15/05/2026
NATIONAL PIZZA PARTY DAY
Each year on the third Friday in May, millions of pizza lovers across the world join in enjoying the qualities of pizza on National Pizza Party Day. After all, is a party really a party without pizza?
Random Pizza Facts
* In ancient Greece, the Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs, and cheese, which some attribute to the beginning of the pizza.
* In Byzantine Greek, the word was spelled "ฯฮฏฯฮฑ," pita, meaning pie.
* The Romans developed a pastry with a sheet of dough topped with cheese and honey, then flavoured with bay leaves.
* Our modern pizza had its beginning in Italy as the Neapolitan flatbread.
* The original pizza used only mozzarella cheese, mainly the highest quality buffalo mozzarella variant. It was produced in the surroundings of Naples.
* An estimated 2 billion pounds of pizza cheese was produced in the United States in 1997.
* The first United States pizza establishment opened in New York's Little Italy in 1905.
* The largest pizza ever made, according to Guinness World Records, weighed 26,883 pounds. It was made in Norwood, South Africa, on December 8, 1990.
