• lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I once used to watch TMNT as a kid and sometimes the show mentions what were then considered the strangest pizza toppings ever sold.

    There do exist Nutella “pizza” but I consider them to be more pastry than pizza.

    • StThicket@reddthat.com
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      6 days ago

      I’ve had pizza with whale meat. That was really tasty.

      The strangest pizza I’ve had was bacalao pizza. (bacalao is a fish dish with salted dried fish, tomato, onion and potato). It wasn’t bad, but i wouldn’t call it pizza.

      My brother once served me pizza with kale as topping. That was interesting.

      The most unique pizza I’ve ever tasted was a pizza where the “dough” was actually a piece of dry fried cheese, with a bolognese sause covered with cheese. Calling it pizza was an insult.

  • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip
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    I’d think the reason we stopped engaging in national scale single focus construction projects is that nations that relied on national scale conscripted labor didn’t prosper as well as ones that didn’t.

    *Note: I don’t pretend to be educated enough to actually back this up, nor do I have any underlying political point. Just thinking with my thumbs.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      6 days ago

      Flevoland was a national scale pseudo conscript construction project on the scale of the Great Wall. Bit more useful though.

      The Dutch in the 70s oil crisis told all their freshly unemployed people to grab a shovel or they don’t get unemployment, and now their country is a tenth bigger.

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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      7 days ago

      We didn’t. We just stopped paying attention because there’s so much other bullshit going on, some wonders became too commonplace, and other wonders were created by people we don’t like.

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        7 days ago

        Commonplace wonders are no longer wonders though, they should be wonderful relative to contemporaneous creations.

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          Commonplace wonders are no longer wonders though,

          I wholeheartedly reject that worldview. Life is just so much better when you can still see the wonder in things you pass by every day.

  • ryper@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Old wonders: I wonder how they did that?
    New wonders: I wonder why they did that?

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    It’s pretty self evident that we have not, and we are striving to continue to do so. One must simply pull themselves out of their misanthropic worldview to see it.

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      We build probably hundreds of buildings every year that would have been a world wonder if they had been built a thousand years ago.