It turns out that in order to lose weight, you need to eat pizza every day ...
Pizza is one of the most recognizable and popular dishes in the world. Every minute several thousand pieces of pizza are sold in the world, but few of its buyers know how many interesting facts are associated with it.
1. The most expensive pizza in the world costs 8.3 thousand euros
For those who are bored "Margarita" or "Calzone", there is an exclusive version of pizza, which is prepared exclusively in one restaurant in the world. The establishment is located in a small town in the south of Italy called Agropoli. Pizza "Louis XII" is prepared only from products of the best quality: wheat flour of a rare variety, red salt Murray River and three types of roe - lobster, lobster and tuna. It is sprinkled with mozzarella buffalo cheese and served along with expensive cognac. The price of one pizza with a diameter of 20 cm - 8,3 thousand euros.
2. Perfumers managed to recreate the smell of pizza in perfume
The American brand Demeter Fragrance produces unusual perfumes with mono-aromas - grass after the rain, library, funeral home .... Several years ago, the brand combined notes of tomato, greens, wheat, cheese and got delicious spirits that are regularly bought by all fans of this dough product.
3. Pizza was invented not by Italians
Italians are proud of their national dish and love to tell legends about how it was invented. Basically, all the existing versions boil down to the fact that the pizza was invented by the shepherd farmers, as a way to save money at dinner and not to waste time cooking at the stake. The official version, created by historians, insists that the first pizza was cooked by the chefs of the Greek nobility and was called plakuntos, which in translation means "flat baked dish". This event happened about 2 thousand years ago.
4. Pizza helps to lose weight
The Japanese invented a kind of pizza, which helps to get rid of excess weight. The base of the dough contains a large amount of charcoal, which today is considered almost the ideal means for weight loss and detoxification. It prevents the formation of fatty layer and removes toxins from the body. The taste of a dish such an unusual additive does not affect.
5. Pizza created an economic phenomenon
In the US, the cost of pizza for 50 years to the nearest cent was the same as the fare in the New York City metro. This economic law was called the "pizza principle": today it, like the notorious "burger index", helps visitors to orient themselves in the high cost of living in this or that city of America, based on the requests of local restaurateurs for this dish.
6. Pizza became the first purchase made through the Internet
Developers of the World Wide Web have used their brainchild as a huge encyclopedia and a tool that blurs the boundaries in communication. At the same time, the first official purchase in the network was not at all the purchase of a book or a card to call friends from another country. Historically, it was a pizza order with pepperoni and cheese on the house.
7. Pizza pushes stars to charity ...
The American singer Lady Gaga once was late for her own concert and noticed that the fans waiting for her were seriously hungry. Grieving over them, she spent 1 thousand dollars to deliver pizza for them so that the fans could regain strength before the performance.
8. ... and criminals - for theft
Serial killer Philippe Workman sent 32 people to the next world, and got caught stealing a piece of pizza. Under the California law, he was given the last supper before the death penalty - and Philip asked to cook a vegetarian pizza. But she did not, having taken from the guards a promise that she would be handed over to the homeless.
9. Pizza can be printed on a 3D printer
NASA spent 4 years developing a model of an unusual 3D printer, which will go to the orbital station. He will prepare pizza for astronauts, independently recycling waste and working on solar energy batteries. It is expected that in early 2018 the printer will be delivered to space.
10. Pizza is delivered to Alaska residents by plane
Because of frequent fogs and rains, it's not so easy for Alaska residents to order pizza. Here it delivers a plane, so pizzerias are waiting for a large number of orders, in order to pay back the cost of aviation fuel and pilot services.