Pizza got in how?

[mjp.livejournal.com]

OK, this is probably reading way, WAY too much into Code Geass, but it's time for some good ol' over-analyzing. Pizza Hut: how could it happen?

Flash back if you will: flat yeast breads have been staple foods of countless ancient cultures (paratha and naan in Indian, pita in Middle Eastern, injera in Ethiopian/sub-Saharan African, I could go on forever) but pizza didn't really evolve until the 18th century in Naples. Queen Margherita was presented with the first pizza we'd recognize, topped with tomatoes, basil, and mozzerella to represent the colors of the new Italian flag) and was brought over to the US as immigration expanded in the late 1890s.

What is that with Code Geass? Well, if Britannia suppressed the American Revolution and settled it with their own people, it'd stand to say that immigration never happened, Italians never brought pizza to the New World, and without pizza, there's no Domino's and no Pizza Hut to compete with them.

I think it's a bit of over-analyzing, but doesn't anyone else think it'd be weird that pizza would spontaneously become a good enough business in Area 11 to exist, period?

Just a thought. Feel free to sage this post. :-P

Comments

[zidane.livejournal.com]

It's not as if food is always constrained to its country of origin. It could have caught on as something popular in Europe and spread to Britannia, who then spread it through conquest.

[halevy.livejournal.com]

Eat pizza or die?

[mjp.livejournal.com]

True, but then it brings into account how it got established in Area 11 in the first place. Japan brought over pizza as an American concept (long and fun story about mob connections to that) and a lot of other culinary concepts came from plenty of other places... there's too many holes, though:

A) If the European Union exists and has resisted Britannian occupation, where does Italy lie? Would Europe have been in near-constant wars with Britannia expanding, funded by the economic boon of North America? Look at how long Spain prospered on gold from the Caribbean and Mexico.

B) If Britannia was still expanding after the Revolution, what would it have done with resources and further expansion? Would there have been an Ottoman Empire still gunning for Italy? Would the World Wars have happened, or on different battle fronts?

C) How much of Japan had changed before it was occupied, especially since there was no United States to guarantee a post-war security relationship with?

I'm an alternate-history junkie, so I hope that if CG ever gets licensed, someone translates the inevitable fanbooks and backstories that would come along with it. XD