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U.S. Top Fast Food is Pizza
Right up there with baseball and apple pie, pizza has become an American icon, no longer just reserved for college students on a budget - but a family favorite across the country. Whether it's piled high with pepperoni and mozzarella or loaded with pineapples and ham, pizza is one of the most popular foods in the United States. Americans gobble up around 350 slices of pizza per second, which amounts to around one-hundred acres of pizza each day. By many estimates, an average American will eat twenty-three pounds of pizza every year.
History. While many folks believe pizza to be a strictly Italian food, unleavened bread spiced up with olive oil and topped with native spices was being consumed millennium ago in ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece. The familiar pizza that is served up at your local pizzeria or out of your own freezer is akin to the pies that were first baked up in Naples, Italy in the latter part of the 19th century by baker Raffaele Esposito who concocted the dish for royal guests. The ingredients for Esposito's original pizza pie were inspired by the red, white and green colors of the Italian flag and are represented through the colors of the tomatoes, mozzarella and basil. It was Italian monarch King Umberto and his Queen Margherita whom were the honored guests; the two royals were so impressed by the dish that they went on to spread the word about it to others, and thus a food phenomenon was born. It didn't take long for pizza to make its way across the ocean as immigrants from Italy settled in Chicago and New York and opened up small cafes and eateries that served the dish in the early 1900s. Soldiers returning from WWII who had served in Italy and developed a taste for the beloved pie helped to spur on the popularity of pizza in the U.S. That popularity begun to grow throughout the 20th century, and now 94% of all Americans eat pizza regularly.
Toppings. It may very well be pizza toppings that are a pizza's biggest selling point. In the United States, pepperoni is considered to be the most popular topping, accounting for around 1/3rd of all pizza orders at restaurants that serve pizza; in fact, over ¼ of a million pounds of pepperoni is used on pizza in our country each year. Additional toppings of choice include Canadian bacon, green pepper, ham, Italian sausage, mushrooms, onion, pineapple and of course, extra cheese. And while the majority of folks prefer meat on their pizzas, around 1/3rd of all pizzas are ordered with vegetarian only toppings. For those with a taste for the more exotic, everything from oysters to Cajun shrimp has also been offered up for pizza toppings in gourmet pizzerias around the country. Around the world, pizza toppings can range from eel and squid in Japan to green peas in Brazil. Favorite toppings in Russia include onions and sardines while coconut is a favorite in Costa Rica .
Staying Power. No matter how you slice it, pizza as a food definitely has staying power; in fact, pizza is so popular that October has been designated as National Pizza Month in the United States since 1987. Pizza is a 30 billion dollar annual industry with around 69,000 pizza joints doing business in the U.S. that sell close to three billion pizzas on a yearly basis. This represents nearly 1/5th of all restaurants in the country and accounts for around ten percent of all food service sales.
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