After that it becomes difficult as a pizza bianca with nothing else but olive oil would be strange, you generally get at least garlic and some cheese, but that's the minimal set of ingredients shared by every pizza.

OTOH, cheese might actually be a requirement, can't think of a cheese-free pizza right now. Oh this is going to piss of the vegans.

Things may or may not get more complicated, depending on what you consider Pizza, if you include Flammkuchen which doesn't require yeast or olive oil, and also comes cheese-free by default, instead using some sort of sour cream (and onions and ham). If you ever manage to get your hand on Federweißer, that is a killer combination.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

90% sure it's tomatoes. They are not native to Europe and were only introduced in the colonial era.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I get pizza without tomatoes all the time. Chicken bacon ranch pizza contains zero tomatoes. I need to talk to this uninformed pizza gatekeeper.

[–] burningmatches@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Not sure the Italians consider a chicken bacon ranch pizza to be a pizza.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

This brings up a good point. BBQ chicken pizza, donair pizza, and pesto pizza all don't have tomatoes.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

may have been eaten with fruits such as pomegranates or dates, or dressed with spices and a type of pesto sauce

[–] japps13@lemmy.physfluids.fr 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don’t know which ingredients are required but I don’t think they had tomatoes at that time. Wasn’t they discovered in the new world?

[–] electrorocket@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct. They were over 400 years from having tomato sauce on pizza. They did have pesto, as the article mentioned.

[–] rostriano@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Make that over 1400 years.

[–] knatsch@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i would say tomato and cheese and think i see both

[–] lightsecond@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tomatoes were only introduced to Italy in the 1500s (from the Americas) so i highly doubt they had tomatoes in Pompeii at that time. :)

[–] knatsch@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah you're right, i'm dumb. Still think the red thing on the left looks like a tomato wonder what that actually is.

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 1 points 1 year ago

pomegranate?