Pizza - the most famous Italian dishes Italian Cuisine , Loved by millions of people around the world. Especially pizza like children and adolescents who are ready to eat it at any time, before, after or instead of meals. According to the survey, your favorite pizza dish called 78% of the respondents. The variety of toppings and ingredients allows everyone to find a pizza to taste, especially in the big cities it can be ordered by phone at any time of the day.

According to data provided by restaurants, cafes and pizzerias in the world per day consumed more than 500 million pizzas of various shapes and sizes! You also love pizza? And what do you know about her?

• Although the pizza made to eat a hot, just out of the oven, it is fashionable today to eat pizza is cold, even cold.
• For more than twenty-three years, since 1987, in the United States in October it is officially considered a national pizza month. This alone speaks of the incredible love of Americans to this "Italian lozenges."
• The first pizzeria in the world was opened in Naples, Italy in 1738 and was called "Antica» (Antica Pizzeria).
• According to statistics, every second in America eat 350 slices of pizza.
• According to the same statistics, 93% of US residents eat pizza at least once a month.
• Women prefer to order a vegetarian pizza twice as often as men.
• The world's largest circular pizza was cooked more than twenty years ago in a supermarket Norwood in South Africa (in 1990). In diameter, it was 37, 4 meters and weighed more than 12 kilograms. It contained about 4500 kg of flour, 1800 kg and 900 kg of cheese sauce! The largest rectangular pizza was prepared in 2005 in Iowa Falls, Iowa. The owner of the pizzeria Bill Bahr 200 and his assistants prepared from 1815 kg of cheese sauce 320 kg and 9500 cakes pizza size 39, 30, 32, 05 meters. This pizza was enough to feed the 5,200 residents of the town, and each got 10 pieces of pizza.
• The most popular ingredient pizza - pepperoni (spicy salami variety of Italian-American origin). Pepperoni is present in every third pizza Pizza: features Italian cuisine   (36% of all sold pizzas - Pizza with pepperoni).
• Pizzerias make up a high percentage of the restaurant business in America. Every six catering establishments - pizzeria. The largest pizza chain in the United States - Pizza Hut.
• Most often bought pizza for the New Year, Halloween, Independence Day and in the days of the finals of sports competitions.

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