Fun facts on pizza
Pizza is a universally loved food by everyone in the world. Though it originally came from Italy it is more famous at America. There are a lot of interesting facts about pizza that might make someone’s day. Some of them are given in this article.
Most pizzas are ordered in the Super bowl week in America. People, generally Americans have found a craze of ordering pizzas through their phones and eating them in the front of the television. Earlier popcorn used to do this job. Now pizzas have taken over. The most ordered topping in a pizza is pepperoni. Studies have shown that almost 36 percent of the toppings ordered are pepperoni.
That is a lot because there are a variety of pizzas.
People might think that men eat more pizza than women. But this is not true. It is a proven fact that women order twice more than the men, but they are more inclined towards the meatless, vegetarian varieties. Pepperonis are good too. Children are no exception either. Children from the age of 3 to 11 are always demanding pizzas for their lunch and dinners that other food items have considerably paled in comparison for them. A research done proves that most of the pizza community is in the United States.
This can be very well backed up by the fact that US has 17 percent of the whole world’s pizzerias in it. If one took it upon oneself to personally count all these pizza parlors, it would be rounded up to a whooping total of almost 62000 pizza parlors only in the US. That is an awful lot for just one country.
Originally pizza was spelled as ‘pitsa’. It is in use even nowadays, though not much. It has been seen that every year an average American eats approximately 23 pounds of pizza and that makes it 46 slices of pizzas per year. That is a pretty good summation, especially when every citizen was taken into account. An interesting fact about pizza consumption is that if the total number of pizzas consumed in the US was laid out on a flat ground, it would cover about 90 to 100 acres of land per day.
That is almost unimaginable. This might also be because of the fact that for every second 350 pizzas are sold. The turnover of the pizza industry each year is more than $30 million in US. It is definitely a pizza revolution.
Saturday nights are the usual pizza nights for an average American.
Pizza delivery guys have reported that most of the pizzas are ordered when the people are watching weather forecasts, especially by women. They also say that they are better tippers than men. Now that is a definite fact! Every year there are about 3 billion pizzas sold. Pepperonis are the favorite pizza toppings and it is seen that we consume more than 251,000,000 pepperonis every year! Pizzas and other Italian food have become the most ethnic foods in America.
Originally October was also selected as the National Pizza Month by the US people.