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You Can Celebrate Pizza Day Or Bagel Day – Or Both

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Bagel Pizza (WikimediaCommons)

February 9th is a one of a kind ‘holiday,’ it’s both National Pizza Day and National Bagel Day.  A foodies delight. Let’s discuss both.

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Pizza Day. Excerpted from DaysOfTheYear.com – 

bagel pizzaFrom the humble beginning to today’s gourmet offerings pizza has captured the heart and stomachs of people around the globe. Do you like the traditional cheese and pepperoni?

You can say that Pizza Day started in the 10th century in Naples, Italy. This is when records first show the presence of pizza. It started out as a simple flatbread spread with sauce and sprinkled with cheese.

Faith Based Events

Pizza made its mark on America in 1905. In New York City, a pizzeria called Lombardi’s created the spark that would light hearts across the country from then until now – and with no conceivable end in sight! Amazingly, they are still in business! If you want to taste that first real pizza to hit American shores, head over to Little Italy in Manhattan and check them out.

There’s a never ending pizza rivalry between Chicago style or New York style. Which one do you prefer?

If you want to make your own pizza – be creative. Split a bagel in half, cover the halfs with tomato sauce and some mozzarella cheese. Add pepperoni or your favorite topping. Place in the oven until the cheese is bubbling. Voila. That’s assuming you had some leftover bagels from the morning.

Pizza Trivia: WindyCityPizza.comFrom

  • Nearly 3 Billion pizzas are sold within the United States annually.
  • Americans love pizza! Studies show that we eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices every second.
  • Pizza was mostly associated with and eaten by the working class and poor Italian immigrants during the early 20th century in the US.
  • After World War 2, pizza popularity skyrocketed, largely due to the returning soldiers who had a craving for this Italian classic.
  • A poll from Gallup suggest that kids between the ages of 3 to 11 prefer pizza over all other foods during lunch and dinner.

Bagel Day.  ​According to NationalBagelDay.com,

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Paper bag with fresh variety of New York bagels (http://www.nationalbagelday.com/)

We can thank the Jewish population of Eastern Europe for the dense, chewy, doughy circles of wheat that have assimilated into our western diet about as easily as apple pie.

There are conflicting stories about the origins of the bagel. Some say it was invented in 1610 in Krakow, Poland where the first known mention of the word indicates that it was given as a gift to women in childbirth. Some historians credit a Viennese baker for creating the bagel to commemorate the victory of the Polish King Jan III Sobieski over the Turks in 1683. The bread was formed into the shape of a buegel or stirrup, because the liberated Austrians had clung to the king’s stirrups as he rode by.

In the 16th century and first half of the 17th century, the bajgiel became a staple of the Polish diet and would become a popular food item among the Slavic diet in general.

It is believed that bagels made their way to the United States with Jewish immigrants from Poland. It was during the last 25 years of the 20th century that bagels really gained more widespread popularity thanks in part to the automated production and distribution of frozen bagels in the 1960s.

​Bagel Trivia:

  • Bagels have made their way to outer space thanks to Canadian-born astronaut Gregory Chamitoff. He’s the first space monkey to have taken a batch of 18 sesame seed bagels into space on his 2008 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
  • Freeze bagels as soon after purchase as possible, using a heavy air-tight bag with the air squeezed out of it. Freezing a stale bagel won’t magically make it not stale, so freeze when fresh. Day- or two-old bagels can be popped in the micro wave for a few seconds to refresh them. Be sure to wrap it in a moistened paper towel before zapping.
  • Believe it or not, it’s said a frozen bagel will help a crying, teething baby. Considered a safe and healthy teething ring, a frozen bagel must be carefully watched to ensure it doesn’t thaw enough so that bits are bitten off and swallowed.
  • The biggest bagel ever was created by Bruegger’s Bagels at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, New York in 2004. It weighed 868 pounds, was six feet in diameter and nearly 20 inches thick.
  • Ben & Jerry originally considered getting into the bagel business, but the equipment was too expensive.

 

 


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