Today is: Pizza Pie Day
Pizza Pie Day, also commonly known as National Pizza Day and National Pizza Pie Day, is a day for eating pizza. Pie-shaped flatbreads with toppings were first eaten in Naples in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At the time, this coastal city was not part of Italy, but its own kingdom. The working poor, or lazzaroni, lived outside or in small homes, and needed cheap food. Pizza consisted of flatbread with toppings such as tomatoes, garlic, cheese, anchovies and oil, and it was sold by street vendors and informal restaurants, and eaten for any meal.
Pizza did not gain a foothold in Italy at the time, and it was in the United States, where Neapolitans immigrated, that pizza gained in popularity.
Source: Checkiday.com
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