Bread, cheese, and tomatoes have all been around since ancient times. So, why did it take so long to invent pizza?
Bread, cheese, and tomatoes have all been around since ancient times. So, why did it take so long to invent pizza?
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Well, the tomatoes were in the new world, and all the domesticated cows, sheep and goats were on the other side of the atlantic, so that's a minor problem.
I guess you could use like a llama cheese? That might work. Then I'm sure the indigenous people of the Peruvian region had a flatbread of some sort, just about everyone does. Then they just need to harvest up some tomatoes.
So, yeah, they could've. You need to be looking in the Andes in South America though.
There's no proof that cheese, or even milking, was a thing in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans iirc
I think tomatoes made it to Europe before cheese made it to the Americas, but not sure
There are some hints towards the Inca eating llama cheese, but nothing confirmed as far as I know.
And there is nothing to show regular consumption of animal milk or related products in north america before the europeans arrived.
Milking animals is such a generic concept you get from nature, hard to imagine they didn’t pick it up too.
99% of indigenous people were lactose intolerant. They would’ve stopped drinking milk very quickly as you can get the upset stomach drinking milk.