Today is National Pizza Day! So to celebrate we've uncovered 10 of the craziest facts about everyone's favourite delicious cheesy treat. Grab yourself a slice and read on...
1. Five billion pizzas are sold worldwide every year and around three billion of these are in the US.
2. Pepperoni is the most popular pizza topping in the UK and US. Squid is the most popular topping in Japan.
3. 49% of people in the UK eat pizza at least once a week and Oxford is the city which consumes the most pizza.
4. The first pizzas ever created were sweet not savoury. We'll take five slices with Nutella, please.
5. Back in 2006, a Romanian man called Cristian Dumitru once ate 200 pounds of pizza in a single week – that’s more than his entire body weight.
6. The record holder for the fastest ever pizza eater is a New Zealand man called Josh Anderson. He devoured a 12-incher in just one minute and 45 seconds. Skills.
7. An unspoken (but surprisingly accurate) economic law in New York City is the 'pizza principle'. It states that the cost of taking the subway in NYC should be approximately equal to the cost of a slice of pizza.
8. The most expensive pizza you’re likely to find on a pizzeria menu comes from Nino’s Bellissima Pizza in Manhattan, New York (where else?) It offers a $1,000 white truffle, lobster and caviar pizza. But just think how many meat feasts you could buy instead?
9. Pizza artist Domenico Crolla from Glasgow creates incredible portraits of celebrities from the Mona Lisa to Justin Bieber, using only dough, tomato sauce and cheese. He also created the most expensive pizza ever made - the Pizza Royale 007, worth £2,150. Toppings included edible gold, venison medallions, sun-blushed tomato sauce, lobster marinated in cognac, smoked salmon and caviar marinated in champagne.
10. Pizza has been known to cure diseases and mend a broken heart*
*Not 100% accurate
Now take our personality test to find out what your pizza topping says about you.
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