Dumb question: would a pizza without cheese still be called a pizza? 👀

Not really going to argue, but pizzerias call it pizza, not vegans... probably mostly because pizzas is what they do, so that's what they're going to call it even if it's like, pieces of flatbread in tomato soup. o.O

@Faust76: fair enough. I was thinking the vegans created it by asking pizza places to make a 'pizza like thing' that doesn't have cheese... which the pizza place then offered more generally as a version of pizza.

@malcontent: Yeah, I get what you mean. Not a vegan myself, but that still sounds a bit divisive though, I mean these days there's probably a vegan or two working at the pizzeria, and the higher ups, if not one themselves, must've realized that there's a growing target audience who weren't going to OTHER pizza places. So a bit of both, perhaps.

@starz93: I would think so.. after all you can have nothing but cheese and still call it a Cheese Pizza.

@starz93: In Italy, where pizza originates from, many pizza's do not have cheese at all... So I would have to respectfully disagree with that. Albeit, of course, words do change meaning especially when loaned to new languages, but personally I would recognize any pizza with the shape and probably the tomato sauce as a pizza. Second question, if the commercially made pizza is made with some kind of cheese-substitute instead of real cheese, is it still a pizza? ;)

@Faust76: I stand corrected!!! 👍