CBC Archives: New 50's Food - Pizza! 1957

[powerpunch180]

Well, Chriiiist Almighty eh? Sure sounds dandy! I gotta find out more aboot it, Eh? Mercy me!

[Maryanchyk]

i want some pizza pie now

[mediavictim]

sounds like Sarah Palin -

[ontariobuds]

is that a Canadian accent? I'm Canadian and I never hear it

[pythag123]

@ontariobuds Sounds East Coast to me, but old school, you don't hear it like that anymore.

[ericbobert]

archives.cbc.ca/lifestyle/etiq­uette/topics/1192/

Full 9 minute video, so many classic lines.

[ToxicAssassin95]

"Peat-cerias." 0.22 lol

[toonguy85]

"On Sayer-dee night as ya drive down, you kin see cars lined up fer miles..." Reminds me of back on the farm, in Ontario.

[poodtang1]

Sounds kind of like a Fargo accent.

[BiGpHiL60]

there's some restaurants that even specialize in it. these are called "pizzerias"

[avalanchesuperstar]

LOL A "Pizza Pie"...no Pizza Hut or Dominos or Pizza Pizza yet.

[rhymath]

Now THATS A WOMEN!! Wear a dress, stay home and make me something to eat. I love her......sadly real women no longer exist in this world, they all want to be men.

[CrazyShakaZulu]

@rhymath ......

[jayaych1]

@rhymath you're a cock.

[hipnotizer]

Haha she sounds like my grandmother! I miss her. Truth is where I am from people still talk like this.

[Roflcopter4b]

Aww, we Canadians really have lost something since then. Its sad. I talk like a filthy American. Sometimes I even say Zee instead of Zed. I'M SORRY!

[ethicomm]

Pizza pie is composed of three parts: the base, tomato sauce, oregano and cheese. Mmm, four parts maybe?

[LaughingGoon]

Our Canadian accents, steeped in history and I'm proud to have one, eh?

[weeweemonsieur]

LOL, classic Canadian accent! :D

[normvb]

Oh man - from a gastronomic point of view, I would have taken my own life in the 50's. Hell, it wasn't until the 1980s that my family bothered to try out "real garlic" instead of garlic salt. Jesus wept.

[Zorn27]

Restaurants specializing in Pizza. MY GOD!

[nalm2025]

these are called pete-serious

[flexicon1996]

Frances McDormond

[MajBlood]

Pizza pie??? What is this exotic delicacy?

[luftim]

pizza is that from the greeks? ore from the serbian?? cuse they invented everything history and food??? you no??

[pay2cme]

ITALY

[chiangui24]

Pete's Erias ;)

[rherbert57]

@chiangui24 Methinks she had only read about them before this video was shot, and didn't know how to pronounce the word. Hmmm... why do I feel like running out and buying a slice all of a sudden? You sure as hell don't have to go very far these days.

[bartonim]

Pizza pie! Actually, that's what people called it well into the 70s, before settling with just plain old pizza. It was quite exotic to those of us in Saskatchewan. We first ate it probably around 1972/3!

[kaimullet]

hahaha It's true! We're soo lame!

[skinny12331]

Mangiaciakes lol.

[nylund154]

Although I hear more Minnesota and Alaska in her accent than anything Canadian, it is possible we're hearing a little bit of "Lanark County twang". It wouldn't be too odd for someone from the Ottawa valley to end up on the CBC.

[Art7220]

MottledBrain:

I think that's a Minnesota accent. It runs thicker than a Canadian accent.

[store275]

Is that Sarah Palin's grandmother? - lol

[CO9207]

@store275 A ha ha ha! That's a good one!

:-D

[hardcider09]

It's not pizza....it's pizza PIE! ;-)

[pettyfog]

For crying out loud! It's the first 45 seconds of a half-hour cooking show.

Accent - go to google earth, pick North Dakota, look up. People and Windsor have much the same accent as Detroit. Toronto - Western NY

Engage brain.

[josh9point0]

Mozzarella isn't nippy is it ? It's stretchy & bland, but I love it!

Is there 3 minutes missing from this clip ?

She doesn't describe a recipe, she SKIMS over the ingredients list and that's it! She's got a pizza pan/dish and puts nothing into it. She kneads no dough, she puts nothing into an oven. Come on!!! (CBCtv)

Did pizzas of the day include any 'toppings' or just oregano & cheese?

Yes, Sarah Palin, that's who I thought she sounds like.

[hardcider09]

@josh9point0: Cherry popsicles burn the roofs of Canadians' mouths. so, yes, to them mozzarella is "nippy". LOL!

I kid about Canadians but I like them very much.

[snoopyflick]

@josh9point0

Mozzarella isn't bland, you just buy shitty cheese.

