# Difference between Stromboli and Calzones?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/difference-between-stromboli-and-calzones/573150>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 2, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/difference-between-stromboli-and-calzones/573150 "2011-03-02T02:47:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/difference-between-stromboli-and-calzones/573150/21 "2011-03-04T11:46:08Z")

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> [@gallows\_fodder](#):
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> “Stromboli” is already plural – the singular is “strombolo.”

It _would_ be, if “Stromboli” were in fact an Italian plural noun instead of just looking like one. But it’s not; in Italy “Stromboli” is a singular place name, a volcanic island near Sicily.

Like the Caesar salad, the Stromboli sandwich has a known history. We know who invented the recipe, and where and when, and we also know where the name came from (the movie _Stromboli_ was in the news at the time).

I think it’s fair to say that, unlike many older and more widely-dispersed traditional foods, for the Stromboli sandwich there _is_ a true essential form of the thing. It sounds like many of you are just getting a calzone under another name.

> [@Pete Romano](#):
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> “Pizza shops,” for the most part, are little stores that may be able to put cheese, sauce, and toppings on a pie shell, but they don’t know much about the art of baking. What that usually means for the consumer is that you get what I refer to as “heated dough” or “flopped over pizza.” That is not a Stromboli!
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> And as any one knows that has tried it… it takes time to make bread. There’s a big difference between Italian bread and pizza dough!

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**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/difference-between-stromboli-and-calzones/573150/22 "2011-03-04T16:17:06Z")

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> [@spark240](#):
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> It _would_ be, if “Stromboli” were in fact an Italian plural noun instead of just looking like one. But it’s not; in Italy “Stromboli” is a singular place name, a volcanic island near Sicily.

Well, yeah. 😛 But if you just take the word for the food named after the place, it sure as shootin’ isn’t pluralized into “strombole”.

I assume it’s an irregular noun? I don’t know how you’d ask for one in Italian – “Potrei avere uno stromboli?” Non lo so. 🙂

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