International toppings
(According to
TheDailyMeal.com)
Japan: Sizzling hot mayo with potato and bacon pieces. Or squid, according to pizza.com.
Brazil: Tomato sauce, raw grated tuna, and onions, also sliced tomatoes or ketchup instead of pizza sauce with green peas, carrots, beets, and potato sticks.
Moscow: The Mockba Pizza unites sardines, tuna, mackerel, and salmon, garnished with onions and herbs and sometimes caviar. Served cold.
Sweden: Banana, Curry, ham.
London specialty: Haggis, dark kale, black chile, jam and mozzarella.
South Korea: Shrimp and sweet potato with a cookie dough-stuffed crust and blueberry dipping sauce on the side.
Finland: Smoked reindeer, chanterelle, and onions. Reindeer pizza is also found in China.
India traditional: Chicken, black stone flower lichen, yogurt, cream, tomato, onion, garlic, ginger, chili pepper, coconut.
Offbeat American: Spinach and artichoke; bacon and egg; sweet potato, kielbasa, and red onions.
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American Pizza by the numbers
* 36 percent of all pizza orders include pepperoni
* Regular thin crust is most popular in America, it is preferred by 61% of the population, 14% prefer deep* dish, and 11% prefer extra thin crust
* 62% of Americans prefer meat toppings while 38% prefer vegetables
* Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetables on their pizza.
* Mozzarella cheese accounts for nearly 80 percent of Italian cheese production in the United States.
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Expensive Pizza
What has been called "the world's most extravagant pizza" is available at New York's Nino's Bellissima restaurant. Topped with six varieties of caviar, chives, fresh lobster and creme fraiche, this 12-inch pie, called the "Luxury Pizza," retails at $1,000 (or $125 a slice).
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