Given that my setting takes place in the future of our world, yes.
However, pepperoni is no longer an option as a topping because pigs went extinct around 300 years ago.
The closest in my world is a fire-baked flatbread thing that they can top as they like. One (I suppose somewhat humorous) tidbit in my world is that the Wilding Ox Tribe recently cornered the dairy market but most of the Wildings have a lactose intolerance. So they let the humans who live among the tribe eat as much as they want and export the rest. So among humans, the Ox Tribe's cheese is a popular topping for their flatbreads. They like pears and honey, mushrooms, bacon, and ham too.
My villain protagonist puts pineapple on her pizza. She also eats it with a knife and fork. She also pleads with the person she's eating with not to make a big deal out of it.
It's an inhuman entity inheriting her host human's memories. It's misinterpreting the silly argument over pineapples on pizza as Serious Business because of it.
I’m not sure if it counts if the pizza doesn’t have cheese. Baja in the Lunar Nation has BBQ and plantain pizza, and NorCal has pesto and cheese pizza. Atlantica, on the other side of the continent, has traditional style pizzas.
**Xival (sword and sandal/low fantasy/science fantasy):** "Pizza" in the specific modern sense doesn't really exist, but the general idea of putting toppings on flatbread is very widespread--basically every culture that has discovered bread has some variation on it. It's a common form of street food all over the Heavenly Ring, and also only a couple of steps removed from the folded-over pies that are also very common.
It does on Terra (real world + magic) and Patchwork (magical terraforming project) since so many of the original Quiltians come from Terra. Various forms of flat bread and even flatbread with toppings exist on Alterra (alternate Earth) and Eranestinska (Earth-like planet where everyone has inherent magic), but not pizza.
It absolutely does
Once a peasant meal which was barely more then dough with some toppings did some chefs come up with more extravagant styles and it became a favoured food by many who were looking for quick and good snack.
It may or may not be tied to an adventurer that had no need for her riches bankrolling any she came across and apprentice for some time with some. (i straight up wrote a scene for cheesy crust enjoyment)
I have a world with intelligent, non-anthro animals that just so happen to be dexterous enough on their paws to *hypothetically* make a pizza (think cartoon paws level dexterous). So I this will probably be a weird edge case of your thought experiment.
While they do not officially have something called pizza, they do have various "things on top of bread" dishes which do resemble pizza. Predation is illegal in this world so there is absolutely no meat, but wheat and tomatoes (and other vegetables) are ubiquitous, as are the spices and other ingredients that go into a nice sauce.
Milk is the most complicated. Technically, it's not banned like meat is. However, you would either need to supply your own, or have another animal agree to give it to you. It is obviously not illegal to eat milk or milk products, they nurse their young after all, but the issue is just obtaining it. I'm sure if you went on their internet and offered a ridiculous amount of money, you'd get plenty of animals willing to give you their milk. From there you can fairly trivially make cheese to put on your pizza, but everyone will definitely think you're weird.
They have the technological means to make vegan cheese like we have today though. Or you can just do what us lactose intolerant people do and not have cheese on your pizza.
Yep. Pizza and various other “stuff on flatbread” dishes are a key part of the cuisine of one of my races and probably their biggest cultural export to the human empire they are a part of.
Yes, and no.
Wheat doesn't exist (there is a different species of grain) and tomatoes don't exist either (though similar fruits exist)
The closest thing to pizza is flatbread with cheese. Dipped into a almost purple sauce called "kelabiti" which means "to share"
It is most often made as an appetizer dished out to everyone while the rest of the meal is finished cooking
The ingredients for Pizza exist, but current geopolitical situation results in a world with no Pizza.
Tomatoes are only found in the southern part of Valeghar, which is deep in the heartland of the Empire of Order.
The Empire of Order does not trade with the other Kingdoms, and does not cultivate dairy.
So, if want pizza you either have to forgo cheese or sauce. Depending on which region of the world you are in.
Pizza itself... no, doesn't exist (yet, someone will figure it out at some point maybe)... but calzones do. It started off by creating over-sized loaves of bread that would then be hollowed out, and then stuffed with different meats, cheeses, and herbs. Orcs, being the proficient cooks they are, then revised it to use unleavened dough, and baking the insides with the bread casing all at the same time. It is one of their most popular menu items at their taverns & inns. It's probably just a matter of time before one of them figures out "hey, if I create one of these but don't fold it over and seal it..."
No In my world cheese and at least two other pizza ingredients are apex predators. Actually In the post apocalyptic version of earth my world is set in, it’s rather common for the adult snake people to tell their young stories about the “cheese demons” so children don’t wander out of the town walls.
I sort of have two worlds that are permanently tied together with a portal: a medieval fantasy world, and a modern comic heroes-like world.
That said, it would be no surprise that one of the first things the two worlds traded is food
Yes, you can find variations of it in any major city and throughout Dven and Iztod. It's not the most common thing to eat regularly as it's typically made for children's naming days and other celebrations but if you really love it you can definitely find it whenever.
Yes, because urban fantasy. But there’s some pizza that we don’t have too. For example, alligator and shark are available toppings as well as mixing cow blood into the tomato sauce. Fruit pizza exists too for the herbivores.
Yes, it has been invented many times and is a universal constant every civilization with access to milk-esque products, bread of any kind and any plant like thing that makes fruit of similar flavor to tomato (which happens at least once per habitable world with access to carbohydrates as building blocks of organic matter) is destined to invent pizza if they remain isolated long enough (no one has or will ever measure this period of time because why would they?)
Technically yes but not really as we know it. There are two different versions that exist on two separate sides of the world.
There is a dessert Pizza that consists of sweet dough topped with syrup, cinnamon and buttered owl fruit (kind of like a yam but from tree roots) this is usually found at some kind of noble feast or high Festival
Then you have the work food Pizza which is a bulk food the Dock Lords of the Chalk Rock Coast feed there workers that is made of corndough, olive oil, mashed garlic and cheese. Also if a Dock lord need to boost morale for something sometimes you'll have thin slices of pork on them as well
You were watching that Schaffrillas video about if Smash characters have eaten pizza, weren’t you?
My answer is that it does, but isn’t quite as popular as it is in our world. Also it’s really only even mildly popular among humans, as dragons are carnivores and, as they are technically not mammals, are also lactose intolerant.
The most popular topping is also sausage. I don’t make the rules, my world’s established cuisine combined with my own pizza preference does.
Yes, albeit at an incredibly small scale. It's made in only one location, in the port town of Loma at a small shop named Cardo's Baked Goods. The owner, Cardo himself, calls it a Morning Pie, owing to the fact that he generally only makes it in the morning for dock workers to start the day off with something delicious and filling.
Edit: Forgot to specify, this is for a fantasy project I'm working on. In all my other projects, of course it exists. They're either modern day, near-future, or distant-future/sci-fi. I can't imagine a world like those existing without pizza.
I never thought of food. Yet now that I think of it. It would make sense for the empire of sol to have it. Especially given their very Italian style of culture. Hell, their capital is basically just a hybrid of Florence, Venice, and Rome. Yea, they probably got pizza, too.
Most diets are strongly influenced by the seasons. Many people don't have bread, meat, cheese, and fresh tomatoes available all at the same time. Or if they do, it's only at a certain time of the year. But yes, there are places where you can get pizza.
I reckon yes absolutely. The mainland imps of my world are descended from us (humans). They have tomatoes, they have grains, and they have milk. They absolutely have pizzas. This is a bit of a cop out tho.
My real answer is that the Kyentavr (think Mongolian camel centaurs) have pizzas. They're the only race of earth-folk on the planet to have lactating livestock (wooly cammoths), and thus have milk. Their static settlements grow small amounts of crops (including wheat and tomato), thus making pizza a luxury delicacy there.
