Monday, May 9, 2011

facts about pizza

the people of america eat around 350 slices of pizza each second or 100 acres per day.each year pizza is a $30 billion industry.in the u.s there are about 61,269 pizza parlors.every one in the united stateseats about 23lbs.or 46 slices every year.3-11 perfer pizza  over all other foods for lunch and dinner according to a recent gallup poll.36 percent of all pizza orders want their pizza topping pepperoni.Americans prefer meat toppings to veggie toppings by a ratio of 62 to 100. Women order twice as much vegetable toppings than men.

where did pizza came from

I Think it came from italy but some people say its from china.

the history of pizza

The history of pizza has been, and is contentious, for we can never know which nation invented pizza, but pizza history is no less colorful for that fact. As we cannot know the date when the first pizza was invented ,we can only speculate who invented pizza.
Pizza, as we know it today, is a bread crust covered with a tomato base and then flavored with other toppings. Yet tomatoes did not appear on European menus until the Sixteenth Century, when they were brought over from the New World by the Spanish conquistadors.