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Pizza Around the World
Pizza is a food that almost everybody loves to eat. It has been around for hundreds of years, and some historians believe that pizza was invented in Naples, Italy. But it doesn’t matter where it started. All that matters now is that you can travel all around the world and eat pizza in one form or another.
What is pizza? – It’s a food that has a dough bottom and is covered with a variety of different ingredients. What is on your pizza depends on personal taste and of course where you are in the world.
Brazilian Pizza – In Brazil, there are lots of Italian families so pizza is very popular there. The crust of Brazilian pizza is very thin and covered with tomato sauce. Popular toppings are quail eggs, beets, raisins, bananas, chocolate and corn. They also use ketchup or mustard on their pizza sometimes.
Indian Pizza – The pizza in India has tandoori chicken, chicken tikka, minced mutton, pickled ginger and tofu. The pizza also has lots of condiments including ketchup and chili flakes.
Italian Pizza – The pizza has tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese. There are also things such as onion and different spices added to the pizza.
Japanese Pizza – In Japan, there is American-style pizza but the toppings are a bit different. The most popular toppings are potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, octopus, seaweed or tuna. They have a special pizza that has black squid ink instead of tomato sauce.
Mexican Pizza – Ingredients such as chorizo, jalapeño slices, hominy, chile, corn or avocado are put on pizzas in Mexico. Sometimes instead of mozzarella cheese people put Oaxaca cheese.
Russian Pizza – Sardines, tuna, mackerel, onions and salmon are on some Russian pizzas. This fishy pizza is typically served cold.
As you can see there are many different ways to eat a pizza. Anything you want on a pizza is possible.