GC7JDB5 Deep Dish or By The Slice
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: the5millers @ | Hide Date: 02/16/2018 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 28.311 W104° 44.475 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
               

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+++Cache is NOT at the posted coordinates! Solve the puzzle below to unlock the Final coordinates.+++

 

Welcome to the History of Pizza!! We hope you all will learn a thing or two about the delectable food!

 

1. The first pizza wasn’t made in Italy or USA . It was ancient Greeks who gave birth to Pizza. They used to bake flat and round large breads and topped them with veggies, potatoes, spices and olive oil. Definitely that was the earliest version of pizza known to have exist in human society.

 

2. 18th century Italy was the country where the first commercial pizza originated. This commercial pizza didn’t have any kind of topping. It was just a plain, flat and round bread that was quite tasty and filling and were sold only to the poor because they were cheap. Street vendors in Naples used to sell these breads by the name ‘pizza’.

 

3. In 1889, Italian Queen Margherita was once traveling across her kingdom and noticed that peasants were munching on that large piece of bread. She became curious and tasted it. She liked it so much that every time she visited her subjects, she ate the bread. Because it was considered to be peasants’ food, the Queen dining on it was not usual and this created anxiety and dismay in Court Circle.

 

4. Queen Margherita eventually called Chef Rafaelle Esposito and ordered to make some pizzas for her. The chef baked a pizza using fresh basil, Mozzarella Cheese and tomatoes. The colors were carefully selected because they represented the colors of Italian Flag – red, white and green . This especially baked pizza became Queen’s favorite pizza and by word of mouth it was spread that pizza is Queen’s favorite food. This made her very popular among her subjects.

 

5. The Queen started a tradition known as Pizza Margherita. This tradition still continues in Naples and has also become popular worldwide.

 

6. America , England , France and Spain started to know pizza properly after World War II. It was during WWII that many European and American soldiers tasted pizza during occupation of Italian cities.

 

7. Though pizza was still available in America before WWII when Italian immigrants used to sell the food within its community, returning soldiers actually made it popular in America and the pizza moved out of the quiet Italian community into mainstream American life.

 

8. Today in America , October is the National Pizza month since 1987.

 

9. In America, the pizza industry grosses over $30 billion every year and 17% of U.S. restaurants are actually pizzerias.

 

10. A survey report says that a minimum of 93% of Americans order and eat pizza at least once every month. On Super Bowl Sunday, 58% of Americans order pizza, which makes it the highest selling day for pizza than any average day in a given calendar year.

 

11. In India , the most preferred pizza toppings are tofu, minced mutton and pickled ginger but in America, the most preferred topping is pepperoni. Around 2.51 million pounds of pepperoni is sold in US every year and about 36% of pizzas sold in US have pepperoni topping.

 

12. Frozen pizza was invented in 1957 by Celentano Brothers. During the 1950s frozen pizza was available only in grocery stores. However, within just a few years, this variant became extremely popular and is today available in gas stations, convenience stores, grocery stores and bars.

 

13. Thin crust pizza is the most popular form of pizza around the globe. In America, deep dish pizza was introduced in Chicago but despite that 61% of pizzas ordered are all think crust pizza.

 

14. The risk of esophageal cancer is reduced significantly if pizza is consumed at least once a week.

 

15. Gennaro Lombardi was the person to open the first pizzeria in America in 1895. This pizzeria was opened in New York.

 

16. An average American consumes 46 pizza slices in a single year. That’s quite an amount which explains why there are 69,000 pizzerias spread all across America.

 

17. Throughout the world, 5 billion pizzas are sold every year and Saturday night is considered to be the most popular night for eating pizza.

 

18. Taking account of all Americans in a single day, it is estimated that 350 slices of pizzas are gobbled up by Americans in every one second. So, if all the slices consumed in a day by Americans are placed side but side, it would cover 100 acres of land!

 

Happy Caching!!

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Additional Waypoints

06/07/2019 By 2lablovers
Got help with this one at one of the puzzle events. Muggle sitting at GZ - we left and came back later and made the quick grab. Thanks for the puzzle and smiley.

05/19/2019 By Edwards654
Enjoyed the puzzle and the find although the checkered didn't seem to be working

05/17/2019 By WingsAndTales
I struggled with the puzzle for quite a while but finally got the thumbs up. It was an easy one after that. TFTC

03/28/2019 By YamaGypsy
Working on 20x fizzy and compiled a list of needed d/t caches. One of the 4/1s I had listed is up in Wyoming, but today I spotted this puzzle and decided to try it since I could sign this one sooner than the one in Wyoming! I was making this one harder than I needed to. Made a check on certitude and noticed something that changed my thinking. Reached out to a previous finder and got sent down a rabbit hole for a while. Finally came back to what my 2nd thought had been and got the green light. Adding a favorite for cache carnival. Sl, thanks.

01/17/2019 By prerules
I had tried to figure this one out for a while. I finally reached out to the CO and he told me what I was looking for. I still couldn’t figure it out so I texted him. He must have felt sorry for me (mainly because I was calling, texting and messaging about 10 different caches of his so he was probably tired of me by now). Anyway, I digress.

Today I decided to go down and try to find the cache. Thank god this one was easy. I was getting tired of trying to find T5M’s wicked placements! Nicely done. Signed log.

Thanks T5M for giving me a reason to get outside. It’s always worth it when you are enjoying nature. There is nothing better than acting like a kid again, digging through weeds and climbing trees, all to sign my name on a piece of paper.

Found with Cachly for IOS. Geocache find #472.

06/18/2018 By Back Country Horsemen
This was a tough puzzle that I ended up needing help on. Finally got out to find it.

04/17/2018 By Kroozer
This one made me think of food and since it was lunchtime, I signed the log and went to lunch! Thanks for the puzzle and the cache!

02/19/2018 By PayMeCache
[FTF] First to Find with heh324 at 11:05 AM.

As heh324 stated this took us much longer than it should have. Initially we were on the right track but I have come to realize that my initial thought on the5miller's puzzles may not always be correct. My pizza loving friend would be proud of me even though I had an enormous amount of incorrect checkers before the cheese melted. Giving this one a favorite point because it crumbled my sausage or should I say "delivered" a new "pie" to my D/T grid.

Found GC7JDB5 - Deep Dish or By The Slice on February 19, 2018 using Cachly for iOS.

Some may call me seriously mentally ill. Some may state that I am in a state of mind that prevents social interaction. Some may say I am in a state of mind that prevents normal perception and or behavior. I prefer to say that I tend to do the same thing over and over again, but I expect different results. That being said, I believe we only live one life and I am trying to make the best of it. I thank you, the5millers for placing a fun geocache to fuel my "insanity" or addiction as I call it. I appreciate you bringing me here so that I can try and sign my alias on a piece of paper that you have hidden.

I look forward to finding more of your geocaches. I also look forward to potentially finding geocaches with you one day and sharing stories of our insanity... I mean hobby or addiction? Cheers!

02/19/2018 By heh324
[FTF] with PayMeCache on 2/19/2018 @11:05a.m.

So I've just got to say that I thought for sure I would be in a Jedi Meld with the5millers on this one because of a different puzzle of his that hit me so easily, but this was not to be the case. I had the right idea, but it was PMC who was able to pull the green thumbs up on Certitude.

PMC and I were going at this one WAY longer than we should have, but that tends to happen with us every now and then. Once we had the final coords, the container was in hand in no time at all. Making this one a favorite...TFTC.

02/19/2018 By BlueRajah
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