National Pizza Month, which started in 1987, is held every October. So grab a slice and celebrate! Here are some fun pizza facts from Thinkquest.org:
· Americans eat around 350 slices of pizza each second, or 100 acres per day.
· Americans spend $30 billion every year on pizza.
· There are 61,269 pizza parlors in the United States.
· Americans eat 23 pounds, or 46 slices, every year.
· 3 billion pizzas are sold each year in the United States.
· In America, the most popular ethnic food is Italian.
· 36% of all pizza orders include pepperoni. Americans consume around 251,770,000 pounds of pepperoni every year.