[simonjeste]

meh.

western Canada settled heavily by Ukrainians and Polish and other eastern europeans... Pizza is just perogies with marinara sauce ;)

[34Adamlee77]

what is nippy cheese?

[BetterShooting]

Sharp cheese, such as old cheddar or somethin similar

[gps456]

interesting

[chrisz71]

"I'll please get a pencil and a piece of paper"?

Pizeria?

I love how she says "miles"- it sounds like she went from a canadian accent to a deep south american accent, though it was just one word.

Never heard it called a biscuit before.

[elfishgrin]

back then I believe canada still used miles along with the rest of north america :)

[westeightyone]

Yeah. Canada didn't switch over to kilometers until somewhere around the late 70s - early 80s.

Canada changed from farenheit to celsius around that time as well.

The tv and radio news stations in Ontario, Canada still describe people who are suspected of committing crimes in feet and inches ( rather than meters ).

[nozecone]

I'd say she's Nova Scotian, from down Lunenburg way. There aren't many other places in Canada that you would hear something like "lawned up for mawls".

[dandydonaldo]

My late uncle was still calling it "pizza pie" 14 years ago.

[dnaman2007]

i love it

[somefarkerdude]

haha, this video is awesome.

[MerleOberon]

where do I get nippy cheese?

[cokeisbad4u]

I never thought I'd hear pizza called an exotic food. :D

I love baking pizzas. This video is cute.

[crashmyers]

i remember my grandfather telling me about his first trip to new york and having beer and a new thing called pizza pie...he said if he only knew then what he did now..lol.

[toddjaws]

Her accent is very slight, when compared to east coast accents. She drags out her vowels a bit, but it's nothing when compared to many Canadian TV actor's accents, even today. She has a slight rural twang as well.

[teengene]

good thing we don't have those accents anymore.

[TheKwaker]

This video is AMAZING!

[gaza2421]

The Canadian accent went through a change in the fifties influenced by post-WWII immigration.

[0prahTV]

I'm from Canada, and I've never heard a Canadian accent so strong!

[elfishgrin]

did you live in the fifty's?

[gundamWWW]

lol, You have to admit, she is the most WASPy housewife ever!

"Good afternoon, I'm Mrs. Brady" I love to cook for my husband, and be a good housewife.

[mottledbrain]

I was born in Canada 52 years ago and have never left. I have travelled across a lot of this country earlier in my life.

I have NEVER heard a Canadian with that accent.

Did she put it on?

[bartonim]

@mottledbrain It almost reminds me of the folks in the film, Fargo. She could be from one of the Dakotas--quite a few Americans were a part of CBC and CTV shows and broadcasts. Both Mr Dressup and The Friendly Giant were, with the latter actually debuting on US TV before moving the show to the CBC in Canada.

[hklover20]

lol the way she said pizzarias lmao omg yes this is wat canadians sound like lol im sorry but thats like saying someone who is born and raised in texas doent have an accent...hhahaha i was totally meant to b alive in the 50/60/70s i swear

[Druidbw]

Nippy also means cold. I hear it today in the winter. "It's nippy out today!" And yes, she does have an accent and I am Canadian! She sounds like someone from the east or out in "real" Canada.. Saskatchewan/Alberta

[Dynysia030]

'Real Canada' Druidbw? Dude, all of Canada is real Canada. Anyways, I never thought I'd hear Pizza being called an exotic food lol

[Metallicazack]

I'm Canadian, 14 years old, Toronto born and bred. I've never noticed anybody with an accent before, and always refute the American "aboot" claims. But man, this lady has a REALLY heavy accent. Do we really sound like that? :(

[BassBuffett]

Take off, eh?

Canada has its regional accents, travel around and you'll detect east coast, newf, alberta twang

and BC stoner.

This woman sounds like sara pailin and that goofy accent. . . . one that speaks to a lack of education & exposure and too much church.

[nylund154]

I'm an American who lived in Toronto for years. The stereotype of "about" being pronounced "abooot" is not true, but many parts of Canada (including Southern Ontario) do say it strangely. And its any word with that sound...out, house, couch...not just "about". I can do a pretty great impersonation of it, but I can't think of how to express it in text....its a weird bellowy vibrato sound from the throat. But, people can never hear their own accent very well.

[firefox335]

nyland154: I had a very good friend in High School with a very heavy Canadian accent. It's more like "a boat" than "abooot". Also Ive noticed that he and my step dad (whose from Minnesota) pronounce "adult" differently than we do in the midwest. We pronounce it "uh-dult" where there pronuciation was "Aah-dult."

[mottledbrain]

@nylund154 Canadians don't have any accents. Accents only exist outside of Canada, eh?

[MrEODTEK]

@mottledbrain THIS IS 110% CORRECT. FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME....WE DO NOT HAVE ACCENTS!!!!!!

