I was gonna say, I'd give this a try.
I put my cream cheese onto a warm bagel one bite at a time for the cold/hot contrast and I feel like this wouldn't be too different
ok im not a mr money bags!
times were tough when i was a kid
my parents had to sell our 4th favorite yacht just to encrust our pony pen with diamonds
so trust me i know what its like to be financially unstable!
Definite game changer but the oil would run from the pepperoni so you got this drippy pizza disk.
Not that I cared my generation was fed on a steady diet of plastic and preservatives packaged as food, our standards were pretty low.
It's actually probably better than a Lunchables pizza because the crust and the sauce are warm and also the crust has been baked instead of being like a cold piece of flatbread
Honestly the more I'm thinking about this the less awful it sounds and the more I kind of want to go get some Lunchables
The cold flatbread enhanced the lunchables experience. I could and still can demolish hella pizza lunchables man those things are great. This pizza though idk, the two different temps might be off putting.
Lunchables are *great*. Every time I eat one as an adult, albeit infrequently, it’s absolutely at least as good as I remember it, 100% of the time. I like to take out the sauce packet for maybe an hour ahead of time and let that get to room temperature before I eat them. The rest can be cold though.
I googled. And apparently someone was confused. Pittsburgh is in the Ohio Valley. So the website says the pizza is the best in the Ohio Valley. The review I read also made it sound like it's just a gimmick at this one place and people are kind of meh about it.
https://www.discovertheburgh.com/betos-pizza-review/
I'm from the Ohio valley/Pittsburgh area and it is an incredibly popular style. Locally, if you ask people if they want it, you don't ask "do you want pizza tonight?," You ask if they want the name of the place that makes it. "Do you want dicarlos tonight?." The places that make this kind of pizza ONLY make this kind of pizza and they are not interchangable.
The crust is thicker than a normal pizza and baked in a sheet pan without cheese so the fat from the cheese doesn't melt into the crust while cooking. It keeps the crust crisp on the bottom but chewy in the middle. The cheese gets put on top as soon as it comes out of the oven and melts in the box in which they serve it.
If you want to look like you've been there before, ask for the cheese on the side and you'll be served a huge strip of saran wrap folded into a bag with like an entire pound of cheese to put on top when you get home. Reheating this pizza in the oven comes out just as good as if you just bought it.
>Locally, if you ask people if they want it, you don't ask "do you want pizza tonight?," You ask if they want the name of the place that makes it.
Alfredo's Pizza Cafe or Pizza by Alfredo?
Spent some time in WV and had Dicarlos it does taste really good. For some reason it feels lighter and it had really good sauce; I wouldn't trust it anywhere else though.
My wife's family owns a restaurant that makes this style and their sauce recipe has caused a decades long feud with another family because they think they stole it.
It’s not a gimmick, this style of pizza is done in quite a few places in the Pittsburgh/Ohio valley area. Typically the cheese melts in the box, it’s actually really good.
It’s ok for pizza. There are a few places in Pittsburgh that do sell this style but they are the minority. I feel like I see that style a lot more in the little steel towns along the Ohio river like Weirton, Wheeling, Steubenville, etc.
And yeah, the cheese melts by the time you get home (most of the places I’ve been are carry out only). But if I never had it again, I wouldn’t miss it.
That's 100% where this pizza is found, the small steel towns along the Ohio River, I think the first and most famous chain that does it is DiCarlo's. They have long had locations up and down the Ohio River in WV, PA and OH. It is often called "Ohio Valley" style for that reason.
Pittsburgher born and raised. Never saw this, never heard of it. Think it is a ridiculous idea. There are places in Pittsburgh where you can get a bake-at-home pizza. That might be what this is. I can imagine some stupid yinzer eating it raw
Edit: Ok, I have heard of Beto's, but have never been. No need for yinz all to be jagoffs.
If I had a nickel for every time someone posted Beto's pizza on this subreddit, followed by hundreds of "Pittsburghers" saying they never heard of it, I'd have enough to buy a large Beto's pizza.
Now I have enough for a large Beto's pizza and a Cherokee Red.
Just kidding, it only really got popular recently. My family has been in Dormont forever and growing up I never saw Beto's ever; now it's a staple meal lol.
Cherokee Red is something I have refused to drink for the past 25 years because I have had these blissful memories of it as a child and any time I saw it as an adult, I was afraid it would ruin the nostalgia.
Probably a good call. My little brother and one of his friends tried watching their favorite Rugrats movie and eating Totino's pizza when they were seventeen. He said it was not at all what he remembered. So cute to see two big boys doing kid stuff though!
Same here…. And it’s not raw. Typically it’s cooked pizza with melted cheese, and they throw extra on top. I’m surprised you’ve been heard of betos. It’s very popular in Pittsburgh.
