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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Explanation: Ancient Roman predecessors to modern pizza used pomegranate, amongst other fruits. Of course, such proto-'pizzas' lacked tomatoes (as tomatoes come from the Americas) and probably lacked mozzarella (as mozzarella is first mentioned during the Renaissance).

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Since tomatos technically are fruit too, the text of that meme is still true but in a more boring way.