Reply #22: Are you talking about that crappy Chef Boyardee Pizza?

[tomreedtoon]

That was the only pizza I ever ate as a kid. My parents didn't have money for anything else. I was astonished as a teenager to discover there were places that made pizza, and had raised-yeast crusts and real meat, meltable cheese and veggies on it.

That "thirty unattended minutes" for a more realistic pizza crust, made with yeast, is preceeded by 15 messy minutes blending and kneading dough. I assume that "thirty unattended minutes" is where you take a shower and clean up the spilled flour in the kitchen.

Take-out pizza is the cheapest damned food on earth. It's even cheaper to make. Remember it was food designed to feed the Italian people after World War II destroyed most of their cities. And the miniscule amount you save by making it yourself is more than offset by the cleanup work involved. They also have these miracle things called "coupons" that can make it even cheaper to buy.