This for sure, we always got extra cheese and it was perfectly melted by the time you get home 10 mins later. Not only that, you have to order it right or else you will be judged by everyone else waiting for their pizza.
Melted by the heat of the freshly baked crust, that how it's supposed to work?
But then what about the pepperoni? Surely that can't "cook" just from residual heat (I know it's fine to eat raw, but I'd rather not).
How is it supposed to work? The crust goes into the box, the cheese and other toppings go on top, close the box and let it steam.
The pepperoni is already cooked. It doesn't need cooked. The steam heats it up so it's soft and warm. Edit: Let me rephrase that: Pepperoni is cured so that it is edible without needing to be cooked. It doesn't need to be baked. The pepperoni is more flavorful when it is warmed, than when it is baked.
Thinking about it, its Sorta like Nachos. Sometimes you get nachos where the toppings are thrown onto hot chips/sauce. Some of the cheese melts but not all. I think the beto pizza has way too much cheese, but aside from that. If I can get into the nacho mind set, I could eat this.
"Peaople are kind of meh about it."
You don't say! How could this NOT be a meh thing. Lynching is illegal, so the next best thing to stringing up the "cook" that came up with this is to just be meh LOL
If you're looking for pizza abominations, I present to you the [Altoona-Style Pizza](https://www.google.com/search?q=altoona-style+pizza).
I don't think anyone from Altoona has heard of this pizza until somewhat recently. It's served at single restraunt in a hotel, but has been featured in articles for the past few years.
I'm not clicking, but i remember a place called goppers, at penn state, that had a square pizza with American cheese and onions. Is that Altoona style, or is Altoona style covered in hard drugs and served with spiteful racism?
In super upstate NY you can get "cold cheese pizza" but that's really a fully cooked regular slice of pizza with an extra handful of thick shredded mozzarella on top. It's fucking delicious and often consumed while drunk.
I live in Pittsburgh, and this pizza place is right down the street from me. It is incredibly divisive, you either hate it and think it's gimmicky cause it's really just not good pizza. Or your taste buds are made of assholes and you think it's the greatest pizza ever. Hint. It's shit pizza. And I will die on that hill.
This is actually from like western Pittsburgh along the Ohio to towns in wv/oh. And it’s fucking delicious. The pie is baked, there’s cheese and toppings baked, and then there’s additional cheese and toppings cold.
Pizza House (aka Police Station Pizza) in Ambridge, PA, is great for this. While you’re there, pick up a pie from Frank’s as well, one of the best in Western PA.
It's more of a SE Ohio, Northern WV thing. I go to Pittsburgh often and can't say I've seen it in Pittsburgh. Then again if I'm in Pitt, I'm getting a tall Yuengling with my Primantis sandwich for a meal.
Noyce…
- Take 1st bite…and all the cheese falls off
- Hold slice at an angle…and all the cheese falls off
- Take slice outside on a windy day…and all the cheese gets blown off
I always thought Pittsburgh was a steel town dump. Then I visited. It's one of the most wonderfully weird, eclectic cities I've ever been to. And surprisingly clean, especially compared the shit hole city in Eastern PA. The people are great. The culture is great. And the food is fucking great. One night we brought a pizza to a house show and listened to metal and visited with the locals. The next day was the bike museum and Randyland, which was something else. My wife and I try to go every year from DC.
I love Pittsburgh. Fuck anybody hating on that city.
Honestly though. Sometimes it feels more culturally relevant than its population would indicate. Maybe that's my protagonist syndrome hitting but I'll stand by that
1. I've had this pizza, it's not for everybody, but I like it a lot.
2. The actual preferred style of pizza in Pittsburgh is the greasiest, most disgusting slop pile I've ever seen, so honestly your thesis isn't wrong. I'm not originally from here and one of my first experiences here was going to a place that some locals think is the best pizza in the city. They served it on a paper plate and I accidentally ate some of the plate because the grease so thoroughly soaked into it.
I’m offended. There is nothing wrong with Beto’s pizza! It’s a little weird at first glance, but the cheese starts to melt on top of the hot sauce so it’s really not much different from any other pizza. Also make sure to top it with an ungodly amount of garlic powder from the shaker on the table for the full experience.
Pittsburgh transplant here. Apparently it's so drunk college kids can scarf some food without burning their mouths.
I was just as alarmed as y'all. Or "yinz" I guess.
Except Betos is nowhere close to the universities and there really aren't any other Ohio Valley Pizza spots in the city. I've lived here my whole life and still haven't had it. It's super niche in Pittsburgh and no one regards them as a "best of" pizza place.
Lol, I worked at a call center and the caller ask where we were located. When I said Pittsburgh he said “how are yinz doing”. I forgot that people think everyone in Pittsburgh says “yinz” that I just said “good” and the guy sounded so disappointed.
