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From coast to coast, Americans eat approximately 350 slices of pizza per second, which works out to over 100 acres worth of pizza every day. Three billion pizzas are ordered every year in the U.S., plus an additional one billion frozen pizzas. Come along with Tidbits as we eat a slice!

A POPULAR SNACK • In the 1800s, most Italians thought of pizza as a peasant’s meal. Bread was cheap and readily available for even the poorest citizens. Tomatoes were still thought of as poisonous because they belong to the nightshade family, so they were also cheap. Pizza was considered a lowbrow meal.

• That changed when a baker and tavern owner named Raffaele Esposito created a pizza for visiting royalty in 1889. Queen Margherita and King Umberto I were visiting Naples, Italy, and Esposito was asked to prepare them a meal. Esposito created a pizza meant to imitate the colors of the Italian flag: white mozzarella cheese, red tomato sauce, and green basil. It’s thought to have been the first time mozzarella was used on a pizza. The King and Queen had never eaten pizza before, and were so impressed by the delicious meal that they raved about it. Esposito used their praise to advertise his business, and pizza became an overnight sensation. (continued on next page)

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• The word xenia has a variety of meanings.

To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s Pageeffect 2 the of pollen on a seed. And to those in Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, a community about 21 miles (34 km) from Dayton.

• Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes would exercise during inclement weather.

To the Romans, the xystus was the garden walkway in front of the porticoes, where they planted flower beds.

• Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest.

• The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix.

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PIZZA (cont’d) • In 1905, Gennaro Lombardi opened the first licensed American pizzeria, Lombardi’s Pizzeria Napoletana, on Spring Street in New York City. At the time, a pizza cost a nickel.

• During the first few decades of the 20th century, pizza was mostly eaten by working class Italian immigrants. The first American cities where pizza was routinely sold were New York City, Boston, New Haven, Connecticut, and Trenton, New Jersey. All of these cities had an influx of Italian immigrants around the turn of the century.

• During World War II, American soldiers were introduced to pizza while stationed in Italy, and brought pizza passion home to the U.S. Today pizza is a $30 billion industry in the United States.

• At first, pizzas were sold exclusively by the pie. But in 1933, Patsy Lancieri of Patsy’s Pizzeria in New York City started selling pizza by the slice, and the trend was quickly adopted by other pizzerias.

• The word “pizza” may come from the Latin word “pissa” meaning “flatbread” but many languages around the Mediterranean have similar sounding words such as “pita.” The Latin word “pinsere” means to pound or stamp, as in making bread. Another Latin word “picea” means the blackening of a bread crust by fire.

An old Italian word “bizzo” or “pizzo” meaning “mouthful” gave us the English words “bit” and “bite” and perhaps “pizza” as well. At any rate, the word “pizza” dates back over a thousand years. It was first mentioned in a Latin text written in southern Italy in the year 997 AD. • The average American eats 46 slices of pizza every year, which works out to about 23 pounds of pizza annually. 40% of us eat pizza at least once a week, and 93% eat it at least once a month. It’s likely you’ll eat around 6,000 slices of pizza over the course of your lifetime. (continued on next page)

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I read with interest the recent column where a reader put aluminum pie plates on surfaces, like the stove, where cats weren’t allowed. That sounds like a good solution to stopping cats from jumping onto the countertops.

Our cats, when they were young, would jump 5 feet straight up to the tops of kitchen cabinets. Needless to say, this was annoying and more than a little concerning.

My wife got some plastic rug runners that had knubby things on the bottom to keep the runners from moving on a carpet. She cut pieces and laid them on top of the cabinets with the knubby side up. It took only a few times for the cats to realize the cabinet tops were not comfortable.

The knubby things could not hurt the cats, but they certainly didn’t feel good. -- Bob R., via email DEAR BOB: Thank you for the suggestion! Readers, if you try this solution, be sure to use rug runners with nylon or softer plastic nubs. Essentially, discouraging cats from jumping onto surfaces where you don’t want them requires you to put something on those surfaces that they don’t like, but which won’t hurt them. An unfamiliar texture will keep them from hanging around on those surfaces.

High-pitched noises can send them away, such as the rattle of an aluminum pie plate. Some cat owners keep a “shaker can” handy -- a small can with a lid, like a potato chip can, filled with pennies or other objects that make a jangling, high-pitched noise when shaken.

Keep in mind that these are all forms of negative reinforcement, so try to limit their use to stopping very specific behaviors that might endanger your cat.

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• Kids ages 3 to 11 prefer pizza over all other food groups for lunch and dinner.

• Regular thin pizza crust is the most popular crust, preferred by 61% of people. Thick crust and deep dish tie for second, at 14%. Only 11% of the population prefers extra thin.

• Pepperoni is the most popular pizza topping.

About 36% of all pizzas contain pepperoni.

Pepperoni is a fermented and dried meat that is not actually cooked. America’s top pepperoni manufacturer produces enough pepperoni slices annually to cover approximately 23,000 acres.

• 62% of Americans prefer meat toppings while 38% prefer vegetables. Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetables on pizza.

• Mozzarella is found on 60% of pizzas. That’s because among all cheese, mozzarella has the highest moisture content, the lowest quantity of free oil, the best elasticity, and a unique stretchability.

• A single mozzarella cheese manufacturing conglomerate in Denver, Colorado buys about 7% of the total available milk in the U.S. in order to supply mozzarella for most of America’s pizzas. The entire milk production of about one out of every 20 cows is devoted to mozzarella for pizza.

• Mozzarella is an Italian cheese originally made in Naples area. The word “mozzarella” started out as the Latin word “mutius” meaning “blunt” or “cut off” presumably because the cheese was formed into rolls that were bluntly whacked off into portions. The word “mutius” also gave us the words “mute” and “mutilate.”

