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(CNN) - The time has come for you to wrap yourself in the warm and sticky hug of cheese, to settle into a heavenly variety of ingredients and bite a crispy crust. Yes sirs! October is the national pizza month in the United States.
Now, this celebration should not be confused with National Pizza Day (February 9), National Cheese Pizza Day (September 5), Pepperoni National Pizza Day (September 20) and Day National Sausage Pizza (October 11). This country does love pizza.
Here are some absurd facts about pizza to feed this delicious month.
- You can be a 'pizza-holic': researchers say some foods are addictive
Could be addictive
The seemingly harmful pizza was classified as the food most associated with eating behaviors similar to the addictive ones, according to a study. Its delicious combination of fats and carbohydrates, along with its texture, color and complementary flavor, make it very attractive.
Artificial intelligence wants to get hold of pizzas
Is it that there is nothing sacred anymore? The scope of artificial intelligence (AI) has expanded to the art of pizza. Researchers have discovered a way to teach an AI system how to make a pizza by looking at an image.
However, pizza is just the beginning. If a computer can discover how to properly place pizza ingredients, it can better understand how to prepare other foods, or eventually be able to put clothes in an outfit, project leader Dimitrios Papadopoulos told CNN Business.
Brexit threatens the existence of pizza in Britain
Regardless of your position on brexit, this fact is frankly worrisome.
The Domino's pizza chain has been accumulating millions of euros in ingredients in the event that Britain abruptly leaves the European Union. The company imports about a third of its ingredients from outside Britain, so it fears that a brexit without agreement can significantly disrupt its supply of ingredients.
So the chain has a lot of supplies, including frozen chicken, pineapple, tomato sauce and ... tuna?
Pizza has been a military intelligence tool
In the late 1960s, the 113 U.S. Army Intelligence Intelligence unit. UU. He used the tastiest trick in his strategy book: fake pizza deliveries, to spy on journalists and politicians, according to The New Yorker.
- Pizza Hut changes its “Original Pan Pizza” for the first time in 40 years
People love to set pizza records
The Guinness World Records have registered a seemingly endless list of pizza records. These are just a few:
Longest pizza delivery: in 2006, Paul Fenech traveled almost 20,000 kilometers from Madrid to Wellington, New Zealand, to deliver a pizza to Niko Apostolakis. CNN could not find any record of whether the pizza was frozen when it arrived there or if Apostolakis really ate it.
The most expensive pizza available on the market: covered with white Stilton cheese, French foie gras and truffles, two types of caviar and 24-carat gold sheets, located on a bed of black squid ink dough, this pizza will cost you 2,700 Dollars. If you are looking for a stack of money in the form of pizza, you can find this delicacy in Industry Kitchen in New York.
Pizza delivery at higher altitude on land: Good news! If you can reach the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, you could convince Pizza Hut to give you a victory meal. They have done it before, after all.
In 2016, the general manager of Pizza Hut Africa, Randall Blackford, and a group of employees, led by experienced guides, walked to the top of Kilimanjaro with a pepperoni pizza in tow.
The feat was done to mark the opening of the first Pizza Hut store in Tanzania and the 100th country in which the company had opened a restaurant.
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