A functional symbol of the best of western civilization. But what the mind of man created technology now threatens to destroy. The very essence of what is a pizza is now at issue. The cheese is supposed to be on top, where it can be seen, where it can be sprinkled with oregano and garlic, where it can cool, where it can congeal. The cheese is not supposed to be inside the dough, hidden, disguised, lurking.
Concealment misses the point of the pizza.
Pizza's are not supposed to lie. But this was technology for technologies' sake. We could do it, so we did it. Obviously we did not. The insert machinery, once invented, began to invent on its own.