Founder of Jeno's, best known for pizza rolls, dies four days after wife

http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_19408179 ^ | 11-25-11 | AP

[WOBBLY BOB]

DULUTH, Minn.—Jeno Paulucci, a Minnesota business icon whose restaurant ventures included a company that popularized the finger food known as pizza rolls, has died. He was 93. Paulucci's daughter Cindy Paulucci Selton tells the Duluth News-Tribune he died Thursday morning at his Duluth home. His wife, Lois, had died just four days earlier.

In 1944, Paulucci founded Duluth-based Chun King, which sold a line of canned Chinese food. More than two decades later, he sold that company to R.J. Reynolds Food Inc.

[WOBBLY BOB]

It would be irony if the trash that made him cry was a Chun King wrapper.

[Joe 6-pack]

LOL!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Michelina’s frozen dinners

I love those! I buy them 5 for a 5 bucks at my grocery store every week. It's a cheap and easy (and delicious) lunch.
Five bucks for a week's lucch ain't bad. I work with people who spend 6-7 dollars a day at the cafeteria. I don't know how they do it.

[PilotDave]

I flew in the Duluth ANG years ago. My favorite Jeno memory is one day I was hanging out at the Skyharbor airport, which is on the sandbar which create the harbor from lake Superior, and Jeno came in with his friends from his lake home. His party arrived in 2 Beech 18 float planes. They landed in formation on the harbor, what a way to travel...

[WOBBLY BOB]

I don't know how they do it.

same here. I pack whatever is on sale. the current Subway BOGO 6" sammy is a pretty good deal,but not as good as $5 /week. I do it once a week as my Friday treat.Livin' large, that's me.

[DemforBush]

Same here. I can’t bring myself to spend more than a buck or two on an everyday lunch. I save enough in a month to pay for my gas.

[ExCTCitizen]

Pizza rolls are good... Jeno, you will be missed on the planet. God has plans for you and your wife — that is to serve PIZZA ROLLS to the angels!!

[ErnBatavia]

Having taken some long cross country road trips the past three summers, we've noticed Chinese (mostly buffet style) restaurants in places you'd never expect a Chinaman within 200 miles.

The little joint in Pecos, Texas was unbelievably good.

[WOBBLY BOB]

like a tiny Hot Pocket before Hot Pockets ever existed.

molten,scalding goodness in a bite sized morsel.

[hoosier_RW_conspirator]

I’m actually relieved to know that the guy who came up with Pizza Rolls was Italian.

So how do you feel about knowing that the guy who came up with Chun King Foods was Italian?
*grin*

[equaviator]

I’ll never look at an eggroll or bean sprout the same way again but I’ll still enjoy them from time to time (sarc).

It’s kinda like knowing what’s supposed to beef or pork in a hot dog.

That’s not the fairest of comparisons but it’s pretty much the same feeling, especially when I’m hungry and there’s almost nothing else available.

[Colonel_Flagg]

He should have written a business book since he had marketing and sales figured out pretty well.

[allmendream]

My dad calls any Italian playing a Native American in cinema or on TV a “Wopahoe Indian”.

Chief ‘Iron Eyes’ Cody was Chief of the Wopahoe tribe.

;)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Well...what do you know !