Pizza

So I'm sitting in the CC and they just pulled a fresh pizza out of the brick oven. When I was in high school I used to work in a pizza kitchen on the weekends. I was so sick of eating pizza all the time that I've barely had any since I graduated high school. one year with barely any pizza is a very long time. But right now I can smell the delicious melted cheese and am craving a slice of bbq chicken pizza. Here are some pizza fun facts:

• Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices per second.
• Each man, woman and child in America eats an average of 46 slices (23 pounds) of pizza a year.
• Pepperoni is America’s favorite topping (36 percent of all pizza orders we eat approximately 251,770,000 pounds a year!
• In America, anchovies always rank last on the list of favorite toppings.
• In 1830 pizza truly began with the opening of the world’s first pizzeria. Port’ Alba, the pizzas were cooked in an oven lined with lava from Mount Vesuvius, a volcano located on the Bay of Naples.
• Pizza makers have tried virtually every type of food on pizzas, including peanut butter and jelly, bacon and eggs and mashed potatoes!
• According to Domino’s, some of the more popular international toppings are pickled ginger, minced mutton and tofu in India, squid (octopus) and Mayou Jaga (mayonnaise, potato and bacon) in Japan, and green peas in Brazil. In Russia, they serve pizza covered with mockba, which is a combination of sardines, tuna, mackerel, salmon and onions. In France, a popular combo is called the Flambee, with bacon, onion and fresh cream.
• There are approximately 61,269 pizzerias in the United States.
• Approximately 3 billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year.