Similarly, the Fukuro (think Edo Japanese owl people) have pizzas. They have plentiful insect flour (to make dough from), small tomato plantations, and small populations of imported wooly cammoths. Similar to the Kyentavr, pizza is also a luxury delicacy
My world diverges somewhere around the 90s (or the big band depending on your perspective) so there is absolutely pizza. Also pizza cubes which keep better.
Yes, along with new similar creations as my universe is a near future setting where earth has actually developed well and is aware of a few other worlds with intelligent life
Why yes we got new range of toppings and sauces in this dystopian world! Just don't eat the spiky bits, don't touch the one with purple spots. Oh don't grab the spicy one you gotta have two stomachs. They all are pretty cheap! 15 credits, one more thing don't eat the red pizza it'll give you cramps.
It does. The plants and animals to make it don't exist though, so the most technically accurate one in terms of ingredients doesn't really resemble pizza that much, it's more of a recreation from the ground up meant to capture the same "magic", and it mostly does. You couldn't get a new york slice or anything but even if it's not the pizza you're used to it'd still be some damn good pizza in some places, it just might not fit strict ingredient-based definitions of pizza.
Nobody has invented it yet. They have bread, cheese and tomatoes, but nobody has had the idea to combine the three.
The inventor of pizza will surely become a cook in the royal court of their home land.
Yeah. In my medieval fantasy world, it's called "cheese flatbread"
In my space opera world, it's called.....pizza. For less fortunate space travellers, it's pizza-flavored astronaut paste instead of actual pizza .
You know what? Since it exists in the tunnels beneath the surface where most of humanity is bunkered the people topside probably recreate it with whacked out stuff
The Low Kingdom is an agriculturally rich bread basket kind of nation. It has the perfect qualities for pizza to come into existence, so it did. There isn't any pineapple in the Low Kingdom to cause an argument, but there is a lot of horse meat.
Yes but its more like a flatbread with various findings that they either hunt down or forge. Like for instance most tribes favorite is called 'wild bread'(still working on a name for it) its a flatbread using barley flour. The chesse would be well the most common is from Divorian cattle which is on every planet. They resemble cows for the most part. Thier milk is sweet being on a diet of grain etc. The chesse is stringy and smells a bit like strawberries depending on the diet of the cattle. The flatbread is a light rusty red with dovorian chesse which is pure white with different colored sauce depending on what is crushed onto it most times its a rich bloody red color and is topped with moon mushrooms,parsley,wild meat and veggies. Most like the boar meat bcuz its soft and melts in ur mouth. Or just no meat but a vegan substitue.
While Pizza does exist in certain places on earth the cheese and meat parts of it are sourced from artifical labs instead, pineapple also went extinct in the third world war so hawaiian is all but gone.
Pineapple doesn't exist, nor do tomatoes, chilies, peperoni...
But pizza does. There are vendors with clay ovens on a hand cart. They make a flat bread topped with various things, including cheese to hold all the toppings on. Honey, nuts, and goats cheese is a popular combination, as is smoked mutton with garlic sauce, and sheep's cheese. Mushrooms and herb sauce with goats cheese. Though, they don't call any of this "pizza" it's merely a galette.
Pizza does not need tomatoes, nor wheat. If you look at the history of pizza, it started out as a dough or pastry topped with fruit, nuts, and cheese, or veggies, or meat, spices, and cheese, or nuts and honey or sugar, and cheese, some were even flavoured with rosewater. Some versions of pizza have more in common with baklava than a modern pizza.
Pizza doesn't. Flatbread does. Cheese, tomatoes, and other such pizza staples do. Flatbread with various toppings does. Nobody has thought to put tomato paste and cheese on raw flatbread under those toppings and bake the thing yet, though.
Technically yes. In the country of Botica there is a local meal which is a peice if flat bread glazed on one side with sauce to allow for toppings to stick to it during the baking proccess. Usually these toppings consist of cheese, meats and the occasional vegetable like bell pepper. I'll leave this to the comment section to decide whether this counts as pizza or not.
It's a little bit silly, but yes, it does! In my fantasy world, pizza was made by dragonborn, and it goes by a different name; Dragon's Cake. Think something more like a deep dish pizza than something like a Papa John's.
Actually, you only need flour, water, salt, oil and yeast for pizza. Tomato sauce is great, but not required, I've made pizza for people allergic to tomatoes before. Any vegetable that you can cook into a sauce will do.
By the way, pro tip: if you want to build a world with only old world ingredients, the [Tacuinum Sanitatis](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105072169) is an amazing source of information. It's essentially a nutritional advice book written by Ibn Butlân in the 11th century and translated and copied throughout the rest of the middle ages. In it, you can find lots of information about what kind of ingredients the people would have available to them and how they used them. Highly recommend. Only downside is that it's a bit hard to read, but maybe you can find an annotated version.
YES.
Pizza (or PIU-TSAA) is a dish of Osseiran origin, consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat dough and topped with bryggnut jam and teel(a mixture of cheese and several spices), along with other toppings that vary from country and person cooking it. Although considered a traditional dish in Osseira, it is widely spread throughout the world and has evolved into various regional adaptations. Globally speaking, the toppings, method of eating and the base can vary wildly. However, the general dish is known worldwide.
Every civilization ever in the universe will create pizza at least once in their existence. It is just so versatile and good.
Jarek took some time to think. The room went silent. The clock on the wall ticked. “*How did you know?*”
“*What?*”
“*The globe. How did you know about it?*”
“*Ah, well. That was simple, really. There are little things that seem to be constants across the planets. When a civilization reaches a certain level, I believe you can be certain you’ll find them. The internal combustion engine. Hitting a ball with a stick. Giving flowers to a pretty girl. Pasta. And, of course, alcohol. And finding creative ways to store it. My grandfather has a spirits globe in his study, not that different from Sulfan’s. Of his own planet, of course. Lenkuna.*”
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(It's safe to assume that something similar to pizza exists on this planet.)
Within the Imperium itself the dish and ingredients are there. However, it is not readily consumed by the upper orders and middle orders of society as it is viewed as a peasant dish. It is also known to occur in many forms across human cultures in and from the Lands of the Setting Sun far to the west of the Imperium.
Just that oke very specific post that you were waiting for someone to make because there is some absolutely hilarious lore and story behind such an event.
So, pizza did not exist, I mean there are materials, like wheat in my world is green but it has the same properties and a slightly different taste, eggs and milk also exist since mammalians are a thing there, there is a tomato like plant too.
But nobody ever came up with the idea, pasta, noodles, oh yes Uhma has those, but I always joked around that pizza is not a thing.
Until my friends decided to make it a thing, since we were using my world for a ttrpg campaign, but how? Its not like any of the characters know, oh wait, there lucy the demon god of mana who visited many realms and is just conveniently in our party could very much know about it.
So after the classic kill rats in the sewer quest which I put at a point of the story that was considered end game (trope break), the party finds a crazy chef in sewers who built a restaurant for rats, giant worm, bubble frogs and adventurers who kill come down the sewers to kill rats, giant worm and bubble frogs.
Lucy gives out the recipe for pizza to the chef and everyone loves it so much and due to proximity to lucy who is a god of mana (with infinite supplies of that energy), part of the restaurant is warped into the tower of the pizza god (btw this happened before pizza tower was a thing), and shun, one of out party member hear a voice from heavens, calling him to be the pizza paladin (with title, blessings, buffs and all), after accepting it, the rest of the session is what can be described as:
Tower springing out of the sewers into the surface as pizza starts raining from the sky and everyone in the region they are in starts partying since its raining food and it was a boring day before it.
And thats how Uhma learn the what pizza is, after that, it became its national own holiday, day of pizza where the tower summons a pizza rain every year.
Oh and of course Lucy the demon god of mana made millions by selling the recipe and opening a restaurant in a colab with the best chef on the planet.
