Well, let's see, Amazon was run for years at a loss simply to run other people out of business. So the only way to cover those losses was by getting further funding from investors. It's the same model employed by Uber, depending on ever-growing expansion.
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Pineapple pizza is dividing Naples, the birthplace of pizza
Curiosity compels Italian pizza maker to experiment with controversial ingredient
Italy is a land of deep culinary traditions, where anyone worth their salt knows the set of unwritten rules about what, when and how to eat, (preferably with others).It's also a country where people are firm and united in their convictions of what not to eat.
For years, the Canadian-invented Hawaiian pizza — featuring pineapple, bacon, ham and mozzarella cheese — topped that list.
That is, until one brave Neapolitan pizzaiolo, or pizza maker, recently introduced his own version, triggering a heated national debate, TV coverage and "taboo breaking" headlines.
"Pineapple pizza has been a revelation for me," said Gino Sorbillo, perched at a table in one of the three pizzerias in the gritty centre of Naples that carry his family name. (There are another 20 or so throughout Italy and around the world.)
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Like most Italians, Sorbillo had heard about Hawaiian pizza, though he says he had only a vague notion that it was a Canadian concoction.
"Mostly what I'd heard was it was terrible," he said.
Perfecting the recipe
A consummate innovator in the kitchen, Sorbillo says curiosity propelled him to determine whether it was the pineapple per se that was the problem on pizza, or the misguided pairing of ham and cheese with the fruit.For three months, he experimented with different ingredients and ways to prepare the pineapple before settling on the recipe for pizza all'ananas, as it's called in Italian, now on the menu of the family restaurants throughout Italy.
The Sorbillo version is a "pizza bianca" — a "white pizza" stripped of tomato sauce. The ubiquitous red fruit introduced into Italy from South America in the 16th century, he explains, is a redundant acidic element that clashes with pineapple, as any Italian will tell you.
"You would never add tomatoes to pear and ricotta, which are perfect together on their own," he said. "Nor would you add tomatoes to figs and prosciutto on focaccia, which would be disgusting."
The final result of Sorbillo's kitchen trials is a round pie that glistens with no fewer than three kinds of smoked and seasoned cheese — provola, made from cow's milk in nearby Agerola, and "micro-shavings" of two cacioricotta cheeses, one from Sardinian goats and the other from buffaloes that graze south of Naples.
The pineapple — fresh, not from a can, and sliced in rounds — is twice-baked to produce a buttery hint of burnt sugar and a deep, golden gleam. A drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil, a tender scattering of basil leaves, and a sprinkle of black pepper are the finishing flourishes.
Even in appearance, it has little in common with its North American counterpart — a Giorgio Armani flagship store of pineapple pizzas in a world of Walmarts. (The price, though, about $10, is about as Walmart as it gets.)
Tasty or testy? Reactions are split
It's a version that proved to be a hit with a group of American tourists at a table nearby.While they admitted they happily chow down on pineapple pizza doused in barbeque sauce and jalapeno peppers back home, they say the taste-tug between the smoked cheese and baked pineapple was far more nuanced, but just as delicious.
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"I prefer traditional Italian flavours, but the caramelized pineapple is an excellent compromise," he conceded, after slipping a cut triangle in his mouth. "But this is really a pizza for socializing, eating together with a group of friends over cocktails or as a sweet snack. Not within the confines of a lunch or dinner."
Out on the street, the manager of Atri Osteria and Pizzeria around the corner from the Sorbillo establishments hands out flyers for his joint — and makes it loud and clear what he thinks of the new tropical kid on the block.
"Pizza with pineapple you're never going to find [on my menu]!" shouted Vincenzo. who didn't want to give his last name. "Because pizza with pineapple sucks!"
He says Sorbillo has invited him to taste the new offering, but he declined.
"I tried Hawaiian pizza when I lived in the States and once was enough."
A short stroll away, into the working-class Spanish Quarters of Naples, a banner outside Pizzeria Augusteo boasts that it's ranked No. 2 of all Neapolitan pizzerias on the travel site Trip Advisor.
Inside the tiny eatery, owners Ileana and Michele Testa sit at a small table digging into a late lunch of pizza bianca, loaded with toppings similar to those on Sorbillo's pineapple pizza — minus the fruit.
"Neapolitan pizza is a poor person's food, made with simple, local ingredients," said Michele. "Pineapple comes from the other side of the world. Do whatever you want with pizza, but don't do it in Naples."
First Hawaii, next the world
But Sorbillo says he's unfazed by the doubters, calling his introduction of pineapple pizza into Italy a culinary "anno zero" or "year zero," a revolutionary change.His next plan is to roll out a range of Italian versions of non-Italian "pizzas of the world" — translating what he considers bastardized ingredients back into local ones and sticking to the countless cultural rules of Italian cuisine and food pairing.
