Pizza Superlatives

Pizza Superlatives

Biggest, strangest, longest, craziest, smelliest, powerfulest, insanest, explosivest – ok so some of those superlatives don’t apply to pizzas and aren’t even grammatically correct, but who cares. What does matter is that we’re here to take a look at some pizzas around the world that are, well, more than your average pizza… much, much more. To us at least!

Largest

As you can see, the pizza in the image above is pretty darn huge.

This pizza of Godzilla proportions was made at Norwood Hypermarket, Norwood, South Africa on 8 December 1990 and weighs in at a ridiculous 12.19 tonnes. It is officially recognized as the largest pizza in the world, will probably be the world’s largest dust-collecting pizza as well.

Most Nonsensical

We found quite a number of pizzas that don’t make sense scattered around the internet but we picked this one because of its ridiculous $1000-price tag, which strangely wasn’t entered into any official book of records. This made-in-New York “pizza” is made with six varieties of caviar, chives, fresh lobster and creme fraiche. We doubt it even tastes like a pizza anymore.

Hottest / Spiciest

This is, as the small flame in the middle of the dish suggests, the world’s spiciest pizza and it’s available at some place called Crawleys. You’d probably expect the “spiciest pizza in the world” to look a bit, err, spicier, but don’t let this sober-looking one fool you. It’s called “Volcanica” and it’s made of red and green chillis, njuda sausage and extra spicy arrabiatta; it’s even served with a complimentary glass of milk for tongue-soothing purposes. “Side effects include a numb tongue and watering eyes”, they say.

Most Creatively Used

Apparently, a 10-year old kid in a school in Tennessee munched his slice of pizza into a shape of a gun and proceeded to wield it around like one. Creative, but slightly worrying we think. The school leaders there didn’t quite appreciate his creativity though and instead punished him by relegating the poor boy to the “silent table”, where he sat and ate alone. Poor boy.

Famous-est

If you guessed that tofu was the world’s most famous pizza topping, you’ve obviously been living under a rock for a while. In fact, you’ll probably already know that pepperoni stands, lies rather, as the world’s most famous pizza topping – 36% of all pizza orders have had them, with approximately 251,770,000 pounds of those sliced sausages consumed annually.

Hmmm… perhaps we should delve a bit into some superlative feats of our own sometime. For now, you can just come on over to Vivo Pizza for some of the most authentic American pizzas you’ll find around these areas!

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