[Magdalen] Cowboy pizza.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

D Strang
> Regarding pizza of any stripe, it was unknown outside of ethnic
> neighborhoods
> in large cities in the Upper Midwest. Pizza was foreign to those
> predominantly
> North European immigrants and their progeny.  It wasn't until the  advent 
> of
> frozen pizza in the 1960's that pizza finally penetrated the frozen 
> North.


I grew up in northern burbs of Detroit.  There was a small Italian joint - 
Casa Mia nearby and they had Italian food but AMAZING pizza in the '50s-'70s 
when I think the original owners retired and by then the pizza chains had 
come in and perhaps their kids did not want to continue the family biz. 
Other wonderful Italian restaurants in the downtown area as well... notably 
Roma Café (my parent's fave).

I think it may have been mostly first generation immigrants that started the 
restaurants, and the assimilation of their more successful progeny made them 
shy away from 'restaurant' work/ownership, unless it had become a big-a 
deal-a!

Lynn, just sayin' and typin' when I should be doing other things today!


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From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 2:41 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Cowboy pizza.

>
>
> In a message dated 3/9/2015 3:23:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:
>
> My  maternal grandparents used to own one of the very first Mr 
> Coffees.>>>>
>
> Regarding pizza of any stripe, it was unknown outside of ethnic
> neighborhoods
> in large cities in the Upper Midwest. Pizza was foreign to those
> predominantly
> North European immigrants and their progeny.  It wasn't until the  advent 
> of
> frozen pizza in the 1960's that pizza finally penetrated the frozen 
> North.
>
> Of course, the ironic fact is that most pizza in the USA uses  Wisconsin
> cheese.  A very large percentage of the entire state output of  milk
> goes into pizza cheese.
>
> I had pizza the first week of my freshman year at college.  I didn't  know
> what it was when my group of movie-goers stopped off a State Street
> pizza parlor on our way back to the dormitories.
>
> I've said before that the worst coffee in the world is what passes  for
> coffee in the USA Upper Midwest.  Those Scandinavians drink it  non-stop,
> so they dilute it out to virtual nothingness.  It's really just  colored
> water.
>
> My mother held out to the end with her infernal "percolator" coffee.
> "Those filter-coffee outfits make the coffee too strong".
>
>
>
> David Strang, who was stunned on his last trip to the MN Twin  Cities
> to have Starbuck's served in the hotel restaurant.  What's "the  world
> coming to?"