Glad to learn that you got some good pizza. Pizza is one of my favorite foods, although I don't have it nearly often enough due to trying to keep an eye on my weight. Maybe you're right about the proximity to Italy influencing Corsican pizza. Years ago when I worked as a DJ, before playing some teenie bobber record, I made an offhand comment about the history of pizza and how I thought maybe it was invented in New York City by an Italian immigrant. Next thing I know some jabronie called in and gave me a 10-minute lecture on how wrong I was. I think I finally told him something like, "Hey, dude, I'm just trying to survive my shift and having to play the same Michael Jackson record three times in the next four hours."
Hope y'all have safe travels back to Lyon. Did you go over by boat? Do you ever hear anyone say "y'all" over there?
Haha, the history of pizza is actually something I think about a lot, especially because French pizza is historically just not good. There are some really solid, more recently opened restaurants with good options, but overall it has a long way to go. So, I've been really confused how a country so close to Italy can have such a bad version of it served so frequently.
I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in this city who says y'all, and I sometimes purposefully write it on group messages with other english speakers because, culture.
We did take the ferry! It was actually really fun and I liked it a lot. I'm writing about it in our next post!
Glad to learn that you got some good pizza. Pizza is one of my favorite foods, although I don't have it nearly often enough due to trying to keep an eye on my weight. Maybe you're right about the proximity to Italy influencing Corsican pizza. Years ago when I worked as a DJ, before playing some teenie bobber record, I made an offhand comment about the history of pizza and how I thought maybe it was invented in New York City by an Italian immigrant. Next thing I know some jabronie called in and gave me a 10-minute lecture on how wrong I was. I think I finally told him something like, "Hey, dude, I'm just trying to survive my shift and having to play the same Michael Jackson record three times in the next four hours."
Hope y'all have safe travels back to Lyon. Did you go over by boat? Do you ever hear anyone say "y'all" over there?
Take care.
Haha, the history of pizza is actually something I think about a lot, especially because French pizza is historically just not good. There are some really solid, more recently opened restaurants with good options, but overall it has a long way to go. So, I've been really confused how a country so close to Italy can have such a bad version of it served so frequently.
I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in this city who says y'all, and I sometimes purposefully write it on group messages with other english speakers because, culture.
We did take the ferry! It was actually really fun and I liked it a lot. I'm writing about it in our next post!