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Fun Facts About a Toowoomba Pizza

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Toowoomba pizzaToowoomba Pizza is just one of the celebrated foods most favored by people all over the world. A person can have Toowoomba pizza for breakfast, lunch, or dinner as a meal. Because it is a complete food, Toowoomba pizza is a package of carbohydrates (the crust or dough), protein (the toppings), and calcium (the cheese or cheeses – if your Toowoomba pizza has a variety of cheeses for ingredients).

Toowoomba Pizza comes in a multitude of variety in flavors and themes. These can also be subjective to a place’s culture and tradition. Say for example, in Japan, their favorite pizza theme is the Mayo Jaga, while in Korea, the most favored topping is their famous Kimchi.

In addition to these facts about a Toowoomba pizza and the nutrients that you can get from Toowoomba pizza, chomp on the following fun facts about the world’s favorite food.

  • Squid ink is also a popular pizza topping in Japan.

  • More pizzas are sold during Super Bowl Sundays than any other days of the year.

  • Pizza Hut is the largest pizza seller in the world. More than 12,000 Pizza Hut restaurants operate in various cities and towns worldwide.
  • Domino’s Pizza has the most delivered pizza in the world.
  • Kids of ages between 3 and 11 favor Toowoomba pizza for lunch and dinner over other foods, according to a recent Gallup poll.
  • Toowoomba pizza in Australia is famed for its BYO (bring your own) alcohol without corkage fees.
  • And Toowoomba pizza’s pizzas are delicious sold in average prices, making it another reason why people in Australia go to Toowoomba Pizza.
  • Some Thai pizzas are topped with green ants while crickets are used in Burma.
  • Shrimps, pineapple, and barbecue toppings are favored by Australians in their Toowoomba pizza, While pepperoni is the favorite topping in America.
  • In 1889, Queen Margherita of Savoy was served a pizza during the royal dinner in her visit to Naples. White mozzarella cheese, red tomato, and green basil made the pizza which resembles the Italian flag. The pizza was then dubbed as pizza margherita.
  • Night before thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Superbowl Sunday, Night before thanksgiving, and Halloween are the days when most number of Toowoomba pizza are sold.
  • Pizza (pittsa) in Italian means pie.
  • Pizza originated in Naples, Italy. The Neapolitan cuisine created pizza over 500 years ago.
  • Men who wear muscle shirts and answers the door order pepperoni Toowoomba pizza most of the time over any other kind of Toowoomba pizza.
  • Toowoomba Pizza is most often ordered during the Weather forecast in TV News broadcast hours.
  • According to delivery statistics from our delivery folks, women are twice as likely as men to order vegetarian Toowoomba pizza, and they are better tippers.
  • Toowoomba Pizza is the number two food item most ordered for takeout after chicken, and secures the same spot in food service after hamburgers.
  • Nino’s Bellisima pizza is one of the most luxurious pizzas. The pizza is topped with lavish toppings: varieties of caviar, lobster, and crème fraiche. Sold for $1,000!
  • The average Toowoomba pizza pizzeria uses roughly 55 Toowoomba pizza boxes per day.
  • The highest-grossing single-unit independent pizzeria in the nation, Moose's Tooth Pub and Pizzeria, is in Anchorage , Alaska. Its annual sales are approximately $6 million.
  • Thirty six percent of all Toowoomba pizza orders want their Toowoomba pizza topping to be pepperoni.
  • The largest pizza ever made was 122 ft. 8 in. in diameter. The pizza needed 9,920 lb of flour, 198 lb of salt, 3968 lb of cheese, and 1,984 lb of tomato puree
  • There is a Pizza Expo held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada
  • According to studies, Eating Toowoomba pizza once a week can reduce the risk of esophageal cancer
  • Cristian Dumitru of Romania holds the world record for eating pizza, he ate over 200 pounds. But the former world record holder claims the cheese-sauce ratio was too low for what he ate to be considered pizza.
  • Each person in Australia eats about 46 Toowoomba pizza slices a year.
  • The world's fastest pizza maker can make 14 pizza in 2 minutes and 35 seconds
  • 62% of Australians prefer meat toppings on their Toowoomba pizza while 38% prefer vegetables
  • The largest pizza ever made was at the Norwood Pick 'n Pay Hypermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa. According to the Guinness Book of Records the pizza was 37.4 meters in diameter and was made using 500 kg of flour, 800 kg of cheese and 900 kg of tomato puree. This was accomplished on December 8, 1990.
  • Toowoomba Pizza accounts for more than 10 percent of all food service sales
  • Regular thin crust Toowoomba pizza is most popular in Australia, it is preferred by sixty one percent of the population, forty one percent prefer deep-dish, and eleven percent prefer extra thin crust Toowoomba pizza.
  • Saturday night is the most popular night to eat Toowoomba pizza
  • Pizza comes from the latin root word Picea which means the blackening of crust by fire.
  • In Italy there is a bill before Parliament to safeguard the traditional Italian pizza, specifying permissible ingredients and methods of processing (e.g., excluding frozen pizzas). Only pizzas which followed these guidelines could be called "traditional Italian pizzas", at least in Italy.

