FW: Calzone, Sausage Pizza (1947)

[Pearsons, Enid]

I still feel nostalgic about those days when, newly ensconsed in New York, I
would take the train home to Bridgeport and pass the "La Resista Corset
Company." I guess they never achieved the status of a Frisbie pie or a
Whiffle ball.

Enid

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Abate [mailto:abatefr at EARTHLINK.NET]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:58 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: FW: FW: Calzone, Sausage Pizza (1947)
>
>
> Yes, Fred is right about Frisbee.  There was, and is, a brand
> of pies in CT,
> such as apple, blueberry, etc. (not pizza), called Frisbie
> (note spelling).
> The company was based in Bridgeport; I don't know if the company still
> exists, or if the brand name is merely used by some other
> company.  Their
> pie plates were long ago used as flying disks, reputedly by
> Yale students.
> This led in some fashion to the invention of the plastic disk called
> Frisbee.
>
> There are various sites on the web that talk about this,
> though I am not
> sure how accurate the details are.  But I am confident about
> Frisbie pie
> plates in CT being the ultimate Frisbee (if you will).
>
> Other famous products with a Connecticut connection include
> Wiffle Ball,
> invented and still made in Shelton, Silly Putty, invented by
> a CT scientist,
> and the space suits used by NASA, developed and made near Hartford by
> Hamilton Sundstrand (formerly Hamilton Standard).
>
> Frank Abate
> author, "Connecticut Trivia"
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Fred Shapiro
>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:09 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: FW: Calzone, Sausage Pizza (1947)
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Frank Abate wrote:
>
> > Barry's details and dates below are instructive, and blow
> away the claim
> > (which I never believed anyway) that the first pizzas were
> made in New
> > Haven, a local myth in Connecticut.
>
> There is also a local myth hereabouts that the hamburger was
> invented at
> Louie's Lunch in New Haven, but evidence for the 19th-century
> existence of
> the term "hamburger," furnished by historical dictionaries
> and by Barry's
> researches, disproves that one as well.
>
> I think the local claim that "frisbee" originated in New Haven is
> authentic.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>
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