Google loves its users and tries different tricks to engage them. It shakes hands with millions of businesses to provide the best shopping and reading experience to online audiences. It chooses the most reliable ones to introduce its searchers and penalizes those who try to rank higher through illegal ways. This search engine releases monthly Google core algorithm updates to improve web performances in the search engine results pages (SERPs). It works as a one-stop shop and a hub where anyone can access information from the corner of the world.
Along with these endeavors, this search engine uses Google Doodle to celebrate historical events, achievements, birthdays, death anniversaries, holidays of specific countries of the world. Google changes the design of its logo according to the particular event it celebrates. Users can get related information in detail by clicking on Google’s logo. For instance, Google is celebrating an Italian dish called “Pizza” as the cultural heritage of the human race on December 6, 2021. Why? Let’s read more to know the reason.
December 6, 2021 – A Monday’s Google Doodle
Yet again, the Google logo has come with a new celebration of a specific historical event that is “Pizza as the cultural touchstone of the human race.” It made a game by using animated features and Google Doodle. It allows users to slice pizza with the help of a cursor with specific rules about the number of slices and toppings required for each slice. The “Pizza” slices represent the culture of different world states such as Brazil, Italy, Thailand, Japan, Hungary, Canada, Argentina, and India.
What’s the history behind this celebration?
In 2007, the Neapolitan’s culinary art “Pizzaiuolo” was registered on the UNESCO Representative List of the “INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF HUMANITY” on December 6. From that day, this Italian dish “Pizza” became a cultural touchstone of the human race and other items inscribed on the List of UNESCO.
Pizza is the world’s famous dish
People around the world love to eat pizza. Pizza makers belong different cultures make this well-known dish from different recipes. Google Doodle expresses different types of pizza, including pepperoni, white calabresa, Margherita, mozzarella, Hawaiian, magyaros, dessert, tikka, tom yum, teriyaki mayonnaise, and paneer.
Don’t be misunderstood with tom yum pizza. It doesn’t belong to traditional Thai soup. It’s a pizza topped with sweet pineapple and savory ham. Also, Paneer tikka pizza is covered with garam masala spices and cottage cheese (paneer). According to Google research, people worldwide consume five billion pizzas each year internationally. Another study reveals that around 350 pizza slices are consumed in the USA per second out of that five billion range.
According to Google research, pizza is the dish of ancient civilizations, and people have been consuming it from the eras of the Egyptian and Roman empires. The Southwestern Italian city of Naples is comprehensively famous for eating pizza with modern recipes during the 1700s. Ancient bakers introduced the recipe of Margherita pizza. There is a history behind it. This pizza was made when King Umberto 1 and Queen Margherita visited Naples in 1889. They tried pizza that bakers made with a traditional recipe on the journey. The Queen ordered to make some additions or changes in the topping such as cheese, tomatoes, and basil that became famous as the modern Margherita pizza.