The idea of a pizza vending automobile does n’t sound half bad , but setting up one in Italy , where they practically formulate pizza pie ? Now that ’s a recipe for cataclysm .
One of Rome ’s first automatic pizza dispenser , “ Mr. Go Pizza , ” was of late put in in Piazza Bologna . In three minutes , it cooks four different type of pizza costing from about $ 5.40 to $ 7.20 ( 4.50 to 6 Euros ) . After the machine kneads the dough and adds toppings , client can watch their Proto-Indo European James Cook behind a small trash windowpane .
local anesthetic are not impressed , to say the least . On Thursday , Reutersreported that customer reviews range from “ satisfactory if you ’re in a hurry ” to outright horror .
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“ It ’s OK but it ’s not pizza , ” said Naples native and university student Fabrizia Pugliese in an interview with the outlet . She key the taste as more like a “ piadina , ” a tiptop - thin diffused unraised bread wrap pop in northern Italy , than a pizza .
“ It looks salutary but it is much smaller than in a eating place and there is less top-hole , ” said Claudio Zampiga , a pensionary , in an interview with Reuters .
Gina , another pensioner who declined to give her last name , call up the whole concept “ terrible . ”
“ Pizza really needs to be feed live , right away , ” she told Reuters . “ This does n’t work for me . ”
The machine ’s locating is n’t doing it any favors either . Down the route is a Napolitano eating house that uses a brick oven , a must - have for any authentic Neopolitan pizza pie . In fact , many Italians would argue that a large part of the Hellenic pizza experienced is watch the pizzamaker , or “ pizzaiolo ” knead the dough and cook the pie while you expect at your table . So you could see why getting a slice made by a robot might be moot sacrilegious .
“ I would n’t even think of eating a pizza made by a machine , ” Giovanni Campana , a customer at said restaurant , told Reuters .
While people have been eating pizza - like flatbread dishes for centuries , the origin of modernistic pizza pie are mostly traced back to Naples , Italy , where it was pop street food for the poor . The 19th - one C Neopolitan chef Raffaele Esposito is widely credited as the inventor of the Greco-Roman “ Pizza Margherita . ” Asthe story goes , Esposito created the dish in 1889 in honor of Italy ’s fusion , using St. Basil the Great , mozzarella , and tomato plant as topping to represent the colors of the Italian sword lily . The debut of something like a pizza pie vending machine so close to his hometown no doubt has him plough in his grave .
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