Americans love pizza. In fact, we spend $37 billion a year on the sauce-and-cheese-topped flatbread, accounting for a third of the global market, according to the USDA.
More than 40 million Americans eat pizza on any given day, and today, one in six males between the ages of 2 and 39 will eat pizza for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Although we didn’t invent pizza, Americans consume more of it than any other country.
Take a look at how this popular pie evolved from an inexpensive Italian food in the 1700s to a staple of the American diet.