TOUR: Fun Facts About Pizza

Americans eat 350 slices every second, and pizza's popularity is soaring from Sydney to Moscow.

A food that is normally shared and eaten without utensils, pizza apparently meets emotional as well as nutritional needs. Whatever the reason, it is rapidly overtaking the burger as America's favorite food. It comes in thick crust and thin, in squares as well as circles, with traditional tomato sauce and mozzarella or as white pizza with gourmet toppings.

Today's pizza may be the product of 2,000 years of evolution, beginning in the Middle East. The modern version had to wait for the tomato to be discovered in the New World, and for the creativity of a chef who first used mozzarella to represent the white portion of the Italian flag. Invention continues to this day. In the 1940s Chicago's Pizzeria Uno came up with deep-dish, or Chicago-style, pizza.

Tens of millions of Americans worry not one bit about pizza history. Americans eat 100 acres of pizza every day in the United States.

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