• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Would you like a stroke?

    Say what?

    Would you like a pizza with a side of stroke hun?

    Nah, but can I get it will a double pounder heart attack? And a side of diarrhea? I’m trying to keep my height to weight ratio.

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    Every person I’ve shared Altoona pizza with ironically has ended up unironically liking it, so I don’t know anymore. I’ve never actually had it myself. Maybe this isn’t any worse than Hawaiian pizza or cauliflower crust pizza?

    At the end of the day though, this is just a regional food - like Cincinnati chili or Chicago hot dog - only after all the good ideas are taken, this was what was left. If they can sell one to everybody passing through Altoona just once, they’ve made a fair amount of money.

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    8 hours ago

    I mean, sandwich bread, tomato sauce, ham and cheese on top, it’s not a pizza, it’s a microwaved 3am sandwich

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        Kraft singles are still cheese. They’ve just been pasteurized and adulterated with sodium citrate.

        That actually makes them super useful in making a cheese sauce.

        Add a few slices to a queso and it will not break.

        You fat. Smooth cheesey sauce that comes out perfect every time.

        You can make sodium citrate with lemon juice and baking soda. Lime juice also works. Really any citric acid.

        Anyway, you don’t need much to make cheese melt smoothly.

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          Kraft singles are still cheese. They’ve just been pasteurized and adulterated with sodium citrate.

          No, if it was just cheese that’s been pasteurized and adulterated with sodium citrate it would be pasteurized process cheese. A couple other additional additives are acceptable.

          When it has other additives but is at least half cheese by weight it’s pasteurized process cheese food.

          When it’s pasteurized process cheese product it’s not meeting any of those standards. Often because it’s less than half cheese or an addictive outside the accepted list to meet the other definitions is being used. Milk protein concentrate is an example, but also increasing the fat content with something like vegetable oil or adding flavoring agents to make the result taste more like cheese.

          The FDA caught Kraft singles not meeting the definition of pasteurized process cheese food something like 20 years ago which is why it’s labeled a pasteurized process cheese product.

          For any curious, the sodium citrate is an emulsifying agents that helps the natural cheeses used melt together smoothly, and pasteurization was originally done to prolong the life of the resultant mixed cheese as the whole original point of American cheese was to reprocess ends and scraps into something homogeneous and comparatively safe for long distance overland transport before refrigerated trucks were a thing.

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        6 hours ago

        When night munchies comes… You don’t care about quality of ingredients, anyway it’s just a slapstick sandwich and not a pizza, only “crime” they do is calling it pizza and pricing it as such, if it was marketed as cheap slapstick sandwiches on the go, i don’t think anyone would have problems with that

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    11 hours ago

    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.