We had the boxed mixes when I was about 14 - only I usually made them, rather than my mother. It was the very beginning of my making yeast dough, as my mother did not make rolls or bread! Before that, pizza was ordered from the parlor as my parents began to grocery-shop on Saturday afternoon, to be picked up on our way home (the pizza place was right next to The Nut House, which eventually had to change its name because of all the prank phone calls it got). Now I make my own pizza without a recipe, because our son was severely allergic to all milk products - so I'd split his off and make it on a toaster-over sheet, and do ours on a baking pan. I do cheat and use jarred sauce, because we don't care for real tomatoes. But a few toasted sesame seeds from a Chinese grocery store pressed onto the crust, and whatever else we feel like adding to the usual pepperoni and mozzarella and parmesan on top... yum.

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