The pizza we know and love is the real thing, not this "authentic italian" pizza

Here is a video on the history of pizza by Canadian YouTuber JJ McCullough. He explains that pizza is technically an American food and not "Italian" as we think it is: https://youtu.be/7uJ_996KlM0?si=BUzaOBLZgURzg0Wy

Unpopular opinion but most American adaptations of international are better than the "authentic" versions

That's my point exactly, pizza is actually an Americanized version of Italian food. Before Italian immigrants came to America, a popular street food that the working-class would eat was this flatbread that didn't have much on it than just some oil and garlic but when the Italian immigrants came to America they found America had an abundance of foods such as cheese, meats and fresh produce and they decided to jazz up their flatbreads with the ingredients and it became the pizza we know and love. The "authentic italian" pizza is really a fancified Italianized version of the real thing.

New York Pizza originated in Manhattan. That's the pizza everyone thinks so when they pick up pizza in America. Except for Deep Dish Pizza in Chicago. NY Pizza evolved from focaccia.

Ultimately it comes down to the whole "America bad Europe good" stigma. Most people who say that the American version of a food is worse, would not say that if it were was reversed and the recipe was actually created in a different nation

Sure they would.

In Britain, there are aisles in supermarkets dedicated to only American products. There are even some supermarkets that specialize only in American products.

In recent years, American-styled hamburger joints have become popular there. I don't mean that they just serve burgers - the restaurants are dressed up to look American, and it's considered a big family outing on a Sunday to get all dolled up and pay primo prices to get that 'authentic' American dining experience.

This is Britain, mind you, the place that used to act like it invented everything from Rock & Roll to Punk and that Americans were second rate lame imitators lurking in their shadows.

No, not even.

Most American adaptions of foreign foods are watered down cardboard facsimiles toned down for palettes accustomed to boiled potatoes and microwavable lumps of flavorless plastic passed off as chicken.

Take that other popular 'foreign' food, Chinese. Go to a real Chinese restaurant in the Chinatown, and about the only thing that's similar is the white rice.

Same with another favorite, Mexican. No, just, no.

Even Thai food, which at least tries to be spicy. I was talking to a neighbor of mine in the building I used to live about a restaurant in the Bronx here once, and he very politely tried to hold back the laughter. He'd go all the way out to Jackson heights, Queens, on the weekends to pick up the real deal from relatives.

Well, I disagree with literally all of that, but after all you are entitled to that opinion

Opinion is irrelevant. Facts are facts.
Taco Bell, Olive Garden, and Luck Sang No.10 takeout are jokes for people don't know better.

True, Taco Bell isn't authentic Mexican at all, it's just another American fast food chain, the founder wasn't even Mexican and the chain served other non-Mexican foods. I've had authentic Mexican and it is much better than Taco Bell and Chipotle. Restaurants like the Olive Garden also aren't authentic Italian. I did say the American pizza in my view is more the authentic thing than the "authentic italian" pizza but there are actual authentic italian foods like pasta and what the Olive Garden serves isn't it. With Chinese food there are lots of items that aren't authentically Chinese and only served in western Chinese take out restaurants such as those battered deep fried chicken balls with sweet and sour sauce and you wanna know what's considered "Chinese" food in Britain? Chips (French fries) with curry sauce. I don't know much about authentic Chinese food but I'm pretty sure why you don't get authentic Chinese food in the west is because the spices for such foods only exist in China, it would expensive for western restaurants to import such spices so they western restaurants use cheaper, fake alternatives, that and western foods tend to be highly processed.

Chips with curry in Britain would be called, "Asian," not "Chinese."
In the UK, what people refer to Asians, they're thinking of people from the Indian Subcontinent.
Chinese cooking does not utilize curry.

Curry Chicken, a popular Chinese-American dish, is not Chinese related at all. Back in the day, out West, when they were laying the railroad, there was a lot of Chinese cooks. Some Anglo had a batch of curry, and asked if them if they could do something with it, and thus the dish was born.

Chinese spices were imported, and were used by the Chinese, but they tended to a little too exotic for Western tastes. Some were just plain too hot. So the dishes got watered down. Some are even funny, like Chow Mein, which basically meant leftover crap that there was nothing else to do with. In San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, etc, European men not familiar with Chinese food would go to buy something after a hard day's work, and they got served chow mein because they didn't know any better. It was sell it to them or just throw it out. So basically they got served garbage. Out of that mixture, the dish eventually evolved.

The British Empire waged wars over spices in Asia. They killed millions. Over spices. And their food is as bland as bland can get. I have no idea what they did with it, because it sure didn't end up in their dishes.

Okay cool you can stop yapping now