WE ARE THE O N L Y PEOPLE ON THE PLANET THAT DO NOT HAVE AN ACCENT!!!!

OUR CORRECT ENGLISH IS THE STANDARD...EVERYONE....GET USED TO IT!

[papalosopher]

Gosh, the 50's were a different time. By which I mean a racist time. I mean, why does she have to say "nippy" cheese?

[simonjeste]

@papalosopher she said "nippy" as in flavour... not "nappy" ;)

[papalosopher]

Cheese is cheese, that's all I'm saying. Mozarella isn't "superior" to cheddar, it's just... different.

I have a dream that one day everyone everywhere will love all cheese equally.

Peace out.

[7b]

You'e an idiot.

[destinyshorse]

This vid is too cute! Her way of saying "Italian" was more like she was saying EYE-talian. Also her excitement left me rivited to my chair. I REALLY was going for a pencil, but the vid ran out! Boo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vdven]

why does she sound like Sarah Palin?

[ollikahn001]

piizeeerias

[Guido935]

lol i laughed at that too

[QueenPoptart325]

I love her accent. and when she says get a pencil and paper to write it dpwn. that was soo awesome

[store275]

WOW - that's the strongest Canadian acccent I've ever heard!!

[mottledbrain]

Where's she from?

She doesn't sound Canadian at all!

???

[caliguy92]

That's because she isn't from Canada, she's from Alaska and that's Sarah Palin's grandmother...

[rherbert57]

@caliguy92 Thanks for the laugh!

[zekepig]

Boycott Domino's!

[LordlyJeremy]

The sound quality on this is amazing.

[KultureJamCollective]

Yeah, kinda fishy how good it is actually. I'm thinkin' maybe they re-dubbed it.

[fromthesidelines]

Probably, 'jaworskij'. I haven't been in Winnipeg lately...

[jaworskij]

How to make a "pizza pie" in 46 seconds flat.

C'mon CBC, where's the rest of the clip?

[ethicomm]

I remember a CBC cooking show called "Cuisine". I think it ran in the late 1960's to early 70's. They were trying to be really hip and with the times!

[fromthesidelines]

"Nippy", in this case, also means "sharp", "tangy", and "with a strong flavor"- and has NOTHING to do with "racial slurs"; incidentally, Kraft (see ad on side) also makes Nabisco's "Cheese Nips" [primarily cheddar cheese crackers]. Apparently, "pizza pie" was a rarity in Canada at the time this cooking show segment was telecast..

[jaworskij]

Cheese Nips...Isn't that a kind of hamburger you can buy at Salsbury House Restaurant chain in Winnipeg?

[OofusTwillip]

"Nippy cheese"??? You could never get away with saying a racist word like "nippy" today!

[LadyLewis98]

How is Nippy a racist word? I thought it was similar to saying something had "bite". Maybe you confused it with nappy (although that is also not racist)?

[OofusTwillip]

"Nip" (from "Nippon") was a racist slang term for "Japanese person", during World War 2. There's a very racist cartoon from that era, called "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips". It's one of Warner Brothers' "Banned 11".

[LadyLewis98]

Thank for explaining - I had never heard of that.

[FIEND777]

you're partially right i think, though i've never personally heard of the rascist connotation i think it means

"Bugs Bunny Nips (like ladylewis98 suggested "bites") the Nips (as you suggested ""Japanese person")" as for this clip i believe she was referring to the former, as in cheese with "bite" i don't think Japan is really known for their cheese, and one would use mozzarella which is clearly an Italian cheese for a clearly Italian dish "pizza"

[jsifert]

Not racist, it is even type of cheese common in Canada known as "Old Nippy" and refers to the sharp flavour of the cheddar.  As far as I know it has nothing to do with the Japanese. . . of course one can read whatever they like into a term.

[ethicomm]

Actually some cheese packages where I live use Nippy to describe the sharpness.

[westeightyone]

Nippy means COLD in regards to weather today.

'There's a nip in the air' or ' it's nippy out there' is still in common use and it has absolutely nothing to do with the japanese.

'Jack Frost nipping at your nose' or ' having a small dog nipping at your heels' implies tiny bites.

Sure, there were racist people back then, just as there are racist people today, but don't be so quick to label the lady in this video a racist.

It's extremely unfair and narrow-minded on your part.

[7b]

Idiot.

[soulrebel888]

Crazy to see a food that is so part of north american culture,only came around fifty years ago. kind of sad to think that things change so fast that we forget about the past.

[OofusTwillip]

It's been around longer than that. There's a pizzeria in NYC that dates from early in the 20th century, but back then, pizza was mainly eaten by Italians who'd moved to North America. Pizza became mainstream here, after WW2, when ex-servicemen & women returned after serving in Italy. They'd developed a taste for pizza & other Italian foods there, & when they got home, they wanted to keep eating those "exotic" foods.