Sunday Pizza Time-!!!
Being a Door Dasher, I ran nine (9) deliveries from 6 pm to 9 pm last night in Fairmont, West Virginia, the hometown of Olympian Mary Lou Retton, Senator Joe Manchin, Football Coach Nick Saban, and Singer Johnnie Johnson.
Imagine that all deliveries in this period were pizzas and similar: four from Pizza Hut, four from Papa John's, and one from Little Caesars Pizza. What a record!
Two Sundays ago (the Eve of the Eclipse Day), my first cousin once removed (nay, I'd instead call ‘Second cousin”) asked me to join her and her hubby for a pizza lunch at Marion’s Pizza in Centerville, Ohio, since she knows that Marion’s is my all-time favorite pizza. So I did.
I whispered to myself, if I recall, whether I had dined out for Sunday pizza lunch in my lifetime. I am afraid to say no.
My earliest memory about Sunday Pizza Time was that my mom used the package below for our family’s Sunday dinner since my boyhood town of Farmersville, Ohio (1950 population: 587) had no pizza place in the 1950s.
However, when we went to my mother’s sister’s (that cousin’s grandmother’s) place in Dayton, Ohio, my uncle picked up pizzas from Cassano's or Sam's Pizza on Sundays. He brought them, so we ate them while watching on black and white television: NFL games, MBL games, and Ed Sullivan Show.
After we moved to Dayton in 1960, my mom stopped making pizza, so my dad got pizza from Cassano’s.
While attending Ohio University in 1964-68, all dorm cafeterias were closed for Sunday dinner, so, like most students, I went uptown to eat pizzas.
Sunday Pizza Time is a solid American tradition-!!!
Back to Fairmont. I delivered pizzas to a luxurious house with a Mercedes Benz SUV parking along. After handing them to a male customer, I told him he had a gorgeous view of Downtown Fairmont. He nodded. Then I tapped on a Door Dasher app and saw “no tip” from him.
I went to the same house one hour later with an extra pizza. That man was relieved to see me again and handed me two five-dollar bills—another typical West Virginian.
Back to that cousin. She picked Sunday at noon to meet me since she had total weekend commitments. No problem.
My all-time favorite pizza is Marion’s sausage and mushroom! After looking at this picture above, one Facebook commenter wrote, “Looks like a heart attack in a box,” and paused, “...followed by a night in the ER.”
NOTE: Marion's Pizza, Sam's Pizza, and Cassano's Pizza King (former name - Vic's and Mom) are variations of "St. Louis-style pizza,"(characterized by its unusually SALTY, crispy, distinctively flavored thin crust and are typically cut into SMALL rectangular pieces rather than wedges).
