What you definitely don't know about pizza

Everyone knows the taste of pizza and many people have their own favorite. But does it really come from Italy? In which corner of the world is the most pizza eaten ? How much did the giant pizza that was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records weigh ? We debunk the biggest myths about pizza!

Pizza originated in Italy?

MIT. Although most of us have this belief, pizza was not born in Italy at all. As it turns out, the popular round “breads” covered with vegetables and well seasoned with olive oil were eaten as early as in ancient Greece.

The word – pizza was first written down in Italian?
MIT. Did you know that the word “pizza” is over a thousand years old, first used in a Latin text written in southern Italy in 997!

Pizza Margherita got its name thanks to the queen?
TRUE. According to a popular story, Margherita, traveling through her kingdom in 1889, was supposed to have been treated to the large, round bread with toppings that was popular in their circles by peasants. This delicacy tasted so good to the queen that she soon asked her chef Rafaelle Esposito to prepare it for her.

Neapolitan pizza on the UNESCO list?

FALSE On December 9, 2017, more than 22 million people decided to declare the art and tradition of preparing Neapolitan pizza an intangible UNESCO heritage site. The list did not include the product itself, which is pizza, but the craftsmanship involved in its preparation.

Italians eat the most pizza?

MIT. Americans eat the most pizza. It is said that the average US resident eats about 46th slice of pizza in one year! In all of America, nearly 350 of them are eaten every second! That’s why there are as many as 69,000 pizzerias in America!

Pizza in its colors refers to the Italian flag?
TRUE. The first pizza-king dish contained three ingredients to represent the colors of the Italian flag: green (basil), white (mozzarella cheese) and red (tomatoes).

Do we eat the most pizza in a week?
FALSE. It has been calculated that about 5 billion pieces of pizza are sold worldwide each year. With this study, it was also found that we eat the most pizza on Saturday nights.

The record pizza was created in Italy?
FALSE. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest round pizza in the world was made at Norwood Hypermarket in South Africa in 1990. The pizza was almost 38 meters in diameter and weighed more than 12 tons! Almost 4.5 tons of flour, 1.8 tons of cheese and 900 kg of tomato sauce were used to prepare it.