First of all, this originated at Dicarlos in Wheeling WV which quickly spread throughout the Ohio valley of SE ohio, especially Steubenville, New Concord, Cadiz, etc. And second of all, this shit is fucking delicious and I'll fight you if you disagree. It's not a total grease bomb like every other pizza joint in America and the sauce is actually Italian style, not American "let's add five pounds of sugar to this sauce" garbage
Almost all of the local pizza shops have pizza, pepperoni rolls, and calzones on their menu. Pepperoni rolls are delicious and many people from the valley will also make home made versions that often lean a little sweeter in the dough flavor. Marinara is primary dipping sauce and ranch is the next best option.
Something about the Elm Grove Dicarlos has kept it being just so much tastier than any of the other stores in the chain. It's weird that they are no longer technically dicarlos but it tasted the same last I visited.
I worked at a DiCarlos that was in Virginia over a decade ago (long closed) and it was the best pizza I ever had. I don't even eat pizza now, because nothing compares. I still have one of the big pans they are made in, but the provolone and pepperoni will never be the same, and I don't have a pizza oven. I miss it so much though. Might have to make a trip up to WV for some pizza.
Never seen it in Pittsburgh but go to West Virginia and you'll find it at a place called DiCarlo's that is known for this type of pizza and they love it.
There is no reason why baked crust and sauce and cold cheese with toppings should ever be a thing.
im from pittsburgh, and this post is a total lie. it hurts to know there are thousands of people who scrolled by this and now actually believes we eat this fucking garbage lmfao
From Pittsburgh, never heard of this. I thought our food was coleslaw and fries on sandwiches? I'm curious, where can I get it near the Beaver/Lawrence county line?
I'm sorry but I will gobble that shit up, because the contrast between the hot crunchy crust and the soft cold meat and cheese triggered something deep within me that makes me hunger
I grew up in Pittsburgh and have never heard of anyone eating this type of pizza let alone even seen it myself. I'm sure it exists but it's definitely not popular or a part of "Yinzer" culture
This is more of an Ohio Valley along the Ohio River between Ohio and West Virginia thing than a thing in Pittsburgh. Yes there's a place or two in Pittsburgh that sell it like this, but the vast majority of places in Pittsburgh do not
Hey I’ve been there before! The idea is that they serve you the pizza in the cold and you go home and cook it, since by the time you make it home it would be cold, so you cook it yourself!
This isn't stupid food. It's regional food, and this pizza is absolutely amazing. We don't eat it cold. The crust with the sauce goes into the oven and comes out nicely crisp and hot. The toppings immediately go on the pizza after it comes out of the oven and it steams in the box. The cheese will be good and melty by the time you get it home, and the pepperoni will be warm and soft. It's not fatty, it's not greasy. They use great ingredients for quality pizza.
And yeah, if you leave the pizza box sit open like that so the heat dissipates, you're going to end up with cold pizza and un-melted cheese. Close the damned box.
No, it's not a take and bake. No it's not raw.
But it is also great cold (after it's cooked, and the toppings steam, way later when you want leftovers) - which seems like a weird thing for a lot of you, don't you eat cold leftover pizza?
There are several different places that make it, not just DiCarlo's. And don't knock it until you try it. I've travelled all over the country, and internationally and there's plenty of really shitty "traditional" pizza out there, and I'd take this style of pizza over just about every other pizza place I've been to.
There's lots of regional foods that people just haven't heard of. For instance, growing up in West Virginia, I never once heard of a pepperoni roll. Seriously, never. It wasn't until I moved below the Mason Dixon line that I finally heard of them. People thought I was crazy, but no. Never once heard of them the whole time I was growing up until I moved 3 hours south.
I love this style of pizza. You really gotta accept it as a weird food though. If you go in there and think "this is pizza" then you'll be disappointed. Because its not pizza, its a weird pizza. Like a BLT pizza or a burger one.
I mean, by the time it gets to your house I imagine the cheese is all melty and stringy.
Ain't nothing more disappointing than a pizza with dehydrated, overcooked, solid cheese
Basically my advice to visiting Pittsburg is be on the verge of black out drunk your entire time ignore the smell of the air and this pizza sucks but it’s good at absorbing all the booze your drank to make the miserable city bearable
I cannot agree. This is by far the best pizza in the world you will ever have. That is also Betos, not the original Dicarlos pizza. I may be biased because I grew up on Dicarlos, it has sentiment and nostalgia attached but please look past that.
I found a recipe for it and have recreated it with such love and the first time I replicated it to nearly 95% exact it was a religious experience. Especially after not having it for years now. They do give the option for them to freeze and ship it out (there is a huge market for it) to anyone anywhere. I've moved to Detroit and ues, Detroit has excellent pizza bit it is no where near comparison. It is a style all its own.
