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This Day in Minnesota History

October 9, 1979

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Rose Totino patents her "Crisp Crust" frozen pizza crust, an improvement on what she called the "cardboard crust" pizzas that were available at the time. The Northeast Minneapolis entrepreneur had sold Totino's Finer Foods to Pillsbury in November of 1975 and had become a vice president in the company. By 1992 Totino's controlled twenty percent of the frozen pizza market.

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