Pizza can be a beautiful thing, but that wasn’t always true

I have friends who still insist that the best pizza they ever tasted was that doughy, greasy square slab of cheese-topped garbage that they were served in their high school cafeteria. Although, thanks to years of therapy, I’ve effectively blocked out almost every possible memory from my high school days, I can still remember that horrible pizza. I could never have eaten anything quite so visually unappetizing.

But I did, come to think of it. Before the modern plague of tasteless frozen pizzas infested grocery freezer cases, there was Chef Boyardee’s make-it-at-home boxed pizza “kit” that was sort of a less-greasy variation of the crappy product sold in high school. It looked and tasted pretty awful, too.