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

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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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