No wonder they snitched on the based Italian man!

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      There’s plenty of good regional pizzas! Detroit style is pretty good. Colorado style is about the only good cuisine from Colorado. Heck I’ll even say Chicago is good even thought it’s technically more of a casserole.

      But fuck this melted American cheese shit.

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        Heck I’ll even say Chicago is good even thought it’s technically more of a casserole.

        chicago pizza sucks I actually had a friend bring me a slice of some chicago style pizza the other week when we were at a pizza shop in NJ and I told them “just get me a slice of cheese thanks” because I, like the sick disgusting person I am, scrape off all the toppings (cheese included) anyways and just use grated parm.

        My friend: dean-smile ABC you won’t believe it but they actually had your ideal slice here, look its just sauce and old-world pepperoni its literally made for you, no cheese!!

        Me: …This is a chicago slice and it has cheese underneath the sauce which actually makes it worse because I can’t scrape off the cheese…but thank you for caring/trying I guess…

        Them: walter-shock nooo I thought you’d like it I’m sorry forgive me!!!

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      Lmao when I was like 8 I attempted to make my own pizza using bread dough and spaghetti sauce. I topped it with Kraft yellow slices because my kid-brain assumed “cheese is cheese.”

      I regretted it on the first bite.

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    PA is the state with all the Germans that call themselves Dutch right? This looks like what a German raised with an American education would make if forced to make pizza from a description heard over pre-WWI radio.

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    Where are all the posters from the “if you think British fries look wet and tasteless and gross you’re actually being picky and maybe classist, it’s salt of the earth working class food” thread.

    Are you going to try and make me respect this horseshit now?

    Death to this kind of thing

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        It’s cheese that’s been melted, had water and sodium citrate (IIRC) added, then poured into a sheet. It apparently started as a way of reclaiming and consolidating cheese scraps, but now it’s just a matter of getting cheese with a lower melting point and that doesn’t separate when melted. Things can’t be labeled “cheese” if they’ve been melted and had further ingredients added like that.

        That said, the Kraft ones are awful because Kraft makes shitty tasting food products in general.

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        Yeah, those Kraft slices can’t be called cheese, at least not officially.

        I don’t even think they should even be called “slices” because I’m pretty sure they’re injection molded into that shape and not sliced off a block like real cheese would be

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          I don’t even think they should even be called “slices” because I’m pretty sure they’re injection molded into that shape and not sliced off a block like real cheese would be

          They’re poured, flattened, and cooled in a sheet and then sliced into squares, AFAIK.

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    I’ve been wanting to make this post the last couple days. That shit is an abomination and tastes awful. There is a reason why I won’t go near Altoona for pizza.

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      I used to live on West Virginia, and I have to say, central PA makes WV look practically cosmopolitan. The town I was in had a good pizza place, a decent small brewery, and a mid coffee shop. I camped in central PA once and the town had one store, a gas station/liquor/“pizza” place. Also the people seemed even Chudier.

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        Central PA is awful and I’m glad I don’t live there. I had a friend that did live there and I was regaled often with stories about various chuddery that did occur there.

        I did go out that way from time to time to see said friend, but you won’t catch me near Altoona. That place sucks. Been there a couple times and it’s boring and bland.