Also there’s another effect: If you go to Venice for example and order Spaghetti Carbonara there, you will get the inauthentic version tourists are used to, because the restaurant is going to try to appeal to the tourists preferences. Now you have Italian chefs making an inauthentic version of their original dish, which probably won’t be as good as the actual inauthentic version. (hope that makes sense lol)

Modern pizza originates in the US, so I don’t know why the fuck anyone would go to Italy and expect it to be better.

Because the authentic version of any cuisine is usually preferred over the americanised one by anyone who isn’t from the US.

That looks like a pretty good Neapolitan Pizza Margherita to me.

Are we seeing the same picture?