A strange little side quest
The next time Eliza Ice Cream Workshop asks for one more try, remember that game ideas rarely appear from nowhere. Tomatoes helped turn Naples' flatbreads into the food we recognize as pizza, which had become an important food for poorer Neapolitans by the 18th century. A second detail makes the picture even better: SimCity grew out of Will Wright's enjoyment of the map editor he had built for an earlier game; the act of shaping a city became the game itself. So a round of Eliza Ice Cream Workshop is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer food history timeline.
