Posted on 01/15/2011 7:34:44 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Ah, pizza! Who could possibly not love it? In fact, pizza is probably the most loved treat in the world. And the amazing thing is that most pizza is easily available at a price you can afford: cheap or, better yet, FREE!!!
However, as popular as pizza is today, it was a relatively recent development in the history of food. In fact, the basic recipe for pizza is entirely accidental. Although what I would call pizza precursors, flat bread covered with olive oil and seasonings, have been around for over three thousand years the basic elements of the pizza were entirely unavailable until fairly recently. The Coupon Whisperer should know since he wrote a TREATISE on the subject back in his Write4Cash (aka MakeAnEasyBuck) days. So be sure to take notes boys and girls because not only the amazing history of pizza but how to get it Free/Cheap via couponing WILL be appearing in your Blue Book exam.
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I still remember the first pizza I ever tasted. It would have been around 1958 and I was playing with some friends at their house.
Their older Sister had gone out to an Italian restaurant and bought a couple of pizzas and brought them home. She gave all of us some. I thought it was the most delicious thing I had ever tried.
I was 11 years old. Of course I had heard of it but thought of pizza as some exotic dish they only ate in big cities.
First pizza I ever had was Chef Boyardee out of a box - my dad was a USDA inspector in the plant that made them (American Home Foods) so he brought home cases of the stuff. Then when Pizza Hut came to town I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Silly me.
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And they do have some excellent deals. Anything from restaurants to massages to makeovers for the babes, to two-hour horseback rides in the desert to spelunking in the caverns, to oil changes.
Capitalism finds a way.
1958! Amazing. Living in a small rural town town in the West I didn’t have my first pizza until around 1970 when I was 20. It was a frozen Oh Boy pizza. It was good!
I love pizza but now am only eating low, low, low carb pizza I make myself.
The guy who started groupon did it just two years ago. Recently he turned down a deal from google to purchase it for $6 BILLION.
HE TURNED DOWN $6,000,000,000.00!
There are still ways to get rich. Unfortunately, I don’t know any of them:(
>>First pizza I ever had was Chef Boyardee out of a box
We used to make those back in the 60’s. I liked them, but not nearly as much as on the special occasions when we’d get real pizza parlor pizza.
The only reason I was able to try pizza in 1958 was the small town I grew up in, (DeFuniak Springs, FL) happened to have a small but good Italian restaurant.
It was called “Mom and Dads” and I think it may still be open.
Now, if the incompetent Control Freaks will just stay off their backs........
My first pizza— 1975 and I was 5 yrs old. It came from a town 40 miles away.
Bet you don’t feel that way about Pizza Hut anymore.
The last pizza I bought from them is the last pizza I will buy from them.
I remember getting pizza at their restaurant back in the 70’s and early 80’s, I thought they were just about the best around.
Now I wouldn’t feed it to my dog.
My wife was not a very good cook when we got married but she could make a really good pizza using the Appian Way brand boxed pizza as a starter.
I'm from Brooklyn. Born in the Slope. Living in Bensonhurst.
I like pizza. Good pizza.
...and most people called it “pizza pie” then. :) Not many flavor choices either!
Did the stringy cheese nearly brand you on the chin the first time you took a bite? Did me! LOL!
I had forgotten but you are right, they did call it pizza pie back then.
No, I didn’t get burned back then as it was only slightly warm by the time I got it but I have done so several times since.
Groupon is going public, and expects to sell $15 billion in stock. That’s alot of coupons!
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