Pizza – The Love Food of Americans
LOVE FOOD OF AMERICA – PIZZA
1. Since 1987, October has been officially designated National Pizza Month
in the United States.
2. Approximately three billion pizzas are sold in the United States every
year, plus an additional one billion frozen pizzas.
3. Pizza is a $30 billion industry in the United States.
4. Pizzerias represent 17 percent of all U.S. restaurants.
5. Ninety-three percent of Americans eat pizza at least once a month.
6. Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetarian toppings on their
pizza.
7. About 36 percent of all pizzas contain pepperoni, making it the most
popular topping in the United States.
8. The first known pizzeria, Antica Pizzeria, opened in Naples, Italy, in
1738.
9. More pizza is consumed during the week of the Super Bowl than any other
time of the year.
10. On average, each person in the United States eats around 23 pounds of
pizza every year.
11. The first pizzeria in the United States was opened by Gennaro Lombardi
in 1895 in New York City.
12. The record for the world’s largest pizza depends on how you slice it.
According to Guinness World Records, the record for the world’s largest
circular pizza was set at Norwood Hypermarket in South Africa in 1990. The
gigantic pie measured 122 feet 8 inches across, weighed 26,883 pounds, and
contained 9,920 pounds of flour, 3,968 pounds of cheese, and 1,984 pounds of
sauce. In 2005, the record for the world’s largest rectangular pizza was set
in Iowa Falls, Iowa. Pizza restaurant owner Bill Bahr and a team of 200
helpers created the 129 X 98.6-foot pizza from 4,000 pounds of cheese, 700
pounds of sauce, and 9,500 sections of crust. The enormous pie was enough to feed the town’s 5,200 residents ten slices of pizza each.
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