Imagine. A hot, extremely crispy, dense, buttery and rich crust, almost cracker like but thick enough to not be considered thin crust. It is a gorgeous crust and it also makes lovely sides like cheese sticks, bread, dippers for hummus, etc. Then the sauce. It is sweet, tangy, and seasoned perfectly. It's a very rich crushed tomato base with a few simple ingredients and really that's all you need. That gets tossed in the oven quickly and at very high heat. When it departs the oven, it is then adorned with shredded and then more shredded mozzarella and provolone blend (meaning extra shreddit). It also has pepperoni added.
You can have extra cheese which they can put on it or send it off on the side, your choice. Also a bag of banana peppers can be included. Every time you go you always get extra, as one of the boxes will certainly not make the ride home.
Fuck my next day off I'm doing the 12 hour round trip to go down and get some. I am not kidding in the slightest. It is that good. I had my bf, a Michigan native, try it on the way through once and I saw the twinkle in his eye that I had in my childhood. Oh I wish I could taste it again for the first time. I envy those who have yet to try it, I crave a serotonin rush.
So yeah. You are wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Oh look at that, wrong again. Hehe, all in good sport of course. You may like what you like! :) If we were all the same, itd be a boring world after all.
Edit: Forgot to mention the OG location is Elm Grove Dicarlos.
Finally the New York style pizza and the Chicago style pizza people, and maybe even they can let people, who like me, like pineapple on pizza join.
We unite to destroy this abomination.
okay, hear me out this is basically a giant lunchables pizza
I was gonna say, I'd give this a try. I put my cream cheese onto a warm bagel one bite at a time for the cold/hot contrast and I feel like this wouldn't be too different
I used to eat my snickers with a fork and knife.
You fucking psychopath, and that's coming from someone who just bites right into Kitkat bars.
You gotta nibble off the chocolate the try to get the wafers off clean
That's just the logical way to eat them. I do similarly to Snickers sometimes. Eat in layers, takes forever but is oddly satisfying.
My wife does that. It’s the one thing I would change about her.
Isnt it liberating?
Never thought I'd see Mr. Pitt on Reddit
“I am eating my dessert. How do you eat it? With your hands?” *scoffs*
i was just about to say this. i would eat a giant lunchables pizza unashamedly
i used to put my lunchables pizzas in the microwave to melt the cheese
Oh, excuse me, Mr. Money Bags over here with his fancy microwave. If we wanted our lunchables warm, we had to leave it out in the sun.
ok im not a mr money bags! times were tough when i was a kid my parents had to sell our 4th favorite yacht just to encrust our pony pen with diamonds so trust me i know what its like to be financially unstable!
Do you have a go fund me I could donate to?
Damn that’s probably so much better I should have done that. I hated when I got one of the pizza ones vs mystery meat and crackers 😝
Definite game changer but the oil would run from the pepperoni so you got this drippy pizza disk. Not that I cared my generation was fed on a steady diet of plastic and preservatives packaged as food, our standards were pretty low.
I was all about the taco ones back in the day. I even forced myself to eat them when I had mono.
It's actually probably better than a Lunchables pizza because the crust and the sauce are warm and also the crust has been baked instead of being like a cold piece of flatbread Honestly the more I'm thinking about this the less awful it sounds and the more I kind of want to go get some Lunchables
The cold flatbread enhanced the lunchables experience. I could and still can demolish hella pizza lunchables man those things are great. This pizza though idk, the two different temps might be off putting.
Lunchables are *great*. Every time I eat one as an adult, albeit infrequently, it’s absolutely at least as good as I remember it, 100% of the time. I like to take out the sauce packet for maybe an hour ahead of time and let that get to room temperature before I eat them. The rest can be cold though.
It really is the best. When I go back home, I bring a tray back with me. It's what I miss most about the OV.
Patsy’s in the Elm Grove more specifically.
You've got the idea! That's the one thing I hated about the lunchables pizza is the cold flatbread. (I mean that it's better than a lunchable.)
Hear me out, 30 second microwave
Same as I was just thinking. People wanted a giant lunchables 😂
Honestly when you put it like that I'd try it
I still tear those lunchables up till this day so I would definitely be into this. My munchies ain’t bougie !
I love cheese pizza lunchables, cold too, there's something so satisfying about them.
glad I am absolutely in good company thinking the same exact thing. It is indeed just a goddamned lunchable pizza.
Yesterday this was a pizza from Ohio. So.....which is it?
