There are hundreds, even thousands of different types of pizza in the world, including Turkish pizza, dessert pizza, pizza with no sauce, pizza with taco sauce, and many other varieties of pizza.  However, national surveys have shown that the favorite kind of pizza in the United States is pepperoni.  In fact, approximately 100 acres of pizza are consumed each day, or about 350 slices per second.  Pizza is also considered an essential in many people’s everyday life.  About half of the total US population voted that they could not live without pizza, and 67% of Americans vote that pizza is the number one “comfort food”.   

              Here at the school, the situation varies from the national opinion.  The favorite type of pizza here is cheese, outvoting the second runner-up, pepperoni, by more than twice as much.  The school wide poll also shows that the least favorite type of pizza here is olive, with only 3 votes out of the 103 total students surveyed.  Sausage, along with olive, is also highly unpopular, with less than one twentieth of the total votes.  Meatball and other types of pizza are intermediately popular, with almost the same amount of votes as each other, but still outnumbered by cheese and pepperoni, the leading candidates, by approximately 15 votes more than their average.  Information is also presented that on average, 78 percent of students in the 4-6th grades bought pizza on Friday throughout the month of October.  Also, the survey results are supported by information from the school cafeteria, which says that 2 trays of pepperoni are made for every 3 trays of cheese, or about a 60%/40% split.  However, pepperoni pizza is becoming increasingly popular throughout the school.  “The younger kids tend to eat more pepperoni,” said Warren Faulkenberg, referring to the fact that pepperoni pizza is currently more popular in the grades kindergarten through third.