You love pizza. In the course of your life, you’ll likely eat about as much as 6,000 slices or more. But while pizza wins in your heart, here are a few facts about the pie you love so much:
It’s been here for ages
It’s been around for a thousand years, with mentions in a Latin text as far back as 997 CE in southern Italy, says Mental Floss. Given how much people love pizza, it’s bound to be around for another thousand years or more.
It was a poor man’s meal
Pizza used to be a meal put together by using leftovers and was a popular dish among the poor in 18th century Italy.
It wasn’t automatically popular
In the 20th century, pizza was sold and eaten by working class Italian immigrants who were hungry for a taste of home. These days, everyone’s got a taste for the pie that ordering pizza in Pacific Beach or wherever you are in the world is everyone’s favorite past time.
It became popular after the WWII
After American GIs came home from the war, they had a taste for pizza and that made it popular, with an entirely wider consumer base catching on. These days, the entire world has a taste for the pie and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon.
It can deter criminals
IN 2008, when robbers accosted a pizza delivery man in Florida, he threw the hot pizza he was supposed to deliver and escaped unscathed from the encounter. While woe to the waiting customer, that’s one inventive use of pizza and shows how the pie could help save someone’s life.
If all those facts made you crave for pizza, there’s no better time than now to indulge in your craving and call for pizza in Pacific Beach. Go ahead and grab happiness in a slice!
