Ahhhhh! College days. Boy, it sucked. LOL!
We don’t have too many things to crow about in NJ, but we does have some damn good pizza.
“A meal in a minute, with the Chef’s touch in it”
My first memory, too.
There is a local, Southern pizza that is just so wrong...crust like a saltines too sweet sauce pepperoni is small cubes and its cut in 2 inch squares...but its dang tasty. No accounting for taste.
LOL
Nah, Chef Boy-Ar-Dee needs to stick to Beef-a-Roni or it’s distant cousin Beef-a-Reeno. Let the experts like Lorenzo’s or Famous Ray’s or Original Ray’s or Mario’s (with the Frogger machine) or Pisano’s (with the calzones) handle the pizza making. If you go to Poppy’s you can make your own pie but stick to the script and wash your hands!.
I fondly remember eating the Chef Boyardee pizza mixes. Some 50 years ago.
I wonder if they still have them for sale?
1960’s era Shakey’s.
Norcal.
Best pizza in the world.
Pizza was served in our school cafeteria in the 1970’s. It was awful, even though in NJ. Great pizza was to be had all over. I fondly recall CiCi’s on the Pt. Pleasant Beach boardwalk.
Bait or no bait? Anchovies, that is.
Oh, God, do I ever remember those pizaa-in-a-box kits as a kid......they were so bad, they were good.
Per my memory, pizza became a thing ca 1952-1953. 1 was 12-13. Been a part of my life ever since and always will be even if I have to chew it with my gums!😀
These, she called "pizzas". And we ate them up and hollered for more.
Wanna have a great experience with your kids or grandkids? Make a pizza from a kit and let them do most of the work. You’ll make some of the best memories.
Making Jiffy Pop popcorn with little kids is also a hoot.
In 1956 my first boyfriend took me to a party at his house and I helped him make a Chef-Boy-ar-dee pizza mix with sausage. I had barely heard of pizza, let alone had any before. I thought it was great!
We went our separate ways, but recently reconnected in alumni communications and caught up with what we each have been doing for the last 65 years.
We were so innocent back then compared with what kids are exposed to these days.
Saturday-night pizza. Often with Chef Bogarde pizza kit and later more the pizza shells from the Italian deli and Don Peppino sauce.
My parents had this as a family tradition. Pizza as a snack with our late-night horror movies. Creature Feature and Ghost Host Theater! Great times.
Another thing that was unique to our town here was a restaurant opened by a local man in our mall. He was Barry, the restaurant Barry’s, and he had Barry’s Pizza.
I rarely actually had it, but I’ll never forget it. When the restaurant closed by 1990, it was a memory, brought up only in his obituary.
It was unique.
A huge, thick mass that was a true pizza PIE. It was made in a deep lasagna dish, thin layer of bread on the bottom, layered up the sides to make a very thick side, and closed over the top in another thin layer. Before closing it a gigantic amount of cheese with a bit of sauce (“toppings” if ordered) mixed in.
Basically it was a very, very thick quiche!
I loved it!
“...pizza was not always a part of our lives and certainly not served in the school cafeteria”.
I don’t know where this person grew up but on Long Island in the 50s we had kind of a homemade pizza on our menu when I was in first grade even, my husband said they had the same in his school in the sixties in NJ.
English muffin, mozarella and sauce.
And for some reason that thing was delicious!!!
Best pizza I ever had was in Queens, NY on Woodhaven Blvd. Great little pizza place, brick oven, spun their own up in the air and all!
I looked for it about ten years ago on the net. Seems they were visited by the FBI, shipping drugs in pizza boxes.
Oh well, that’s the mob for ya’
But they DID make the BEST pizza!!! Yeah, baby!
That’s what my mom made - always hamburger pizza. We thought it was a big deal - the nearest Pizza Hut was 30 miles away.