chances are at some point In your life, pizza was, and maybe still is, your favorite food!
Everyone loves pizza! It is a meal made up if cheesy deliciousness! Add to that the fact that it is completely customizable-Plain cheese or fully loaded-there is a pizza for everyone and for every taste.
Here are some FUN FACTS about Pizza:
- 93% of Americans have eaten pizza sometime in the last month.
- Of the more than 5 Billion Pizzas sold worldwide, approximately 3 Billion are sold in the US each year–that’s 46 slices a year per person.
- October is National Pizza month.
- 36% of all pizza orders include pepperoni.
- Saturday is the most popular night to eat pizza.
- The Super Bowl is the number one pizza day in the US, followed by Halloween, the day before Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day.
- 80% of Italian cheese production in the US is Mozzarella, because of, you guessed it, Pizza!
- More than 10% of food service sales in the US is pizza.
- Approximately 36% of Americans think pizza is perfect for breakfast.
- The first pizza ordered by a computer happened in 1974: they needed to test out their ‘speaking computer’ so they ordered a pepperoni, mushroom, ham, and sausage pizza from a local pizza joint.
- Many famous people started out making and delivering Pizzas. Stephen Baldwin and Bill Murray both made pizza and Jean Claude Van Damme delivered Pizzas.
- Over the years, many pizza flavored products have been released, including potato chips, condoms, ice cream, beer and e-cigarettes.
