American style Pizza Pee-zah

Italian style Pizza Pit-tsa

The (real) differences between Pizza and Pizza. For disambiguation, American Pizza will be marked in bold, Italian Pizza will be marked in italics (Get it?).

Use pizza cutter to cut pizzas into slices, hold the slice and eat. Usually eaten together with other people during parties and such.

Having a big oven in a household is a common thing in America.

Baked by using an oven (sometimes a frying pan is used). The moisture evaporates, and the pizza can become firm easily.

Selling sliced pizza is a standard thing in New York.

Bigger than Italian ones. Usually with radius of 50 cm.

Delivery pizza service is highly developed. They deliver pizza not only to the house, but to parks and other places outside.

What is pizza like in Japan?

Must be served without being sliced. (slicing will cause pizza to go cold and lose flavors)

Folded into four when eating at a street stall.

It is standard to eat with fork and knife. But there aren't any strict manner of eating.

Basically, a serving of pizza is only for one person. They don't share it. It is the same as with how Japanese don't share ramen. Usually eaten during light meals or supper.

Croquettes, fried eggplants and other fried food are the standard side menu.

Baked with stone oven. There aren't any in the household, so usually it is eaten outside.

The temperature in the oven is 400~500 Celsius. Takes about 60~90 seconds to be cooked completely.

What is pizza like in Japan?

Generally crushed dry capsicum is sprinkled on pizza. Sometimes tabasco is used, but rarely.

Spread tomato sauce

Adding cheese and other stuffs.

Oh! So I didn't need to dress up to go eat it.

You can pour some olive oil that's been steeped with red peppers or garlic on it.

The edge is crunchy, the middle is springy dough. You're expected to [enjoy the dough]. Tomato, mozzarella cheese, basil, etc is used, the finishing touch is simplicity.

An Italian Restuarant.

[Pizzeria] or [Napoli style] (=Restaurants specializing in Pizza) should be written on the restaurant.

Delivery pizza such as Domino's Pizza, Pizza-la and Pizza Hut.

Only the dough has been baked

What is with that weird pizza!!

I've got no interest in eating that sort of pizza.

Evolved from focaccia originally. Sometime during the 1660's, the first pizza was made in Naples (Napoli). In 1830, the first ever pizzeria was opened in Naples. 1889 marks the birth of the classic pizza, the Margerita. Second sentence's -らしき means that the first pizza wasn't exactly what the Neapolitan pizza is today

Latter half of the 19th Century

The result of the Americanization of the Italian pizza that immigrants brought with them. In New York, 1905, the first pizzeria in the United States was opened. Until then, pizza was only eaten by those of Italian blood, but it spread throughout the United States and became a national food after World War II.

Dough that's thick and fluffy like bread. One is expected to [enjoy the ingredients], so anything goes when it comes to toppings.

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Creation