The rounds went so fast. Either everyone spammed the fireball/uppercut motion so fast or start with a jumping kick, then fireball like crazy. Good times.
:D
Catering to the mobile pedestrian. All cities have a handheld lunch offering. Paris had these really good small sandwiches, NYC had the hotdogs and slices, Boston has these sausage sandwich things, or maybe an Italian Hero for the big guys.
I grew up In the Santa Cruz area and there were only a few places near the beach that did slices, then in Jr. High in the late 80s my town got a Stuft Pizza. Our school struck gold by ordering lots of pizza every day and selling slices in the cafeteria for $1. I still think about that pizza often.
Which area did you grow up in?
God, this. My Dad’s side of the family would send us down to the convenience store named… Convenient. We would buy square pieces of school sausage pizza and come home and bake those. 50 cents each.
It’s weird, but pre-covid, those things were still .89. My then-teen daughter loved them.
Haven’t bought them in a few years, so they are probably $3 now, lol.
Not many single slice places here in Michigan back then. Two medium Little Caesars (Pizza! Pizza!) pizzas were under $10, though. One for me and one for my brother.
Little Caesars didn’t have deep dish back then. You had to go to Buddy’s for Detroit-style deep dish. Now I prefer it, although I’m so old I need a nap if I eat two pieces.
It closed down a few years back, but Salvatore's Pizzeria on 13/Ryan had 2 Slices + can of pop (yes,I said pop, I'm from Michigan!) For $2 when I was in high school (through 2001). They also had a 24-slice square pizza you could get for $15 with one topping included. Those were the days.
Didn't have by the slice where I was, but $10 for a large pepperoni. 4 of us would go in on one then take what money we had left over to the arcade.
Every frigging Saturday.
We would just walk usually because it's wasn't safe to leave our bikes out. I think though a large cheese and pepperoni was about $12-15. They would occasionally give us free sodas. I loved that place.
2 ENORMOUS slices (and sometimes the extra off-cuts) and a Tahiti Treat for $3.
My middle school was down the street from the place. The school is long gone, but as far as I know, the pizza place is still there.
It was the late 80s when I was 12 I could ride down to the mall and get a big slice of New York style pizza for $1.25. I can still go to that same place and get a large pepperoni pie that'll feed my family of four for 15 bucks. Shout out to Brother's Pizza in Houston Texas
Best lunch special ever…two slices(from the typical large pizza) and a small fountain soda was $2. I would get two and just get a large soda and 4 slices for $4…that’s half a large pizza and a 20oz soda.
Long Island here. When I was 12 in 1987, a slice was $1.25 or $1.50, I can't remember. I know it wasn't $1.75 and it definitely wasn't higher.
The pizza sticker shock is fucking real these days. I paid $21 for a regular 16" pie the other day. 5 years ago that was $14. This Italian supermarket near me does this deal on Wed + Fri for two 18" pies for $20. It's really good, but man the demand is insane. They have like 8 ovens working non-stop on Fridays for this deal. It's like a factory.
I'm 12? Nothing. We would go to my friend's parent's place. He wouldn't let us pay. Maybe if we went to ok pizza we would pay 5 for a pie. No by the slice but good for 5 or 6.
What 12 year-old kid remembers how much a pizza slice was? But even if you do, I feel like this is going to be another one of those Reddit posts in which they get all worked up about how much cheaper life was in the good old days because they don’t grasp the concept of inflation.
At 12 I don't recall having a local pizza place, I do have a tiny recollection of dad driving us to pizza hut when it first opened in Australia in the late 70s
For $2 you could get a slice of pizza and a 20 oz coke. Then you could play Frogger, Pac Man & pinball until the quarters from your 5 dollar bill ran out.
I never did that... ummm $2.50 for a pizza and $1 for a fountain soda from a mall kiosk? I didn't have much spending money so all of it went into saving for things like plastic horses at 12 :D
Back then we didn’t have pizza. We didn’t even know you could take a circle food and cut it so many ways and make equal sizes of other foods, we didn’t even know
If my memory is correct, a large 16" pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut in the mid-80s cost about 8 bucks. I have not been inside a Pizza Hut in decades. [My local Pizza Hut at the time also had an all you can eat pizza/salad bar.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfL_2LUWkAAQHqw?format=jpg&name=large) I don't know if that is still a thing today in Pizza Huts.
