Pizza facts and figures everyone needs to know
January 28th, 2010 | by admin |•Pizza is the No. 1 search word on Google.
•Americans eat 100 acres of pizza every day, about 350 slices per second.
•There is one pizzeria for every 4,000 Americans. In Italy, there is one pizzeria for every 1,400 Italians.
•50 percent of an average pizza’s total food cost is the cheese.
•25 percent of American adults ages 18 to 24 eat pizza five-plus times a month.
•Some of the more popular toppings around the world are pickled ginger, minced mutton and tofu (India); eel and squid (Japan); coconut (Costa Rica); green peas (Brazil) and mockba, a combination of sardines, tuna, mackerel, salmon and onions (Russia).
•The largest pizza ever baked was 122 feet in diameter, made at the Norwood Hypermarket, Norwood, South Africa, 1990. Ingredients included 9,900 pounds of flour.
•A slice of a Domino’s hand-tossed large pizza contains 248 calories — 72 calories from fat, 40 calories from protein and 136 calories from carbohydrates.
•David Smith II from Smith’s Pizza Plus, Emporium, Pa., won for the largest dough stretch (72.25 cm) at the 2009 American Pizza Championship.
•The soldiers of Darius the Great (521-486 B.C.) baked bread flat upon their shields and then covered it with cheese and dates during long marches. Cato the Elder, in his history of Rome, described a “flat round of dough dressed with olive oil, herbs and honey baked on stones.’’
•According to Domino’s Pizza Tracker, which allows customers to track their pizza after they order online, Republicans spend more per order than Democrats, rely more on credit cards and tend to order two large pizzas at a time. Democrats rely more on delivery and like more variety with their orders, going for more side items.
•Carryout accounts for 36 percent of all pizzeria orders, while delivery accounts for 31 percent.
•Three of the top 10 weeks of pizza consumption occur in January. More pizza is consumed during Super Bowl week than any other week of the year.
