National Sausage Pizza Day in USA

Pizza can be traced to a dish that Persian soldiers made during the 6th century BC. This dish was a flatbread that was covered in dates and cheese and then baked in the Persian soldier's shields.

The kind most of us know from pizza is coarsely ground pork (and sometimes beef) with fennel, also known as “mild” Italian sausage.

If there were such a thing as “pizza topping royalty,” the undisputed potentates would be pepperoni and sausage. While meat toppings can be found on 61 percent of all pizzas, pepperoni (36 percent) and sausage (14 percent) alone account for one-half of the pizzas sold in the United States

It seems like pizza and meat toppings have been around forever, but their origins are surprisingly modern. Pizza itself—at least the tomato-based variety—is believed to date back to 1889, when it was first made to honor Queen Margherita, consort to the king of Italy (thus, “pizza margherita”).