Since the early 1960s, the price of pizza has uncannily matched the price of a New York subway ride. Known as the “Pizza Principle” or the “Pizza-Subway Connection,” this “economic law” is generally accurate. Fact source...
Baked in 2012, the world’s largest pizza measured 131 feet in diameter and weighed 51,257 pounds. It used 19,800 pounds of gluten-free flour, 10,000 pounds of tomato sauce, 8,800 pounds of mozzarella cheese, 1, 488 pounds of margarine, 551 pounds of rock salt,...
Alexandre Dumas, the author of The Three Musketeers, traveled to Naples in 1835 and noted that the Neapolitan poor ate nothing but pizza in the winter. Fact source...