Celebrating Pizza

Dec 06, 2021

Celebrating Pizza

This interactive Doodle game celebrates one of the world’s most popular dishes—pizza! Click the Doodle to help slice orders!

About the Doodle

Celebrating Pizza

On this day in 2017, the culinary art of Neapolitan “Pizzaiuolo” was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

About the Doodle

This pizza puzzle game features a few of the most beloved pizza toppings from all over the world and challenges you to slice based on the type of pizza ordered. But keep a close eye on the requested toppings and number of slices—the more accurate the order, the more stars you earn!

Although flatbread with toppings has been consumed for centuries in ancient civilizations from Egypt to Rome, the southwestern Italian city of Naples is widely credited as the birthplace of the pizza known today (dough layered with tomatoes and cheese) in the late 1700s. It's here that the story of pizza begins: one that is baked together with centuries of global migration, economic development, and technological evolution.

Today, an estimated five billion pizzas (350 slices per second in the U.S. alone) are consumed internationally each year. No matter how you slice it, pizza is here to stay!

Illustration of the letter G in a pizza
The Story

About the Celebrating Pizza Doodle

This interactive Doodle celebrates one of the world’s most popular dishes—pizza!

 

Art | David Lu, Alyssa Winans

UX Design | Anthony Irwin

Producer | Brenna Fallon

Engineering | David Lu

Marketing | Sierra Menzies, Perla Campos

Doodle Team Leads | Jessica Yu, Nate Swinehart, Tom Tabanao, Brian Kaas

Music/Sound | Christel Veraart


 

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The Doodle Celebrating Pizza launched Dec 06, 2021
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