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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Weird thought - pizza dates to 997 CE, that's over 500 years before tomatoes were introduced in Italy. Most of the existence of pizza has been without tomato.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Technically even 2500BC in ancient Sumer they had flatbreads and the ability to bake them with toppings, I think potentially you're underestimating the age of the pizza by an order of magnitude.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

True, I'm just looking at it linguistically. We've had a thing called "pizza" in continuous use since 997 according to Wikipedia (I was unable to locate the source cited, but I don't think it's a contentious issue, so Wikipedia is probably correct).

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Oh that makes more sense, yeah. However, I'm not sure theres 100% an unbroken line but Ancient Greeks had the word pitta, meaning flatbread and *bheid- is the Proto-Indo-European root meaning to split or to bite that it comes from. So it seems potential time travelers asking for pizza by name stand a decent chance of getting the point across right back into the neolithic.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

Now that's a shower thought! I love it.