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unusual facts about Pizza



Alan Ruscoe

In Germany, he played "Bob" the pizza-boy-eating alien for the T-Online television and poster campaign.

Amato's

The company also cans its spaghetti and pizza sauces for sale in Hannaford supermarkets.

These locations, found mostly in Irving Oil/Circle K convenience stores, sell Amato's pizza, pasta, salads, and sandwiches, but fewer specialty items.

Apple IIc Plus

Codenames for the machine while under development included: Raisin, Pizza, Adam Ant.

Augustine's Pizza

Augustine’s Pizza is the preferred frozen pizza of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Pittsburgh Pirates

Beginning in the spring of 2011 Augustine’s Pizza was contracted to supply Aramark concessions at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball.

Balance bar

The sale was seen as part of a larger restructuring effort by Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld to sell underperforming brands and refocus on Kraft's core of dairy and pizza products.

Baseball superstition

Others include routines such as eating only chicken before a game like Wade Boggs, Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander eating three crunchy taco supremes (no tomato), a cheesy gordita crunch and a Mexican pizza (no tomato) before every start from Taco Bell.

Bass to Mouth

After they tell him that he must fix this or forfeit that which they promised him, Cartman devises a plan to reward the student body for their recent state exam scores with a pizza party, at which they will feed the students pizza laced with laxatives and Arby's horsey sauce, thus causing the entire student body to suffer the same misfortune as Pete and Jenny, diffusing the torment they experienced.

Bitterne Park

There has been a recent boom in take-away restaurants in Bitterne Triangle, including a fish and chip shop, a kebab house, Chinese restaurants, an American pizza house, Thai restaurants and an Indian restaurant.

Blake Anderson

While working as a pizza delivery driver, Anderson attended Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, where he met future co-star Adam DeVine.

Brian Douglas Wells

The basic synopsis of this man's story is also very similar to the film 30 Minutes or Less, where a pizza delivery boy is called to deliver pizzas to a remote part of town.

Chreese

There are currently four different styles of Chreese powder mixes with a modified version for children: "Cheddar Style" and gluten-free cheddar style (used in grilled cheese sandwiches), "Mozzarella Style" (used on pizza), "Gluten Free Alfredo Style", and "KIDz Chreese" (less garlic and bright orange color).

Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars

The original game's soundtracks contained songs by the bands Bad Religion and The Offspring has been removed, as well as many of the real-world stores in game, due to licensing issues, though many retain the iconic designs of copyrighted stores (e.g. Pizza Parlor using Pizza Hut's iconic "Red Roof" prior to 1999).

Cristy's Pizza

Cristy's Pizza is locally owned independent pizza company headquartered in Lancaster, Ohio that offers a variety of pizza, subs, and salads that is consistently ranked as one of the Top 100 Independent pizza chains in the United States.

Devil May Cry: The Animated Series

Known for his cocky banter when on a job, he is fond of strawberry sundaes and pizza without olives.

Eamonn Doran's

The venue also had an adjacent pizza parlour which was part-owned by Huey Morgan of the Fun Lovin' Criminals

Ellio's Pizza

When McCain foods acquired Ellio's in 1988, the frozen pizza brand was outselling all competitors in the New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia markets.

Giovanni Strangio

Strangio returned to Germany where he ran "Tonis Pizza" in Kaarst in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Jan Richman

In 2001, Jan Richman and Beth Lisick presented a benefit "Poetry & Pizza," by 9x9 Industries.

Jerry's

Jerry's Subs & Pizza, a fast casual sandwich and pizza restaurant chain in the Washington, D.C. area

Jiaozi

In the 2012 series adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in the episode "Never Say Xever", a blind Japanese Noodle chef, Mr. Murakami, in a gesture of gratitude to the turtles, offers them a free meal and asks what their favorite dish is, they say "Pizza", so he comes up with "Pizza Gyoza", (Gyoza dumplings with Pizza toppings as fillings).

John Schnatter

John sold his 1972 Camaro Z28, purchased used pizza equipment for $1,600, and removed a broom closet in the rear of the business from which he sold pizzas.

Joseph V. Perry

It was on the series Everybody Loves Raymond that he got his biggest break, when he gained the role of Nemo, a pizza restaurant owner.

Mark Mullet

He is a small business owner, owning Zeeks Pizza and Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream in Issaquah.

Mason Neely

He is a member of sacred music collective Bifrost Arts and has served as a composer, arranger and musical director for the BBC, RTÉ and S4C networks and scored advertisements for Best Buy, Cisco Systems, Domino's Pizza and Crispin, Porter and Bogusky, as well as the award winning 2007 feature Low and Behold.

