Pizza bagel

A pizza bagel is a bagel with pizza toppings.

History

Anthony DeMauro invented the pizza bagel in 1957 at Amster's Bagel Bakery in South Euclid, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. 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.
In 1974, at a Western Bagel in Woodland [Hills, Los Angeles], 17-year-old store clerk Bruce Treitman began offering 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's version is similar to a miniature pizza. Katz uses bagel dough without the hole, topped with cheese and tomato sauce.

Commercial distribution

The Bagel Bites brand was inspired by the pizza bagel. Bagel Bites are a miniature, frozen version of the pizza bagel sold in commercial grocery stores.

Other uses

The term "pizza bagel" also means a person of Italian and Jewish descent. This is likely because pizza is a dish of Italian origin, and bagels are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin.