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A few yrs ago I told a group of college kids that I 1st had pizza my freshman yr in college (fall 1957) and that there had been no pizza places in the city where I grew up.
One young woman, who had been checking her tms, heard my statement and responded with this horrified question.
She and the others could not imagine such a pitiful, deprived existence.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,634 posts)dameatball
(7,400 posts)movie theatre.
Runningdawg
(4,526 posts)I moved to NYC from a small town in OK in 1979. People asked me stupid questions all the time. "Have you tried pizza yet?" was one of my favs - I would say no, what is it? and I would usually end up with a free slice LOL
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Ohiogal
(32,118 posts)in the mid 60s .... but it was never eaten as a dinner ... only as a snack or a "party food".
My parents were old school. Dinner was meat and potatoes and a vegetable. My father even complained when on rare occasions we had spaghetti. I, too, never ate pizza for dinner until I went away to college in the mid 70s.
d_r
(6,907 posts)Except she didn't go to college, but the same age range
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Damn what I missed out on.
Rhiannon12866
(206,276 posts)We often had pizza at home when I was a kid, usually on Saturdays, but my mother made it. It was one of my favorites. And my mother wasn't Italian, she was Polish.
And I never had Chinese food until we ordered it at work. And I didn't live in an isolated area, grew up in upstate New York and we went out to dinner fairly often.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)My dad didn't like pizza whatsoever but the rest of us did. It was built in an empty lot around 1968.
Years later it was one of the go-to places for after-high-school football games, and then I worked there later on.
That Shakey's Pizza was either torn down or renovated to become an ob/gyn center now.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)It defined what pizza and other foods were so they would know if a boy took them to an Italian restaurant.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)Not the kind in the freezer, a mix that came with a pack you added water to for the dough, a small can of pizza sauce and a little can of cheese. We usually put a can of anchovies on it to make it taste like something.
Oh my - they still make it!
tonekat
(1,827 posts)Was at my grandmother's wake, somewhere in Brooklyn in the 60's. I was probably 8 and bored out of my mind after being there all day and now it was night, so dad took me down the block to a window service place. A life changing moment. The funny thing is that he never ate cheese, unless it was on pizza.