Pizza yana daya daga cikin shahararrun shahararrun duniya ta haka ba abin mamaki ba ne cewa yawancin da'awar sun kirkiro pizza na farko na duniya. Anan akwai abubuwa masu ban sha'awa guda goma game da tarihin pizza:
- Abincin da ya dace da pizza --- wato launi da tanda-gurasa mai gurasa da nau'i daban-daban - an shirya su tun daga zamanin Neolithic da kuma kusan kusan kowane yanki na duniya.
- Duk da haka, masu yin burodi a Naples sun shirya tasa farko don a san su "pizza" a cikin 1600s. An sayar da wannan abinci na titi ga matalautan Neapolitans waɗanda suka ciyar da yawa daga lokacin su a waje da gidajensu guda daya. Wadannan Neapolitans za su sayi nau'in pizza kuma su ci shi yayin da suke tafiya, wanda ya jagoranci marubutan Italiyanci na yau da kullum don kiran halaye masu cin nama "abin banƙyama."
- A shekara ta 1889, Umberto I da Sarauniya Margherita sun ziyarci Italiya ta farko kuma ta hanyar Naples. Maganar ya nuna cewa sun yi rawar jiki na cin abinci na yau da kullum na Faransa kuma Sarauniyar ta nemi irin pizza don gwadawa. Wani mai burodi mai suna Raffaele Esposito na Da Pietro Pizzeria (wanda yanzu ake kira Pizzeria Brandi) ya kirkiro pizza tare da miyagun tumatir, da fararen mozzarella, da kuma basil, don nuna launukan launin Italiya. Sarauniya Margherita ta yarda da wannan pizza kuma nan da nan ya zama sanannen pizza margherita.
- Kodayake Sarauniyar ta ba ta albarkatu na sarauta ga pizza, ba a san pizza ba a waje na Naples har zuwa marigayi 1800, lokacin da Italiya suka fara tafiya zuwa Amirka kuma suna ci kayan nasu da kuma girke-girke tare da su.
- A shekara ta 1905, Gennaro Lombardi ya bude pizzeria na farko a Amurka, ya sayar da pizza a kantin magajinsa a Manhattan, wanda ke cikin wani yanki na Italiyanci. Lombardi na har yanzu yana aiki a yau kuma, ko da yake ba a cikin wurin 1905 ba, gidan abincin yana da tanda guda kamar yadda ya yi a 1905.
- A cikin shekarun 1930, kamfanonin pizza ne suka farfado. Mutanen Italiyanci sun buɗe pizzerias a fadin Manhattan, New Jersey, da kuma Boston. A 1943, Ike Sewell ya bude Uno a Birnin Chicago, inda ya kawo pizza na style Chicago. Duk da haka, duk da sanannen shahararsa, pizza shi ne mahimmancin abinci na mutum.
- Bayan yakin duniya na biyu, GI sun dawo gida daga Turai, suna so su dandana pizza da suke yawan cin abinci a duk tekun. A shekarar 1945, Ira Nevin, soja mai dawowa, ya kirkiro wutar lantarki ta Baker ta Pride, wanda ya sa yan kasuwa su yi amfani da ganyayyaki ko kuma itace. Taverns da gidajen cin abinci suka fara sayar da farashin pizzas da yawa.
- Gwanin gaske na pizzas ya faru da zuwan pizza sarkar. Pizza Hut ya bude a 1958, Kafar Kaisar ya bude a shekarar 1959, Domino ya bude a shekara ta 1960, kuma ya bude Papa John a shekarar 1989, kowannensu yana da ra'ayin cewa zasu sayar da pizzas ga talakawa.
- A shekara ta 1957, Celentano ya fara sayar da pizzas daskarewa kuma pizzas ya zama mafi shahararren duk abinci mai daskarewa.
- Yau, kasuwancin pizza ya kawo kimanin dolar Amirka miliyan 32, cikin ku] a] en, tare da sayar da pizzas miliyan uku, a kowace shekara, a {asar Amirka.