The word "pizza" is from the Italian word pizza (pittsa), with plural form pizze (pit:tse). The term was originally used to refer to a range of dough-based dishes, and is thought to be derived from pinza ? Latin pincere "to mash up".
"Artichokes ... are just plain annoying ... After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual 'food' out of eating an artichoke as you would rom licking thirty or forty postage stamps. Have the shrimp cocktail instead."
-- Miss Piggy