True or False: Test Your Skills On Some Fun Facts About Pizza

How much do you really know about your favorite Italian dish?

It is no secret that pizza is one of the most popular food dishes for many people all across the world. Looking back on our childhood, when it came time to throw a birthday party and invite over our friends, or simply have a fun game night with our family, pizza was the go-to meal that we could rely on to have a delicious, satisfying night in.

Over time, this classic dish has been spun and improved by some of the best chefs all across the world with their own unique ingredients―sardines, eggplant, cranberries, you name it―but when it comes to finding the perfect meal for a relaxing night in, nothing is better than good ol’ classic pizza from your favorite pizza shop.

Because pizza has become such a staple meal in our culture, and easily tops the list of “favorite foods” for many people around the world, there is a lot of history and facts related to this delectable dish. To help you learn a little bit more about the mass phenomenon that is the pizza pie, we have put together some fun and interesting true or false questions that will truly test your knowledge on how much you know about your favorite food.

Read over the facts below and see if you can correctly guess whether or not these statements are true or false. Once you have compiled your answers, check them with the facts below!

Questions:
1. TRUE or FALSE: There is no such thing as a traditional Italian Pizza?

2. TRUE or FALSE: The most expensive pizza ever created cost over $10,000!

3. TRUE or FALSE: The world’s largest pizza was large enough to feed over 5,200 people (totaling 10 slices of pizza each!)

4. After Italy, the United States is the second best place for pizza.

5. The most popular pizza topping, by far, is pepperoni.

Answers:
1. FALSE: In Italy there is a bill before Parliament to safeguard the traditional Italian pizza, specifying permissible ingredients and methods of processing (e.g., excluding frozen pizzas). Only pizzas which followed these guidelines could be called “traditional Italian pizzas”, at least in Italy.

2. FALSE: Most expensive pizza created was made by the restaurateur Domenico Crolla who created a $2,745.00 priced Valentine pizza which included toppings such as sunblush-tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon, medallions of venison, edible gold, lobster marinated in the finest cognac and champagne-soaked caviar.

3. TRUE: In 2005, the record for the world’s largest rectangular pizza was set in Iowa Falls, Iowa. Pizza restaurant owner Bill Bahr and a team of 200 helpers created the 129 X 98.6-foot pizza from 4,000 pounds of cheese, 700 pounds of sauce, and 9,500 sections of crust. The enormous pie was enough to feed the town’s 5,200 residents ten slices of pizza each.

4. FALSE: Outside of Italy, Argentina is considered to be the second best place for Italian food, especially pizza. Over sixty per cent of Buenos Aires’ residents are of Italian descent, which is evidenced by the massive number of pizzerias lining the city’s beautiful streets. But America may be a close second or third also (especially pizza from Sal’s).

5. TRUE: Thirty six percent of all pizza orders want their pizza topping to be pepperoni, far and away the most popular pizza topping! We consume around 251,770,000 pounds of pepperonis every year.

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