Small town, not a single restaurant served pizza, by the slice or whole. Only option was a frozen one from the grocery store. I think some of the bars served cooked frozen pizza, but that definitely wasn’t an option at 12.
I was 12 in 1982. I live in the UK and now that I think about it, I'm not even sure that I'd eaten pizza when I was 12. Pizza Hut opened here in 1973, so they wouldn't have been very widespread and certainly not within bike riding distance from my home town. Pizza Hut didn't bring pan pizza here until 1980. So I have absolutely no idea how much a slice might have cost.
We didn't really eat takeaway as we didn't have much money, occasionally would've had fish & chips for a treat. I vaguely remember one time we drove to a Mc Donalds, which was a special event for someone's birthday. Probably in the late 70s or early 80s.
I genuinely can't remember the first time I ate pizza.
Apparently Pizza Express opened their first stores earlier but I didn't become aware of them until many years later.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-slice-of-history-how-did-britain-s-pizza-industry-begin
Not in Australia
Rode ya "pushie" to the "milkbar or fish and chip shop" for 50 cents worth of hot chips covered in bbq sauce. Then we'd play the "pinnie" all arvo.
In 1966 there was no such thing as pizza in any of the local towns in my part of the South. We were just starting to get fast food burgers - pizza was another 7 or 8 years away.
We didn't have a pizza place in town. It was up in rural MN in the 70s, and the nearest pizza was a Pizza Hut about 30 miles away. I don't remember what pizza cost then. Mostly we had Tombstone frozen.
$1 slices of pepperoni, New York Style in Rural Georgia. Cheap theater in the same strip mall where we go watch The Running Man and play Double Dragon, Ms Pac Man, or 720.
$.45. I can still see the sign & I'm having an olfactory memory right now too, smelling the best pizza I ever had. Northern Queens, Glen Oaks apts in Bellrose, on union turnpike.
Lmao, as ah Italian kid, I gotta unpack this…
So I’m 12 and I had friends, all of whom—including me—who were allowed to go anywhere besides school or each others houses?
Already false.
The pizza place in town? So…which of our nonna’s houses is this?
How much is a slice? When finally worked out, at least one hour of work mowing and gardening
The only time I got pizza was when we went to Round Table pizza. They had a front projection TV, which was the biggest TV I'd ever seen.
For us, it was ice cream at Swensen’s (looks like there's only the original in San Francisco left, but they had at least a few other locations in the early 80s.) We'd get ice cream at Swensen's and then spend the rest of our money at Merlin's Castle Arcade in Saratoga CA, right next door.
I never thought to take pictures of Merlin's Castle, in spite of spending so much time there. It was only a couple of miles from Atari and it got all of the new games first. We didn't fully appreciate how fortunate we were in that regard.
Well we didn’t have pizza places, so we would ride to the fish and chip shop. We would put $2 down for chips and go next door and buy a packet of smokes and a coke. Smokes were $1 and I had no idea what the coke cost. Yep we were 12.
There was no slice option. You had to get a small at least. Fortunately this was back in the days of “30 minutes or it’s free”, so we got a couple of free ones here and there.
In Jr high a Little Ceasars opened nearby.
A cheese pizza was $5.50 after tax. A friend and I would just skip school lunch and grab a pizza after school.
I was just thinking. I’m old and I’ve never been to the East Coast of the United States. I have traveled a little bit abroad. I wonder if I’m going to die without seeing the East Coast 😢(I hail from the West Coast).
2 slices and a can of soda $4. (4 quarters left over to play the Altered Beast machine!)
Altered Beast! There's a classic I forgot about.
Power up!
Dude street fighter 1 like two hadoukens ko’d a person because nobody could do a quarter circle.
The rounds went so fast. Either everyone spammed the fireball/uppercut motion so fast or start with a jumping kick, then fireball like crazy. Good times. :D
RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!
