Every graph should have been a pie graph.

I love pizza. When leftovers exist, they are really good the next day for breakfast (cold).

The fats do taste better when hard and coagulated.

I thought that this was a piece from The Onion when I read the headline.

Neapolitan-style pizza, called pizze cavere, first appeared in the US just before the turn of the century. The first mention of pizza in the US dates to 1880 in the Washington Post when a reporter covered the visit of Queen Margherita's visit to Naples. Then pizza was described as "a sort of cake beaten flat in a round form, and seasoned with curious condiments." While pizze cavere does date back hundred of years, if the definition of pizza means that it must be topped with a mild tomato sauce then that dish likely only dates to about 1815-1830, the period when tomatoes, a New World fruit, began to gain wider acceptance in Italy even though we have records that the Spanish brought the plant into Italy as early as 1548. The tomato, a member of the nightshade family, was believed to be poisonous by Europeans and thus the fruit was largely eschewed.

"thus the fruit was largely eschewed" - Now, we know better, so the fruit is largely chewed...

that sentence is nothing but linguistic mastication

Re: 1 in 8 Americans eat pizza everyday.

I like sex, I hear sex is healthy, and even I do not have sex everyday!

The average is thrown off by the 1 in 24 Americans who eats two pizzas every day.

They don't have sex every day either.

poor you.

It doesn't actually say that 1 in 8 eat it every day. Maybe that's what it means, but it says something different-- that if today is a typical day, then 1/8 of Americans are eating it today, and if tomorrow is a typical day, then 1/8 are eating it tomorrow... but not necessarily the same 1/8.

You're right, of course.

Even a broken clock...

Pizza doesn't have feelings and moods to be considerate of.

The sad thing is that most of the pizza being consumed here tastes like greasy cardboard (Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Great Value, cafeteria pizza, etc).

Even bad pizza is still pizza and that's better than no pizza at all.

Sadly no. Bad pizza is still bad.

disagree - just had some of that cardboard stuff and decided it is worth learning how to make the real stuff.

You are what you eat.

I am pizza.

Pizza is the perfect food - it contains all of the important food groups. We should all eat pizza every day.

Incorrect, for a complete diet you need to supplement from the other food group, beer.

and Donuts.

beer battered pizza topped with donuts, now we a re F'ing talking!

Lycopene, the natural chemical that gives fruit like tomatoes its red color, has been found to have antioxidant and anti-cancer effects in animals, but it's not clear it has the same effect in humans, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Pet peeve, I know, but "it's not clear" without explanation in this type of context always annoys me. Is it not clear because it hasn't been studied? Because the studies have been inconclusive? Because the studies suggest the opposite is true?

I cook the bacon in advance. While the shrooms are sauteing I slice the olives and anchovies, grate the mozzarella and Parmesan, and mix some oregano, basil, and crushed garlic into the jar of sauce I bought at Safeway. (The little packets that come with the store-bought pizza shell don't contain enough sauce for my taste.) Then I smear on the sauce, spread the mozzarella around, and distribute the shrooms, olives, bacon, anchovies, and a bunch of sliced pepperoni, sprinkle on some Parmesan, and into the oven it goes (at 450 for ~10 minutes). A Coke on the rocks, some slaw or my patented carrot-raisin-mango salad, a dish of Jello at the ready as chilly epilogue, a fistful of napkins, then I spread the sports section out on the dining room table and, friends, it is time to rock and roll.

I know a guy from HS, he's, in most respects, what I'd call a typical Republican. He wore cut off shirts and drove a pick up to our HS (in the middle of a major city), didn't really drink until he turned 21, etc. However, he was surprisingly a vegetarian who thought meat was disgusting to eat and primarily survived by eating pizza.

What is this meatless pizza you are referring to? I do not comprehend.

Yea, we couldn't even order pepperoni and have him take it off. Bizarre

toppings of olives, mushrooms, peppers and onions, fresh garlic, etc.

Yea, he didn't even bother with that.

Plain is fine too and I think the majority of the calories I consumed in high-school were via pizza too. Toppings are one of those individual quirky things that just add to the diversity of the pizza experience.

Go one step beyond that, and I remember one of the local pizzarias that makes a 'salad pizza' (chopped lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and red onion, on whole wheat bread, but that's a whole other pie.

I had pizza for breakfast today.

I had pizza for breakfast yesterday. I didn't have pizza for breakfast this morning because I had no pizza.

Does it count as breakfast if I woke up at 4pm?

And just how much taxpayer money was wasted on that study to tell us what we already knew?

All of it. And it was the fault of Obama.

And oh yeah, Benghazi.

The spectre of socialized pizza looms over us all. What unamerican toppings will the government snack panels approve for you? Pineapple? Feta? Dog?

Dogs should be so lucky as to end up on a pizza.

Pizza should be a universal human right.

Nowhere in the CONSTITUTION is pizza mentioned, so GFY.

It should be. Good thing we're going to have some constitutional conventions sometime soon.

Hillary loves pizza, and it's doing her pantsuits no favour.

About $9.99 before the coupon.

Don't forget to tip the driver.

I can tell you from hard experience, republican's don't tip.

If it won't endanger your employment, would you mind telling us how you know the non-tippers are Republican?

Because I know them.

They brag about not leaving or giving tips.

Fair enough, thanks. Just bear in mind the people you don't see; the people who do tip well and don't brag about it.

I can't tell if this that new fangled *ironic* phony outrage, or the good old fashioned genuine phony outrage of yore.
Either way, phony outrage on my friend!

I want in the next study group.