In one version of the story, the queen (sister of Marie Antoinette and daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria) is said to have been described by the king as having "common tastes", apparently a quality thought to explain his love for pizza, the people's dish. However, it is a measure of the confusing nature of pizza tradition that, in one variant of the story, it is the king who enjoys it and the refined queen who does not understand his passion. Whichever of their majesties was the true enthusiast, the object of desire was probably seasoned with lard (a less expensive alternative to oil), tomatoes, salt and sometimes tiny eels, anchovies or sardines. As time passed, the desire for this cake became so great that either the king, to satisfy his wife's craving, or the queen, to satisfy the king's hunger, had a pizza oven built at the royal palace of Capodimonte, to be able to prepare it. dish at home, an act that brought even more attention to the cake. Pizza became fashionable and other nobles followed suit, building pizza ovens wherever they were located