Pizza Facts

In 2012, Pizza Hut released a perfume that smells like a box of fresh pizza.

Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately 350 slices per second!.

More than 100 pizza box-related patents have been issued since 1976!

Pepperoni is America's most popular pizza topping, appearing on about half of all pizzas sold in the United States.

In India, pickled ginger, minced mutton, and a cottage cheese like substances are popular pizza toppings.

There's a pizza company in Alaska called 'Airport Pizza' that delivers by plane to remote villages. Based in Nome, they fly pizzas to communities with no road access, with delivery sometimes included for bulk orders to nearby villages.

350 slices of pizza are consumed each second in USA.

In 2007, a customer kindly gave a $10,000 tip to a Pizza Hut waitress after hearing she had financial troubles which had forced her to drop out of college.

In 2011, an elderly woman from Memphis who ordered pizza everyday for 3 years straight was saved by a delivery woman when she failed to place an order for 3 days.

In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to your door.

In 2005, the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine and joked that Finns ate “marinated reindeer”. In 2008, Finland won an international pizza contest, beating Italy. The name of the winning pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi” and it was made of smoked reindeer.