I love this topic! I have to say that growing up in basically small towns, in the inter-mountain west, in the sixties and seventies, food was rather seasonal, and quite basic. The supermarkets of that era definitely weren’t the food wonderlands of today. My mom was a pretty good cook when she chose to be, but didn’t venture far afield ever. When I started paying attention at the store, I LOVED the “exotic”aisle where the La Choy dinners were. In this section, also to be found were the pizza kits - I recall Appian Way specifically, also the Kraft spaghetti kits, as well as the canned raviolis and the Green can Kraft Parmesan, if remembering correctly. We had all of those things on occasion. The buildup to the La Choy was always better than the end result, but the pizza kits were stellar! Always a happy day when that happened. To put this in context, mom and pop hamburger stands represented the entirety of fast food then, and unless you went to the bigger cities, restaurants were also mom & pops, mainly diners or steakhouses, and the fare is what you would expect in a landlocked part of the country. Things have changed so much!
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