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PIZZA

Gennaro Lombardi's an Italian restaurant on Spring Street in New York City, served America’s first pizza in 1905 (or 1895).

The first Pizza Hut restaurant was in Wichita, Kansas.

There are more than 60,000 pizza restaurants in the U.S. serving about 2 1/2 billion pizzas a year.
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The Tombstone Tap in Medford, Wisconsin was located across the street from a cemetery.  The owners, Ron Simek and his brother, began selling frozen pizza in the bar.  Their pizzas became popular and the brothers when into the frozen pizza business - They named the product Tombstone Pizza.

Want a large pizza?  Order 'The Big One' at Mama Lena's Pizza House in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania (suburban Pittsburgh).  For $99.99 you get a 3 foot x 4 foot pizza made with 20 pounds of dough, 1 gallon of pizza sauce and 15 pounds of cheese.


 

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