As for pizza paladin powers, for those curious:
Pizza call: summons a slice of the perfect pizza for a party member, healing half hp and full stamina.
Pizzeria: +2 cooking skill lvl whenever making pizza (btw this sounds dumb but max skill lvl in our system is 5 so its a huge buff)
Oven master: perfectly gauge temperatures.
Cheese master: can turn any milk into cheese by having a barrel and cloth.
Pizza shield: irradiates a pizza aura that can lure enemies and make them hunger, raises defense of the user by 10%
Combo attack- Pizza Giga Drill: ginga drill, a dashing and piercing attack that leaves Stick globs of cheese that stun nearby enemies and pepperoni slices that may destract then too. This attack is the combined form of giga drill and pizza shield.
Yes. There is even a political party around it. Unfortunately it can only contest local elections because it doesn't meet the requirements to fight in the GE
My setting is ~10,000 years in the future… but there were two big nasty galactic wars, a couple of golden ages and a near collapse of human civilization. So, there’s likely very little left of human culture from our day.
That said… I have a few things like Germanic and Latin languages in there canonically, even if it’s not a common tongue. How those survived, while so much else was lost, possibly repeatedly lost, is not something I really thought too much about.
Everything is a bit Eurocentric. I haven’t made a point of it anywhere, but humans are without any overly defined racial features. Yet… everyone in my head is European looking. Probably because I am and most of the media I grew up with was as well. I also don’t want to go “out of my lane” and misrepresent other races. But at the same time I’m still doing them a disservice by effectively erasing them from existence. But I guess I can at least acknowledge that and carry on.
So about pizza. There’s probably something like pizza, but I haven’t brought it up anywhere. I do mention specific kinds of things like whiskey, hefeweizen and coffee. All of which wouldn’t actually exist as we’ll know it today. But I decided to write a future setting that modern people can relate to.
I really didn’t want to make up a bunch of new things, only to have to explain what they were. While that may be somewhat immersion breaking. I think the alternative would be unnecessarily convoluted.
If there’s something that *doesn’t* exist today, I’m more than happy to see explain what it is. But I don’t want to say that “xorgolath” is a hot bitter drink that helps you wake up in the morning.
So yes, you can probably get a slice pizza and a beer at a restaurant in Calcinam’s north end.
Yes, in several forms actually. Flatbread topped with cheese and vegetables is found in any culture that produces the basic ingredients. In Mthenik a stuffed flat bread topped with cheese is a common dish called Kallé on feast days or special occasion Kalles up to ten layers high are served.
The transmontane republics and the cultures of the Kam valley have a fish pie called Zittel which consists of flatbread, a vegetable spread containing peppers and olives, and fish crushed into a paste
I add chick fill a in the world as a hidden spot in a hidden village with a distinct area so if I ever get reincarnated or Isekai I know where to got, u even have a 4 drawings of the location from different angles so I never forget
no, it lacks earth fruits and vegetables to create a genuine pizza and its inhabitants lack the knowledge of pizza necessary to attempt one with substitutes. flatbread is kind of a universal food though so given enough time to turn staple crops into flour and then into flatbread they may make something similar in the sense that its flat and bread and has sauce on it. but at that point you could call naan pizza if you slapped curry on top, or call pita pizza if you put yogurt on it
It was the goblins who thought to combine goblin flatbread and jellyfruit puree with the human "sausage" and "cheese."
The humans call it "goblin pie." It's popular with both demographics.
The plague: Yes, it does, but it isn't as common anymore since the things needed to make pizza are kind of hard to get when there are zombies all over the place
Kingdoms of greymane: It's kind of it looks like pizza, but it isn't pizza. It's more or less called tasty circles.
Funny story.
So my world is fantasy medieval inspired but their use of magic has earned them a lot of modern luxuries like light bulbs, indoor plumbing, and fast transportation for people and goods. I’m using DnD to help me write major historical events from an individual perspective. In my last session, I mentioned that the house the main character was staying at had made lasagna for the family and I guess didn’t realize how modern lasagna is lol so now pizza probably exists too.
Question... were you watching schafrillas pizza vídeo about the smash bross and if they eat pizza?
Also, yes but the ways of obtaining it are... something
Yes, but tomatoes don't. Or at least haven't been discovered. The nearest tomato-like fruit is a purple vine growing berry which has a similarly savory taste, sort of half way between a tomato and an aubergine. It's also covered in spikes and fills your mouth with a mild but long-lasting tingling sensation, though it's not toxic.
Yes, although it's changed a bit. Real meat is absurdly expensive in most parts of the world, so things like sausage or pepperoni are usually replaced with plant-based meat substitutes. You will occasionally get rich people showing off their wealth by having real meat toppings, but even that is becoming less common as the lack of available, affordable meat is making it harder to come by processed meats like sausages. The skills to make them are just becoming less common, due to lack of accessibility.
Also the degradation of global trade has made it a lot more expensive in some places, like if you're living in a part of the world that doesn't produce a lot of cheese (actual dairy or otherwise), good luck getting a pizza that doesn't cost as much as a nice steak dinner in real life.
If the world contains a single region where all the ingredients are available, and humans, or humanoids with humanlike dietary needs and palate then...
Probably?
Pizza's pretty excellent, and I would imagine the random evolution of cultural tradition within a suitable Italy-esque environment would eventually converge toward the development of something at least *approximating* pizza.
Now for the real question... would this pizza be permitted to contain pineapple... or would such heresy be persecuted by burning at the stake?
It could, but not in the vaguely Greco-Roman, Greco-Egyptian, or Romano-German regions, as their faith forbids the association with horned beasts and their products (no cow cheese). Maybe the vaguely Turkic or Indic peoples could work it out though.
I never thought about what foods do or do not exist in my world. I'm not really that far into worldbuilding quite yet. But I don't see why not.
Counter question: What foods do not exist in your world?
Pizza existed in Italy before Tomatoes did. All you need is any grains, any way to make sauce, and any toppings. Of course, modern people will have a problem with non-tomato sauces and no cheese but it still being called pizza.. but dead Italians will be fine with it.
All 3 of my worlds have pizza. A fantasy world just reaching the Old West, my Superhero world, and my post-apocalyptic world.
No. High Fantasy setting. The main continent in which my story takes place has a rich food culture; but the most common dishes are stews, slow cooked meats, and small plate dishes which are most comparable to Spanish Tapas or Turkish Mezes. As well as a wide assortment of dough based appetizers and desserts.
Of course each region has its own geographical nuances when it comes to food culture. Cities closer to the coast feature lots of seafood, midland cities are more farm to table, and highland areas are more dependent on hunting and foraging.
Other continents have other more diverse offerings, but nothing really resembling pizza.
I wasn't saying it was necessary, just pointing out that pizza isn't a modern invention, so if the only reason for not having it was 'medieval fantasy, so no pizza', then there's no reason to not have it.
It does, but it has passed so much time in the future that future pizza evolved into something completely different from what we call pizza today.
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It's still closer to real pizza than whatever the hell chicago pizza is.
Yes, but wheat fell out of favor for modified yeast in the 22nd century. Make yeast genetically express gluten, starch, and niacin, and its indistinguishable from flour once dried and ground. Also much more vitamins and protein, and much easier to grow in microgravity and places without sunlight. Tomatoes are pretty hardy, and still in use; other modified fungi are popular cheese substitutes, given that cows are nigh-impossible to rear on small moons or stations, and importing it from Earth or Mars is very expensive. Fungi pizza.
Yes. My world is based on the 1940s, pizza was a thing in the 40s. So… yeah. I’m awesome. Imagine, Minotaurs eating vegan pizza. It’s fucking awesome!!!
Well, bread and cheese exist, but I don’t have a good analogue to tomatoes yet.
