I've got two of those Appian Way pizza pans and I use them regularly. They were my mom's and she had them before I was born so I know the pans are at least 60 years old. I remember cookies being baked on them as well as the occasional Chef Boy-ar-dee kit pizza. I didn't realize the pans were part of a kit. I thought they had held the early version of frozen pizza. The Boiardi family established their factory in Milton, Pa in 1938, just up the road from where I grew up. They were able to grow tomatoes adjacent to the factory - miles and miles and acres and acres of tomato fields. In high school I ran around with Ettore's granddaughter. Later, I purchased a house just across from one of those fields and never had to grow tomatoes in my own garden. Unfortunately, during the years I lived there I watched the field go from tomatoes to corn and soy to no-till-plenty-of-weedkiller-spraying farming to development. Now Con Agra owns Boyardee's and buys in all their ingredients. The Boy-ar-dee plant is also home to Fiddle Faddle (like Cracker Jack) and Diablo Hot Mustard.

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