Pizza bagel


A pizza bagel is a bagel with pizza toppings, with origins to the United States.

History

It is commonly accepted that it was not until 1974 at a Western Bagel in Woodland Hills, California, that 17-year-old store clerk Bruce Treitman created what is now known as the pizza bagel: a flattened bagel with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese.
In early 2014, Katz Bagel Bakery in Chelsea, Massachusetts claimed that Harry Katz invented a variation of this pizza bagel in 1970. Unlike traditional pizza bagels, Katz' version is similar to a miniature pizza. Katz uses bagel dough without the hole, topped with cheese and tomato sauce.
There has been a claim that Anthony DeMauro invented the pizza bagel in 1959 at Amster's Bagel Bakery in South Euclid, Ohio. However, it was not until May 26, 1970, when Amster Pizza Bagel, Inc. submitted registration for Pizza Bagels to the US Copyright Office. On October 1, 1970, Amster Pizza Bagel, Inc. registered for a product that contains 6 frozen pizza bagels in folding cartons with a net weight of.

Other uses

The term "pizza bagel" also means a person of Italian and Jewish descent. This is probably because pizza is a food of Italian origin, and bagels are a food of Jewish origin - and a combination of the two is a "pizza bagel."