I had to stop it for a while but will get back to it.

I like DiGiorno Stuffed Pizza which would be very hard to fold and eat. Never been to NYC. We saw it in the distance, I believe, on a sightseeing trip while going from Milwaukee to Cape Cod, MA but I was very young so my memories might be skewed. We had been to Gettysburg and were heading to the Cape. May have taken US 78 to US 95.

Talk about 1952, in 1952 I was two years old. I don't know who that old guy is looking back at me in the mirror but it would be an honor to be in a bar and having someone ask me to prove my age.

INFLATION illustrated by Pizza. I am old enough to remember being able to by a slice and a small coke for a quarter. That for me was a weeks pay. My allowance was a quarter.

Grew up in Manhattan, NYC. Would buy a slice through the window, the slices were so big you had to fold them to eat them while you walked.

Most New Yorker are always on the move. So folding makes it easier to eat while your walking. Watch " Saturday Night Fever".

Bklyn girls fold their pizza!
 

No other way to eat a great slice. Just fold and enjoy!

Why use 2 hands when 1 will do. As for the Boston comment, I live just north of Boston.

NO! Never! It lasts longer if you don't ;-)

I will have to do that some time soon. Watch Saturday Night Fever again. Have not seen it for a while. There is probably a Youtube showing that scene though. Most Famous Bite Of Pizza Ever At Lenny's In Brooklyn - YouTube

Most nouveau slices don't lend themselves to folding (some will even crack), but if you were in NYC "back in the day," you pretty much needed to fold the slices that were long and large with thin-crust, as the custom was to eat them with your hands as you might a hot dog or hamburger, not on a plate, usually served to you on a piece of dry wax paper/deli sheet (with a paper plate upon request if you were going to "eat it there"). The slice would form a soft fold, and as others have noted, it would begin as a job for both hands as the soft pointy end of the slice would tend to flop down, often dripping with delicious oily cheese & sauce residue so you needed to hold it a distance from your clothing, especially if you were walking while eating as is often the case in NYC (after eating the end first, the rest of the "task" would be easier but might still require two hands for a bit because the thin bottom crust softened up in your hand as it absorbed moisture from the cheese/sauce). Your hands would get oily and napkins were a must but it was SOOOOOOO GOOD!!! I liked mine with garlic powder and ritualistically ate first the pointed end, then the crust from the other end, then the remaining delectable body of the slice. Which got on my boyfriend Tony's nerves like nobody's business. Thanks OP for calling up the delectable memory. I've been back many times but never find pizza like that anymore, even at "Original [insert pizza chain name here]."

Did I mention it was 25-cents?

The only problem with the folding was the oil dripping off so had to be careful of that.

Did keep the pizza hot longer and had to be careful about not burning your tongue.

Perhaps that is why true New Yorkers call Chicago pizza "quiche":1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Folding is the ONLY way to eat real pizza. But since you were referring to Boston, the pizza is hardly real:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Absolutely!!!!
Nunzio's was probably the best, but Lee's Tavern and the Surf Club had great pizza also.

Doesn't need eating either :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Only if the crust is super-thin.

Garlic WHAT?

Son, there's garlic, roasted garlic, minced garlic, chopped garlic, sliced garlic, sauteed garlic.

Those are the only valid garlics.

Born and raised in Brooklyn., You folded!! LOL

Why are you anti garlic? Real NY people eat garlic in the form of which it was grown.

In NY that was sometimes available as an option (baked in a rectangular pan and then cut into rectangular pieces). If you saw it was available and wanted a slice (actually a piece), you would ask for "a Sicilian." Definitely unfoldable.

lol.

Kinda like shrimp!

Of course I fold it.