Small bit of pizza related trivia: most of Tunisia knows how to make pizza. There is a recipe for pizza dough printed on the flour bags for years, and it has become a pretty common local food. Though mainly with local ingredients and flavors.
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Brilliant! I absolutely love local ingredients variations!
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When Mrs. Troll grew up, she used to get homemade pizza with…spaghetti bolognese on it…! Her mother is danish, which may explain why. 
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I didn’t want to claim that without being able to present proof… but yes.
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Here you go
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My wife had a similar experience in France (somewhere I haven’t been, yet). Came back and said that she couldn’t understand why the French were considered rude.
But she followed what I consider to be the golden rule for international travellers:
This isn’t directed at any individual, I’m just sharing some sage advice I received before I started travelling and something I wish more of my fellow countrymen would do.
Learn a few simple phrases in the local language (Hello, excuse me, please, thank you, do you speak English, where is the bathroom/toilet, etc). Generally, people appreciate that you have made an effort and reply with ‘My English is better than your [insert language], let’s use that’ or some variation thereof.
Also learn some of the customs, especially the “do not’s”.
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Apparently if you talk really slowly and shout very loudly in English most French people should be able to understand you. This seems to be the method most British tourists adopt where I live.
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Some people here call that the “American Tourist Experience”.
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I usually say with a heavy fake accent, “I fart in your general direction!” followed by something like, “Pardon moy, where might I find a good pan o’ shokoloty kellke choose?”
I get beat up a lot in Paris for some reason.
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Because you forgot the magic formula: “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.”
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Of course Harry is right, learning 5 phrases goes a long way.
Like, in England, just say “My hovercraft is full of eels”.
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