Few human beings have achieved this feat. To be loved, adored and craved for by the whole humanity. When everyone and everything failed, Pizza proved it . Pizza is deeply and widely loved.
Weekends are the best time to spend some quality time, devouring few awesome slices of pizza. Well, that's what I am going to do. The apps have made ordering pizzas even easier. There are also pizza coupons at your disposal, most of the time.
Do you know 34 percent of the average American adult’s body fat comes from pizza? Need I say more about people's love for Pizza? It is even said that eating Pizza cut the risks of different types of cancer. Fascinated? Here are 10 more amazing Pizza facts that would make you think out loud.
- Pizza accounts for more than 10 percent of all food service sales
- The popular pizza Margherita owes its name to Italy's Queen Margherita who in 1889 visited the Pizzeria Brandi in Naples. The pizza maker on duty that day, Rafaele Esposito created a pizza for the Queen that contained the three colors of the new Italian flag. Now we have the winner- Mergherita Pizza
- The "Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba" of Naples is the the first true pizzeria in the world. It's still functional since 1830!
- The largest pizza ever made was 122 ft. 8 in. in diameter. The pizza needed 9,920 lb of flour, 198 lb of salt, 3968 lb of cheese, and 1,984 lb of tomato puree
- The first pizza place in America was Lombardi’s in New York City—originally a grocery store, Lombardi’s started selling pizza in 1905.
- Stephen Baldwin and Bill Murray both worked at pizza restaurants, and Jean Claude Van Damme were pizzas delivery guys.
- In 2001, Pizza Hut delivered a six-inch salami pizza to the International Space Station—the first pizza delivered to outer space
- There’s a pizza museum in Philadelphia called Pizza Brain that is home to the world’s largest collection of pizza memorabilia.
- There is a pizza place in Alaska that delivers pizzas by plane.
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