Pizza

:This article is about the food item. For the programming language, see Pizza programming language. For the Australian television show, see Pizza (Australian television).

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In its basic form, a pizza (occasionally, pizza pie) is an oven-baked, flat, usually circular bread covered with tomato sauce and cheese with optional toppings. The cheese is usually mozzarella or sometimes a mixture of several cheeses. Various other foodstuffs may be added to this design as toppings, most typically:

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• vegetables such as bell peppers, broccoli, tomatoes, onions and garlic
• meats and sausages, such as pepperoni, ham, bacon and ground beef
• seafoods such as shrimp and anchovies
• fruits such as pineapple
• mushrooms and olives
• herbs such as basil and oregano

The crust is traditionally plain but may also be seasoned with butter, garlic, herbs, or sesame; or stuffed, with cheese, for example. Pizza is normally eaten hot (typically at lunch or dinner), but leftovers are often eaten cold, typically at breakfast or on a picnic.

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Pizza is eaten in restaurants sometimes called pizzerias or pizza parlors. It can also be purchased in grocery stores or supermarkets; in many countries, pizza can also be ordered by phone (or, increasingly, via the Web) to be delivered, hot and ready for eating, to the home.

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The word "pizza" is from the Italian word pizza (), which was originally used to refer to a range of dough-based dishes, and whose derivation is thought to be pizza ← pinza ← Latin pincere "to mash up".http://www.etimo.it/?term=pizza http://www.pizza.it/curiosita/etimol.html. The expression Che pizza! is still used to mean "What a mess!". The word could also had evolved from "piza" that comes from "picea", the southern corruption of the Latin adjective which described the black tar-like coating underneath the placenta as a result of burning ashes.

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The plural of the word in Italian is pizze ().

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