Pizza is flour, tomatoes, yeast, salt and cheese with a splash of oil. Cheese is heavily subsidized by the us govt so the only expensive piece is tomatoes. It's made on an assembly line and shipped out as frozen slabs or as constituent ingredients that are then baked on demand.

Damn, tomatoes are expensive over there? Yeah, the differences are really huge.

Fresh tomatoes worth eating raw are relatively expensive.

Tomatoes (cans or buckets of sauce) used for frozen pizza are very cheap in bulk food service level packaging.

Fresh tomatoes are cheap here, although I have to admit their taste has deteriorated over time. The canned ones are better to use as an ingredient due to this reason.

tbh canned tomatoes actually taste better because they aren't raising them for appearance like the horrible ones at the grocery store.

The US has a lot of 'food deserts', areas where there's no easy access to a supermarket with fresh food. But there's usually plenty of fast and processed food available, and it's often cheaper than fresh.

Nah, even at retail prices canned tomatoes are less than a dollar a pound if you buy the big cans (#10, approx 6 lb / 3kg).

Still more than flour and water,no?

No they’re cheap. But compared to the other ingredients which are mainly subsidized…