February 9th is National Pizza Day! Pizza for dinner anyone?? Pizza is one of my favourite foods, so that makes National Pizza Day one of my favourite food holidays!
We love to make pizza in our house. Kodi makes the dough up to a day in advance and I like to put the pizza’s together. Teamwork! If you feel like making your own, you can check out Kodi’s fail-proof pizza dough.
To celebrate National Pizza Day, we made a Pizza Blanco and a traditional Margaretta. What is your favourite pizza topping combination? Let me know in the comments!
On behalf of National Pizza Day, here are some fun facts you didn’t know about pizza:
- The most popular pizza topping is pepperoni and 251,770,000 lbs of pepperoni are consumed every year
- There is a mathematical theorem named after pizza. It’s called the Pizza theorem, it states the equality of two areas that arise when one partitions a disk in a certain way. Who thought that pizza would contribute to basic geometry.
- The Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada. In 1962 by Sam Panopoulos, a native of Greece who was running a pizzeria in Ontario Canada. Bored with only having three toppings available mushroom, bacon, or pepperoni he took down a can of pineapples from the top shelf and decided to throw it on pizza. The rest is history.
- Dough-spinning has its own professional-level sporting event. At the World Pizza Championships you would be competing against the best in five competitive events Freestyle Acrobatic Dough Tossing, Fastest Dough, Largest Dough Stretch, Fastest Pizza Box Folding and the Pizza Triathlon. There’s also the masters division of Freestyle Acrobatic Dough Tossing.