I have lingering feelings for my first college girlfriend. I have lingering feelings for the last woman I dated before I got with my wife. I have lingering feelings for women I haven’t slept with but clicked with. I wouldn’t risk my relationship with my wife for a night with any of them
Go jump in a lake. Millions of people eat it because it tastes good. And if your Nona objects she can pound sand. Tomatoes, peppers, coffee, squash, chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper, chickens, corn, and a whole bunch of things Italians just Loooovvvvveeee are foreign imports.
Italian cooking is hyper-regional, obsessed with “purity” especially if it’s mythical, and rejects experimentation. It never really recovered from Mussolini. Americans made pizza better and set off a wave of innovation which was exported back to Italy and claimed by them once the serial numbers were filed off. The reason people like pineapple on pizza is that it’s delicious. Same reason they don’t like pickled herring with crabapple on pizza; those aren’t delicious. And do you know what? India does pizza better than the US or Italy
Screw your “BSABSVR” bs. Don Snorleone is the one who needed hours of “executive time” every day and can’t even stay awake for a few hours at his own trial
Loyalty. Habit. Fear of change. Belief that you can’t do better.