Pizza got in how?

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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

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I'm more interested in how Britannian people are willingly using Japanese search engines---possibly a case of countrywide internet censorship to/from the outside world?---than the growth of Pizza Hut, but this is interesting. The easiest explanation, I think, would be convergent evolution. Perhaps it originates in Britannia by Britannic-Italians, since I doubt not every EEU person thinks immigrating to the most prosperous empire in the world is a bad idea. Or it could just like heebee said.

I don't think the spread/acceptance of pizza in Area 11 is hard to place, though. We see it mostly eaten among Britannian circles, which does suggest the thing being imported via conquest. And though Japan seemed reclusive back in the day, it's probably not a stretch to think Pizza Hut would've a few branches there before the war as well...it's a business entity, and judging from Genbu's uniform, Japan's opened its doors sometime prior.

(I love the overanalyzing, btw. CG practically calls for it. SO many issues.)