*** you for making me do research on ***ing pizza.

https://www.academia.edu/23271954/Folklore_Fakelore_History_Invented_Tradition_and_the_Origins_of_the_Pizza_Margherita

if every "controversial" wiki article would be removed would wiki cease to exist?

huh?

how is the invention of the pizza is controversial? if you take out the trans shit there is nothing controversial with it. What am I missing?

licorice is an aquired taste

something something, jet too loud, 9/11

According to wikipedia most of this is a myth. The pizzeria is called Pizzeria Brandi and still in operation today. They themselves call it the Home of the Pizza Margherita.

reading a bit more into it, it seems that early on absinthe was mixed with lots of stuff. Like coppersalts or smth. That may be the origin of the hallucination myth

i thought that missconception stemmed from the fact that early absinthe wasnt as pure/distilled as it should be. With weird herbs in it, that would cause the hallucinations

Based arney?

Isn't that just most contemporary literature? Most things are more mundane than we think. Humans tend to make up shit, if life is to boring, no? How do we differentiate good and bad stories?

Also if you are rich you have more means to spread your stories far and wide, be they true or just made up.

Reading about why this book is popular you find a lot of "its in the time"-arguments. Like it fits the time it's written in, it's good because you read it early in life.. etc.

IMHO it's a fine read. It fits. And that's most important with almost all "good" books. They have to fit in somewhere. It fits into school because of the descripton of the 1920s. It fits into the literary "good" because of it's writing style. It fits into the zeitgeist because it's still relevant (exess in culture, diffrence in living standard, etc.). So relevance is still a big part of any culture.

Brandon Sanderson seems to be a quite popular author atm with his fantasy sagas. I was always a bit curious about this fact. Then I learned that he also has a class on creative writing at a college somewhere. Maybe most of his students started reading his stuff and liked the books, they then recommended it, and that over time began to snowball into pop culture relevance.

I think the same happend with Gatsby. His influence on culture cemented him in american literature (quite early aswell). The US not being that old as a country Fitzgeralds influence is stil palpable. Just reading about all the authors he inspired afterwards, that inspired others and so on. It's like Edgar Allan Poe that influenced H.P.Lovecraft that influenced Stephen King. The effects of fitting literature are felt decades or centuries later.

Also tastes are diffrent and change over time. Maybe his writing just doesnt speak the same to you as it does to others. I myself remember being underwhelmed with Gatsby.

Just my two cents