"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> On 26 Jun 2011 15:20:10 GMT, notbob > wrote:
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>>On 2011-06-26, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
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>>> 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.

Of course they had them there. Heavily populated by Italians!