• @cAUzapNEAGLb
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    Til https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totino's

    Separately, Jeno Paulucci developed a series of food businesses starting in the late 1940s, including the Chun King line of Chinese foods.[3] After selling Chun King in 1966, he founded Jeno’s Inc. in 1968, where cook and product developer Beatrice Ojakangas developed Pizza Rolls,[4][5] a type of egg roll filled with pizza ingredients. The first pizza roll flavor was cheese.[3] In 1985, Paulucci sold his Jeno’s Pizza Rolls brand to Pillsbury for $135 million.[6]

    The Jeno’s line of pizza rolls was rebranded as Totino’s in 1993.

    Thanks Beatrice, aka “Scandinavian Julia Child”, still alive at 90: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Ojakangas

    • @bitchkat
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      43 months ago

      We used to get our school lunch pizza from Jenos since they were made just across the bridge.

  • @wallybeavis
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    TiL Pizza rolls have been around since 1977! That’s just amazing. I’m going to need to add pizza rolls to my next grocery run

  • @CluckN
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    93 months ago

    10¢ off what a deal!

  • @RaoulDook
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    83 months ago

    I remember the Fry Daddy appliance from the old days, didn’t know there was a Fry Baby.

  • @reddig33
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    53 months ago

    Just about everyone I knew in the 70s had a fry daddy or fry baby.

  • Drusas
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    33 months ago

    Huh. I really assumed that these delicious abominations were created during the obesity/diabetes on-ramp period of the 80s to 90s.

    Guess I should probably be glad that I never had them until I was in my teens in the late 90s or maybe early 00s.

    • @bitchkat
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      23 months ago

      They definitely had deep fryers well before the 80s. My mom just used a regular pot and that is what I’ve stuck with.

  • @[email protected]
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    13 months ago

    12 rolls? That’s a rounding error these days. Pizza roll bags come with a heavy duty braided handle and retractable wheels these days you get em by the thousands.