nduja is popular because of Italy, not America. Here in the UK a few years back it became the awesome new thing on "This random celebrity travels round Italy" type cooking shows, very quickly after that it was on every cooking show, it was the new trendy ingredient. Nothing to do with America, everything to do with Italy. Ask a Brit where Nduja comes from and if they've heard of it they'll rightly say Italy, most won't even have a clue it even exists in America. Its really reaching to say a southern Italian food is popular in northern Italy because of America. You gonna claim Tropea onions next?

😂🤣😭🙌🏽🙏🏽🤙🏽

I was obviously talking about the last slices of pizza

Looks like Napizza from SF

Obviously Nduja comes from Italy. Of course.

Again, consider these facts and then tell me I'm being unreasonable.

Nduja existed in Calabria for a long time. I don't know how long. A very long time. It was not unknown outside of Calabria, but was very rarely seen.

Nduja in it's American form got super popular and trendy.

Right after that it started appearing outside of Calabria.

Come on. I'm not being unreasonable here. This is also perfectly normal and how food trends often work. They can even bounce back and forth a la Japanese Curry in the US.

American cultural influence is outsized. That happens when you're rich. American culinary scenes impacting culinary scenes elsewhere is the norm of modern times. Italy is by no means a stranger to this. It's an economic reality. It isn't just random circumstance that what was a local specialty started appearing all over Italy. Same forces have done wonders for the arugula industry. There's an entire existing industry of Italian Pepperoni, as in Italian takes on the American idea of pepperoni. This is all normal. What's popular sells, and when a thing gets popular in America it sells a whole lot. It's not a good thing, but it's definitely a true thing.

I've worked in Italy with chefs and salumi producers and it's a running joke when I ask "I thought such and such was an American thing?" Because it is, and they're a business, and they know their clients. Mostly manifests in a passionate hatred for smoking anything, but it's very definitely a thing. British trends similarly impact the nations where Brits historically spent lots of money.

Dude I'm italian I can assure you 100% italians aren't doing anything based on what Americans think or what's trendy in America, they don't care at all. They'll serve you what they make and if Americans don't like it theyll tell you to leave or fcuck off. And where are you finding American style pepperoni on pizza or something similar, in the south atleast I've never seen such a thing it doesn't exist

Ok man. And all the Italians I've worked with are just making it all up. Lived there for about a year and a half on the by and by. Working with chefs and salumiere (mostly the latter, but they do love to mingle). Universally decried the American influence. And would talk about nothing else. Seriously got old.

If you don't think you can more readily find bacon or pepperoni in a larger city because of the American influence you're fooling yourself. There are McDonald's! All sorts of US fast food. But you think there's no influence? Come on. That's just ridiculous.

And again, fancy places are doing it for their tourist customers. Of course they pay attention to what their tourist customers do. Arguing otherwise is silly. That's how the world works.

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Yum! Just left from spending a month in Italy. Da Michele lived up to the hype, but I think I liked 50 Kalo even more. Especially their nduja.

Seriously? 🤣😂

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i want pijja

One bite…everyone knows the rules.

Doesn't every food get cold till the last bite/slice

Happy cake day!

That looks so good.

I'm not going back and forth on this, I don't really care if you supposedly lived there for a year even if it's hypothetically true it doesn't make you italian or knowing the culture and how they only talked about American influence i know for a fact thats a lie most europeans look down on American cuisine and the only thing they like or can be impressed with is the big gluttinous portions. You sound like one of those annoying americans who goes abroad on vacation for a week and thinks theyre a conniseur on that country. Also a lot of larger cities in italy dont like tourism and dont want them there, which i dont get because the money it brings in, so they're not going to cater to their stupidity. The closest thing you'll find to bacon is pancetta and salamis, "pepperoni" in itsly is literally aliced peppers the vegetable on pizza.

McDonald's is everywhere so that point is proving nothing, I have a McDonald's post on my account from Italy when I was there in the summer for my cousins wedding

Also how where you in italy over a year more than 3 months you need a visa and its only up to a year, they're not gonna give you a work visa for a tourist to go work in a salumeria to find the job randomly once they're already there

Chef here….got COVID and taste buds are a lil off and I stumbled across this so it could ruin my day with it’s deliciousness….thank you. This looks awesome.

Pizza la niggerita( i am black)

Put that fork down you psychopath.

Because Nduja isn’t just sausage. It’s a specific kind of sausage among many others. That’s like saying I don’t know why people don’t just call Parmesan cheese.

>McDonald's is everywhere so that point is proving nothing, I have a McDonald's post on my account from Italy when I was there in the summer for my cousins wedding

That's the whole point. They are everywhere, because American influence is everywhere. You seriously going to argue that McDonald's isn't American influence? That's ridiculous. You just aren't being serious about this. Just making up reasons to be outraged.

Seriously find one established Italian chef who doesn't think there's such thing as American influence in modern Italian. Or just recognize the realities all around you. But no, I'm sure it's actually that shitty burgers and fries just happened to develop independently in Italy. Totally not American influence. Come one. What a crazy lie to tell yourself.

I was not a tourist. It was my career. I had work agreements with my hosts.

Thats not answering the question, italy doesn't give visas once you're already there you need to get them in your native country at the consulate, what are you saying you went to italy, got a job in a salumeria and they went all out and through hoops to get you a visa? That is very unlikely

You're the one whose outraged I don't know why you're getting all bent out of shape and butt hurt arguing with everyone over American influence, go to bed dude seriously. Go find something else go be passionate about and stand on a hill for. You're literally the definition of an annoying american abroad

No. I had a job in the US. The people I worked for in the US had a partnership with Italian producers. I worked with those producers. It's not hard to get the visas when you have legitimate reasons.

Maybe instead of trying to make things up to make me wrong you'll consider what I'm actually saying and not these other things.

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Outraged? What are you talking about? How am I outraged? I think it's dumb that people downvote very legitimate statements, but whatever. Not really my business. The outraged are the people who are all "No. This one place on Earth is somehow free from American business interests."

Quit it with that troll garbage. You can argue without being a jerk. Just don't. You know jack squat about me except that I recognize the impact American cultural imperialism has. Don't go into that insult garbage. Disagree however much you want. Upvote and downvote as you like. Don't be a jerk. I haven't been rude to anyone. Just uncalled for.

Not in Italy

Is it pizza? Where is the meat?

You CAN'T slice it. This is not an American big shit pizza.

It gets cold faster = the time taken to get cold decreases

Yes. You're being unreasonable because you're assuming America has a greater influence on European cuisine than other European countries, which is crazy. We are literally right next door to each other and you are several timezones away on a different continent. What do you really think is more likely that European cuisine spread to its neighbours or that we just don't try anything our neighbours eat until America tells us to? That's like me saying "wow, they must have KC BBQ in New York now cause its popular in Britain "

Added to which I've been visiting Calabria for about 20 years and I've only seen a notable amount of Americans there since Covid, before that very few if any. Northern Italians though? Yeah, LOADS of them, it's where they go on holiday.

I'm not sure why I'm getting downvoted, but there are literally no sources supporting that it has received a Michelin star. Being Michelin rated is not the same as receiving a star and I just wanted to point that out. I know it may sound snobby, but there is a difference.

Man I hate you, this pizza looks majestic!

Doesn't matter size slice the pizza,

Nudja business

You’re probably right, it’s just in the guide.

That’s a no for me dawg

Nudja :- A term to describe a gentleman who presses his lower abdomen forcibly into the rear end of ladies (unnoticed) in public areas, bus qeues, tube stations, harrods winter sales etc. thus achieving a status of erectus memberus.