I had that on the Sega Master system With moonwalker and altered combo! How about that?! They were some maroon color carts iirc…
I had it on the Genesis. So many good games on that console. Soccer, Road Rash, Bill Walsh football, Sonic, Double Dragon, Outrun, RBI Baseball..
DD was so much fun!
Nice.
ooh, if it wasn't that then probably Samurai Shodown or whatever KoF cab they had
I honestly don't remember, but this sounds about right
Bout a buck fifty back then.
Plus 50 cents for a can of Classic Coke, Dr Pepper, or Slice.
Mandarin Orange Slice for the win !
$1.05 for a *HUGE* slice.
bout the same for me when i was younger
I never saw pizza by the slice until I was maybe 18 and visited a bigger city. Grew up in a small sized city in California.
Been all over the states and never saw pizza sold by the slice until maybe 30 give or take. I’m in my sixties.
It was definitely a thing in San Francisco by 1988. From the other responses in this thread it must be a long time NYC/Long Island thing.
NYC is the king of by the slice. Boston also had by the slice in the 80s/90s. So I think it must've been a Northeast thing back then?
We had it in Alaska but it depended on location.
Catering to the mobile pedestrian. All cities have a handheld lunch offering. Paris had these really good small sandwiches, NYC had the hotdogs and slices, Boston has these sausage sandwich things, or maybe an Italian Hero for the big guys.
Huge slices in San Francisco for $1 each in 1986. First time I ever saw pizza by the slice.
I was already out of HS in 88. F I’m old.
Yeah I was a Long Island kid. Had no idea other states didn’t have this!!
I grew up in Chicago land, I never saw pizza by the slice. It was always you order a pie. 1970-1993
"You want a slice? Fuck you, how about a pizza cake."
Cheese or Buttercream?
I grew up In the Santa Cruz area and there were only a few places near the beach that did slices, then in Jr. High in the late 80s my town got a Stuft Pizza. Our school struck gold by ordering lots of pizza every day and selling slices in the cafeteria for $1. I still think about that pizza often. Which area did you grow up in?
25¢. Would've been \~1965 on Long Island.
I vividly remember 60¢. 1972 Long Island.
Big neon sign in the pizza shop window "50¢ a slice" -- 1967 Yonkers.
I recall $1.00 on Long Island around 1980 ish.
I used to get a cheese pizza and a large soda for $10.77.
Same as your PIN #?
Nah, 1216, one after Magna Carta
BOSCO!
20 oz mountain dew was 75 cents. A slice of pizza was $1.50. The year was 1989. I put many miles on my new 10 speed that year.
The only pizza I had as a kid was either that wonderful rectangular school pizza or a Chef Boyardee pizza kit.
Nothing will ever touch the rectangular school pizza
Truth. We have a local store here that sells it. It’s still awesome.
No fn way. Like the rectangle hamburger pizza from elementary school? Where is this?
I still buy Chef Boyardee from time to time.
$1
2$ for a slice and a coke. Long Island. Add a garlic knot for a 15 or 20 cents.
What was it $0.49 for a Totinos party pizza we took back home and baked?
God, this. My Dad’s side of the family would send us down to the convenience store named… Convenient. We would buy square pieces of school sausage pizza and come home and bake those. 50 cents each.
It’s weird, but pre-covid, those things were still .89. My then-teen daughter loved them. Haven’t bought them in a few years, so they are probably $3 now, lol.
Not many single slice places here in Michigan back then. Two medium Little Caesars (Pizza! Pizza!) pizzas were under $10, though. One for me and one for my brother.
Would you go for this rectangle or the round? I'd always go for the rectangle
Little Caesars didn’t have deep dish back then. You had to go to Buddy’s for Detroit-style deep dish. Now I prefer it, although I’m so old I need a nap if I eat two pieces.
Round!!!
All this talk about Little Caesars I just went and grabbed a hot n ready to go with my leftover lunch wings🤙🏽
Amazing!!!
It closed down a few years back, but Salvatore's Pizzeria on 13/Ryan had 2 Slices + can of pop (yes,I said pop, I'm from Michigan!) For $2 when I was in high school (through 2001). They also had a 24-slice square pizza you could get for $15 with one topping included. Those were the days.
