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[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 81 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] db2@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago

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

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] 30p87 6 points 1 week ago

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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[–] 30p87 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 week ago

cook with it? yeah
call it pizza? nope

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus 34 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] dufkm@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

Altoona melt

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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago

This is a fucking culinary crime.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is this town filled with broke stoners or something?

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Broke stoners in rural Pennsylvania? Say it ain't so!

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Dunno about this particular area of PA, but the areas I am familiar with... the answer is meth.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 22 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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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[–] pewpew@feddit.it 20 points 1 week ago

This is not pizza.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Hello? I would like to report a crime against humanity.

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago

Not even pineapple could save that.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, sandwich bread, tomato sauce, ham and cheese on top, it's not a pizza, it's a microwaved 3am sandwich

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Not cheese. Kraft fucking singles

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[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And they say white people have no culture.

Grand sweeping gesture

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[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm Austrian and I feel betrayed

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 6 points 1 week ago

I'm italian, my day is ruined.

[–] classic@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's not a great town

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every person I've shared Altoona pizza with ironically has ended up unironically liking it, so I don't know anymore. I've never actually had it myself. Maybe this isn't any worse than Hawaiian pizza or cauliflower crust pizza?

At the end of the day though, this is just a regional food - like Cincinnati chili or Chicago hot dog - only after all the good ideas are taken, this was what was left. If they can sell one to everybody passing through Altoona just once, they've made a fair amount of money.

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[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Are those fucken Kraft singles? That's deplorable and I am disgusted beyond the spiritual realm.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

I mean to be clear I'm from altoona and I've never seen pizza like this.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I’d hork down a barrel of sketchy dicks before I’d let this abomination inside of me.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not trying to judge, but your bar for that might be slightly too low.

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

There better be chilli fries under that cheese

I'm the one to do gross shit like dip a dill pickle in mayonnaise at 3am, and even this looks objectively horrifying to me

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