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Silly Al's Facts and Trivia

General Trivia

• If you live in the United States, it’s statistically likely you’ll eat around 6000 slices of pizza over the course of your life.
• The word pizza dates back over a thousand years; it was first mentioned in a Latin text written in southern Italy in 997
• The first pizza place in America was Lombardi’s in New York City. Originally opened as a grocery store, Lombardi’s started selling pizza in 1905.
• During the first few decades of the 20th century, pizza was predominantly eaten and sold by working class Italian immigrants ... But after World War II, American GIs came home from Italy with a craving for pizza, bringing the food to a broader consumer base for the first time.
• The first frozen pizza hit the market in 1962. It mostly tasted like cardboard until the genius food inventor Rose Totino got her hands on it.
• The Hawaiian pizza was invented in 1962 by Sam Panopoulos, a native of Greece who ran a pizza place in Canada.
• Plenty of famous people got their start making and delivering pizzas. Stephen Baldwin and Bill Murray both worked at pizza restaurants, and Jean-Claude Van Damme used to deliver pizzas.
• Believe it or not ... In 2001, A Pizza was delivered to the International Space Station.
• Pizzerias sell the most pizzas on Halloween, the night before Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, and Super Bowl Sunday.
• Saturday night is the most popular night of the week to eat pizza.

Here are some more of our favorite pizza trivia...

• Pepperoni is American's favorite topping, with over 36 percent of all orders featuring this meat topping.
• Although there is no exact record of the first time pepperoni was used on a pizza, it became popular between 1930 and 1950.
• About 252 million pounds of pepperoni are consumed on pizzas each year.
• When asked to choose from a list of common pizza toppings, anchovies are always ranked last as people's favorites.
• Manufacturers' sales of pizza is almost $32 billion each year.
• The U.S. per capita consumption of mozzarella cheese is almost 11 pounds.
• Meat is found on about 62 percent of all pizzas consumed.
• Women are twice as likely as men to order a vegetarian pizza.
• In the U.S., there are about 350 slices of pizza eaten each second.
• There are almost 70,000 pizzerias in the United States. Independent pizza chains make up 65 percent of that total.
• Pizzerias comprise almost eight percent of all U.S. restaurants.
• Per capita, Iowa has the most pizza stores per person, with 4.13 per 10,000 residents. Mississippi has the lowest, with only 2.41 per 10,000 people.
• Americans eat an average of 46 slices of pizza a year.
• There are about 3 billion pizzas sold each year in the U.S. and over 5 billion pizzas sold worldwide each year.
• When asked, most kids between the ages of 3 to 11 will list pizza as their favorite food.
• In the United States, 83 percent of pizzerias offer delivery and 91 percent offer take-out.
• Among independent pizza operations, 61 percent serve alcohol.
• Sixty-one percent of the American population prefers regular thin crust pizza. Eleven percent choose extra thin.
• Thick crust and deep dish pizza are tied for the second most popular type of pizza preferred, with 14% for each.
• More pizza is consumed during Super Bowl week than any other week of the year.
• Pizza is the number two item in food service, after hamburgers.
• Pizza is the number two item in take-out food, after chicken.

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