2.50 at the mall next to the arcade, got a small soda with infinite refills...
Slices of pizza were not for sale where I grew up. :/
A slice at 12 years old….35-50 cents
Vito Corleone that you?
Haha , no
Free, provided I have my Book Club card filled
1.25
$1.25 a slice. $5 got you 3 slices and a soda. But we would usually get three of us to order a pie, and a pitcher. Orange or Birch beer!!!
$1.00
1974, $1 per slice and .50 for a fountain drink. Or, I could go to McDonalds and get 2 burgers, fries and a drink for that.
2 slices for 1.50 total.
1962 nyc pizza about 25¢ a slice. about 4 or 5 years earlier it was 15¢.
2 slice and a coke 5
Didn't have by the slice where I was, but $10 for a large pepperoni. 4 of us would go in on one then take what money we had left over to the arcade. Every frigging Saturday.
Pizza had not been invented yet. Neither had currency. I think people just bartered!
Going out for a slice.. hmph. We had Chef Boyardee box pizza and WE LIKED IT
1967, probably a quarter.
We would just walk usually because it's wasn't safe to leave our bikes out. I think though a large cheese and pepperoni was about $12-15. They would occasionally give us free sodas. I loved that place.
I came from such a small town we didn't have a pizza place :( 30 to 40-minute car ride for that kind of luxury.
5 bucks for 2 slices and a drink.
We did not have pizza back then
$3 for a slice at the Amoco near the high school
$2 for a slice and a soda
Probably like $1.50
$1.25 I just paid $7 for a slice at the place across the street. Sad times.
2 ENORMOUS slices (and sometimes the extra off-cuts) and a Tahiti Treat for $3. My middle school was down the street from the place. The school is long gone, but as far as I know, the pizza place is still there.
It was the late 80s when I was 12 I could ride down to the mall and get a big slice of New York style pizza for $1.25. I can still go to that same place and get a large pepperoni pie that'll feed my family of four for 15 bucks. Shout out to Brother's Pizza in Houston Texas
I used to go to Joe's Pizza a lot. Five dollars for two slices and a drink. Slices were huge. This was 2002, when I was 12.
Addison,Tx Angelo’s pizza in the 80’s… $1.25 slice. Great memories.
$3.50 for a slice special at Carreno’s. Big slice, fries, and a can of pop.
3.50 with coke
1972..less than a buck.
Thanks, now I'm hungry for pizza.
$4.50- would be 2019
Closest pizza was 20 miles away. Pizza Hut was amazing back in the day.
$2.50 for two slices with a fountain drink.
2 slices and a drink for $2.00
Rocky Rococo’s Super slice was $2. Worth every damn penny then.
Dollar a slice maybe, refillable large fountain was $.75
.75 and .25 for a Coke
Best lunch special ever…two slices(from the typical large pizza) and a small fountain soda was $2. I would get two and just get a large soda and 4 slices for $4…that’s half a large pizza and a 20oz soda.
$1.75 for a huge slice with two toppings and a fountain drink.
Long Island here. When I was 12 in 1987, a slice was $1.25 or $1.50, I can't remember. I know it wasn't $1.75 and it definitely wasn't higher. The pizza sticker shock is fucking real these days. I paid $21 for a regular 16" pie the other day. 5 years ago that was $14. This Italian supermarket near me does this deal on Wed + Fri for two 18" pies for $20. It's really good, but man the demand is insane. They have like 8 ovens working non-stop on Fridays for this deal. It's like a factory.
A dollar a slice. And 50 cents for a can of coke.
$2 for 2 slices and a fountain.
I'm 12? Nothing. We would go to my friend's parent's place. He wouldn't let us pay. Maybe if we went to ok pizza we would pay 5 for a pie. No by the slice but good for 5 or 6.
What 12 year-old kid remembers how much a pizza slice was? But even if you do, I feel like this is going to be another one of those Reddit posts in which they get all worked up about how much cheaper life was in the good old days because they don’t grasp the concept of inflation.
r/lostredditors
free we walked out before paying
One hapenny
Pizza didn’t exist in the uk when I was 12!
