Pizza, The Final Frontier

cifer44 (58)in #food • 5 years ago (edited)

Wait a minute, what about space?! Nope, people actually aren't as interested in space as they are in pizza. Why do I say this? The yearly budget for NASA has yet to surpass 20 billion, this year's budget was $19.519 billion. What's America's pizza budget? About $37 billion dollars a year! Every day about 13% of Americans are enjoying a slice of pizza. The US population this year is roughly 326,766,748. That brings in about 42,479,677.24 Americans a day eating pizza. That's a HUGE amount of tomatoes, cheese, dough, and other toppings! This is just America! About 3 billion pizzas and 251,770,000 pounds a year! Yet Americans wonder why there is an obesity problem. Who can blame anyone though with that cheesy goodness?!

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Pizza is one of those feel-good foods, and although it's certainly not healthy it can be made healthy. I, however, have not been guilt free of this incredible creation. I used to be guilty of downing three extra-large Domino's pizzas with diced tomatoes, pineapple, and red peppers on them, some pizza dippers and bread bowls in a single night, sometimes twice a month! A serious guilty pleasure that I'd probably still do if I could. This interesting fact has made me a bit hungry for pizza, but without the satire, it might help some people realize how much of a problem obesity is in the US.