Pizza lovers Mark it in your calendar the 9th of Feb is National Pizza Day

Hands up who likes pizza?...

Pizza lovers Mark it in your calendar the 9th of Feb is National Pizza Day

Now who doesn't love a good freshly baked Pizza

So celebrate National Pizza Day, let’s look at some fun Pizza Facts

1. Antica Pizzeria was the first Pizzeria, opened in in 1738 Naples, Italy...
2. In 1895 Gennaro Lombardi, opened the first Pizzeria in the United States, in New York City...
3. Dovilio Nardi, Andrea Mannocchi, Marco Nardi, Matteo Nardi and Matteo Giannotte, made Ottavia the world's largest pizza, was made on December 13, 2012, in Rome, Italy. This pizza had a surface area of 1,261.65 m². They made this pizza to spread a message of good health, the pizza was made entirely gluten-free...
4. Pizza Hut has 12,583 stores in over 90 countries...
5. In 2001, Pizza Hut delivered a six-inch salami pizza to the International Space Station—the first pizza delivered to outer space...
6. In America, they sell 350 slices of pizza every second...
7. The world's fastest pizza maker can make 14 pizza in 2 minutes and 35 seconds...
8. In 2014, food scientists studied the baking properties of different cheeses and found scientific evidence for a commonly known fact—mozzarella makes the best pizza cheese...
9. The longest pizza delivery was from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney, Australia...
10. Pizzerias represent 17% of all restaurants...
11. The average pizzeria uses roughly 55 pizza boxes per day...
12. The most popular pizza base in America is Regular thin crust, it's preferred by 61% of the population, 14% prefer deep-dish, and 11% prefer extra thin crust...
13. Technomic estimated in 2013 that Americans eat 350 slices of pizza each second and that 40 percent of us eat pizza at least once a week. - //business.time.com/2013/05/18/slices-of-history-great-moments-in-pizza-innovation/slide/slices-of-history-great-moments-in-pizza-innovation/...
14. Domino’s dropped its "30 minutes or less" guarantee in 1993 after a series of lawsuits accused the company of promoting unsafe driving...
15. The word "pizza" dates back over a thousand years-it was first mentioned in a Latin text written in southern Italy in 997 AD...
16. Mozzarella cheese accounts for nearly 80% of Italian cheese production in the United States...
17. In Australia Over the past five years, the Pizza Restaurants and Takeaway industry have seen a rising demand for premium pizzas and growth in discretionary incomes. The Pizza Industry revenue is expected to grow by an annualised 2.8% over the five years through 2016-17, to $3.7 billion...
18. Pizza Hut made a pizza delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. They paid the Russians $1 million to transport the Pizza and even make a commercial from it. – Source //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJHpfTECHfs...
19. Th 5 biggest days for selling the most Pizzas In the US are on Halloween, the night before Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, and Super Bowl Sunday...
20. Plenty of famous people got their start making and delivering pizzas. Stephen Baldwin and Bill Murray both worked at pizza restaurants, and Jean-Claude Van Damme used to deliver pizzas...
21. About 3 billion pizzas are sold annually in the US...
22. Each person in America eats about 46 pizza slices a year...
23. The most expensive pizza in the world costs $12,000 is Pizza Louis XIII. Chef Renato Viola prepares the Pizza at your home & brings a sommelier, & a sous chef. The Toppings for the pizza include three types of caviar, red prawns, Mediterranean lobster, and sea cicada & comes served with with Remy Martin Cognac and Champagne Krug Clos du Mesnil...
24. Cristian Dumitru of Romania holds the world record for eating pizza, he ate over 90.7kg of Pizza. But the former world record holder claims the cheese-sauce ratio was too low for what he ate to be considered pizza...
25. Over 5 billion pizzas are sold worldwide each year...
26. Domino's delivery drivers will log about 4 million miles on Super Bowl Sunday...
27. It's estimated if you're living in the US then you will eat around 6000 slices of pizza over the course of your life...
28. The price of pizza has matched, with uncanny precision, the cost of a NYC subway ride for 50 years. Economists have named it "The Pizza Principle,"" – Source - //www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/subway-fare-upped-250-will-pizza-slice-prices-follow-suit...
29. According to legend, the "Pizza Margherita" gets its name from Queen Margherita of Savoy who, in 1889, sampled three pizza flavours made by master pizza chef Raffaele Esposito and expressed a preference for the version topped with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil, and designed to resemble the Italian flag. (This story could be an Urban Myth)...
30. A large pizza in Australia 279mm (11″) is smaller than a medium pizza in the US 305mm (12″) – Source p //www.pizzahut.com.au/pizza-hut-menu/legends...
31. Domino's was founded in 1960. The restaurant chain’s founder, Tom Monaghan, is one of three people in the world who hold an advanced degree in "Pizza-ology" from the Domino's College of Pizza-ology—a business management program he founded in the ‘80s...
32. The first frozen pizza hit the market in 1962. It tasted like cardboard until the genius food inventor Rose Totino got her hands on it...
33. In 2005, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insulted Finnish cuisine. Later, in 2008, a Finnish pizza won an international pizza contest coming first with Italy in second and Australia third. The Finnish pizza was named "Pizza Berlusconi" to mock him. – Source //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotipizza...
34. There's a pizza museum in Philadelphia called Pizza Brain that is home to the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia...
35. In Italy there is a bill before Parliament to safeguard the traditional Italian pizza, specifying permissible ingredients and methods of processing (e.g., excluding frozen pizzas). Only pizzas which followed these guidelines could be called "traditional Italian pizzas", at least in Italy...
36. 93% of Americans have eaten pizza in the last month...



37. Each year, thousands of people involved in the pizza industry attend Pizza Expo, the world's largest pizza-only trade show. Pizza Expo is held each year in Las Vegas, Nevada...
38. Pepperoni is Americad's favourite topping (36% of all pizza orders); they eat approximately 114200950.995 kg per year. Other popular pizza toppings are mushrooms, extra cheese, sausage, green pepper and onion...
39. The first pizza ordered by computer happened in 1974: the Artificial Language Laboratory at Michigan State needed to test out its new "speaking computer," so they used it to order a pepperoni, mushroom, ham, and sausage pizza from a local pizza joint...
40. After World War II, American GIs came home from Italy with a craving for pizza, bringing the food to a broader consumer base for the first time...
41. Spinning pizza dough isn't just for show: it's the best way to evenly spread the dough, create a uniform crust, and even helps the dough retain moisture. Source - //www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/toss-pizza-dough_n_6770618...
42. Pizza has played a major role in television and in the movies, with appearances in such films as Splendor in the Grass, The French Connection, Mystic Pizza, Do the Right Thing, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Multiplicity, Lover Boy, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Caddy (featuring Dean Martin's song "That's Amore"), Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, Spaceballs, Toy Story, Delivery Boys, Free Willy III and I Love You to Death...
43. The Hawaiian pizza was invented in 1962 by Sam Panopoulos, a native of Greece who ran a pizza place in Canada...
44. The famous Chicago deep dish pizzas were created in 1943 by the Pizzeria Uno restaurant...
45. The first American cities to start selling pizza were New York, Boston, New Haven, Conn., and Trenton, N.J. because all four of these cities had a large influx of Southern Italian immigrants around the turn of the century...

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