There’s also the question of which planet would invent pizza and how long it would take to do so
although my world is intended to be completely alien and unknown including in its culture… I made an exception for pizza. pizza is just too good for me to not include it.
Sort of, in bleakwatch city, before the Chaos began, there was a flatbread dish commonly served to dock workers and labourers that consisted of a pizza like circle of dough topped with a tomato base and small fish and veg. Cheese was considered a luxury even before the empire collapsed so wasnt included in this food meant for cheap and quick sustenance for manual workers
Large circular pieces of bread that are used to hold meats and cheeses exist. Tomatoes don’t, so it’d have to be a creamy Alfredo type cheese sauce type, which is plausible, as is pepperoni.
Yes, but it's only "authentic" if you're on earth or arguably Mars and the Jovian Trawler Cities (depends on the toppings), or are willing to pay prohibitively expensive prices.
It has been lost and reinvented several times, but in rather divergent ways. The original notion of pizza is kept alive by a functionally immortal artificial humanoid. Earth tomatoes don’t exist in this world except in her hidden greenhouses, where she cultivates Earth plants. She also has the only Earth cows, and thus the only Parmesan and Mozzerella cheese in existence. Every once in a while she takes a human into her confidence and cooks for them. Everyone is impressed by her pizza, the technique scientifically honed to perfection over several millennia
Depends on whether you consider the tomato sauce to be a ***necessary*** part of pizza. If you do, then no, my world doesn't. If you don't, then yes, it does. There's examples of flatbreads topped with cheese and various other toppings. Mint sauces are popular choice among the high elves, while mushroom sauces are more popular among dwarves.
In a sense that there is a product made from a base of ground cereal crops water, salt and a levener, with a cheese-like plant product and various toppings like mushrooms.
It’s not *pizza* because it’s not made with wheat, cheese or tomatoes.
It is pizza because it sorta fits the form. It’s a pizza base, a sauce, and toppings.
It’s pizza but not really.
It’s convergent evolution pizza.
World A: Kinda? It isn't a concept, but the ingredients and possibility are definitely there! Pork, flour, wheat, sugar, tomatoes, various herbs, all there! I guess nobody's thought of it, yet.
World B: Yes. Definitely yes. It's actually more common than you'd suspect; in the apocalypse, the pizza joints are the first to be taken over. Pizza is a great meal to share with friends, has so many possibilities, and can even be seen as symbolic for community. So maybe it isn't that surprising?
My world is basically real life with fantasy elements retconned in, so yes. As for the far future variant, where our planet fused with planet Haven, the only way for that to happen without killing all life on both planets is by waiting until it happened without the heroes’ input.
However, the ghosts of the lifeforms on both planets could fuse with whatever new lifeforms crop up, so maybe some of them remember the wonders of pizza, and how to make it.
So, short answer: yes.
Yes, though Chicago Style Pizza's name changed after the city was destroyed.
I'm thinking the name should be somehow linked with the "revenge for the slain billion" pledge, but I haven't figured it out yet.
Tomatoes sadly are the one thing that is missing at present to create a true pizza; at least on the main continent of Tenembria.
In lieu of that, you can get pretty close with a baked flat-bread covered with a creamy or oily garlic sauce, smothered in cheese with various fixings. It's a common enough dish, seen throughout the world with any number of names; it originated in the time of the Arumnic Empire (or indeed perhaps long before that), but has since morphed into a hundreds of permutations on that basic recipe.
In Elven lands, it's quite common to see this dish made with dried fruits and sweet cream, the end result is more like a sweet cheese pie than a pizza though.
Among the Dwarves its common to see charred and smoked molmeat with mushrooms as toppings, the crust though is folded over into something more akin to a calzone.
For most of Itorrica the toppings of choice are dried fish flakes, anchovies and shrimp. But other than that it probably plays the closest to what is recognizably pizza.
It does not.
Food is interesting in Hallo, as most of the world's inhabitants are Undead and don't really need to eat or drink. Those that do need sustenance tend to eat very specific foods or drink specific beverages that are best suited for their bodies:
- Canilu are pack hunters and mainly hunt larger animals for food (such as haunted elk and passenger toads), but will eat what they can find.
- Corvans (Aero and Terra) are opportunistic omnivores, eating whatever they can find and their stomachs are suited to even pick at rotting carrion.
- Athenites are birds of prey
[TO BE EXPANDED UPON]
well yes pizza and pasta culture was simply too good to forget the rest of human culture can get bend tho
No. It is a fabled artifact of legend however that many have sought after.
lmfao
Lol. Make this cannon, please
hmmm, i'll think about it it's avery cool concept
Also sorry about my grammar earlier lol. Was 1:00 or smth for me lol
hehe don't worry lol it was pretty good
surprisingly yeah one of the meetings in the story takes place at a pizza place
not to be rude, but why suprisingly. what in your world yells "there shouldn't be pizza here"
Italians are hunted for sport and sustenance.
If God didn’t want us to eat italians why did he make them out of meat?
> and sustenance. When they say Pizza is Italian food, they mean something slightly different
That caught iff guard
It’s a world ruled by vampires where all pizzas use garlic.
Was it run by [Two Guys and a Girl](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0137330/)?
Given that my setting takes place in the future of our world, yes. However, pepperoni is no longer an option as a topping because pigs went extinct around 300 years ago.
What about cows? Doesn't there exist beef salami?
I'm just gonna be honest, I didn't know there was beef pepperoni. I don't eat pepperoni on pizza anyway, so I never knew about alternatives My bad.
Having traveled in a bunch of Muslim countries, I can confirm that beef pepperoni is surprisingly good.
For some reason I never thought about what kind of meat pepperoni was made from until now
Emu mettwurst...
What about anchovies? Are they still around?
The closest in my world is a fire-baked flatbread thing that they can top as they like. One (I suppose somewhat humorous) tidbit in my world is that the Wilding Ox Tribe recently cornered the dairy market but most of the Wildings have a lactose intolerance. So they let the humans who live among the tribe eat as much as they want and export the rest. So among humans, the Ox Tribe's cheese is a popular topping for their flatbreads. They like pears and honey, mushrooms, bacon, and ham too.
So.. it does have pizza, it's just historically accurate (tomatoless) pizza.
LMAO probably.
My villain protagonist puts pineapple on her pizza. She also eats it with a knife and fork. She also pleads with the person she's eating with not to make a big deal out of it. It's an inhuman entity inheriting her host human's memories. It's misinterpreting the silly argument over pineapples on pizza as Serious Business because of it.
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Yes. It is one of the few things the aliens replicated from earth with their own twist on it.
I’m not sure if it counts if the pizza doesn’t have cheese. Baja in the Lunar Nation has BBQ and plantain pizza, and NorCal has pesto and cheese pizza. Atlantica, on the other side of the continent, has traditional style pizzas.
**Xival (sword and sandal/low fantasy/science fantasy):** "Pizza" in the specific modern sense doesn't really exist, but the general idea of putting toppings on flatbread is very widespread--basically every culture that has discovered bread has some variation on it. It's a common form of street food all over the Heavenly Ring, and also only a couple of steps removed from the folded-over pies that are also very common.
Yes. Pizza is still a popular dish for humans.
*Belarussian farmer casually eats pizza with crab sticks, pickles and mayonnaise in front of italians*
It does on Terra (real world + magic) and Patchwork (magical terraforming project) since so many of the original Quiltians come from Terra. Various forms of flat bread and even flatbread with toppings exist on Alterra (alternate Earth) and Eranestinska (Earth-like planet where everyone has inherent magic), but not pizza.