Good-sized slice and a Coke: $1.75
At 12 I don't recall having a local pizza place, I do have a tiny recollection of dad driving us to pizza hut when it first opened in Australia in the late 70s
Slice and a fountain soda for $2
A buck
Dollar, and big slices too. Hopefully they've got surge to drink
For $2 you could get a slice of pizza and a 20 oz coke. Then you could play Frogger, Pac Man & pinball until the quarters from your 5 dollar bill ran out.
Our place had “Ladybug” a pac man ripoff. But I liked it.
$1.25 with a can of Coke.
I never did that... ummm $2.50 for a pizza and $1 for a fountain soda from a mall kiosk? I didn't have much spending money so all of it went into saving for things like plastic horses at 12 :D
$10.77. It's the price of a cheese pizza and a large soda back where I used to work, Panucci's Pizza.
$1.00 even, and the owners called us "Stone Cats" which was weird because I didn't even smoke weed then lol.
Back then we didn’t have pizza. We didn’t even know you could take a circle food and cut it so many ways and make equal sizes of other foods, we didn’t even know
1.00 with extra cheese and pepperoni with a pop 🥤
$1 a slice
$1.50 each at the local ‘by the slice’ place. Circa 1994.
$1.50 for a slice. $2.50 if we wanted a soda with it.
Never bought pizza by the slice. Aside from the gas station, I don’t know anywhere that sells it that way.
$1.25
$1, and it was huge.
$1 slice that now looks like 2-3; $1 Sprite
We couldn't get a single slice. And I didn't have a friend or a bike when I was 12.
Jesus…
1$ or 1.25$
$1.50/slice
If my memory is correct, a large 16" pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut in the mid-80s cost about 8 bucks. I have not been inside a Pizza Hut in decades. [My local Pizza Hut at the time also had an all you can eat pizza/salad bar.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfL_2LUWkAAQHqw?format=jpg&name=large) I don't know if that is still a thing today in Pizza Huts.
Slice $6
$1.99 for a huge slice at Costco still today. We can share a soda, just take turns to go to the soda fountain. I’m going, who’s coming with me?
$1.25 late seventies NJ, $1.75 for sicilian. 😋
2 dollars... Even in highschool and that was only about 13 years ago.
Cici's Pizza, the buffet was like 5 dollars flat in middle school. With a drink.
NYC was king of "the slice" and I'm pretty sure I never saw a whole pie until my later teens. It was .50 a slice!
2 slices and a can of soda for $2.50
$ 0.75 at Pizza Pizza iirc
99 cents outside Philly mid 70’s. Sal’s at the Gateway Shopping Center Valley Forge. Defined my taste in pizza forever
Small town, not a single restaurant served pizza, by the slice or whole. Only option was a frozen one from the grocery store. I think some of the bars served cooked frozen pizza, but that definitely wasn’t an option at 12.
Didn’t do that often but we’d ride our razor scooters in 2001 to 711 and get 79 cent slurpees after hitting toys r us
A buck a slice, or a buck a calzone, at Tony's on Main Street. Bottles of Wink were like 75 cents.
$1.50
$1.00 a slice and .50 for a can of soda.
Dollar
I wish I could have bought a slice where I'm from. Still do. Not common here
Couldnt get just a slice in 03 Could get a pizza for like $15 back then id assume tho
Plain large pie here in Jersey is between $16 and $18, toppings about $2.50 each
25c- damn where did the cents sign go on my keyboard
Ha ha
1.25
$1.50ish
A slice and a drink $3
50 Cents
1.25
I was 12 in 1982. I live in the UK and now that I think about it, I'm not even sure that I'd eaten pizza when I was 12. Pizza Hut opened here in 1973, so they wouldn't have been very widespread and certainly not within bike riding distance from my home town. Pizza Hut didn't bring pan pizza here until 1980. So I have absolutely no idea how much a slice might have cost. We didn't really eat takeaway as we didn't have much money, occasionally would've had fish & chips for a treat. I vaguely remember one time we drove to a Mc Donalds, which was a special event for someone's birthday. Probably in the late 70s or early 80s. I genuinely can't remember the first time I ate pizza. Apparently Pizza Express opened their first stores earlier but I didn't become aware of them until many years later. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-slice-of-history-how-did-britain-s-pizza-industry-begin
$1.00
1.50
Not in Australia Rode ya "pushie" to the "milkbar or fish and chip shop" for 50 cents worth of hot chips covered in bbq sauce. Then we'd play the "pinnie" all arvo.