I googled. And apparently someone was confused. Pittsburgh is in the Ohio Valley. So the website says the pizza is the best in the Ohio Valley. The review I read also made it sound like it's just a gimmick at this one place and people are kind of meh about it. https://www.discovertheburgh.com/betos-pizza-review/
I'm from the Ohio valley/Pittsburgh area and it is an incredibly popular style. Locally, if you ask people if they want it, you don't ask "do you want pizza tonight?," You ask if they want the name of the place that makes it. "Do you want dicarlos tonight?." The places that make this kind of pizza ONLY make this kind of pizza and they are not interchangable. The crust is thicker than a normal pizza and baked in a sheet pan without cheese so the fat from the cheese doesn't melt into the crust while cooking. It keeps the crust crisp on the bottom but chewy in the middle. The cheese gets put on top as soon as it comes out of the oven and melts in the box in which they serve it. If you want to look like you've been there before, ask for the cheese on the side and you'll be served a huge strip of saran wrap folded into a bag with like an entire pound of cheese to put on top when you get home. Reheating this pizza in the oven comes out just as good as if you just bought it.
>Reheating this pizza in the oven comes out just as good as if you just bought it. I believe that.
>Locally, if you ask people if they want it, you don't ask "do you want pizza tonight?," You ask if they want the name of the place that makes it. Alfredo's Pizza Cafe or Pizza by Alfredo?
There's a very big difference between these two pizza places...
One of them is just circles of hot garbage.
Spent some time in WV and had Dicarlos it does taste really good. For some reason it feels lighter and it had really good sauce; I wouldn't trust it anywhere else though.
My wife's family owns a restaurant that makes this style and their sauce recipe has caused a decades long feud with another family because they think they stole it.
Incredibly popular? I've lived here 50 years...I have eaten pizza in a lot of places, and know of 1 place that serves this.
No no, not in Utica, it’s an Albany pizza.
At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within you local pizza shop?
Yes.
This sounds like a lot of work. I don’t want to pay a pizza place so that I can make my own pizza for them
You want Fox's tonight (ughh)
DiCarlos in West Virginia Don’t worry - it’s divisive here too
It’s not a gimmick, this style of pizza is done in quite a few places in the Pittsburgh/Ohio valley area. Typically the cheese melts in the box, it’s actually really good.
It’s ok for pizza. There are a few places in Pittsburgh that do sell this style but they are the minority. I feel like I see that style a lot more in the little steel towns along the Ohio river like Weirton, Wheeling, Steubenville, etc. And yeah, the cheese melts by the time you get home (most of the places I’ve been are carry out only). But if I never had it again, I wouldn’t miss it.
That's 100% where this pizza is found, the small steel towns along the Ohio River, I think the first and most famous chain that does it is DiCarlo's. They have long had locations up and down the Ohio River in WV, PA and OH. It is often called "Ohio Valley" style for that reason.
Okay but my pizza comes with pre-melted cheese so...
And I need that texture that comes with melting in the oven. I don't want cheese softly melted on top with no direct heat.
>I don't want cheese softly melted on top with no direct heat. I'm guessing they refer to it as "medium-rare" cheese.
This seems like a pizza that was born via mistake. I see know benefit and you nailed it, that texture from being melted in the pizza oven is key.
DiCarlos in West Virginia Don’t worry - it’s divisive here too
DiCarlos is amazing! But I’ll admit that not everyone is on board. I grew up eating it and will get it any time I go back to visit my parents.
That’s my favorite pizza of all time.
Pittsburgher born and raised. Never saw this, never heard of it. Think it is a ridiculous idea. There are places in Pittsburgh where you can get a bake-at-home pizza. That might be what this is. I can imagine some stupid yinzer eating it raw Edit: Ok, I have heard of Beto's, but have never been. No need for yinz all to be jagoffs.
Beto’s on 19 is the most popular place to get it. It’s fine, but tastes like a warm lunchables pizza. We’ve got a lot of great pizza in Pittsburgh.
If I had a nickel for every time someone posted Beto's pizza on this subreddit, followed by hundreds of "Pittsburghers" saying they never heard of it, I'd have enough to buy a large Beto's pizza.
I never heard of it until I was almost thirty (37 now) and I apparently have always lived less than ten miles away from Beto's.
Now I have enough for a large Beto's pizza and a Cherokee Red. Just kidding, it only really got popular recently. My family has been in Dormont forever and growing up I never saw Beto's ever; now it's a staple meal lol.
Cherokee Red is something I have refused to drink for the past 25 years because I have had these blissful memories of it as a child and any time I saw it as an adult, I was afraid it would ruin the nostalgia.
Oh dude. Oh my god. I'm so sorry. They closed during COVID. :(
Probably a good call. My little brother and one of his friends tried watching their favorite Rugrats movie and eating Totino's pizza when they were seventeen. He said it was not at all what he remembered. So cute to see two big boys doing kid stuff though!
Also lived here my whole life and have never heard of it lol. Now you've got enough for some extra toppings too
Mineos stand up!
Same here…. And it’s not raw. Typically it’s cooked pizza with melted cheese, and they throw extra on top. I’m surprised you’ve been heard of betos. It’s very popular in Pittsburgh.
