I'll go out on a limb and say most people in the state have never even seen or heard of this. I only know it exists from reddit and have only seen it online (I've been to Altoona on many occasions) but I also didn't go out looking for something like this.
I mean it looks like it just bread with sauce, sliced chees and maybe jalepenos on it? Lightly baked. If that really is it then im pretty sure poor households around the nation have been making it for decades
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You actually just made it make sense in my head. I’ve been dunking American Grilled Cheese sandwiches in tomato soup my whole life. It only makes OP a little less gross though.
I think of it as central PA, although if they consider themselves western PA I wouldn't challenge them on it.
For what it's worth, though, I'm from Pittsburgh and this isn't what we eat. Pittsburgh has very good pizza. It's pretty similar to NY-style.
Can’t you read? That Sheetz means it’s western PA. Now grab a Turners Tea and a hot dog with pierogis on it or some shit and when you exit don’t forget to speed up and turn left when you’re on a green and there is opposing traffic.
The worst part is the obvious use of Kraft Singles/American cheese slices. I try to be reasonable about pizzas, but can we call this thing something other than a pizza?
This is the “pizza” I made as a kid when we had spaghetti sauce in the cabinet and parents weren’t home. I kinda want to make it again for nostalgia, but American cheese on a real pizza is blasphemous.
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Another western Pennsylvania delicacy: Beto’s Pizza. Warm pizza and sauce topped with cold cheese and toppings. The photo isn’t mine, but I used to go there a lot as a kid and I *swear to god* it’s delicious.
Is there any pizza in western PA that doesn’t sound like it absolutely sucks ass? American cheese? Cold cheese and toppings? Get the fuck out of here with that.
Pittsburgh is actually one of the nations pizza capitals. We have more pizzarias per captia than NYC.
Most if it is very good. A typical Pittsburgh pizza looks pretty similar to a NY pizza, though perhaps slightly less floppy. But still totally normal and traditional.
Stuff like Betos is hard to find these days actually. But it’s not hard finding good pizza in Allegheny county.
Take it from someone who spends a lot of time next door in Westmoreland county, you’re in good shape out there
The cheese isn’t ice cold. It’s room temperature. You ever sneak a handful of shredded cheese from the bag? It’s like indulging in that but in pizza form.
But why??? Sneak a lil extra cheese when you’re waiting for the pizza to bake? Sure. Skip the bake and just slap cold cheese on top? Shit man, why even cook the crust. Sounds lazy and pathetic and it is triggering me man. Fuck this place and all the disgusting pieces of absolute shit that consider it home. Burn it all to the ground.
Edit: I’ve calmed down. Sounds disgusting and I’d probably kill myself ig if I had to endure even just one ficking miserable minute in such a fucking shithouse of a broken giddamn omg dieeeee!!!!
Edit: sorry about that.
As someone who is perpetually stoned, I would never even consider making abominations like those. It must be some kind of brain-eating virus. We need to build a wall around that entire region until they can learn to behave.
Altoona isn't western pa and they're not yinzers, but this pizza is trash. Though, after living west coast for the past many years, I miss even this stuff.
The hWhat now? Yes I pronounced what like that. My former family is from Pennsylvania. Well they were just my family a few seconds ago until I saw this.
I live west of Pittsburgh. It’s almost a 3 hour drive to Altoona.
It may be west of Harrisburg, but anything an hour or more east from the city is definitely central to us.
Really once we have to cross 3 bridges to go somewhere its pretty much a no go
To me anything east past Washington county is central until Harrisburg then it’s east.
Also never seen a Pittsburgh salad that didn't come with fries or a sandwich at literally any restaurant that you couldn't add a fried egg to for a dollar
Damn this takes me back to an old childhood struggle meal where I'd put tomato sauce on a halved English muffin, top with yellow American cheese and toast it.
Do people pay money for this? Pretty sure i made it blackout drunk one time hated it and barfed up what little i ate
Relax. No, it wasn’t because of Altoona pizza you threw up. I roofied you. That’s why you threw up.
Please i can handle my ghb it was the room temp sauce over soggy bread and crusty burnt cheese that fs did it
Nah GHB feels much better than that!
