I mean, sandwich bread, tomato sauce, ham and cheese on top, it’s not a pizza, it’s a microwaved 3am sandwich
This is a fucking culinary crime.
There better be chilli fries under that cheese
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.
I knew PA was evil, but I never knew just how horrible.
I am biased being from NJ, but these pizzas vindicate me!
I propose the removal of Pennsylvania, except Philadelphia theyre chill.
its cuz PA west of the Appalachins is basically the midwest. it’s like having next door neighbors from Iowa
Okay but what about the Appalachian folks are they chill?
Weren’t they a murder capital for a bit?
Yes, why do you think I like them?
Are those fucken Kraft singles? That’s deplorable and I am disgusted beyond the spiritual realm.
Not even pineapple could save that.
Hello? I would like to report a crime against humanity.
This is not pizza.
there’s no excuse for making a bad pizza. It’s pizza, it’s very hard to do it wrong
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.
Misc toppings on bread dough with some kind of cheese is probably thousands of years old.
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.
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
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
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.
Fixed that for Wikipedia:
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.
Lol, I do eat this type of cheese with grilled cheese… But this application is disgusting.
I do find it comical that Americans call processed cheese “American”
Mozzarella is nice though, just that it’s mentioned makes me feel a bit better. As if the world isn’t broken completely.
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
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
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.
Like Kenji’s smash burgers, “held together with hope and American Cheese”
cook with it? yeah
call it pizza? nope
Is this town filled with broke stoners or something?
Broke stoners in rural Pennsylvania? Say it ain’t so!
Dunno about this particular area of PA, but the areas I am familiar with… the answer is meth.
I’m Austrian and I feel betrayed
I’m italian, my day is ruined.
Yeah, it’s not a great town