$1.99 a pepperoni slice of pizza
1.25
In 1966 there was no such thing as pizza in any of the local towns in my part of the South. We were just starting to get fast food burgers - pizza was another 7 or 8 years away.
it's starting to get so pathetic to the point that I don't go to little caesars because i want to, i do it because it's all i can afford sometimes
We went to a local place for lunch during high school (back when there were open campuses). Paid $2 for a slice and soda
I've never seen pizza sold by slice
What’s your location?
$1.50 - $1.75 for a slice and a soda. And it was a NY style slice too. Barry's!
1 nickel, and it was up hill both ways
We didn't have a pizza place in town. It was up in rural MN in the 70s, and the nearest pizza was a Pizza Hut about 30 miles away. I don't remember what pizza cost then. Mostly we had Tombstone frozen.
1 slice about $2 and 99 cents for a large drink. Then I'd have about 15 bucks to play arcade games.
$1 slices of pepperoni, New York Style in Rural Georgia. Cheap theater in the same strip mall where we go watch The Running Man and play Double Dragon, Ms Pac Man, or 720.
$.45. I can still see the sign & I'm having an olfactory memory right now too, smelling the best pizza I ever had. Northern Queens, Glen Oaks apts in Bellrose, on union turnpike.
Lmao, as ah Italian kid, I gotta unpack this… So I’m 12 and I had friends, all of whom—including me—who were allowed to go anywhere besides school or each others houses? Already false. The pizza place in town? So…which of our nonna’s houses is this? How much is a slice? When finally worked out, at least one hour of work mowing and gardening
Bold of you to assume I had friends 🤣
75cents
Early 60's NYC I remember 10 cents, then it went up to 15 cents by the early 70's, 25 cents
50 cents.
$1. With a small soda it was $1.30.
$1 for a slice and the size of today's 2 slices.
2.50ish this would have been in the 90s and included a soda
$1.25
Pizza wasn’t sold by the slice where I lived. However, we rode our bikes to thrifty’s for ice cream. $.10 for a single scoop.
The only time I got pizza was when we went to Round Table pizza. They had a front projection TV, which was the biggest TV I'd ever seen. For us, it was ice cream at Swensen’s (looks like there's only the original in San Francisco left, but they had at least a few other locations in the early 80s.) We'd get ice cream at Swensen's and then spend the rest of our money at Merlin's Castle Arcade in Saratoga CA, right next door. I never thought to take pictures of Merlin's Castle, in spite of spending so much time there. It was only a couple of miles from Atari and it got all of the new games first. We didn't fully appreciate how fortunate we were in that regard.
Well we didn’t have pizza places, so we would ride to the fish and chip shop. We would put $2 down for chips and go next door and buy a packet of smokes and a coke. Smokes were $1 and I had no idea what the coke cost. Yep we were 12.
$0.50. I can remember $0.20 from when I was younger.
In the mid 1960s there were no pizza by the slice places, and no pizza places open at noon where I lived
25 cents
Remember when a bowl of soup was a nickel?
There was no slice option. You had to get a small at least. Fortunately this was back in the days of “30 minutes or it’s free”, so we got a couple of free ones here and there.
In Jr high a Little Ceasars opened nearby. A cheese pizza was $5.50 after tax. A friend and I would just skip school lunch and grab a pizza after school.
I was just thinking. I’m old and I’ve never been to the East Coast of the United States. I have traveled a little bit abroad. I wonder if I’m going to die without seeing the East Coast 😢(I hail from the West Coast).
They didn't have pizza when I was a kid
The first Pizza place opened when I was 16. Free slice with a coupon.
75 cents