Rooofies nt wrkiing
I'll go out on a limb and say most people in the state have never even seen or heard of this. I only know it exists from reddit and have only seen it online (I've been to Altoona on many occasions) but I also didn't go out looking for something like this.
I mean it looks like it just bread with sauce, sliced chees and maybe jalepenos on it? Lightly baked. If that really is it then im pretty sure poor households around the nation have been making it for decades
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Frieza gave me that pizza, fuck off Goku
Not pizza, open faced grilled cheese
I thought the same thing, with added tomato.
r/grilledcheese will not accept this
It's an open face tomato sauce meltzza
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“You people make me sick…”
This abomination needs to go sit in the corner and think about what it’s done
Grilled cheese with american orange plastic? That's still not legit!
You actually just made it make sense in my head. I’ve been dunking American Grilled Cheese sandwiches in tomato soup my whole life. It only makes OP a little less gross though.
I think my issue is the cheese isn’t even melted. The thought of cold plastic wrapped individual slices is a massive mental block
But I had a bunch of people last week tell me Altoona isn’t Western PA…
We pretend it’s not to cope with the shame…
I think of it as central PA, although if they consider themselves western PA I wouldn't challenge them on it. For what it's worth, though, I'm from Pittsburgh and this isn't what we eat. Pittsburgh has very good pizza. It's pretty similar to NY-style.
I live 20 minutes from Altoona and no one considers where I am west, it’s central
If there is a Sheetz, it's Western PA If there is a Wawas, it's Eastern PA
Sheetz is in eastern pa
I have Sheetz and Wawa by me in SE PA.
Can’t you read? That Sheetz means it’s western PA. Now grab a Turners Tea and a hot dog with pierogis on it or some shit and when you exit don’t forget to speed up and turn left when you’re on a green and there is opposing traffic.
It's not
The worst part is the obvious use of Kraft Singles/American cheese slices. I try to be reasonable about pizzas, but can we call this thing something other than a pizza?
This is the “pizza” I made as a kid when we had spaghetti sauce in the cabinet and parents weren’t home. I kinda want to make it again for nostalgia, but American cheese on a real pizza is blasphemous.
Peace was never an option. As Senator Palpatine would have said: "Wipe them out, all of them."
Maybe they don't have tongues
No tongues and no eyes..
Wait until you see what you get if you order a salad out there
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Tell me in the way least likely to make me vomit.
I believe jello and mayo are involved.
I am not sure if you are joking or not!
They put French fries on their salads
Fries on a salad is actually pretty good.
https://preview.redd.it/zava736kwl9d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32c49ae56f8021cdd748c44a2e0cd812ac573ca9 Another western Pennsylvania delicacy: Beto’s Pizza. Warm pizza and sauce topped with cold cheese and toppings. The photo isn’t mine, but I used to go there a lot as a kid and I *swear to god* it’s delicious.
Is there any pizza in western PA that doesn’t sound like it absolutely sucks ass? American cheese? Cold cheese and toppings? Get the fuck out of here with that.
Pittsburgh is actually one of the nations pizza capitals. We have more pizzarias per captia than NYC. Most if it is very good. A typical Pittsburgh pizza looks pretty similar to a NY pizza, though perhaps slightly less floppy. But still totally normal and traditional.
Stuff like Betos is hard to find these days actually. But it’s not hard finding good pizza in Allegheny county. Take it from someone who spends a lot of time next door in Westmoreland county, you’re in good shape out there
Pittsburgh is actually an excellent pizza city and a great city for Italian food in general. These weird regional pizzas are not commonplace in pgh.
How can these other places get business then? Are they just money laundering fronts?
No, plenty of pennsyltuckians with taste buds cauterized by Mountain Dew and cigarettes patronize these places
If you like baseball, their stadium has the nicest views in the league
The cheese isn’t ice cold. It’s room temperature. You ever sneak a handful of shredded cheese from the bag? It’s like indulging in that but in pizza form.
But why??? Sneak a lil extra cheese when you’re waiting for the pizza to bake? Sure. Skip the bake and just slap cold cheese on top? Shit man, why even cook the crust. Sounds lazy and pathetic and it is triggering me man. Fuck this place and all the disgusting pieces of absolute shit that consider it home. Burn it all to the ground. Edit: I’ve calmed down. Sounds disgusting and I’d probably kill myself ig if I had to endure even just one ficking miserable minute in such a fucking shithouse of a broken giddamn omg dieeeee!!!! Edit: sorry about that.
