![]() And I hope that people enjoy the product that's in the box - and the outside of the box, too. "It's silly, but even when I'm driving around and I see them sticking out of garbage cans at the side of the curb, I'm like, 'There's my box!'" she laughed. She has crafted more than 10,000 different box designs. And then you get to enjoy the pizza."Īnd for less than 60 cents a box, pizza locations big and small are able to market themselves, using graphics created by people like Holly Del Re, the main designer at Freeport Paper. Korine laughed: "I love the box! The first thing you see is the box. "So, which is more important? The pizza inside, or the box?" "In more recent years, it kind of went into more of a cafe design." "In the early years, there was always an old-fashioned pizza guy with a big mustache in front of the box," said Gil Korine, the president of Freeport Paper. It wasn't until the 1950s that pizza boxes were actually created.ĭomino's was said to be the first to design the corrugated box that was durable and kept cheese from sticking to the top.įreeport Paper on Long Island produces about 10 million pizza boxes a week, and ships all over the world.Īltschul asked, "What's the most popular design?" In the late 19th century, pies made their way to America with the wave of Italian immigrants, and they were wrapped in cheap newsprint or paper bags. Wiener says, in the 1800s metal vessels called stufas were used to carry around pizza in Naples, where pizza as we know it originated. Charles Pierce There’s very little in my world that a foot massage and a thin-crust, everything-on-it pizza won’t sit right. The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m. Kevin James I can’t turn water into wine, but I can turn pizza into breakfast. Pizza wasn't always transported in boxes. There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box in your lap. Then he started collecting box after box - including the world's largest usable pizza box, for a 54" by 54" Sicilian pizza. The language is different, different customs.' But you don't expect to look on the wall of a pizzeria and to see this bright yellow box with blue writing on it. "When you're in a different country, you kind of expect, 'Oh yeah, the money's different. Wiener's (some might say "cheesy") obsession started when he was traveling in Israel seven years ago. There's even a high-tech one that works with your iPad so you can play a video game with your pizza box, in which you must protect a pizzeria from zombies.
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