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9th February 2017
11:57am GMT

The first recorded use of the word "pizza" was in 997 AD
However, pizza historians (that's a thing, right?) theorise that it wasn't until late 18th century when the food-geniuses in Naples added tomatoes into the mix, as prior to that the pizza toppings were almost exclusively cheese, garlic and... lard.
Gross.
The most expensive pizza in the world costs just shy of €10,000
No, that isn't a typo. Topped with three types of caviar, Norwegian lobster and hand picked grains of pink Australian sea-salt (?!), this pizza can only be made in your home, and only if you happen to live south-western Italian town of Salerno, and you give them three days warning to properly prepare the dough.
Oh, and if you happen to have more money than the Sultan Of Brunei.
Those who eat more pizza have been shown to be less susceptible to certain types of cancer
While there is still some debate over whether or not those who simply stick to a generally healthier Mediterranean diet, or if it's the heightened presence of lycopene (the type of tomatoes used in certain pizzas), studies have shown that Italians who eat more pizza have lower incidences of cardiovascular diseases and digestive tract cancers than those who eat less pizza.
Like we needed another reason to eat more pizza!
Toppings around the world go beyond just pepperoni and cheese
While the options available to go on your pizza from your local take-away can already be overwhelming, the choices when you go abroad are... how do we put this?... eclectic. Local pizza favorites include horse-meat (Denmark), coconut (Costa Rica), mushy peas and raisins (Brazil), peanuts and bananas and curry powder (Sweden), and smoked reindeer (Finland, poor Rudolph!).
But even with all of those options, there is still the eternal debate to be answered:

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