Ancient Greeks and Egyptians covered
flat-breads with toppings and are considered the real originators of
the tasty dish.
Modern Pizza originated in 1738 in Naples, Italy when people covered
focaccia (Italian bread with olive oil and herbs) with tomatoes.
Cheese was added as a topping about a hundred years later.
Frozen pizzas were introduced during the 1950s.
The first online pizza purchase was from Pizza Hut in 1994.
Ninety-three percent of Americans eat pizza at least once a month.
Saturday night is the biggest night of the week for eating pizza
worldwide.
More pizza is consumed during the week of the Super Bowl than any
other time of the year.
In 2001, Pizza Hut paid the Russians one million US dollars to
deliver a six inch pizza to the international space station.
Thin crust pizza remains the most popular crust across the world.
More than 61 percent of all pizza orders are for thin crust.
Some popular pizza toppings in Japan are squid and Mayo Jaga
(mayonnaise, potato, and bacon)
The world's largest pizza was constructed in Italy in 2012 in Italy.
It contained 19,800 pounds of flour, 10,000 pounds of tomato sauce,
8,800 pounds of mozzarella cheese, 1,488 pounds of margarine, 551
pounds of rock salt, 220 pounds of lettuce and 55 pounds of
vinegar"; it weighed in at 51,257 pounds, and took 48 hours to cook.
(According to the World Record Academy)
Over five billion pizzas are sold worldwide each year.