On 26 Jun 2011 15:20:10 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>On 2011-06-26, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>
>> I never heard of those boxed pizza kits until this thread... I don't
>> remember ever seeing such a thing... now I know where you grew up, in
>> another galaxy.
>
>I remember them. Had my first when I was about 9 yrs old. Made by a
>beloved neighbor's mom. The most striking memory was the smell.
>Smelled like someone jes blew chunks all over the kitchen. No
>kidding! The smell of barf was so overwhelming, I almost did same.

They weren't a big city thing... in Brooklyn there was a pizza joint
every 1,000', there were ten times as many pizzarias in the '50s than
today. Today they ALL use fake cheese... back then a collossal 18"
pie cost 75¢, or 10¢ a slice... there'd be so much stringy cheese with
each bite you had to contort your mouth like Sylvester Stallone to get
it to detach... one pie would feed a family of four. Gigantic
calzones cost 25¢, and they were deep fried, boy were they good...
baked calzone are a fraud.