When the word passed into Italian, it became “mozza” and the diminutive form of the word was “mozzarella.”

• The most popular pizza size in the U.S. today is 14 inches in diameter. Keep in mind, however, that one 18-inch pizza gives you more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas. (continued on next page)

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PIZZA FACTS (cont’d) • There are about 75,000 pizzerias in the U.S. which represents 17% of all restaurants.

• The average pizzeria uses roughly 55 pizza boxes per day.

• The record for the world’s largest round pizza was set in December of 2017 when a team of five Italian chefs baked a 131-foot (40 m) dimeter pizza. The pizza consisted of 19,800 pounds of flour, 10,000 pounds of tomato sauce, and 8,800 pounds of mozzarella cheese, along with other ingredients. Altogether it weighed in at 51,257 pounds (23,250 kg). The five chefs spent more than two days baking the dough in over 5,000 small batches.

• The world’s longest rectangular pizza measured just over 6,333 feet long (1,930 m), and was built in Fontana, California, on June 10, 2017. Over 100 people worked together to create it over the course of 54 hours, including 40 hours of prep time and 14 hours of multiple rounds of baking. All leftover pizza was donated to several local area charities.

• The biggest pizza commercially available can be ordered at Big Mama’s & Papa’s, found in California at 20 different locations. Their Giant Sicilian pizza is a rectangle that measures 54 inches on each side (1.37m). That’s just over 20 square feet of pizza. It will feed between 50 and 100 people and costs around $200.

• According to Guinness World Records, the most expensive commercially available pizza costs $2,700 and is sold at Industry Kitchen in New York, New York. It features black squid ink dough, and is topped with white Stilton cheese from the UK, foie gras and truffles from France, Ossetra caviar from the Caspian Sea, Almas caviar, and 24K gold leaf.

• Lady Gaga once bought $1,000 worth of pizza for fans who were waiting in line for her autograph.

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• In the early 1900s, the Chicago candy maker F. Hoffman & Company offered a variety of confections. In 1928, Philo J. Holloway bought the company. He wanted to expand the line of goodies, and decided to have his researchers create the best chocolate candy they could possibly manufacture.

• They started with a caramel center, and covered it with milk chocolate. The goal was to make the chocolate-covered caramels perfectly round, but the problem was that they couldn’t make them hold their shape. They ended up bumpy and misshapen.

• However, deformed as these candy lumps were, they were delicious. Philo J. Holloway realized they would either have to abandon the candy altogether, or else abandon the idea that the candy had to be absolutely spherical. They decided that the candy was too good to give up, so they chose a name for the new confection that reflected its imperfection.

• The lopsided lumps were a hit, and people didn’t mind their geometric shortcomings. Now owned by Hershey, the chewy chocolate and caramel candy is a standard at movie theaters.

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Wednesday will feature a simulated space mission to Rendezvous with Comet Halley. Individuals will be able to become part of a crew at mission control and a space station. The tickets can be had for half price ($9.25) for this 2 hour event. Time 6 PM at the CLCL. Thursday August 9th at 6 PM local retired astronaut Lt Col. William G Gregory will speak at the Taylor Theater in the Kenan Center in Lockport.

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• Hirschfield teamed up with the Sweets Company of America, and by 1905 a factory was turning out the candy. In 1931 they surrounded the taffy with a candy lollipop for a new product that was popular during the Great Depression because of its low price.

• In 1935 the company began to falter. This was of great concern to Joseph Rubin & Sons of Brooklyn, who supplied the paper boxes the candy was packaged in. If the candy company failed, so would Rubin & Sons. So Rubin & Sons bought the Sweets Company of America and pushed the sweet treat to new heights of popularity, increasing sales twelve-fold.

• During World War II when sugar was rationed, this candy was one of the few that was continuously produced, due to its long shelf life and resistance to melting. It was shipped to soldiers all over the world. Today the company produces about 64 million of the candies daily: Tootsie Rolls and Tootsie Pops.

• In 1913 in Robinson, Illinois, a father bought a candy store to give his sons, Bayard and Everett, a business to run. They turned the shop into a successful candy shop and ice cream parlor.

A traveling salesman shared a recipe for toffee with them.

• Bayard and Everett experimented with the new toffee until they perfected the recipe. Later they covered the toffee with chocolate.

• In 1928 their father bought a dairy nearby and he convinced his sons to quit the candy store to help him on the dairy farm. They did, but they brought their candy-making equipment with them and continued to turn out toffee. They started including “toffee bars” on the dairy’s order form, so people could order milk, cream, cottage cheese, or toffee delivered right to their door every morning.

• Sales got a boost, but then the Great Depression hit. However, toffee bars sold well during the Depression, because they cost only a nickel.

Another boost arrived with World War II, when the Army began to include it in soldier’s rations. Hershey bought the company in 1996, but the candy bar, named after the family that invented it, remains unchanged. It’s called the Heath Bar. (continued)

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There are 20 times more elevators than escalators, but only one-third as many accidents.

Elevators are also safer than cars. Having 27 people die in elevators each year may seem like a lot, but there are 26 automobile deaths every five hours.

• More than 325 million people ride on elevators each day compared with 245 million riders on escalators.

• The modern elevator is a direct descendant of a design first shown by Elisha G. Otis at the New York World’s Fair in 1853. A feature of the Otis elevator was a safety device that immediately engaged and held the elevator, bringing it to a safe stop in the event the cables broke. The world’s first passenger elevator was installed in a New York City hotel in 1857.

Today the Otis Elevator Company carries the equivalent of the world’s population in their elevators every five days.

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