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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.

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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