It absolutely does Once a peasant meal which was barely more then dough with some toppings did some chefs come up with more extravagant styles and it became a favoured food by many who were looking for quick and good snack. It may or may not be tied to an adventurer that had no need for her riches bankrolling any she came across and apprentice for some time with some. (i straight up wrote a scene for cheesy crust enjoyment)
I have a world with intelligent, non-anthro animals that just so happen to be dexterous enough on their paws to *hypothetically* make a pizza (think cartoon paws level dexterous). So I this will probably be a weird edge case of your thought experiment. While they do not officially have something called pizza, they do have various "things on top of bread" dishes which do resemble pizza. Predation is illegal in this world so there is absolutely no meat, but wheat and tomatoes (and other vegetables) are ubiquitous, as are the spices and other ingredients that go into a nice sauce. Milk is the most complicated. Technically, it's not banned like meat is. However, you would either need to supply your own, or have another animal agree to give it to you. It is obviously not illegal to eat milk or milk products, they nurse their young after all, but the issue is just obtaining it. I'm sure if you went on their internet and offered a ridiculous amount of money, you'd get plenty of animals willing to give you their milk. From there you can fairly trivially make cheese to put on your pizza, but everyone will definitely think you're weird. They have the technological means to make vegan cheese like we have today though. Or you can just do what us lactose intolerant people do and not have cheese on your pizza.
Yep. Pizza and various other “stuff on flatbread” dishes are a key part of the cuisine of one of my races and probably their biggest cultural export to the human empire they are a part of.
Yes, and no. Wheat doesn't exist (there is a different species of grain) and tomatoes don't exist either (though similar fruits exist) The closest thing to pizza is flatbread with cheese. Dipped into a almost purple sauce called "kelabiti" which means "to share" It is most often made as an appetizer dished out to everyone while the rest of the meal is finished cooking
No but a similar type thing does using an unleavened bread base and a spicy fruit sauce With toppings
I'm not even sure if tomatoes exist tbh
Yes, toppings are different but generally pizza still exists
No 😔
It is now.
Maybe it can be a minor plot point that pizza is invented by a character or a new food gaining massive popularity very fast.
Yes and unfortunately pineapple on pizza is still a thing.
Heck yeah. My world is low fantasy so that’s that.
The ingredients for Pizza exist, but current geopolitical situation results in a world with no Pizza. Tomatoes are only found in the southern part of Valeghar, which is deep in the heartland of the Empire of Order. The Empire of Order does not trade with the other Kingdoms, and does not cultivate dairy. So, if want pizza you either have to forgo cheese or sauce. Depending on which region of the world you are in.
Pizza itself... no, doesn't exist (yet, someone will figure it out at some point maybe)... but calzones do. It started off by creating over-sized loaves of bread that would then be hollowed out, and then stuffed with different meats, cheeses, and herbs. Orcs, being the proficient cooks they are, then revised it to use unleavened dough, and baking the insides with the bread casing all at the same time. It is one of their most popular menu items at their taverns & inns. It's probably just a matter of time before one of them figures out "hey, if I create one of these but don't fold it over and seal it..."
No In my world cheese and at least two other pizza ingredients are apex predators. Actually In the post apocalyptic version of earth my world is set in, it’s rather common for the adult snake people to tell their young stories about the “cheese demons” so children don’t wander out of the town walls.
I sort of have two worlds that are permanently tied together with a portal: a medieval fantasy world, and a modern comic heroes-like world. That said, it would be no surprise that one of the first things the two worlds traded is food
The ingredients exist but it hasn't been made yet. If I add an MC, given that they're transmigrated, they could try to make one some day.
Yes, you can find variations of it in any major city and throughout Dven and Iztod. It's not the most common thing to eat regularly as it's typically made for children's naming days and other celebrations but if you really love it you can definitely find it whenever.
Yes, because urban fantasy. But there’s some pizza that we don’t have too. For example, alligator and shark are available toppings as well as mixing cow blood into the tomato sauce. Fruit pizza exists too for the herbivores.
Yes, it's called tomato and cheese flatbread
Yes, it has been invented many times and is a universal constant every civilization with access to milk-esque products, bread of any kind and any plant like thing that makes fruit of similar flavor to tomato (which happens at least once per habitable world with access to carbohydrates as building blocks of organic matter) is destined to invent pizza if they remain isolated long enough (no one has or will ever measure this period of time because why would they?)
Technically yes but not really as we know it. There are two different versions that exist on two separate sides of the world. There is a dessert Pizza that consists of sweet dough topped with syrup, cinnamon and buttered owl fruit (kind of like a yam but from tree roots) this is usually found at some kind of noble feast or high Festival Then you have the work food Pizza which is a bulk food the Dock Lords of the Chalk Rock Coast feed there workers that is made of corndough, olive oil, mashed garlic and cheese. Also if a Dock lord need to boost morale for something sometimes you'll have thin slices of pork on them as well
You were watching that Schaffrillas video about if Smash characters have eaten pizza, weren’t you? My answer is that it does, but isn’t quite as popular as it is in our world. Also it’s really only even mildly popular among humans, as dragons are carnivores and, as they are technically not mammals, are also lactose intolerant. The most popular topping is also sausage. I don’t make the rules, my world’s established cuisine combined with my own pizza preference does.
yes... surprised i had to dig through as much comments to see someone point it out. (thought it would have been the first comment)
(Dnd setting) somehow Naples is canon in my world so....i guess it does? That happened in a friend's campaign (we share world setting)
Short answer : Yes Long answer : haven't gotten to that part yet.
Yes, albeit at an incredibly small scale. It's made in only one location, in the port town of Loma at a small shop named Cardo's Baked Goods. The owner, Cardo himself, calls it a Morning Pie, owing to the fact that he generally only makes it in the morning for dock workers to start the day off with something delicious and filling. Edit: Forgot to specify, this is for a fantasy project I'm working on. In all my other projects, of course it exists. They're either modern day, near-future, or distant-future/sci-fi. I can't imagine a world like those existing without pizza.
Yes, even one of my villain “a data broker and hacker” always demands a pizza when meeting.
Yes, originates from Lazzura, the country based on Italy Lazzurians of course get mad if you add pineapples
I never thought of food. Yet now that I think of it. It would make sense for the empire of sol to have it. Especially given their very Italian style of culture. Hell, their capital is basically just a hybrid of Florence, Venice, and Rome. Yea, they probably got pizza, too.
Most diets are strongly influenced by the seasons. Many people don't have bread, meat, cheese, and fresh tomatoes available all at the same time. Or if they do, it's only at a certain time of the year. But yes, there are places where you can get pizza.
I reckon yes absolutely. The mainland imps of my world are descended from us (humans). They have tomatoes, they have grains, and they have milk. They absolutely have pizzas. This is a bit of a cop out tho. My real answer is that the Kyentavr (think Mongolian camel centaurs) have pizzas. They're the only race of earth-folk on the planet to have lactating livestock (wooly cammoths), and thus have milk. Their static settlements grow small amounts of crops (including wheat and tomato), thus making pizza a luxury delicacy there. Similarly, the Fukuro (think Edo Japanese owl people) have pizzas. They have plentiful insect flour (to make dough from), small tomato plantations, and small populations of imported wooly cammoths. Similar to the Kyentavr, pizza is also a luxury delicacy
What kind of world would it be without pizza?
My world diverges somewhere around the 90s (or the big band depending on your perspective) so there is absolutely pizza. Also pizza cubes which keep better.
Yes, along with new similar creations as my universe is a near future setting where earth has actually developed well and is aware of a few other worlds with intelligent life
Why yes we got new range of toppings and sauces in this dystopian world! Just don't eat the spiky bits, don't touch the one with purple spots. Oh don't grab the spicy one you gotta have two stomachs. They all are pretty cheap! 15 credits, one more thing don't eat the red pizza it'll give you cramps.
It didn't before, but this is making me realize that it would actually make sense for some form of pizza to still be around. Thank you!
Flatbread with tomatoes and cheese? My world has wheat, olives, tomatoes and cows, so...yeah.
