Your Daily Facts about Pizza
Here is some fun stuff to know about pizza, that I am sure will entertain and amuse you.
United States opened the first pizzeria in 1895, the owner was Gennaro Lombardi in New York City. Now there are over 9,000 pizza parlors in New York alone.
In the United States there are approximately 61,269 pizzerias.
The first known pizzeria, was opened by Antica Pizzeria, in Naples, Italy, in 1738.
In the United States, the most popular ethnic food is Italian.
The most pizzas are delivered (and eaten) on Halloween, Thanksgiving Eve, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, and Super Bowl Sunday.
The biggest night of the week for eating pizza, Saturday.
36 % of all pizza orders have pepperoni as a topping. We are eating approximately 251,770,000 pounds of Pepperoni per year. Other popular pizza toppings are, sausage, mushrooms, green pepper, extra cheese, and onions.
In 1987, October was officially designated in the US as National Pizza month.
Each person on average, in the U.S. eats around 23 pounds of pizza every year.
93% of Americans eat at least one pizza every month.
In the US we eat about 75 acres of pizza or about 350 slices per second.
Each man, woman and child in U.S. eats on average 46 slices, (23 pounds), of pizza per year.
Kids ages 3-11 prefer pizza over any other food.
Pizzerias represent 17% of all U.S. restaurants.
62% of of the people in the U.S. prefer meat toppings on their pizza, while 38% prefer vegetarian toppings.
Women are two times more likely to order vegetarian toppings on their pizza then men.
Pizza is a $30 billion industry in the United States.
There are approximately three billion pizzas are sold in the US every year, plus an additional one billion frozen pizzas.
The three dots in the Domino’s Pizza logo represent the first three Domino’s Pizza stores.
Anchovies is least likely to be picked as a topping.
Almost every topping has been tried on pizza even butter and jelly.
Gourmet pizza toppings include: Cajun Shrimp, Chicken, Venison, Oysters, Crayfish, Eggplant, Dandelions, Sprouts, Artichoke Hearts, Duck, Canadian-Style Bacon and Tuna.
Popular toppings from around the world are:
Squid and Mayo Jaga (mayonnaise, potato and bacon) in Japan.
Red herring is the topping of choice in Russia.
Minced mutton and tofu in India.
Shrimp and pineapple in Australia.
According to Guinness World Records, world’s largest circular pizza was set at Norwood Hypermarket in South Africa in 1990 measuring 122 feet 8 inches across, and weighing 26,883 pounds.