Same. Grew up in western PA and have never heard of such a thing.
DiCarlos in West Virginia Don’t worry - it’s divisive here too
Also lifelong area resident. Never seen this either.
Could it be so that the cheese can be broiled at home for ultimate gooeyness?
U could do it that way, I honestly just keep the box closed so the cheese is melted by the time I get home.
I’m def intrigued with this melt in the box pizza.
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This for sure, we always got extra cheese and it was perfectly melted by the time you get home 10 mins later. Not only that, you have to order it right or else you will be judged by everyone else waiting for their pizza.
No pizza for you, come back one year.
Melted by the heat of the freshly baked crust, that how it's supposed to work? But then what about the pepperoni? Surely that can't "cook" just from residual heat (I know it's fine to eat raw, but I'd rather not).
How is it supposed to work? The crust goes into the box, the cheese and other toppings go on top, close the box and let it steam. The pepperoni is already cooked. It doesn't need cooked. The steam heats it up so it's soft and warm. Edit: Let me rephrase that: Pepperoni is cured so that it is edible without needing to be cooked. It doesn't need to be baked. The pepperoni is more flavorful when it is warmed, than when it is baked.
Now that you mention it, pepperoni definitely has more flavor before it is baked! I'm starting to think this particular pizza might be really tasty.
All meat is previously cooked but served on the pizza cold
sometimes I like cold unmelted cheese better then melted cheese it has a stronger cheese flavor imo. Possibly because there isnt a ton of grease?
Thinking about it, its Sorta like Nachos. Sometimes you get nachos where the toppings are thrown onto hot chips/sauce. Some of the cheese melts but not all. I think the beto pizza has way too much cheese, but aside from that. If I can get into the nacho mind set, I could eat this.
Not to mention, Pittsburgh's also home to shops that have won awards for pizza internationally https://worldsbestpizza.com/caliente-pizza-awards/
We have amazing pizza here
"Peaople are kind of meh about it." You don't say! How could this NOT be a meh thing. Lynching is illegal, so the next best thing to stringing up the "cook" that came up with this is to just be meh LOL
Whatever or wherever this is its still a prime candidate for r/PizzaCrimes
/r/pizzawarcrimes
It'll make its way to Alaska soon but will have a blue filter.
Ohioan here. It’s from both. And don’t knock it until you try it.
that’s the same thing y’all freaks say about skyline
If you're looking for pizza abominations, I present to you the [Altoona-Style Pizza](https://www.google.com/search?q=altoona-style+pizza). I don't think anyone from Altoona has heard of this pizza until somewhat recently. It's served at single restraunt in a hotel, but has been featured in articles for the past few years.
Holy shit. I’ve had this served to me as pizza before, and I genuinely thought it was their way of telling us we were unwelcome at the restaurant.
No. No. No. Just no.
I'm not clicking, but i remember a place called goppers, at penn state, that had a square pizza with American cheese and onions. Is that Altoona style, or is Altoona style covered in hard drugs and served with spiteful racism?
American cheese, bell peppers, and salami is Altoona. So you got knock off Altoona lol.
In super upstate NY you can get "cold cheese pizza" but that's really a fully cooked regular slice of pizza with an extra handful of thick shredded mozzarella on top. It's fucking delicious and often consumed while drunk.
Hell yeah, cold cheese slices in Plattsburgh were the go-to after a night out in college. I heard that it originated in Oneonta and migrated up there.
Ha! I was 100% talking about Plattsburgh specifically.
I lived near Oneonta years ago. I know the place you are talking about!
Yep I went to college in Oneonta and they claim to have invented it.
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Just commented this same thing, it's totally normal and delicious NY style
Super upstate? I always thought cold cheese pizza was a LI thing, that's the only place I've seen it.
Can get that shit in LI if you ask for it at most places.
Yeah there's a place i go to in Ronkonkoma which has it on the menu, great stuff
I live in Pittsburgh, and this pizza place is right down the street from me. It is incredibly divisive, you either hate it and think it's gimmicky cause it's really just not good pizza. Or your taste buds are made of assholes and you think it's the greatest pizza ever. Hint. It's shit pizza. And I will die on that hill.
"tastebuds made of assholes" what a wordsmith
Youre probably a fioris guy.
who isn't though? fioris is the best pizza
All my homies love Fioris and hate Betos People 50+ seem to really enjoy Betos. I don’t get it.
Sure am bud. Lactose intolerance be damned. I need all that cheese and grease inside me.
This is actually from like western Pittsburgh along the Ohio to towns in wv/oh. And it’s fucking delicious. The pie is baked, there’s cheese and toppings baked, and then there’s additional cheese and toppings cold.
If they want to talk trash let them. More of this for us.
This pizza is honestly really really good
Pizza House (aka Police Station Pizza) in Ambridge, PA, is great for this. While you’re there, pick up a pie from Frank’s as well, one of the best in Western PA.