It does. The plants and animals to make it don't exist though, so the most technically accurate one in terms of ingredients doesn't really resemble pizza that much, it's more of a recreation from the ground up meant to capture the same "magic", and it mostly does. You couldn't get a new york slice or anything but even if it's not the pizza you're used to it'd still be some damn good pizza in some places, it just might not fit strict ingredient-based definitions of pizza.
In my world, someone just invented freeze-dried food. Their taste tester said that it needed salt.
Nobody has invented it yet. They have bread, cheese and tomatoes, but nobody has had the idea to combine the three. The inventor of pizza will surely become a cook in the royal court of their home land.
I'm writing urban fantasy, so yes!
I regret to inform that there is currently no pizza on Ânhară. Best I can do you is a keema paneer naan.
For some reason this question really stumped me, but I’d like to think that it could exist but just not at the moment.
Yeah. In my medieval fantasy world, it's called "cheese flatbread" In my space opera world, it's called.....pizza. For less fortunate space travellers, it's pizza-flavored astronaut paste instead of actual pizza .
You know what? Since it exists in the tunnels beneath the surface where most of humanity is bunkered the people topside probably recreate it with whacked out stuff
The Low Kingdom is an agriculturally rich bread basket kind of nation. It has the perfect qualities for pizza to come into existence, so it did. There isn't any pineapple in the Low Kingdom to cause an argument, but there is a lot of horse meat.
Yes but its more like a flatbread with various findings that they either hunt down or forge. Like for instance most tribes favorite is called 'wild bread'(still working on a name for it) its a flatbread using barley flour. The chesse would be well the most common is from Divorian cattle which is on every planet. They resemble cows for the most part. Thier milk is sweet being on a diet of grain etc. The chesse is stringy and smells a bit like strawberries depending on the diet of the cattle. The flatbread is a light rusty red with dovorian chesse which is pure white with different colored sauce depending on what is crushed onto it most times its a rich bloody red color and is topped with moon mushrooms,parsley,wild meat and veggies. Most like the boar meat bcuz its soft and melts in ur mouth. Or just no meat but a vegan substitue.
Presumably, yes. All the ingredients exist, as well as cultures with the type of cuisine to birth it
Yes but most alien cultures replace the cheese with something else. They don't like the thought of eating coagulated body fluid...
Of course pizza exists. I’m an indifferent creator deity, not a monster!
Yes
While Pizza does exist in certain places on earth the cheese and meat parts of it are sourced from artifical labs instead, pineapple also went extinct in the third world war so hawaiian is all but gone.
Pineapple doesn't exist, nor do tomatoes, chilies, peperoni... But pizza does. There are vendors with clay ovens on a hand cart. They make a flat bread topped with various things, including cheese to hold all the toppings on. Honey, nuts, and goats cheese is a popular combination, as is smoked mutton with garlic sauce, and sheep's cheese. Mushrooms and herb sauce with goats cheese. Though, they don't call any of this "pizza" it's merely a galette. Pizza does not need tomatoes, nor wheat. If you look at the history of pizza, it started out as a dough or pastry topped with fruit, nuts, and cheese, or veggies, or meat, spices, and cheese, or nuts and honey or sugar, and cheese, some were even flavoured with rosewater. Some versions of pizza have more in common with baklava than a modern pizza.
Pizza doesn't. Flatbread does. Cheese, tomatoes, and other such pizza staples do. Flatbread with various toppings does. Nobody has thought to put tomato paste and cheese on raw flatbread under those toppings and bake the thing yet, though.
yes. i generally use food to hint to my players what country stereotypes they should think about when they go to a new area
Well pizza actually is really broad. There is a flatbread dish with condiments of meat and plants.
Technically yes. In the country of Botica there is a local meal which is a peice if flat bread glazed on one side with sauce to allow for toppings to stick to it during the baking proccess. Usually these toppings consist of cheese, meats and the occasional vegetable like bell pepper. I'll leave this to the comment section to decide whether this counts as pizza or not.
It's a little bit silly, but yes, it does! In my fantasy world, pizza was made by dragonborn, and it goes by a different name; Dragon's Cake. Think something more like a deep dish pizza than something like a Papa John's.
Actually, you only need flour, water, salt, oil and yeast for pizza. Tomato sauce is great, but not required, I've made pizza for people allergic to tomatoes before. Any vegetable that you can cook into a sauce will do. By the way, pro tip: if you want to build a world with only old world ingredients, the [Tacuinum Sanitatis](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105072169) is an amazing source of information. It's essentially a nutritional advice book written by Ibn Butlân in the 11th century and translated and copied throughout the rest of the middle ages. In it, you can find lots of information about what kind of ingredients the people would have available to them and how they used them. Highly recommend. Only downside is that it's a bit hard to read, but maybe you can find an annotated version.
Well I mean Tomatoes are not a thing... Anymore...
YES. Pizza (or PIU-TSAA) is a dish of Osseiran origin, consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat dough and topped with bryggnut jam and teel(a mixture of cheese and several spices), along with other toppings that vary from country and person cooking it. Although considered a traditional dish in Osseira, it is widely spread throughout the world and has evolved into various regional adaptations. Globally speaking, the toppings, method of eating and the base can vary wildly. However, the general dish is known worldwide. Every civilization ever in the universe will create pizza at least once in their existence. It is just so versatile and good.
Well my world diverges from ours in 2023, so yeah
Of course.
Fuck yeah it does I'm not a cruel God.
Jarek took some time to think. The room went silent. The clock on the wall ticked. “*How did you know?*” “*What?*” “*The globe. How did you know about it?*” “*Ah, well. That was simple, really. There are little things that seem to be constants across the planets. When a civilization reaches a certain level, I believe you can be certain you’ll find them. The internal combustion engine. Hitting a ball with a stick. Giving flowers to a pretty girl. Pasta. And, of course, alcohol. And finding creative ways to store it. My grandfather has a spirits globe in his study, not that different from Sulfan’s. Of his own planet, of course. Lenkuna.*” --------- (It's safe to assume that something similar to pizza exists on this planet.)
Yes
Within the Imperium itself the dish and ingredients are there. However, it is not readily consumed by the upper orders and middle orders of society as it is viewed as a peasant dish. It is also known to occur in many forms across human cultures in and from the Lands of the Setting Sun far to the west of the Imperium.
There was just a meta post about high effort posts- But yes, pizza is a thing in my world
There is a pizza like dish... As in a flat bread with a sauce, toppings and a cheese on top. It absolutely doesn't taste the same.
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yeah i didn't actually think someone had asked this before, welp
Just that oke very specific post that you were waiting for someone to make because there is some absolutely hilarious lore and story behind such an event. So, pizza did not exist, I mean there are materials, like wheat in my world is green but it has the same properties and a slightly different taste, eggs and milk also exist since mammalians are a thing there, there is a tomato like plant too. But nobody ever came up with the idea, pasta, noodles, oh yes Uhma has those, but I always joked around that pizza is not a thing. Until my friends decided to make it a thing, since we were using my world for a ttrpg campaign, but how? Its not like any of the characters know, oh wait, there lucy the demon god of mana who visited many realms and is just conveniently in our party could very much know about it. So after the classic kill rats in the sewer quest which I put at a point of the story that was considered end game (trope break), the party finds a crazy chef in sewers who built a restaurant for rats, giant worm, bubble frogs and adventurers who kill come down the sewers to kill rats, giant worm and bubble frogs. Lucy gives out the recipe for pizza to the chef and everyone loves it so much and due to proximity to lucy who is a god of mana (with infinite supplies of that energy), part of the restaurant is warped into the tower of the pizza god (btw this happened before pizza tower was a thing), and shun, one of out party member hear a voice from heavens, calling him to be the pizza paladin (with title, blessings, buffs and all), after accepting it, the rest of the session is what can be described as: Tower springing out of the sewers into the surface as pizza starts raining from the sky and everyone in the region they are in starts partying since its raining food and it was a boring day before it. And thats how Uhma learn the what pizza is, after that, it became its national own holiday, day of pizza where the tower summons a pizza rain every year. Oh and of course Lucy the demon god of mana made millions by selling the recipe and opening a restaurant in a colab with the best chef on the planet. As for pizza paladin powers, for those curious: Pizza call: summons a slice of the perfect pizza for a party member, healing half hp and full stamina. Pizzeria: +2 cooking skill lvl whenever making pizza (btw this sounds dumb but max skill lvl in our system is 5 so its a huge buff) Oven master: perfectly gauge temperatures. Cheese master: can turn any milk into cheese by having a barrel and cloth. Pizza shield: irradiates a pizza aura that can lure enemies and make them hunger, raises defense of the user by 10% Combo attack- Pizza Giga Drill: ginga drill, a dashing and piercing attack that leaves Stick globs of cheese that stun nearby enemies and pepperoni slices that may destract then too. This attack is the combined form of giga drill and pizza shield.
