Pizza is a food that people everywhere just love to eat. While, the popularity of the Italian pie is well known, there are some little known facts about it that even your local restaurants may not know.
We all love that crusty dough with the delicious sauce,
gooey cheese, and pretty much any topping we desire. But, there are probably a lot of things that you don't know about pizza. This Italian pie is such an interesting food item. When these pies were first invented, they were popular and baked in an oven like they are today. The difference is that the pies in the beginning just had tomatoes and cheese. There are so many stunning little known facts about it. If you are into learning about the foods you like to eat, below are some interesting and unusual facts about this particular Italian pie.
The world's fastest Italian pie eater is Josh Anderson. He ate a full 12-inch pizza in under 1 minute and 45 seconds. The world's fastest Italian pie dough tosser is Dennis Tran, who tossed three large pies in 46.4 seconds. There are three universal standard sized Italian pies. A small is 10 inches and has six slices. A medium size is 12 inches and has eight slices. A large size is 14 inches and also has eight slices.
In the United States, October is known as National Pizza Month. It started in the year 1987. Also in the United States, Americans eat around 100 acres of it each day. We eat more of it each year than we do chocolate. On average, we eat 23 pounds per year, which equals 46 slices. As for chocolate, we eat only 11.7 pounds per year.
The world's most expensive pie sold on eBay for $3,700. The Italian pie is topped with cognac lobster, champagne caviar, Scottish smoked salmon, venison and 24-carat edible gold flakes.
Let's do a little calorie comparison. A large pepperoni pie contains 2,300 calories, which is equivalent to four McDonald's Big Macs, which contains 2,304 calories or two large McDonald's chocolate shakes, which have 2,320 calories.
When comparing the number of pizzerias to the number of people, Iowa is number one on the list with 4.13 stores per 10,000 residents and last on the list is Mississippi with 2.41 stores per 10,000 residents. The most popular topping is pepperoni, which accounts for one out of every three Italian pies ordered everyday.
If you randomly put one hundred Americans together in a room, 93 of them have eaten at least one slice of Italian pie in the last month. Also, six out of 10 of those people like thin crust and the most popular size in the United States is the 14-inch pie. Three billion pies are consumed each year. If you break that down, that is the equivalent to 347,000 pies per hour and 6,000 every minute.
In 1905, Italian pie making began in Sicily and has been since become a million-dollar industry. There are currently over 60,000 pizzerias in the United States alone. In Italy, pizzerias were designed to feed royals and people of the royal court. Word got out and it quickly caught on until the time when pizzerias could be found throughout all of Italy as a cheap and affordable eatery.
