Pizza Puffs have been a hot dog stand, post-school and late-night staple in Chicago and beyond since '76. You may have thought each spot has their own take on this self-contained rectangle of pizza deliciousness. In fact, all puffs throughout Chicagoland can be traced to the Shabaz family aka the O.P.P. (original pizza puffs). It all started way back in 1927 when Elisha Shabaz, an Assyrian immigrant learned to roll tamales and began selling them from a pushcart downtown for a penny. Over the years, the family experimented with different ingredients, and with the rise in popularity of pizza in Chicago in the '70s, the first pizza puff was born.