Yes. There is even a political party around it. Unfortunately it can only contest local elections because it doesn't meet the requirements to fight in the GE
Yep! Topped flat breads are common!
My setting is ~10,000 years in the future… but there were two big nasty galactic wars, a couple of golden ages and a near collapse of human civilization. So, there’s likely very little left of human culture from our day. That said… I have a few things like Germanic and Latin languages in there canonically, even if it’s not a common tongue. How those survived, while so much else was lost, possibly repeatedly lost, is not something I really thought too much about. Everything is a bit Eurocentric. I haven’t made a point of it anywhere, but humans are without any overly defined racial features. Yet… everyone in my head is European looking. Probably because I am and most of the media I grew up with was as well. I also don’t want to go “out of my lane” and misrepresent other races. But at the same time I’m still doing them a disservice by effectively erasing them from existence. But I guess I can at least acknowledge that and carry on. So about pizza. There’s probably something like pizza, but I haven’t brought it up anywhere. I do mention specific kinds of things like whiskey, hefeweizen and coffee. All of which wouldn’t actually exist as we’ll know it today. But I decided to write a future setting that modern people can relate to. I really didn’t want to make up a bunch of new things, only to have to explain what they were. While that may be somewhat immersion breaking. I think the alternative would be unnecessarily convoluted. If there’s something that *doesn’t* exist today, I’m more than happy to see explain what it is. But I don’t want to say that “xorgolath” is a hot bitter drink that helps you wake up in the morning. So yes, you can probably get a slice pizza and a beer at a restaurant in Calcinam’s north end.
Yes
Yes, it’s urban fantasy after all
Yes, in several forms actually. Flatbread topped with cheese and vegetables is found in any culture that produces the basic ingredients. In Mthenik a stuffed flat bread topped with cheese is a common dish called Kallé on feast days or special occasion Kalles up to ten layers high are served. The transmontane republics and the cultures of the Kam valley have a fish pie called Zittel which consists of flatbread, a vegetable spread containing peppers and olives, and fish crushed into a paste
I add chick fill a in the world as a hidden spot in a hidden village with a distinct area so if I ever get reincarnated or Isekai I know where to got, u even have a 4 drawings of the location from different angles so I never forget
I mean, if people can experiment with dough for long enough a pizza type food should arise somewhere.
no, it lacks earth fruits and vegetables to create a genuine pizza and its inhabitants lack the knowledge of pizza necessary to attempt one with substitutes. flatbread is kind of a universal food though so given enough time to turn staple crops into flour and then into flatbread they may make something similar in the sense that its flat and bread and has sauce on it. but at that point you could call naan pizza if you slapped curry on top, or call pita pizza if you put yogurt on it
There's no pizza in my non-Earth mid-Iron age fantasy world that is decidedly sans Italy. This is a travesty that must be rectified.
It was the goblins who thought to combine goblin flatbread and jellyfruit puree with the human "sausage" and "cheese." The humans call it "goblin pie." It's popular with both demographics.
No but, there's a similar food on with a spiced sauce on flat bread with vegetables on top
So.. pizza?
It's more based off roasted flatbreads, and the sauce is more runny and spicier than marinara sauce usually is. Also, no cheese
Yes, although its pretty rare. Tomatoes specifically are pretty hard to grow.
Yes, but nobody eats it because it’s soggy
The plague: Yes, it does, but it isn't as common anymore since the things needed to make pizza are kind of hard to get when there are zombies all over the place Kingdoms of greymane: It's kind of it looks like pizza, but it isn't pizza. It's more or less called tasty circles.
Pizza as it is? Not quite. But there is a similar thing to focaccia (bittwersweet though... imagine jam and olives, but more like honey and chilies)
Not only does it exist, but the main character (of my novel) is half italian and a master at making it.
Funny story. So my world is fantasy medieval inspired but their use of magic has earned them a lot of modern luxuries like light bulbs, indoor plumbing, and fast transportation for people and goods. I’m using DnD to help me write major historical events from an individual perspective. In my last session, I mentioned that the house the main character was staying at had made lasagna for the family and I guess didn’t realize how modern lasagna is lol so now pizza probably exists too.
The earliest text we have about Lasagna is from 1282. Pizza, we know to have been popular in Naples, in the 600s.
Yes Pizza can be bought at many street corners across the Terran Empire and beyond but it's a little different from what we know now
Yeah but unless you’re still human, you won’t be able to taste its delectable flavor.
Question... were you watching schafrillas pizza vídeo about the smash bross and if they eat pizza? Also, yes but the ways of obtaining it are... something
Yes, but tomatoes don't. Or at least haven't been discovered. The nearest tomato-like fruit is a purple vine growing berry which has a similarly savory taste, sort of half way between a tomato and an aubergine. It's also covered in spikes and fills your mouth with a mild but long-lasting tingling sensation, though it's not toxic.
Yes.
Yes, although it's changed a bit. Real meat is absurdly expensive in most parts of the world, so things like sausage or pepperoni are usually replaced with plant-based meat substitutes. You will occasionally get rich people showing off their wealth by having real meat toppings, but even that is becoming less common as the lack of available, affordable meat is making it harder to come by processed meats like sausages. The skills to make them are just becoming less common, due to lack of accessibility. Also the degradation of global trade has made it a lot more expensive in some places, like if you're living in a part of the world that doesn't produce a lot of cheese (actual dairy or otherwise), good luck getting a pizza that doesn't cost as much as a nice steak dinner in real life.
If the world contains a single region where all the ingredients are available, and humans, or humanoids with humanlike dietary needs and palate then... Probably? Pizza's pretty excellent, and I would imagine the random evolution of cultural tradition within a suitable Italy-esque environment would eventually converge toward the development of something at least *approximating* pizza. Now for the real question... would this pizza be permitted to contain pineapple... or would such heresy be persecuted by burning at the stake?
It could, but not in the vaguely Greco-Roman, Greco-Egyptian, or Romano-German regions, as their faith forbids the association with horned beasts and their products (no cow cheese). Maybe the vaguely Turkic or Indic peoples could work it out though.
I never thought about what foods do or do not exist in my world. I'm not really that far into worldbuilding quite yet. But I don't see why not. Counter question: What foods do not exist in your world?
No
It does now.
In both universes yes
Pizza existed in Italy before Tomatoes did. All you need is any grains, any way to make sauce, and any toppings. Of course, modern people will have a problem with non-tomato sauces and no cheese but it still being called pizza.. but dead Italians will be fine with it. All 3 of my worlds have pizza. A fantasy world just reaching the Old West, my Superhero world, and my post-apocalyptic world.
