THINGS YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT PIZZA. YOU WILL BE SURPRISE!!!

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Pizza – a name that brings water to everyone's mouth, be it your kido or his granny or you, is definitely one of the most popular foods in the world. We just keep devouring this delicacy day after day but very little do we know about the facts and history hidden behind this mouth-watering food. So today, let us take a look at 20 interesting facts about pizza. Are you ready?


1. The first pizza wasn’t made in Italy or USA. It was ancient Greeks who gave birth to Pizza. They used to bake flat and round large breads and topped them with veggies, potatoes, spices and olive oil. Definitely that was the earliest version of pizza known to have exist in human society.

2. 18th century Italy was the country where the first commercial pizza originated. This commercial pizza didn’t have any kind of topping. It was just a plain, flat and round bread that was quite tasty and filling and were sold only to the poor because they were cheap. Street vendors in Naples used to sell these breads by the name ‘pizza’.

3. In 1889, Italian Queen Margherita was once traveling across her kingdom and noticed that peasants were munching on that large piece of bread. She became curious and tasted it. She liked it so much that every time she visited her subjects, she ate the bread. Because it was considered to be peasants’ food, the Queen dining on it was not usual and this created anxiety and dismay in Court Circle.

4. Queen Margherita eventually called Chef Rafaelle Esposito and ordered to make some pizzas for her. The chef baked a pizza using fresh basil, Mozzarella Cheese and tomatoes. The colors were carefully selected because they represented the colors of Italian Flag – red, white and green. This especially baked pizza became Queen’s favorite pizza and by word of mouth it was spread that pizza is Queen’s favorite food. This made her very popular among her subjects.

5. The Queen started a tradition known as Pizza Margherita. This tradition still continues in Naples and has also become popular worldwide.

6. America, England, France and Spain started to know pizza properly after World War II. It was during WWII that many European and American soldiers tasted pizza during occupation of Italian cities.

7. Though pizza was still available in America before WWII when Italian immigrants used to sell the food within its community, returning soldiers actually made it popular in America and the pizza moved out of the quiet Italian community into mainstream American life.


8. Today in America, October is the National Pizza month since 1987.

9. In America, the pizza industry grosses over $30 billion every year and 17% of U.S. restaurants are actually pizzerias.

10. A survey report says that a minimum of 93% of Americans order and eat pizza at least once every month. On Super Bowl Sunday, 58% of Americans order pizza, which makes it the highest selling day for pizza than any average day in a given calendar year.

source: http://factslegend.org/20-facts-pizza/