Pizza Fun Facts
- Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza a day or about 350
slices per second.
- There are 61,269 pizzerias in the United States.
- Each person in America eats about 46 pizza slices a year.
- Other popular toppings are mushrooms, extra cheese, sausage, green
pepper,and onions.
- Popular gourmet toppings are chicken, oysters, crayfish,
dandelions, sprouts, eggplant, cajun shrimp, artichoke hearts, and
tuna.
- October is national pizza month.
- Over 5 billion pizzas are sold worldwide each year.
- Kids ages 3 to 11 prefer pizza over all other food groups for
lunch and dinner.
- Pizza comes from the latin root word Picea which means the
blackening of crust by fire.
- The largest pizza ever made was 122 ft. 8 in. in diameter. The
pizza needed 9,920 lb of flour, 198 lb of salt, 3968 lb of cheese,
and 1,984 lb of tomato puree
- Italian is the most popular type of Ethnic food in America
- Domino's Pizza is the world leader in delivery
- Regular thin crust is most popular in America, it is preferred by
61% of the population, 14% prefer deep-dish, and 11% prefer extra
thin crust
- 62% of Americans prefer meat toppings while 38% prefer vegetables
- Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetables on their pizza
- Pizza Hut has 12,583 stores in over 90 countries
- Saturday night is the most popular night to eat pizza
- Pizza Deliverers claim women are better tippers
- During TV news, pizza is most often ordered during the weather
- There is a Pizza Expo held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Pizzerias represent 17% of all restaurants
- The world's fastest pizza maker can make 14 pizza in 2 minutes and
35 seconds
- 36% of people consider pizza the perfect breakfast
- Eating pizza once a week can reduce the risk of esophageal cancer
- Pizza deliverers are third most likely to be murdered on the job.
(First is Police Officer and second is Taxi Driver)
- The longest pizza delivery was from Cape Town, South Africa to
Sydney, Australia
- Cristian Dumitru of Romania holds the world record for eating
pizza, he ate over 200 pounds. But the former world record holder
claims the cheese-sauce ratio was too low for what he ate to be
considered pizza.
