Even though today this griddled Italian flatbread is typically enjoyed as a sandwich, piadina Romagnola was once merely a staple of the poor.
In his poem entitled La Piada, which is sort of an ode to the beloved Romagnola piadina, a 19th-century Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli calls it "the bread of poverty, humanity, and freedom," describing it as "smooth as a leaf and as big as the moon."