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Regional eating custom

Tourist-facing pizza in Naples

A substantial part of the pizza trade in Naples' historic centre serves visitors, is marketed heavily on the royal-visit Margherita legend, and involves queues and set expectations that residents largely do not participate in. This is a real and legitimate trade — but it is not evidence of what Neapolitans themselves do.

What kind of claim this is

Tourist-facing practice

Every cultural claim on PizzaHQ is scoped to what it is actually evidence for. This one is recorded as tourist-facing practice — which is a different claim from any of the other scopes, and is not generalised beyond it.

Where: Naples, Campania, Italy

Recorded to keep the distinction between visitor-facing and resident practice explicit, not to disparage either the establishments or the visitors.

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