Oh, I so remember '50s pizza. It was mostly kinda awful but that was probably because my grandfather, who loved food, used to take me to Pizza Uno and to the Italian Village (an upstairs restaurant filled with large, dark men in fedoras) whenever we were in Chicago. Today, I vastly prefer thin-crust to Chicago style but comparing Pizza Uno's product to the biscuit crust attempts made at my friends' homes was, well, no comparison. Thanks for the history. You're right about the oregano. Yah HAD to put in oregano. Today, I seldom use it in pizza sauce, preferring basil as the herb of choice, but fifty years ago, if it didn't have oregano, it wasn't pizza. Even if that pizza was a Velveeta and Bisquick creation.

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