Pizza and what few people know

Pizza is one of the pride of the culinary elite of Italians, but actually has deep roots from the Greek country.

In ancient times, the Greek people used to bake dry bread pieces on the leftover heated stones from the fires. After that, to be able to take advantage of the leftover food, people put it all on the surface of that toast and eat it. Pizza is derived from that.

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The forerunner of the famous pizza in the world today is just flat, thin bagels sold to the poor at quite cheap prices.

Pizza entered Italy for the first time in the form of a flat, round bread at a fairly cheap price. They are delicious and sold a lot on the streets for the poor.

The first pizza has the shape and taste as it was today in 1889, made to serve Queen Margherita Teresa Giovanni when she visited Naples. This cake includes mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil leaves that symbolize the colors available in this country's flag. This pizza was quickly loved and the first chef made it named after the queen: pizza Margherita. Today in addition to Margherita pizza, many other incredibly delicious and popular variations have been created: Pepperoni pizza, Extravaganzza pizza, Bologness pizza .

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Pizza Margherita represents 3 colors: green, white, red in Italy's national flag.

Ordinary Italians will enjoy pizza and a cool gelato ice cream, the delicious taste of pizza and the cool, sweet taste of gelato ice cream. Moreover, Italians never eat salads with pizza, instead they will combine with antipasto (appetizers with cheese, bacon, mushrooms, olives .). In particular, pizza is a dish that you can completely eat by hand instead of using a knife or fork but no one dares to tell you to be ungainly even when sitting in a restaurant. What is also recognized by believers of this dish is indispensable when eating the main dish is Ketchup (ketchup) and Tabasco chili vinegar sauce or Heinz chili sauce.

Pizza is not only a cake that makes people think of Italy but also quickly becomes a popular and popular dish all over the world. According to statistics, 93% of Americans will eat pizza at least once a month. And it is estimated that every year, every American consumes more than 9 kg of pizza. American pizza shops also account for 17% of all restaurants in this country.

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Pepperoni pizza is the most popular traditional pizza.

About 5 billion pizzas are sold every year in the world. Among them pepperoni pizza is the most popular, accounting for 36% of the total. Saturday night is considered the best time of the week to enjoy a pizza. Meanwhile, there are many consumers in the world today who believe that pizza is a perfect breakfast for them. The annual 9/2 is chosen as the International Pizza Day.