THE METHOD OF MAKING A FROZEN PIZZA, COMPRISING PREPARING A DOUGH, DISPOSING SAID DOUGH IN PRELIMINARY CONDITION FOR COOKING; PROVIDING AN EDIBLE SEALING AGENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF TOMATO PUREE, COOKED TOMATOES, DILUTED TOMATO PASTE, AND TOMATO JUICE; SPREADING SAID SEALING AGENT ON A SURFACE OF SAID DOUGH; PRE-COOKING SAID DOUGH AND SEALING AGENT; DISPOSING FREEZING SAID DOUGH AND SEALING AGENT; AND A WET FOOD CONSTITUENT ON SAID SEALING AGENT: AND QUICK FREEZING SAID DOUGH, SEALING AGENT AND WET CONSTITUTENT COMBINATION.
Continuing the TIL Totino's isn't just a kinda-Italian sounding name thought up by some some execs to turn out $1 just-barely-edible-when-high frozen pizza, but the name of a Minnesota woman named...
Continuing the TIL
Totino's isn't just a kinda-Italian sounding name thought up by some some execs to turn out $1 just-barely-edible-when-high frozen pizza, but the name of a Minnesota woman named Rose Totino.
Having first experienced pizza for the first time when visiting friends in Pennsylvania, she often made it for her friends. This eventually led Totino to launch an Italian restaurant with her husband Jim, and by 1962, the couple had started making frozen pizzas themselves.
Then sold the company to Pillsbury in 1975 for $20M (after talking them up from the $16M original offer and was given the first female VP position at the company).
TIL: US patent US2668117A
Continuing the TIL
Totino's isn't just a kinda-Italian sounding name thought up by some some execs to turn out $1 just-barely-edible-when-high frozen pizza, but the name of a Minnesota woman named Rose Totino.
Then sold the company to Pillsbury in 1975 for $20M (after talking them up from the $16M original offer and was given the first female VP position at the company).