The term 'pizza' first appeared "in a Latin text from the southern Italian town of Gaeta in 997 AD, which claims that a tenant of certain property is to give the bishop of Gaeta duodecim pizze 'twelve pizzas' every Christmas Day, and another twelve every Easter Sunday".
Remember that the tomato wasn't introduced to the European Continent until around 1500AD after Columbus returned with the fruit from the New World. Pizza actually means pie and what we think of as pizza today has no connection to food of a thousand years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
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