When I was in college in the early 1990s, my friends and I would go up to UC Berkeley to hang out. One place we always stopped off was Blondie’s Pizza on Telegraph Avenue. A slice of pizza and a soda cost five bucks.

Blondie’s Pizza got a new owner who changed the name to Abe’s Pizza in 2016 and changed the name back in 2022. A new store opened in San Jose at Oakridge Mall.

I got a slice of cheese pizza for $5.95, takeout box was $0.50, processing fee was $0.35, and sales tax was $0.64. A grand total of $7.44 for a slice of pizza and no soda.

The days of slapping down a fiver on the counter for a pizza slice and soda are long gone.

The cheese slice I had didn’t taste the same as I remembered it. Since I stopped drinking sodas six months ago, some foods don’t taste the same anymore.

Blondie’s Pizza was okay.

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