Middleton Tract, California

Other notable personages who owned cabins in the Middleton Tract include famed Palo Alto Architect Birge Clark, Round Table Pizza founder Bill Larson, Stanford University Professor of Education Avlarez, and one of the Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Corporation's founders Asa Dotzler.

Minto, New Brunswick

Currently, Minto has a Tim Hortons, Twins Pizza, Silver Dragon, Omega, Station House Pub, The Sun Rise Diner and Myjakins.

Murder of Suzanne Jovin

After dropping off the penultimate draft of her senior essay on the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, at approximately 4:15pm on Friday December 4, 1998, Suzanne Jovin began preparations for a pizza-making party she had organized at the Trinity Lutheran Church on 292 Orange St. for the local chapter of Best Buddies, an international organization that brings together students and mentally disabled adults.

Mystic Pizza

In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Alien from L.A.," Mystic Pizza is used an example of a feminine film.

Olympus Partners

Among the firm’s most notable current and prior investments are Tank Holding Corp., Centerplate, Churchill Financial, National Pizza Corporation, Phoenix Services, The Waddington Group, Ann's House of Nuts, Ariel Re, Entrust, K-MAC Enterprises, Nebraska Book Company, New Vision Television, Symmetry Medical, Tempest Re, and TravelCenters of America.

Paul Nakad

After the release of the movie version of the Pizza series, Nakad left the Pizza team to focus on his rap career releasing Hard for a Rapper in 2004.

Pizza Brain

In May 2010, Kensington-based artist Brian Dwyer, along with Christopher Powell, organized "Give Pizza Chance"—Philadelphia's first pizza-based art show—in which pizza served as muse for more than 25 artists who displayed their work at a local gallery.

Pizza Cuz

Pizza Cuz is a television series airing on the Cooking Channel.

Pizza in the United States

New York-style pizza is a style originally developed in New York City by immigrants from Naples, where pizza was created.

Pizza Pizza

A chapter of Michael Moore's book Downsize This! advises illegal immigrants who want to sneak into Canada at Niagara Falls to memorize Pizza Pizza's Toronto number to appear Canadian.

Pizza saver

In 1985, Carmela Vitale of Dix Hills, New York, was issued a patent for a plastic 3-legged tripod stool that would sit in the middle of the box and keep the top from sagging into pizza, cakes or other foods kept in a box.

Run Barbi Run

Bartolome is a Shakey's pizza delivery boy who witnesses the massacre of the Black Scorpion Gang committed by a group of henchmen while delivering pizza at night.

Something Beautiful

He has since featured in commercials for Chicago Town Pizza as a Simon Cowell lookalike.

Steven Reinemund

Two years later, he was named President & CEO of Pizza Hut in North America where he introduced home-delivery as a distribution method, overtaking market share of rival Domino's Pizza within 2 years.

The Ed Schultz Show

These include "Slant Head" for conservative commentator Sean Hannity, "the Druggie" or "the Drugster" for Rush Limbaugh, "Shooter" for Vice President Dick Cheney, "Rotten Rudy" for former Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, "The Mittster" for Mitt Romney, and "the pizza man" for Herman Cain.

The Keys to the Street

"Tikka man": delivery man from the Express Tikka and Pizza

The Pizza Company

In 2004, The Pizza Company began to expand and franchise internationally and today the restaurant has franchises in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Laos, China and Bahrain.

Thermal bag

Thermal bags for use with pizza were patented in 1983 by Ingrid Kosar of Gilberts, Illinois for the specific use of allowing delivered pizzas to stay hotter, longer.

Totino-Grace High School

The first class graduated in 1970 and 10 years later, in 1980, the school was renamed to Totino-Grace High School in honor of generous benefactors Jim and Rose Totino, owners of the national frozen pizza chain famous for their frozen pizza rolls.

Unique selling proposition

Domino's Pizza: "You get fresh, hot pizza delivered to your door in 30 minutes or less—or it's free."

University of Queensland Debating Society

There are also social events, such as the Annual Dinner Ball, tournament send off parties, an annual casual dinner at Sizzler at Toowong Village, competition socials, and weekly dinners at the Pizza Caffe at the Schonell Theatre.

Viktor Saneyev

With job difficulties, even working delivering pizza and having a failed bid to become a coach in New Zealand, Saneyev settled in New South Wales, becoming athletics coach and PE teacher at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill for five years.

WYMT-TV

Jay Crawford (Creator of "Sports Overtime" on WYMT) - went on to become host of ESPN2's "Cold Pizza" (later changed to "First Take").


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