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beestrot.comPizza Was Peasant Food Eaten With the Hands in the Street. The Version the World Loves Was Invented for a Queen.The pizza everyone orders was named for a queen in 1889. But the combination of tomato, mozzarella and basil already existed in Naples before she asked for it. And the pizza that fed the city's poor for a century before that had no cheese at all.