Today is National Pizza Day

Today is National Pizza Day. Approximately 3 billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year, and Pepperoni is America's favorite topping (anchovies are the least favorite). 

The first pizzaria (pizzeria?) in America was Lombardi’s in New York City in 1905 and is still operating today. 

The Hawaiian (pineapple) pizza was invented in Canada by a Greek, and this is one of the most argued about pizzas...the president of Iceland once said he wanted to ban it. 

The government has used pizza deliveries to spy on reporters, and the mafia has often used pizzarias as a front for illegal activities. 

There is a small pizza for dogs called the “Heaven Scent Pizza” made of flour, carrots, celery, and parmesan cheese. 

There is also a pizza museum in Philadelphia.

A few years ago a woman called 911 to report a burglary, but because the robber was still in her home, she pretended to order pizza. Thankfully the police caught on, and responded to the call.

The largest pizza chains in the United States in 2020 by gross sales were:

Domino’s Pizza

Little Caesars

Papa John’s

Papa Murphy’s

Sbarro America

Marco’s Pizza

Chuck E. Cheese

Cici’s Pizza

The largest pizza ever made had a total surface area of 1,261.65 m (13,580.28 ft) from NIPfood at Fiera Roma, in Rome, Italy, on 13 December 2012.

"Americans love pizza in fact so much so that we eat about 100 acres of pizza everyday according to the National Association of Pizza operators. That’s a whopping 350 slices every second!" Source

October Is National Pizza Month.

There is also something known as the Pizza theorem. "If you’re sharing a pizza with another person, there’s no need to cut it into precisely equal slices. Make four cuts at equal angles through an arbitrary point and take alternate slices, and you’ll both get the same amount of pizza." Source

Eating pizza once a week can prevent cancer. Source

Have you ever been to a Boston Pizza? Did you know that it was started in Edmonton in 1964 by four Greek immigrants to Canada.

The first thing ever sold online, besides porn, was a pizza.