The new shopping cart.

America's becoming obese! No kidding. One of the last hopes of getting exercise for many people, grocery shopping, is slowly coming to an end for many Americans. Sadly I heard this news from my aunt's two year old who does all the families shopping through an iphone. The mixture of technology in the new generation and food is pretty saddening. Is the food handled well as it gets shipped to your house? How fast is the service? And why can't some people take the 10 minute drive or 15 minute walk to their close grocery store? These questions will be answered with this blog.

How did this revolutionary shopping come aboard? Well I looked into the history of online shopping to tell you. You see, this big step started with the baby step of the world wide web which became popular sometime around 1980. The second step was online banking, when people started to make transactions online instead of walking to the bank. (Apparently food history doesn't have much to do with food at first). In 1995, both Ebay and Amazon arrived, Amazon offering books and Ebay being the first online auctioning site. Now why is online shopping favored more? How about comparing prices so you get a better deal on one product or possibly making friends with the seller on Ebay or the oh so now popular Craigs List. Even at my moms work, a retirement center in San Leandro, the residents are ordering food from Safeway online. Where will food travel next?

Interesting Facts:
Pizza Hut was the first online retailer in Santa Cruz, California in 1994

sources-
http://www.online-food-order.com/

http://www.life123.com/beauty/style/online-shopping/history-of-online-shopping.shtml

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01561/sainsbury_1561459c.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/7020524/Online-food-shopping-expected-to-double-in-five-years.html&usg=__byxpA1Ir1x6i_nSLbl9ZyNPI9I8=&h=287&w=460&sz=21&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=hNi3hI3uJSaalM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=161&prev=/images%3Fq%3Donline%2Bfood%2Bshopping%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D1226%26bih%3D593%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=389&vpy=179&dur=1471&hovh=177&hovw=284&tx=154&ty=77&ei=u6WrTPKOG4qHswbvoMTJAw&oei=u6WrTPKOG4qHswbvoMTJAw&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0

The Forever Changing Food.

Flat Bread, sauce, cheese, and toppings the basics of a widely known food : pizza. Where did this tasty treat come from? Not Italy where people first think so, but from Greece. Apparently instead of using tomato sauce, they used to use oil then topped stuff on top. But people did not stop changing this treat with just pasta sauce, there are much more additions to making them into sandwiches, putting on candy, making them wheat free, and much more.

So when did the tomatoe sauce on pizza come from? Even though pizza was a food for peasants, a chef made pizza for Queen Magherita of Italy adding tomato, basil, and mozzarella cheese to symbolize the colors of the Italian flag. Gradually, people kept adding new touches to the pizza for instance Bologna added meat, and Neopolitan pizza had garlic and other vegetables added to it. Pizza became known in the Americas after World War II.

In my cities public library, I was reading the book "This is why you're fat," and I saw an interesting picture of a sandwich made of pizza called the pizza burger which consists of pizza serving as the buns, slices of bacon, three types of cheese other than the cheese on the pizza, and a thick slab of sausage in the middle. Another interesting transformation of pizza is the "pizza cone"not a calzone (pizza folded over into a half moon shape) but an actual pizza dough in the shape of an ice cream cone with the pizza toppings in the middle.

Interesting Pizza Facts:
The largest pizza was made in Florida (100 feet and one inch across)
The average American and Canadian eats 23 pounds of pizza a year
Pizzerias are 17 percents of America's restaurants

http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/FOOD_IS_ART/pizzahistory.html

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/fresh-ideas/dinner-food-facts/12-facts-about-pizza.htm

http://notwhileiameating.com/2009/05/24/bacon-and-cheese-stuffed-pizza-burger/

http://www.crispycones.com/