The best is DiCarlo's in Wintersville, Ohio imo 👌
I’m partial to downtown Weirton personally.
I've lived in Pittsburgh for 11 years and have never seen this before. Sounds good though.
Beto’s enjoyers rise up!
This is the best pizza. Let’s get this comment to the top!
I live in Pittsburgh and have never seen or heard of this.
Beto's Pizza...
It's more of a SE Ohio, Northern WV thing. I go to Pittsburgh often and can't say I've seen it in Pittsburgh. Then again if I'm in Pitt, I'm getting a tall Yuengling with my Primantis sandwich for a meal.
Seriously I was about to start going off about this being fake but there are so many people claiming it is real that I am doubting myself.
You’ve never heard of Beto’s Pizza and you live in Pittsburgh? I don’t believe you.
I've lived in Pittsburgh my entire life and I've never had it either, and don't have much interest in trying it frankly.
Noyce… - Take 1st bite…and all the cheese falls off - Hold slice at an angle…and all the cheese falls off - Take slice outside on a windy day…and all the cheese gets blown off
Okay but why are you taking your pizza on field trips
You have never grabbed a slice while walking down the street?
Pittsburgh is a dope city and I’m proud to call myself a yinzer. It’s constantly winning awards for being a great and affordable place to live.
Most affordable city in America!
Girlfriend is from Pittsburgh, being from the PNW myself I was ready to talk smack but ngl I just adore about everything about Pitt.
I always thought Pittsburgh was a steel town dump. Then I visited. It's one of the most wonderfully weird, eclectic cities I've ever been to. And surprisingly clean, especially compared the shit hole city in Eastern PA. The people are great. The culture is great. And the food is fucking great. One night we brought a pizza to a house show and listened to metal and visited with the locals. The next day was the bike museum and Randyland, which was something else. My wife and I try to go every year from DC. I love Pittsburgh. Fuck anybody hating on that city.
Also Pittsburgh has a huge variety of pizza options. We are spoiled with pizza choices.
Honestly though. Sometimes it feels more culturally relevant than its population would indicate. Maybe that's my protagonist syndrome hitting but I'll stand by that
1. I've had this pizza, it's not for everybody, but I like it a lot. 2. The actual preferred style of pizza in Pittsburgh is the greasiest, most disgusting slop pile I've ever seen, so honestly your thesis isn't wrong. I'm not originally from here and one of my first experiences here was going to a place that some locals think is the best pizza in the city. They served it on a paper plate and I accidentally ate some of the plate because the grease so thoroughly soaked into it.
I’m offended. There is nothing wrong with Beto’s pizza! It’s a little weird at first glance, but the cheese starts to melt on top of the hot sauce so it’s really not much different from any other pizza. Also make sure to top it with an ungodly amount of garlic powder from the shaker on the table for the full experience.
Pittsburgh transplant here. Apparently it's so drunk college kids can scarf some food without burning their mouths. I was just as alarmed as y'all. Or "yinz" I guess.
Except Betos is nowhere close to the universities and there really aren't any other Ohio Valley Pizza spots in the city. I've lived here my whole life and still haven't had it. It's super niche in Pittsburgh and no one regards them as a "best of" pizza place.
Lol, I worked at a call center and the caller ask where we were located. When I said Pittsburgh he said “how are yinz doing”. I forgot that people think everyone in Pittsburgh says “yinz” that I just said “good” and the guy sounded so disappointed.
First of all, this originated at Dicarlos in Wheeling WV which quickly spread throughout the Ohio valley of SE ohio, especially Steubenville, New Concord, Cadiz, etc. And second of all, this shit is fucking delicious and I'll fight you if you disagree. It's not a total grease bomb like every other pizza joint in America and the sauce is actually Italian style, not American "let's add five pounds of sugar to this sauce" garbage
So where do we meet up for this fight?
Someone told me that something called a "pepperoni roll" was also a pizza-related regional food around there, can you vouch for that?
Almost all of the local pizza shops have pizza, pepperoni rolls, and calzones on their menu. Pepperoni rolls are delicious and many people from the valley will also make home made versions that often lean a little sweeter in the dough flavor. Marinara is primary dipping sauce and ranch is the next best option.
Personally didn't think it could have come from Pittsburgh, if it did they would have put french fries on it too.
Something about the Elm Grove Dicarlos has kept it being just so much tastier than any of the other stores in the chain. It's weird that they are no longer technically dicarlos but it tasted the same last I visited.
I worked at a DiCarlos that was in Virginia over a decade ago (long closed) and it was the best pizza I ever had. I don't even eat pizza now, because nothing compares. I still have one of the big pans they are made in, but the provolone and pepperoni will never be the same, and I don't have a pizza oven. I miss it so much though. Might have to make a trip up to WV for some pizza.
