In no German city is more pizza ordered than in Hamburg, reveals the “Pizza Report” of the delivery service pizza.de. Read here why the Hanseatic city is the pizza stronghold and why the average German pizza is not eaten at the kitchen table.
According to a current TNS Emnid survey commissioned by pizza.de, every second German count’s pizza as his favorite food. In 2014 alone, an impressive 20 million pizzas went over the virtual counter on the largest German pizza ordering portal.
10 facts about pizza
1. Seven times as many pizzas are ordered in Hamburg as the national average
Not fish sandwiches or Labskaus, but pizza is the favorite dish of the Northern Lights. According to pizza.de, this is due to the large presence of the pizza chains Joey’s and Smileys. Joey’s was acquired by Dominoes in 2016. The people in Rhineland-Palatinate are the least likely to order.
2. Pizza is eaten on the couch
Two-thirds of all women surveyed and more than half of the men surveyed eat their pizza on the sofa – by hand, of course.
3. Pizza is cheapest in Essen and most expensive in Stuttgart
According to the so-called salami pizza index, customers in Stuttgart have to shell out 8.36 euros for the classic pizza, while in Essen it is only 4.82 euros.
4. Pepperoni pizza is the most popular
Almost every third pizza in Germany is ordered with salami. This is followed by the vegetarian variant Pizza-Margherita.
5. Pizza is man food
More than two-thirds of all pizzas are ordered by men.
6. The average pizza customer is called Christian
He is a student and lives in Hamburg, and of course, he likes to eat his pizza salami on the sofa.
7. Most pizzas are ordered at 6:30 p.m. on Sundays
Sundays and public holidays are – logically – the big battle days in the pizza industry. The exception is New Year’s Day: Here the order peak is already reached at 1 p.m. Pizza for a late hangover breakfast is hard to beat…
8. The drink with the pizza is as unhealthy as possible
Classic when ordering a pizza: please add a bottle of Coca-Cola. Greasy cheese, simple carbs, and bottled sugar bombs make for a figure-busting combo—so don’t overdo the pizza couch sessions!
9. The biggest pizza was made in Italy
The record flat dough baked by a whole army of pizza bakers in Rome in 2012 had a whopping 40 meters in diameter.
10. Pizza could be delivered by drone in the future
In 2014, a British pizza chain started its first test run, which went satisfactorily. However, it will be some time before drones knock on our window instead of the pizza delivery boy because the commercial use of drones is currently still subject to any legal restrictions.
