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Did you know???
The farthest pizza delivery was 6861 miles.
From Butlers Pizza in Cape Town, South Africa to Corne Krige, captain of the
Fedsure Stormers rugby team in Sydney, Australia on March 22, 2001. (They lost
the match anyway.)
The largest pizza available for delivery is 36" by 48" at Brooks Pizza in Alberta and retails for $134.95.
Even though variations of pizza have been around for hundreds of years, tomatoes weren’t used until about 1750 because they were thought to be poisonous!
The first licensed pizzeria in the US was opened in 1905 at 53 ½ Spring St in New York City.
In 2004 over 30 billion dollars worth of pizzas were sold in the USA.
As of July 2004 there were almost 70,000 pizza
stores in the USA.
Ohio has 3843 pizza stores. With a population of 11,421,267 that comes out to
one pizza store for every 2972 people.
Each person in the USA eats an average of 46 slices of pizza each year. About 100 acres of pizza is eaten every day in the USA.
October is National Pizza Month.
If ordered during the news, most pizzas are ordered during the weather segment.
Pepperoni in the American favorite pizza topping and over 251,770,000 pounds are used every year.
Anchovies are the most popular least ordered topping. Over 75% of the US pizza stores carry it on their menu but it is always on the least ordered list.
Topping popularity changes by country. In England chicken is popular. In Japan eel and squid are used. Russians sometimes choose herrings and in France a popular combo is called Flambé which includes bacon, onion, and cream. Coconut is used in Costa Rica, and curry is a big seller in Pakistan.
Modern pizza (as we know it today) was born in 1889 when the King and Queen of Italy visited Naples and requested a special dish. A local chef used red tomatoes, white mozzarella cheese, and green basil on pizza dough to recreate the Italian flag.
Mozzarella cheese was originally made from water buffalo milk.
A pizza over 122’ across, covering 11,800 square feet and using almost 4,000 pounds of cheese was made in Norwood, South Africa on December 8th, 1990. It was sliced into 87,550 pieces and fed over 25,000 people.
The largest pizza order was for 13,386 pizzas placed by the VF Corporation in North Carolina for its 40,160 nationwide employees on August 19th, 1998.
More pizza is eaten during Super Bowl weekend than any other.
Even though there was a famous renaissance artist in Italy by the name of Pisanello (b1394-d1455), Pisanello's Pizza is not named for him.
But we still think our pizzas are works of art!!
Sources: Guinness World Book of Records 2005
Pizza by Rosario Buonassisi; Firefly Books, LTD 2000
PMQ Pizza Magazine