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"We're showing that even an 'Americanata' — an American gastronomic mishmash — can gain acceptance here if it's recreated properly."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/naples-new-pineapple-pizza-1.7107921
It is ok to hate on Amazon, but it is certainly not nor ever has been a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is all about investment fraud and fake books that hide what is going on. Most businesses start out losing money and taking 4 years to earn a profit is not exceptional. It was a private company prior to its IPO in 1997. It turned its first profit in 2001. All those who invested in amazon, either as venture capitalists or IPO buyers have been well repaid. No one has been defrauded. The ever expanding growth business model is common but one that usually ends as diminishing returns on the dollars spent become obvious or the company just implodes. Amazon counts on huge revenues and low margins to make profits. It is not unlike Visa and Mastercard which make big profits on very low % of transaction fees.
Sorry to break up this corporate hate fest, but if they'd lived this long, today would have been my grandparents' 90th wedding anniversary.
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Apparently, Today is National Pizza day, I learned that after ordering pizza on skip the dishes.
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I can't believe Wikipedia made a military infobox for a chimpanzee war
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yes , yet another perfect example of the sufferings imposed Israel that will first result in their genocidal victory then being cowed into a position subservience and stuff . Should we now accept the glorious future and destroy Russia for America ?
At least we have those more primitive apes to makes us feel civilized. Chimpanzees really are brutal. Imo they should be kept well away from humans at all times.
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the bicycle path of course belongs to the bicycles and whatnot . But it is smooth , easy on the feet and ı will have a dozen witnesses to declare ı keep to the edge along the wall side , which leaves wide enough a area , for those riders behind me , can't always hear them and as such leave it to them .
this young one (because for some reason he refused to give his age) thought otherwise ... Have seen him riding , multiple times in the past months . Decided ı should walk on the sidewalk . Refused to be brushed off , politely or otherwise . Rich kid ? Because it is in some other neighbourhood and am a plebe transpassing ? On a day it is rumoured ı have had 25 ? Is it a big one or is it him alone recording ? No visual stuff in sight , so , it won't be Tik Tok if he is alone . Speaks like a citizen who knows his rights . Breaks it to return to start it again . Shows off with the stunt ; that part will be edited out if he is not alone . Just like the part he hits me with the wheel . Goes back to garner support with eye witnesses . Am pretty sure the guy told him some horror stories . Let live and live is what has given you the right to demand the road , of which you had enough , this is something you will no doubt be expected to know in time . But in case of a need for fame , you will be expected to be stringent with everything , upholding each and everyone of whatever .
this young one (because for some reason he refused to give his age) thought otherwise ... Have seen him riding , multiple times in the past months . Decided ı should walk on the sidewalk . Refused to be brushed off , politely or otherwise . Rich kid ? Because it is in some other neighbourhood and am a plebe transpassing ? On a day it is rumoured ı have had 25 ? Is it a big one or is it him alone recording ? No visual stuff in sight , so , it won't be Tik Tok if he is alone . Speaks like a citizen who knows his rights . Breaks it to return to start it again . Shows off with the stunt ; that part will be edited out if he is not alone . Just like the part he hits me with the wheel . Goes back to garner support with eye witnesses . Am pretty sure the guy told him some horror stories . Let live and live is what has given you the right to demand the road , of which you had enough , this is something you will no doubt be expected to know in time . But in case of a need for fame , you will be expected to be stringent with everything , upholding each and everyone of whatever .
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ah , yes ... The reason the invented numbers of affairs ı supposedly have had was doubled to 25 is the second episode of an online documentary about the Harun Yahya guy , the globally famous dude against evolution . Some things will never be a surprise .
Didn't they make one for Australia's wars on its wildlife gone wild?
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Yes, the Emu War!
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putin would not say that even if he had believed that . But he does not believe because the extremist thing that everything was invented by Central Asians with extremely solid Russian presence long before the Renaissance is a Soviet Intelligence thing dating back to late 1970s ; and Putin would have known that . Yeah , fewer people would laugh if the original original was linked before .
page 17 , without the book reference .
(yeah , the days "they" would have free tickets to Bolshoi and everything)
sadly ı can't find links to how Russian Muslims under Tsar's orders discovered America before Columbus but CFC can have this instead .
reees.macmillan.yale.edu
good thing ı don't give up easily . No links to an "impolitburo" which is supposedly a 1950s thing that mocks Russian claims of inventing everything . Was a thing with the very Pavel Chekov of Star Trek but ı can't remember the TOS episodes on TV here in late 70s . But , then , yeah ...
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page 17 , without the book reference .
(yeah , the days "they" would have free tickets to Bolshoi and everything)
sadly ı can't find links to how Russian Muslims under Tsar's orders discovered America before Columbus but CFC can have this instead .
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good thing ı don't give up easily . No links to an "impolitburo" which is supposedly a 1950s thing that mocks Russian claims of inventing everything . Was a thing with the very Pavel Chekov of Star Trek but ı can't remember the TOS episodes on TV here in late 70s . But , then , yeah ...
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