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[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 82 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] db2@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It's telling for sure.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] db2@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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 59 points 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Like Kenji's smash burgers, "held together with hope and American Cheese"

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago

cook with it? yeah
call it pizza? nope

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 34 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

Altoona melt

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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 months ago

This is a fucking culinary crime.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 23 points 2 months 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 2 months 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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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is this town filled with broke stoners or something?

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

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

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

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

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 20 points 2 months ago

This is not pizza.

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 months ago

Not even pineapple could save that.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

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

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 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 2 months ago (7 children)

Not cheese. Kraft fucking singles

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup. This is a stoner snack.

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[–] classic@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's not a great town

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm Austrian and I feel betrayed

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 6 points 2 months ago

I'm italian, my day is ruined.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And they say white people have no culture.

Grand sweeping gesture

[–] wieson@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

No-one ever talks about white on white violence

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months 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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[–] Juice@midwest.social 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

There better be chilli fries under that cheese

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Syd@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Honestly this doesn't sound like it would taste all that bad. Thick crust, tomato sauce, green bell pepper, fried salami, and Velveeta cheese? That's gonna be pretty tasty. Calling it pizza might be the biggest issue, maybe something like open faced pepper sandwich would be better.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Calling Velveeta "cheese" is pretty bad

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Urgh, here in Canada they tried to trick us with "delux" kraft dinner. Velveeta is so bad that I avoid name brand KD to this day due to one time over a decade ago. How in the artificial fuck do americans eat that stuff?

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[–] Futtyklam@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago
[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I mean, you just described a thick crust hot pocket. Which isn't bad. It ain't good, but it ain't bad.

Pretty much, any combination of bread, cheese, and tomato sauce is edible. The salami is just there for texture

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