'No pizza!?!?! What did you guys EAT??'

[bobbieinok]

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]

1. Sad! 😢

[dameatball]

2. We didn't have a pizza place either. Had to drive about 20 miles and they did serve it at a drive-in

movie theatre.

[Runningdawg]

3. LOL

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]

4. You should have told her you only had ramen noodles to eat. n/t

[Ohiogal]

5. Pizza was around when I was a kid

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. My mom says the same thing

Except she didn't go to college, but the same age range

[MicaelS]

7. I never ate Chinese Food until College.

Damn what I missed out on.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I never had "take out" pizza till I went away to school

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]

9. I grew up down the road from Shakey's Pizza, which is still around

https://www.shakeys.com/

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]

10. My mom had an etiquette book for girls from 1950.

It defined what pizza and other foods were so they would know if a boy took them to an Italian restaurant.

[csziggy]

11. Until college the only pizza I ever had came out of a box

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!

https://www.chefboyardee.com/products/pizza-and-sauces/cheese-pizza-maker-0

[tonekat]

12. My first pizza experience

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.