nPostednon May 20, 2016
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nHownAmerican is it to eat pizza?
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nOr…wait! How Italian is it to eatnpizza?
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nActually,npizza is popular all over the world. China is said to be obsessednwith pizza; pizza with olive oil, garlic, onions, basil, parsley, andnminced meat is super popular in Turkey; many Japanese people eatnpizza at least once a week; “traditional” Russian pizza containsnvodka, salmon, tuna, caviar, and dill; pizza is more popular innGermany and the U.K., even, than it is in Italy!
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nThe U.S. is #2 innper capita pizza consumption, and…
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nI know this is hard tonbelieve!…
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nNorway is #1! n
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nThatnmeans that Norwegians eat more pizza, per person, than anyone else innthe world!
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| Chinese pizza…does not look like any pizza I’ve had in the U.S.! |
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nHerenare some stats:
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n100n slices of pizza are eaten in Germany every second!n
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n350n slices of pizza are eaten in the United States every second!!
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nThen average American eats about 6,000 slices of pizza over the course ofn his or her life!
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nAmericansn eat about 100 acres of pizza every day – 3 billion pizzas everyn year!
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nPizzan is a $30 billion per year industry!
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nThen world’s largest pizza covered 10 thousand square feet and was 140n feet in diameter. It weighed more than 44 thousand pounds!
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nAndnhere are some important benchmarks in the history of pizza:
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Deep dish pizza…
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nThen word “pizza” is more than a thousand years old.n
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nThen first pizza place in America was in New York City, in then neighborhood called “Little Italy,” in 1905.
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nPizzan began to be sold by the slice in 1933; deep dish pizza was firstn created in 1943; and frozen pizza was first sold in 1962.
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nLastnbut not least, here are some fun facts about pizza:
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Pizza Hut funded the Proton rocket… n
n Inn 2001, Pizza Hut delivered pizza to the International Space Station.
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A cosmonaut eating a Pizza Hut pizza…
Or is he just playing with his food?n
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nInn 2013, NASA scientists invented a 3-D printer that could create an pizza in just 70 seconds, spraying on flavor, smell, and nutrients!
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nTheren is a pizza museum in Philadelphia, which has the largest collectionn of pizza memorabilia in the world; there is an Italian associationn that makes rules about what qualifies as a true Neapolitan pizza,n and certifies the restaurants who comply with those rules; there wasn a pizza-themed art show in New York City, in 2013.
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