As you can see, our favorite Toowoomba pizza treat is not just richly delectable bit is also rich in fun facts and history.

Check out our easy home-style Toowoomba pizza recipes.


 

Top 10 Most Bizarre Toowoomba Pizza Toppings

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Toowoomba Pizza is an all time favorite treat. You get to feed your tummy without getting bloated. Now, there are multitude of pizza themes and flavors. Hawaiian and Pepperoni are just two of the famous and favorite. While many are meat lovers, there are also vegetarian pizzas which are also favored by those who are on their diet watch.

So we get to enjoy these common pizza flavors with the most common pizza toppings, herbs, vegetables, and garnish. The commonly used meats for toppings are pepperoni, meatballs, ham, bacon, salami, sausage, tuna, squid, prawn, salmon, shrimps, and anchovies. And we normally get to savor mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, pineapples, oregano, olives, onions, zucchini, and parsley.

Some people aren’t yet fulfilled with the variety of pizza flavors they tried, neither their taste buds are with multitude of toppings and garnishes, served from the top and renowned restaurants and Toowoomba  pizza parlors. To find that fulfillment, a few have experimented pizza flavors and themes, using out of the ordinary toppings.

Let us see the top 10 bizarre Toowoomba pizza toppings our folks use to create another unique variety of all time favorite food. You might want to try them too.

1.     Toowoomba pizza  Frog’s Legs. It’s only the frog’s legs though, thank goodness, not the whole poor animal’s body topped on this controversial pizza. Definitely weird and doesn’t look appetizing, but many have tried!


Squid Ink. Seriously, a squid ink for a pizza topping? Some people really like to experiment a lot!                    

3.  Fried Egg. Yes, a sunny side up fried egg for pizza topping. Everything looks normal, except for this bizarre topping which makes it repulsive yet intriguing.                   

4.  Kimchi. Kimchi is a traditional Korean food made of fermented cabbage, which is really super spicy! It smells too. The topping tastes so strong you’ll forget you are eating pizza.                                  

5.   Burger and Fries. We love burger and fries combo, and is sure a well loved happy meal, but to use both for pizza toppings? Imagine how weird it tastes, plus the loads of calories you get!                            

6. Mini tacos, onion rings, potato skins, jalapeno poppers, and mozzarella sticks. Wonder how these toppings blend in your taste buds? You’d rather eat the toppings piece after piece. Another calorie loader.                    

7.    Chocolates. Kids’ and girls’ favorite sweet treat. Chocolates can be a good sandwich spread too, but not a must try for a pizza topping.                     

8.   Strawberry, Mango, Kiwi fruit, and Banana. Sure these fruits are yummy and healthy. How would a pizza topped with these fruits taste like? It looks good though. Weird but inviting.                         

