Pizza Rolls
It's from 1968, before you were born.
- Maker
- Totino's (General Mills)
- Type
- Frozen pizza snack
- Debuted
- 1968 (Totino's, popular by 2000s)
- Note
- molten-hot filling
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About
As of 2026, it's 58 years old.
Pizza rolls are bite-sized pockets of pizza filling whose single defining trait is that the inside comes out hot enough to weld metal. Everyone knows this. Everyone bites in too early anyway. The burned tongue is practically part of the recipe.
A Totino's freezer staple, they became the official fuel of after-school, late-night, and gaming sessions — a snack you eat by the dangerous, molten dozen.
Crispy, cheesy, and a genuine oral-burn hazard, the pizza roll is the teenage rite of passage you never fully learn from.
Pizza Rolls through the years
Created by Jeno Paulucci
Bite-sized pockets of pizza filling in crispy dough.
The Totino's era
Under Totino's, pizza rolls become a teen and late-night staple.
