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LipTrev t1_jdve7xp wrote

Reply to comment by nowhereman136 in TIL the New York Times, in 1944, Introduced Readers to an Exciting New Food: Pizza by FatherWinter

> Pizza was already popular in New York, especially within Italian communities.

New Haven (Connecticut) dwellers are furious with anyone who does not recognize American Pizza as coming from New Haven originally.

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Zendub t1_jdvilcs wrote

I think you're thinking of hamburgers. New Haven doesn't typically claim to have invented pizza, only perfected it.

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