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Tuesday, September 20. 2022

Real Italian cuisine

When I was a kid, there was not even a pizza joint in town. Still doesn't have one.


Posted by The News Junkie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:46 | Comments (21) | Trackbacks (0)

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Don't remember ever seeing a spaghetti dinner kit like this one.
#1 Aggie on 2022-09-20 14:18 (Reply)
Not only do I remember these kits, I also remember the Chung King Chinese food kits (which I think are still available). Sadly, my mom was a terrible cook, which I didn't realize until I left home.
#1.1 RetiredSOF on 2022-09-20 15:24 (Reply)
I don't remember a spaghetti kit but I do remember the chow mein dinner kits, and Chef Boy-Ar-Dee canned pastas.
#1.1.1 Christopher B on 2022-09-20 16:05 (Reply)
The Chun King kits I remember. But I grew up outside of Boston, and Prince Spaghetti was the only thing we had - the company had started out on Prince St., in the Italian North End of Boston There was a commercial that must have run for a decade about a kid running through the Italian North End to get home for his spaghetti, the Wednesday night meal. 'Anthony!!'

It turned out he was a real Italian kid from the neighborhood who had happened to chat with some advertising executives who were in the North End scouting locations and they stuck him in the ad, which became famous. There were even some Prince Spaghetti House restaurants but I could never figure out if they were franchises or company-owned or what.

Ragu spaghetti sauce came out at about that time too, so between the two and Kraft Parmesan, we never saw a Chef Boyardee kit.
#1.1.2 Aggie on 2022-09-20 18:04 (Reply)
Wednesday is Prince spaghetti day. Finish the leftovers Thursday. Fish sticks on Friday.

How many cookies did Andrew eat. Andrew ate 8,000.
#1.1.2.1 bob sykes (Link) on 2022-09-20 20:30 (Reply)
Not many of us left who remember Andrew. It was an ad for a carpet cleaning company. Andrew 8-8000 was their phone number.
#1.1.2.1.1 Galway Boy on 2022-09-21 21:47 (Reply)
Didn't have a pizza joint in my little hometown either but Chef Boy-Ar-Dee made a pizza kit too. Had a few of those with hamburger or sausage accessories.
#2 indyjonesouthere on 2022-09-20 14:25 (Reply)
Just made one last light. I love those pizzas!
#2.1 Mike on 2022-09-20 17:20 (Reply)
My Dad loved the Chef Boyardee pizza kits. I grew up in rural Appalachia, but Dad had lived up north for work between graduating high school and setting down for marriage and kids. He would buy the kits and then customize them by adding all his favorite toppings remembered from living in Chicago and Detroit. It’s been 40 years since I had one of his pizzas, but what I wouldn’t give to have one now.
#2.1.1 Chadd Newman on 2022-09-20 20:58 (Reply)
We were a Franco American fat spaghetti family. Actually, just me and my father, the other eight members of the family wouldn't touch spaghetti at all. I don't know that I ever ate Chef Boy-a-dee at all; didn't have the real stuff until college age.
#3 Bob D on 2022-09-20 14:57 (Reply)
Man, I remember those and the pizza kits as well.
#4 Jerryskids on 2022-09-20 15:04 (Reply)
Gawd, I'd forgotten about the pizza kits. They were awful.
#4.1 RetiredSOF on 2022-09-20 15:22 (Reply)
My sister made Apian Way pizza almost every time her then boyfriend later husband got off work.
#5 JC on 2022-09-20 15:18 (Reply)
My very first taste of "pizza" (at age ten) was from a Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee box because we lived in the Southwest and nobody around there had ever heard of pizza (except the young WWII vets who had been in Italy, like my dad). He brought home the box, wanting to introduce us to it. Just dough, canned sauce, and fake cheese, which my mother hated, but which we kids loved. We also ate canned Spaghetti-Os and thought that was the greatest. I wouldn't touch that stuff with a ten foot pole now, but I'm grateful for the memory of new "culinary" experiences.
#6 RebeccaH on 2022-09-20 16:10 (Reply)
When I was a kid half my friends families spoke Italian, Greek or Polish. I learned Italian cooking (peasant Italian) at my mothers side. We would have been disowned if we ever bought one of those meals.
#7 OneGuy on 2022-09-20 16:13 (Reply)
I remember the pizza kit. I don't remember the spaghetti kit. Though, we may have used that. I am not sure what my mom used for spaghetti sauce. We used to have spaghetti and fish sticks on Friday nghts.
#8 Lee Also on 2022-09-20 17:03 (Reply)
Fish sticks!

For a hungry kid, they were good.
#8.1 BD on 2022-09-20 17:37 (Reply)
I feel bad for you
#9 Bigcat (Link) on 2022-09-20 19:36 (Reply)
I remember the Chef Boy-ar-dee spaghetti kits.

I still like fish sticks. And about every other year I get an urge for spaghetti-o’s. 😊
#10 Princess Cutekitten on 2022-09-21 00:30 (Reply)
We still make "chow mein" with all the canned La Choy vegetables: bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, and water chestnuts. It's one of my favorite childhood foods.

Spaghetti sauce, however, we manage to make from scratch. It's awfully easy.
#11 Texan99 on 2022-09-21 12:02 (Reply)
It wasn't real chow mein without the crunchy noodles on top.
#11.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-09-22 13:33 (Reply)

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