The history of pizzas is such an interesting thing. No one knows where exactly pizzas came from. But people always relate pizzas to Italy, so it is naturally taken as the birth place of pizzas. It was not such a popular dish in the earlier days. The late 19th century pizza was so very different from today’s pizza that people might find it very difficult to find similarities between them nowadays.
Pizzas have come a long way from then. In those days they were more or less like pies. Europeans believed that tomatoes were poisonous, so in those days there were no tomatoes on the pizzas. So automatically there was no tomato sauce either. A lot of the modern ingredients that people use today were absent. They just contained the bare essentials. No cheese was used either. So it was more a pie than a pizza.

One of the funniest and the most interesting facts about the pizza history is that pizzas were considered as the food of poor people by everyone until the late 19th century. It might be unbelievable right now, but that was the truth. Now every one, from the highest to the lowest class people devour pizzas whenever they get the chance. But then it was more like how plain breads were treated in Britain. It was the food of the poor.

Originally bakers used to have these flatbreads to check their oven temperature. Then they got sympathetic on the poor and also since they dint want to waste any of their bread, they started giving it to them. What started as a simple plain flatbread was gradually converted into today’s hottest dish by them. It is a bit overwhelming.

The true change started when an Italian decided to make these pies like pizzas for the Queen Margeretta of Italy. His usage of the different colors of their country flags in each ingredient of the dish was what made him and the dish quite famous. But still they weren’t popular in the US yet. Though, the dish was present in the country. This was because some of the lesser blessed people, who came in search of work to America, brought with them their heritage, which naturally included pizzas. Though, as it happened in Italy, pizzas were delegated to the less fortunate in the earlier times, things changed again and the elite began taking interest in it too.

People started opening shops just for selling pizzas. Things took a turn and the cost of these pizzas escalated making them unattainable by most people. That was when the famous slice system was invented. Those who can not afford to get the whole pizza began buying for small slices according to the money in their purse. This custom, exist till now, even after all these years. Also most of the pictures of pizzas depict slices than the whole of it. This was the beginning of the pizza revolution. Now almost every country has pizza shops.

Pizza delivery guys are faster than ambulances, and almost everyone in this world loves this wonder dish. Though the starting was pretty weak and uninteresting, pizzas definitely captured the world in the end.