I just love a good cheese and pepperoni pizza! It's my favorite food!
I think pepperoni pizza is my favorite food! Do you like thick crust pizza or thin?
Definitely thick crust. There's this great pizzeria that serves pizza down the street. Sometimes I get delivery when I'm just too lazy.
Haha! Me too! There's nothing better than delivery pizza and a movie on a Friday night! What other toppings do you like on pizza? I like sausage pizza too!
Me too! Sausage is one of my favorite toppings!
I know pizza is typically an Italian food. Do you know the origins of pizza? Such as when it became popular or where it was created?
History of pizza
The history of pizza begins in antiquity, when various ancient cultures produced basic flatbreads with several toppings.
A precursor of pizza was probably the focaccia, a flat bread known to the Romans as , to which toppings were then added. Modern pizza developed in Naples when tomato was added to the focaccia in the late 18th century.
The word "pizza" was first documented in 997 A.D. in Gaeta and successively in different parts of Central and Southern Italy. Pizza was mainly eaten in Italy and
on a thin crust pizza which included cheese, pepperoni and/or sausage. The pizza parlor franchised into Pizza Hut in 1959 and added a thicker crust pan pizza.
Other pizza companies also later included pan pizza. In 1989, Domino's Pizza introduced its deep dish or pan pizza. Its introduction followed market research showing that 40% of pizza customers preferred thick crusts. The new product launch cost approximately $25 million, of which $15 million was spent on new sheet metal pans with perforated bottoms.
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