10 Fun Facts About Pizza You Probably Didn’t Know

Ah, yummy pizza! Pizza is an easy to eat on the go dish that people love all over the world. It’s a versatile dish that can be perfectly adapted to suit every taste bud.  In the Paracas restaurant scene also!! Not many know the countless fascinating facts about pizza. Let’s take a look at the top 10 unexpected facts about this beloved dish.

Fact #1. The First Ever Pizza

Usually, whenever we think of pizza, we think of Italy. However, the origin of this yummy food dates back to the ancient times of 997 AD. It is a Lation-originated word “pinsa” meaning to flatten out. Egyptians and Greeks used to cook pizzas in the shape of a flatbread with olive oil and some spices on top. The modern day pizza gradually evolved in the 18th century in Naples, Italy where tomatoes were added to it.

Fact #2. The Shape of Pizza was Square

Even though we find round pizzas all over the world, the very first shape of pizzas was square or rectangle. In Naples, Italy, people used to cook it with flatbread and topped with local ingredients like cheese and tomatoes to make it affordable among working-class families.

Fact #3. Pizza was once delivered to the International Space Station

Pizza is one such fulfilling food that was even delivered to the Russian astronaut Yuri Usachov when he was on the International Space Station. In 2001, a six-inch pizza delivery was done via a resupply rocket for which the Russian Space Agency paid more than a million bucks. The astronaut had the honour of eating pizza while in orbit.

Fact #4. A Pizza Cost $12,000

The Italian Master Chef Renato Viola once cooked the most expensive pizza in the world. The Louis XIII in Salerno, Italy holds this tag of costing a pizza about $12,000. This expensive pizza was not an ordinary pizza, but a dough aged perfectly and topped with ingredients like a lobster from Norway, three types of caviar, cliento, buffalo mozzarella cheese, pink Australian sea salt from Murray River, and squilla mantis.

Fact #5. There’s a Pizza Museum

You can actually visit a pizza Museum in Philadelphia. It has the largest assemblage of pizza-related mementos in the world. 

Fact #6. The US is the largest consumer of Pizza

Americans truly love pizza. They love it so much that they eat on average about 350 slices of pizza every second.

Fact #7. Pizza has a math theorem

There’s a Pizza theorem in elementary geometry where it states the equality of two zones arising from the partitioning with a disk.

Fact #8. The biggest pizza records 1200 square metre

The largest pizza in the Guinness World Records was achieved in Los Angeles. In January, 2023 a diameter of 122 feet 8” pizza was made.

Fact #9. The famous Margherita Pizza was named after Queen Margherita

In 1889, during the Queen’s visit to Pizza tried the simple dish, Pizza eaten by the locals. She fell in love with the deliciousness of the pizza and Margherita Pizza was cooked to honour of Queen Margherita featuring the colours of the Italian flag with red tomatoes, basil leaves and white mozzarella.

Fact #10. 9th February is the World Pizza Day

Order your favourite pizza on World Pizza Day from Waiki‘s , the best Pizza Restaurant Paracas.

Eat Pizza From Waiki Pizza Bar ParacasWalk into the Pizza Bar to witness dazzling decor and funky music. Enjoy the night along with delectable homemade burgers, veggie food, pizza, and brownies!