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Excavators find image of pizza’s possible precursor among Pompeii ruins (www.washingtonpost.com)
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The food depicted in the roughly 2,000-year-old fresco did not include cheese and tomato but could be a “distant ancestor” of pizza, archaeologists said.

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[–] b1_@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you zoom in you can see the pineapple pieces.

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pineapple is from the New World, so Europeans won't have had it until about half a millennium ago, but ham, the other half of Hawaiian pizza, is Old World.