Apizza
Dialect
- Meaning
- New Haven thin, charred-crust pizza, pronounced 'ah-BEETZ'.
- Type
- Dialect Word
- Used in
- New Haven, Connecticut
What does “Apizza” mean
The local name and pronunciation for New Haven's signature coal-fired pizza, a thin, blistered, oblong pie introduced by Neapolitan immigrants in the early 1900s. The two-syllable pronunciation 'ah-BEETZ' reflects the apocope of southern Italian dialect. Pepe's, Sally's, and Modern Apizza are the canonical shrines; ordering 'pizza' instead of 'apizza' in New Haven outs you as out-of-town.
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