9.  Grapes and Pickles. Sweet yet sour fruits. But doesn’t the pizza look mouth-watering? I hope grapes and pickles makes a tasty topping for a pizza though, after all this run down of top 10 most bizarre Toowoomba pizza toppings are mostly of weird toppings which makes a weird looking and not so appealing pizza.                        

1  Caviar and crème fraiche. A thousand bucks worth pizza for its luxurious toppings. Another controversial pizza topping; and a lavish one.                                       

You too can have your Toowoomba pizza topped with toppings and garnishes of your choice, whichever satisfies your taste buds. However, make sure you don’t get too much of calorie-rich foods for toppings, and you can neutralize it with fruits or veggies that make a good topping or garnish.

Top 10 Most Favorite Toowoomba Pizza Toppings

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Toowoomba pizzaToowoomba Pizza comes in multitude of varieties of themes, toppings, and flavors. To satisfy our cravings, hunger, and taste buds, pizzerias also come up with additions to the common pizza theme (crust, tomato sauce/paste, cheese, basil, and pepperoni). Today, there are quite hundreds of additions to the themes we knew, and new flavors and toppings are also tried on.

Pizzerias all over the world make pizzas subjective to the country’s local foods, regional tastes, and cultural and traditional preferences. The ingredients and toppings used are based on the themes they come up with. In the US, Italian cuisine is well loved, so the Neapolitan original flavor is kept among the other kinds and themes. In Australia, pepperoni is not really a well preferred topping for most Australians for their Toowoomba  pizza.   

Let us see the top 10 favorite Toowoomba pizza toppings that even the evolution of the hundreds of kinds of Toowoomba pizza nowadays still use.

1.       Extra cheese. Parmesan and fresh mozzarella are just two of the widely preferred extra cheese on their Toowoomba pizza. Parmesan cheese is high in protein and has lower fats than mozzarella cheese. But both of them are rich in calcium.

                      
 Pineapple. The fruit’s sweet and a little hint of sour taste complete the savory entrée, which is why pineapple remains a favorite topping. Most Australians prefer pineapple among other fruits and garnishes for toppings, and this is one of the number 3 Aussie favorites.

3. Mushrooms. Not only because mushrooms became a standard Toowoomba pizza topping since over a hundred of years ago, but also because this protein rich vegetable does not have a very strong taste and smell that blends well with the other toppings, making a delectable Toowoomba pizza.                                 

4.       Pepperoni. America’s top favorite meat topping. The juicy and tender sensation makes the pepperoni an all time favorite.                                   

5.       Ham is protein rich and has lower fats compared to other meaty toppings. This sure can go along with pineapple. Ham and pineapple combo has captured the taste buds of most Toowoomba pizza lovers. The Hawaiian theme is one amongst the few original kinds of Toowoomba pizza after pepperoni.                            

6.       Shrimp. The seafood theme is another original Toowoomba pizza theme. Shrimp is the prominent topping for this theme, in spite of this fact, shrimp sweeps the taste buds of the most seafood pizza lovers. Shrimp is another one of the top 3 favorite Toowoomba pizza toppings in Australia.            

7.       Bacon. Another protein rich meaty topping good for those meat lovers. A flavorful delight that earns its place in the top 10 most favorite Toowoomba pizza toppings.                                     

8.   Green Peppers. The aroma, fresh crisp and green color makes the green peppers a favorite to all. It also neutralizes the meaty toppings, plus it is good for the lungs.                                

9. Onions. The hint of sweetness and the aroma neutralizes everything which makes a flavorful delight. 

10.   Black Olives. An ideal Toowoomba pizza topping that adds flavor, color, and variety that go very well with other favorite toppings.                                         

The flavorful, savory uniqueness of each of these toppings make them the top 10 favorite Toowoomba pizza topping. You just can’t miss them on your Toowoomba pizza treat, plus you get a dose of protein, calcium, and other essential nutrients that you need to get by a day.