On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:08:09 -0800, sf > wrote:

>New Yorkers have it wrong. I've eaten pizza in Sicily and it's not
>square. Pizza is round.
>http://slice.seriouseats.com/archive...in-sicily.html

I suspect that rectangular pizzas have their origins in this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****aladi%C3%A8re

Possibly not southern at all but northern.

That said, my first encounter with pizza was as I kid in north New
Jersey in the late 50s and it was baked in huge rectangular trays at
an outdoor farmer's market or suchlike.

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