• Pizza is one food that will belike never go out of style . Since Gennaro Lombardi of Naples , Italy , open up the first licensed pizzeria in the United States ( in Little Italy , Manhattan of class ) in 1905 , Americans have n’t look back . A market enquiry group claim that in 2007 , Americans ordered more than 5.5 billion pizzas ( not to mention how many we probably buy frozen or made at home ! )
• Of grade , the history of pizza goes back further than that - according to the History Channel , near the end of the nineteenth C , Italy ’s faggot Margherita wished to savour the " vulgar " dish that so delighted the lower ordering . Of the three cup of tea train for her ( pork fat , Malva sylvestris and basil ; tomato , ail and olivie oil ; and an " Italian flag " excogitation with mozzarella , tomatoes and sweet basil leaves ) can you hazard which one was her favourite ? ( By the way , pizza pie - as - artis still break down strong ) .
• According to Webster ’s , the word " pizza pie " comes from the Greek " pitta " for bar ( so calling it a pizza Proto-Indo European is not far wrong ! )
• Pizza is typically a fairly cost - effective option , but if you have money to incinerate you may consider treating yourself to aluxury pizzafor $ 1000 . For those on the other side of the pool , Gordon Ramsey ’s Maze eating place in London has been known to put up a pizza trim with fresh shavings of a rare Italian clean earth-ball foraround £ 100 .
• Other exuberant pizza pie orders might include the long saving , in which pizza pie from Madrid , Spain was deliver to Wellington , New Zealand at adistance of 12,346.6 miles . I ’m sure by the time it find there it was free . But airborne deliver does not finish there - a British army pilot was discipline after using a $ 5.5 million helicopter to render pizza to his girlfriend . She must have been hungry . ( It cost British taxpayer $ 18,500.00 ) .
• Meanwhile , the largest pizza pie livery was courtesy of Papa John ’s , who rescue 13,500 pizza to the NASSCO shipyard in San Diego in 2006 . But who make headway the award for most expensive pizza purchase ever ? It would have to be a man identify Jon Seale , who charged a slice of pizza pie and a Coke to his Visa wit , which later show up thetransaction totality to be $ 23,148,855,308,184,500 .
• Lace up yourpizza shoesand head on over to theGiant Pizza Playgroundwhere " kids can climb all over a colorful , rubber - coat pizza pie , creep through a giant olive , move immense mushroom-shaped cloud piece , andhide behind a love apple . "
• Is anyone else hungry ? thirsty enough toeat 47 slicesof pizza pie ( in 10 moment ? ) . Nah , I did n’t think so . But that will not disqualify you from being part of theU.S. Pizza squad . And if you still need more , you may go to toPizza Expoin Las Vegas .
• Ok Flossers , how do you take your pizza ? Do you get delivery or frozen ? Do you make your own ? Do youeat it in a cone ? What are your favorite ingredients ? What ca n’t you stand ? Ahh pizza pie , so many permutations of your enormousness . I could eat pizza every day and never tire of it , personally !
‘ Dietribes ’ appear every other Wednesday . Food photograph take byJohanna Beyenbach . You might remember that name from our post about hercolorful diet .
