If I make a vow to not eat pizza, what can I not eat?
On the one hand, it would seem that bread with sauce and cheese on it is called pizza, as that is what they give you in a pizza shop when you order a slice of pizza.
However, it is implied otherwise in the bagel-bites commercial song:
Pizza in the morning pizza in the evening pizza at suppertime/
When pizza's on a bagel you can eat pizza anytime
It is clear that the pizza is on the bagel. This would lead me to believe that the real pizza is the tomato-based-sauce and the melted cheese, and the bread is just the base to put it on.
However, one would expect according to this that spaghetti with cheese and sauce would also be a form of pizza and called thus, since it contains a melted-cheese/tomato-bases-sauce mixture, which is something we don't see. And if the requirement is that the cheese-sauce mixture is a layer on top, I present lasagna, which is also not known as pizza.
So if I make a vow to not eat pizza, what can I not eat? Please cite your sources.
Answer
Etymologically, the word is Pi Tza -- that which comes out of the mouth of an oven. So any dish which has the ingredients of a pizza and which is baked would fall under the neder. The question is asked about Pizza rolls and stuffed crust, but it is derived by the Pepperonier Rov that the gematria of pizza is 185, the same as hapanim. This points to the face of the pizza -- it must have an open face to be considered.
This same gematria is used by some to connect the pizza with the lechem hapanim, to say that only pizza that sits for 6 days and is still fresh would be meant by the neder.
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