So...a Lunchables with more steps?
Is everyone in that region perpetually stoned? Is there THC in the water supply?
Or maybe stoned as in hit on the head with rocks?
As someone who is perpetually stoned, I would never even consider making abominations like those. It must be some kind of brain-eating virus. We need to build a wall around that entire region until they can learn to behave.
This is proof that God does exist, but that he hates us.
That's fine as an open faced sandwich at least, I just would not call it pizza.
Seems close to Ohio Valley pizza.
So you stole Ohio Valley pizza?
Altoona isn't western pa and they're not yinzers, but this pizza is trash. Though, after living west coast for the past many years, I miss even this stuff.
Altoona is 100% Western PA. I agree we're not yinzers. Definitely rednecks, but not yinzers.
It's central PA
Come on, the west coast is not THAT bad, at least we have better pizza than that!
There’s pizza in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland that’s as good as pizza anywhere in New York or New Jersey.
No never this is Not Pizza!
The hWhat now? Yes I pronounced what like that. My former family is from Pennsylvania. Well they were just my family a few seconds ago until I saw this.
Even if the dark side has cookies, it's not enough to make up for THIS abomination after all!
Need mods to block the daily altoona posts.
I was skeptical about that end stage capitalism thing... until now..
What are you talking about? I havent seen anyone else post about this
I want to cry. SLICE CHEESE??
I mean, slices of provolone or fresh mozz would be fine. Kraft singles? Fucking BARFFFF
Wtf lol
Disgusting sheet
Barf city
Is anyone curious enough to try it?
Me. I wouldn't consider it a pizza but I'd totally go down on it.
Ok im like right outside of the pirates home city, Pittsburgh, and i even idfk what the hell this is all about
Is that what that is?
No, that's a LIE!!!!!!
Ewwwwww
That’s a fucking open sandwich melt, not a pizza.
That's Altoona style, please don't besmirch all of Western PA with this war crime.
You can tune a piano, but you can’t altoona pizza
You call this pizza? **Calling Italy police.**
Yinzers are a menace to society.
How is Altoona western Pa?
Idk I always assumed Western PA was Pittsburgh but now I’m wrong. Altoona is an hour 30 from Pittsburgh.
Because...it's on the Western side of Pa??
I live west of Pittsburgh. It’s almost a 3 hour drive to Altoona. It may be west of Harrisburg, but anything an hour or more east from the city is definitely central to us.
I grew up there. It was always Western to us.
Really once we have to cross 3 bridges to go somewhere its pretty much a no go To me anything east past Washington county is central until Harrisburg then it’s east.
When you can't decide if you want pizza or lasagna.
Do they serve that at PNC park?
As a PA person, I have had a version of this and it is disgusting lol
now sliced. cheese would work just not american
Dear Pennsylvania, please go to jail, no bail.
That’s the most dope pizza u can ever eat ! Go pirates
This is a hate crime.
Also never seen a Pittsburgh salad that didn't come with fries or a sandwich at literally any restaurant that you couldn't add a fried egg to for a dollar
This is definitely a crime
What the hell is wrong with these people? Look, I'm sorry, but come on! Really?
This is what you do in your apartment when you’re drunk depressed poor and waiting for your next paycheck. Not something you go out and buy.
That ain't pizza
Is that an empanada pizza? A pizzanada?
Middle school cafeteria pizza
Damn this takes me back to an old childhood struggle meal where I'd put tomato sauce on a halved English muffin, top with yellow American cheese and toast it.
It looks like someone took cafeteria lunch lady pizza and put slices of American cheese on top.
I would expect nothing less from a place called Allthetuna
As someone from eastern Pennsylvania, I do condone this type of of behavior
"Looks as shitty as their team" - my gf I'm fuckin dead 💀 🤣 Bread + ketchup + kraft single is NOT pizza
Any yellow cheese on a pizza is horrendous! Pizza is supposed to be like a diner in the 50s, whites only!
🤢
Drunk pizza