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That's an incredibly American take IMO. Pizza is loved worldwide... Caesar salad?! Where are the famous Caesar salad global chains? I don't think it's much of a thing in Europe, at least.

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I don't think that was the point the comment was trying to make. Like - it's easy to stand on a street corner and eat a slice of pizza (or grab one and run!), it's much harder to eat dressed leaves.

I read their point as being: the first time you try pizza you're like "this is delicious and amazing." The first time you try Caesar salad it lights you up in the same magical way.

I could be wrong of course - but that definitely fits my own experience. The first time I had a chicken CS as a kid in a restaurant, it was all I wanted to eat every time we went out for months afterwards. I genuinely couldn't believe 'salad' could be so delicious.

Maybe not margheritta pizza. But every culture that makes bread has a flatbread with topping and spices popped in the oven dish.

(In fact I believe it was archaeologically found to exist in some or another form for the longest time ...)

Definitely not every culture, far from it. You should probably actually travel a bit more.

That was clearly a generalisation.

Since you’ve travelled enough to have a greater understanding, could you share with us your knowledge of a culture that makes flatbread but doesn’t put stuff on top of it? Where is that culture? What is their flatbread called?

> of a culture that makes flatbread but doesn’t put stuff on top of it

Imeretian (Imeruli) khachapuri

Because it's in it, heh!

And BTW adjarian khachapuri is technically a pizza too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khachapuri#Types

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%92%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%81%...

So, stuffed pizza.

Well, yes. Though there are also a lavash, a georgian lavash and pita.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavash

Okay then every culture eats some leaves with spices mixed in.

Have one almost every day from Tesco in Prague. Sometimes they sell out before I can get one. Where do you live?

“Europe” is a big place. In my experience Caesar salads are very common in London, in the South of France, in Italy and in Greece.

not in Italy

I don’t think I’ve ever been to Italy and not seen a Caesar salad in a menu!

I'm Canadian. And yes, it was about people who live in places where pizza and caesar salad are ubiquitous.

Yeah, I don't think I have eaten a single Caesar Salad in my whole life.

You are missing out.

Maybe, but it simply isn't a thing here. I think the only time I've seen it is in McDonald's. I literally had to google it because I only heard the name but didn't know what it was.

Heh, McDonald's Caesar salad. I ordered it, and the cashierist asked, "What kind of dressing would you like with your Caesar's?"

After she clarified that I could be /any/ dressing, I asked what made it a "Caesar salad". She cheerfully replied, "The Romain lettuce."

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