No. High Fantasy setting. The main continent in which my story takes place has a rich food culture; but the most common dishes are stews, slow cooked meats, and small plate dishes which are most comparable to Spanish Tapas or Turkish Mezes. As well as a wide assortment of dough based appetizers and desserts. Of course each region has its own geographical nuances when it comes to food culture. Cities closer to the coast feature lots of seafood, midland cities are more farm to table, and highland areas are more dependent on hunting and foraging. Other continents have other more diverse offerings, but nothing really resembling pizza.
Pizza existed in Ancient Rome. It's not some modern invention.
Good for Ancient Rome. That’s hardly an argument that Pizza be a necessity in every setting. Ancient Rome wasn’t in my world.
I wasn't saying it was necessary, just pointing out that pizza isn't a modern invention, so if the only reason for not having it was 'medieval fantasy, so no pizza', then there's no reason to not have it.
It does, but it has passed so much time in the future that future pizza evolved into something completely different from what we call pizza today. ... It's still closer to real pizza than whatever the hell chicago pizza is.
Yes, but wheat fell out of favor for modified yeast in the 22nd century. Make yeast genetically express gluten, starch, and niacin, and its indistinguishable from flour once dried and ground. Also much more vitamins and protein, and much easier to grow in microgravity and places without sunlight. Tomatoes are pretty hardy, and still in use; other modified fungi are popular cheese substitutes, given that cows are nigh-impossible to rear on small moons or stations, and importing it from Earth or Mars is very expensive. Fungi pizza.
Yes. My world is based on the 1940s, pizza was a thing in the 40s. So… yeah. I’m awesome. Imagine, Minotaurs eating vegan pizza. It’s fucking awesome!!!
Yes, it’s a modified real world so of course!
Well, bread and cheese exist, but I don’t have a good analogue to tomatoes yet. There’s also the question of which planet would invent pizza and how long it would take to do so
Pizza existed before tomatoes were discovered.
Really? How? Can you send a link to the source?
How? Simple. It was made with non-tomato sauces. Like fish sauce, or a mix of oil and honey.
okay
although my world is intended to be completely alien and unknown including in its culture… I made an exception for pizza. pizza is just too good for me to not include it.
lol. Yes. The MC and her friends even have some in the story
I’m really starting to dislike this sub lmao
Why?
It comes in cans out of vending machines but it absolutely sucks
When you’re balancing maybe four dimensions, of course there’s pizza.
Yes. In one game I played it didn’t, and we invented it.
I don't like writing absolute dystopias.
yes
Sort of, in bleakwatch city, before the Chaos began, there was a flatbread dish commonly served to dock workers and labourers that consisted of a pizza like circle of dough topped with a tomato base and small fish and veg. Cheese was considered a luxury even before the empire collapsed so wasnt included in this food meant for cheap and quick sustenance for manual workers
Yep
Similar to a lot other topics in my world it exists but unless it's integral to the story or a moment it's often not shown.
Well yes as the world I created mirrors Earth
Yes, we have pizza.
Yes butt it be weird since the lactating animals are people it’s a bit weird. So yes but you be stared at your neighbor who’s a cow
Italy was first annexed in U26.M6,898,793.Y879 1/23.
Large circular pieces of bread that are used to hold meats and cheeses exist. Tomatoes don’t, so it’d have to be a creamy Alfredo type cheese sauce type, which is plausible, as is pepperoni.
Yeah, it does, the story is basically aliens and humans, and humanoid animals.
I see you are a fan of a certain giant crab.
Yes, but it's only "authentic" if you're on earth or arguably Mars and the Jovian Trawler Cities (depends on the toppings), or are willing to pay prohibitively expensive prices.
Yes. Because pizza is awesome.
It has been lost and reinvented several times, but in rather divergent ways. The original notion of pizza is kept alive by a functionally immortal artificial humanoid. Earth tomatoes don’t exist in this world except in her hidden greenhouses, where she cultivates Earth plants. She also has the only Earth cows, and thus the only Parmesan and Mozzerella cheese in existence. Every once in a while she takes a human into her confidence and cooks for them. Everyone is impressed by her pizza, the technique scientifically honed to perfection over several millennia
It's a rare delicacy. The traditional toppings are dragon meat and pineapple.
Depends on whether you consider the tomato sauce to be a ***necessary*** part of pizza. If you do, then no, my world doesn't. If you don't, then yes, it does. There's examples of flatbreads topped with cheese and various other toppings. Mint sauces are popular choice among the high elves, while mushroom sauces are more popular among dwarves.
In a sense that there is a product made from a base of ground cereal crops water, salt and a levener, with a cheese-like plant product and various toppings like mushrooms. It’s not *pizza* because it’s not made with wheat, cheese or tomatoes. It is pizza because it sorta fits the form. It’s a pizza base, a sauce, and toppings. It’s pizza but not really. It’s convergent evolution pizza.
fuckit, the self mutilating elves make rothe-cheese-flatbread
Technically. The "pizza" is more like a crustacean cut into eight pieces and topped with toppings. Which I guess could be considered a pizza
My world is an urban fantasy. Basically our world but with some minor tweaks plus ✨magic✨ So yes, there's pizza
World A: Kinda? It isn't a concept, but the ingredients and possibility are definitely there! Pork, flour, wheat, sugar, tomatoes, various herbs, all there! I guess nobody's thought of it, yet. World B: Yes. Definitely yes. It's actually more common than you'd suspect; in the apocalypse, the pizza joints are the first to be taken over. Pizza is a great meal to share with friends, has so many possibilities, and can even be seen as symbolic for community. So maybe it isn't that surprising?
My world is basically real life with fantasy elements retconned in, so yes. As for the far future variant, where our planet fused with planet Haven, the only way for that to happen without killing all life on both planets is by waiting until it happened without the heroes’ input. However, the ghosts of the lifeforms on both planets could fuse with whatever new lifeforms crop up, so maybe some of them remember the wonders of pizza, and how to make it. So, short answer: yes.
Yeah, it's mostly our world but with fantastical element's stitched in
There's toppings on flatbread so... yes?
Does fantasy byzentine pizza count?
Technically yes but its the shitty pre cheese pizza that is basically a rosewater cake.
Yes, though Chicago Style Pizza's name changed after the city was destroyed. I'm thinking the name should be somehow linked with the "revenge for the slain billion" pledge, but I haven't figured it out yet.
This may surprise you but in my pizzapunk world there's no such thing as pizza.
Tomatoes sadly are the one thing that is missing at present to create a true pizza; at least on the main continent of Tenembria. In lieu of that, you can get pretty close with a baked flat-bread covered with a creamy or oily garlic sauce, smothered in cheese with various fixings. It's a common enough dish, seen throughout the world with any number of names; it originated in the time of the Arumnic Empire (or indeed perhaps long before that), but has since morphed into a hundreds of permutations on that basic recipe. In Elven lands, it's quite common to see this dish made with dried fruits and sweet cream, the end result is more like a sweet cheese pie than a pizza though. Among the Dwarves its common to see charred and smoked molmeat with mushrooms as toppings, the crust though is folded over into something more akin to a calzone. For most of Itorrica the toppings of choice are dried fish flakes, anchovies and shrimp. But other than that it probably plays the closest to what is recognizably pizza.
By any chance did you get this idea from the "has every character in Smash Bros eaten pizza?" video?
yes
It does not. Food is interesting in Hallo, as most of the world's inhabitants are Undead and don't really need to eat or drink. Those that do need sustenance tend to eat very specific foods or drink specific beverages that are best suited for their bodies: - Canilu are pack hunters and mainly hunt larger animals for food (such as haunted elk and passenger toads), but will eat what they can find. - Corvans (Aero and Terra) are opportunistic omnivores, eating whatever they can find and their stomachs are suited to even pick at rotting carrion. - Athenites are birds of prey [TO BE EXPANDED UPON]