People in Italy once treated pizza like poison because they believed it was deadly. But the real danger came from something nobody expected. Pizza started as a cheap flatbread covered with tomatoes because tomatoes were everywhere and easy to grow. But soon after people ate it, they got sick, and fear spread quickly. Most people blamed the tomatoes, and entire towns were warned to avoid them.
Meanwhile, bakers kept changing their toppings, but nothing convinced people to try pizza again. Slowly, the dish almost disappeared. But the real truth was hiding on their plates. Wealthy families used fancy metal dishes that leaked lead into the food. That is why they were getting poisoned, while peasants eating from simple wooden boards were completely fine.
And once people realized the tomatoes were not the killer, everything changed. When Queen Margherita tried a pizza with tomatoes, basil, and cheese, she loved it so much that the pizza was named after her.
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