Saturday night always be a favorite day for everyone. We can
go out and enjoy the night with friends and family. Go out any Saturday night
in cities as far apart as Beijing, Berlin, and many countries, the chances are you’ll
find people eating pizzas or enjoying a little karaoke, But have you ever
wondered how these things started?
Pizza~
Pizza has a long history. The ancient Greeks first had the idea
of putting vegetables on large flat pieces of bread, and ‘pizza ovens’ have
been found in the ruins of roman cities. It was the nineteenh century before
Rafaele esposite , a baker from Naples, began to sell the first modern pizzas.
He was asked to bake a special pizza for a visit by the Italian King and queen in 1889. And so
the first pizza margarita was created, named after the queen. Pizza become a
favourite dish in italy, after the Second World war , pizza really became an
international dish, soon there were pizzeries all over the USA, and american
chains like pizza hut spread the idea around the world. Today the average
american eats over ten kilogrammes of pizza a year, and the world’s largest
pizza (measuring thirty metres across was baked not in Italy, but in Havana,
Cuba.
Karaoke~
Everyone knows that karaoke comes from Japan, but it is not
the Japanese for ‘drunk and tone-deaf’ as you might think. It actually means ‘empty
orchestra’ . It all started in a small music bar in the city of kobe. One night
when the usual guitarist didn’t turn up, the desperate bar owner recorded some
music and invited his customers to sing instead. The craze soon spread, and
special karaoke machines were invented. The idea was that however badly you sang
everyone applauded at the end and it proved the perfect way fro stressed
japanese businessmen to unwind. Today, just twenty years after it started in
Kobe, you can find karaoke bars all over the world. As one karaoke fan put it,
it’s something everyone should try at least once in their life.
by: Isabella J.C [XIA2/13]
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