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Lol I can’t believe this is real. How terrible must food be in your city for this to be successful? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altoona-style_pizza

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While originally topped with Velveeta, Altoona-style pizza is popularly topped with yellow processed cheese known as American cheese. The yellow squares of American cheese are a staple of this dish, used instead of the mozzarella or provolone common to other styles of pizza.

Everything about that paragraph makes me feel ill.

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Following the destruction of the hotel in 2013 by fire, other local restaurants began serving Altoona-style pizza

It could have died there, but they had to do this

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I do find it comical that Americans call processed cheese “American”

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It’s telling for sure.

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2 points

This made me discover Velveeta. I wish I hadn’t.

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1 point

Do not make the fudge recipe. Trust me.

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Mozzarella is nice though, just that it’s mentioned makes me feel a bit better. As if the world isn’t broken completely.

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3 points

That passage explains the what , but nothing can explain the why.

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Lol, I do eat this type of cheese with grilled cheese… But this application is disgusting.

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Fixed that for Wikipedia:

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Fun fact, you can trigger Wikipedia editors by changing the page in developer console and posting a screenshot of it, they’ll scramble to revert a change that doesn’t exist.

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Or just edit as usual, then click on preview and screenshot that. Also works on mobile!

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The most successful businesses in Altoona when I lived there in the early 2010s were drug rehabilitation centers. All the factories closed, and the town is slowly dying.

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59 points

American cheese on pizza? that’s the kind of thing I would do if I’m down to the last two items in the kitchen, and feel too lazy to go shopping, but still would hate it

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That’s the type of thing you make if you have nothing else in the fridge and you can’t go out to get anything else. And you’d keep that shit quiet and never admit to it to anyone.

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Like Kenji’s smash burgers, “held together with hope and American Cheese”

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15 points

cook with it? yeah
call it pizza? nope

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29 points

This is a fucking culinary crime.

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there’s no excuse for making a bad pizza. It’s pizza, it’s very hard to do it wrong

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Yeah like, just don’t call it a pizza and we’re good. Call it an “Altooner” or whatever, but don’t soil the good reputation of pizza with whatever this creation is.

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13 points

Altoona melt

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4 points

Misc toppings on bread dough with some kind of cheese is probably thousands of years old.

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If memory serves right a round bread with toppings is semi important in the Aeneid. Which assuming it isnt based off of older traditions means its at least 2000 years old, though I dont know if Virgil was pulling from older shit so I cant say for certain. Also I dont know if cheese was in Italy by that point.

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The only people who say this are people who have never had good pizza before.

The “iT’s PiZzA, sO iT’s GoOd” crowd drive me nuts. You would probably put ketchup and Velveeta on a Ritz cracker and call it a pizza. Have some standards, my dude.

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I do have standards. It’s easy to make good pizza, you’d have to be an idiot with zero culinary skills to mess it up

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Y’all better be careful or you’re going to fall down a rabithold of locally celebrated yet disgusting pizza in PA. It’s like a whole thing there.

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I knew PA was evil, but I never knew just how horrible.

I am biased being from NJ, but these pizzas vindicate me!

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I propose the removal of Pennsylvania, except Philadelphia theyre chill.

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its cuz PA west of the Appalachins is basically the midwest. it’s like having next door neighbors from Iowa

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We call it “Pennsyltuckey”

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Okay but what about the Appalachian folks are they chill?

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Weren’t they a murder capital for a bit?

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Yes, why do you think I like them?

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