Mushroom Pizza

Pizza is the only food that is called by the same name in every language on Earth.


Pizza is the only food that has its own category in the phone book's yellow pages.

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Legend has it that Pizza Margherita was invented in 1889 by baker Raffaele Esposito, with the red tomato, green basil and white cheese representing the colors of the Italian flag.  This was invented to commemorate the centennial, or one hundred year anniversary, or the founding of the modern Italian State.


The tomato is a "New World" plant and was unknown to the ancient Romans.   The tomato originally comes from Mexico and was brought to Europe by the Spanish Conquistadors.

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The mushroom is neither a plant or animal species.  It is a fungus; which is an entirely different family than plant or animal.


The plural form of the word fungus is fungi


The largest living organism in the world is a fungus in a rain forest in Washington State.  It measures almost 30 miles long and lives under the dirt of the forest.

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New Age philosopher, Terence McKenna, postulates that the mushroom, and the other fungi, are forms of Alien Life that got stranded on Earth millions of years ago.  

He also speculates that the mushroom fungus may be intelligently interacting with humans on the genetic and cellular level, through the human use of psychedelic mushrooms; and presumably Mushroom Pizza.

Terrence McKenna invented the process to cultivate Psilocybin Mushrooms.

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Joke:

A Mushroom walks into a bar and the bar tender asks him to leave,
"Get out of here!"

"Why?" the Mushroom protests, "I'm a Fun guy."

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William Schaeffer