Love VP Pizza. Visit there once a year. Made it at home for Christmas dinner using Steelbakers recipe. A big hit. VP does sell frozen pizza. It falls short of fresh pizza. Disappointing. A few other locally famous pizza shops have tried the frozen route. ( Sabatini's in Exeter was really good 30 years ago. They marketed frozen pizza for a while 20 years ago, then it failed )
I haven't been out that way since 2013, both my parents' families are from Duryea, and Duryea had Gabello's on the edge of town on Main Street, then came Augustini's/Augustino's Bakery, then Old Forge with Revello's, Ghigiarelli's, and Arcaro & Genell's--the last 3 literally across the street from each other. Victory Pig wasn't exactly a 15 minute ride, especially with Main St's speed limit in many of those boroughs only 15 MPH.
My hippie cousin still lives in my dad's homestead and I rented or maintained my mom's homestead until the neighbor called and said water's coming out my front door; my cousin was supposed to spend some time there every week when I was back here in Buffalo. He's the one back in the '80's who said let's go to this BBQ & pizza place that brings the food right out to your car! I said, "A & W sells pizza now?" as we used to stop at one off Rt.17 or I-81 in NY when my father used to take us to NEPA thru the back roads.
The last pizza I had out there was from Sizzle-Pi in Kingston in '13, and it was hard to tell if it was VP style or Old Forge style, maybe in-between, but it did't use any American cheese like I think Revello's uses. I brought back 3 trays!
Back in the '80's or '90's I think it was, there was an Italian restaurant that was near West Pittston/Exeter border, before you got to Pizza Lov'n. I can't think of the name but there was a bank on the corner and the restaurant was next to the bank and you'd turn down the side street and pull in behind the bank & go to the restaurant's back door for takeouts. I thought their pizza was similar too, and one weeknight it was cheaper...
