According to local legend, the unique Altoona-style pizza was first cooked up at a local hotel in the 1950s.
Since the Altoona Hotel burned down in 2013, the The Original 29th Street Pizza Subs & More is considered the go-to spot for a slice of Altoona-style pizza.Don’t call it Sicilian, they say, call the police.
and while, yes, I could eat a pound of American cheese of any color, I wouldn’t dare touch a green pepper or anything adjacent to a green pepper. Still, it’s one of the classic ingredients of the Altoona pizza and for the sake of journalism, I slid the slice toward my wife, Anna, and picked her brain.“It seems like something you would cook up if you didn’t have a lot of ingredients laying around,” she said after a few bites.
I scraped off some peppers but, alas, it all tasted like green peppers to me. Cokrlic Jr. did offer to make me one without peppers but I passed. Customers, he said, have made far stranger requests. The hotel burned down in 2013, but Cokrlic Jr. said there’s still a handful of shops that make the pizzas. It remains one of their best sellers.
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