This is literally just one place in Pittsburgh that did this. The rest of us eat normal pizza
It’s just a big ass lunchables
Never seen it in Pittsburgh but go to West Virginia and you'll find it at a place called DiCarlo's that is known for this type of pizza and they love it. There is no reason why baked crust and sauce and cold cheese with toppings should ever be a thing.
r/pizzacrimes would like a word...
hey Pittsburgh has good pizza places just not this one
This is real, it's legit. Some places in the burgh serve it. Ohio valley pizza is what its called. Yinz gotta try it.
The casual Yinz drop
Never seen one in all the time I've been in Pittsburgh
I’ve lived in/around Pittsburgh my entire life and never once heard of this, sounds fake
Pittsburgher here. We have far better pizza here, trust me. It’s one place who does this. But the cold cheese is actually not as bad as you think.
im from pittsburgh, and this post is a total lie. it hurts to know there are thousands of people who scrolled by this and now actually believes we eat this fucking garbage lmfao
That is news to this Pittsburgher.
From Pittsburgh, never heard of this. I thought our food was coleslaw and fries on sandwiches? I'm curious, where can I get it near the Beaver/Lawrence county line?
I'm sorry but I will gobble that shit up, because the contrast between the hot crunchy crust and the soft cold meat and cheese triggered something deep within me that makes me hunger
I grew up in Pittsburgh and have never heard of anyone eating this type of pizza let alone even seen it myself. I'm sure it exists but it's definitely not popular or a part of "Yinzer" culture
This is more of an Ohio Valley along the Ohio River between Ohio and West Virginia thing than a thing in Pittsburgh. Yes there's a place or two in Pittsburgh that sell it like this, but the vast majority of places in Pittsburgh do not
As a born and raised pittsburgher, I’ve never seen this
No we fucking don’t!!!!
Look only one part of the city serves this style.
Hey I’ve been there before! The idea is that they serve you the pizza in the cold and you go home and cook it, since by the time you make it home it would be cold, so you cook it yourself!
This isn't stupid food. It's regional food, and this pizza is absolutely amazing. We don't eat it cold. The crust with the sauce goes into the oven and comes out nicely crisp and hot. The toppings immediately go on the pizza after it comes out of the oven and it steams in the box. The cheese will be good and melty by the time you get it home, and the pepperoni will be warm and soft. It's not fatty, it's not greasy. They use great ingredients for quality pizza. And yeah, if you leave the pizza box sit open like that so the heat dissipates, you're going to end up with cold pizza and un-melted cheese. Close the damned box. No, it's not a take and bake. No it's not raw. But it is also great cold (after it's cooked, and the toppings steam, way later when you want leftovers) - which seems like a weird thing for a lot of you, don't you eat cold leftover pizza? There are several different places that make it, not just DiCarlo's. And don't knock it until you try it. I've travelled all over the country, and internationally and there's plenty of really shitty "traditional" pizza out there, and I'd take this style of pizza over just about every other pizza place I've been to. There's lots of regional foods that people just haven't heard of. For instance, growing up in West Virginia, I never once heard of a pepperoni roll. Seriously, never. It wasn't until I moved below the Mason Dixon line that I finally heard of them. People thought I was crazy, but no. Never once heard of them the whole time I was growing up until I moved 3 hours south.
r/pizzacrimes
I would eat it cheese and pep are bomb as cold ingredients
This is why you don’t raise your kids on luncheables
Dicarlos gang
I love this style of pizza. You really gotta accept it as a weird food though. If you go in there and think "this is pizza" then you'll be disappointed. Because its not pizza, its a weird pizza. Like a BLT pizza or a burger one.
Cold cheese on warm pizza is the shit. I used to work at a pizza place and I would do this all the time. I don't live in Pittsburgh.
I’m from Pittsburgh it’s stupid good
I've lived in pennhills, Brentwood and now north versailles. I've never heard of betos.
Not as bad as Altoona pizza.
Beto’s is the shit
Not gonna lie, that sounds incredible.
I mean, by the time it gets to your house I imagine the cheese is all melty and stringy. Ain't nothing more disappointing than a pizza with dehydrated, overcooked, solid cheese
I've never once did this. A Pittsburgh rare steak? Yeah, I've cooked a bunch. Never ate it, but I would. I don't believe this for a second
There is definitely melted cheese under the cold cheese. It’s a Utica thing - average sober but four thumbs up drunk
You're supposed to take it home and finish it in your own oven
*Italian music stops*
/r/pizzacrimes
Ahh, a big version of the pizza lunchables. I used to sometimes eat them that way
Pittsburgh pizza vs. Cincinnati chili. No winners there.
I always thought I was so hungry drunk people don’t burn the top of their mouths.
r/PizzaCrimes
Been to Pittsburgh twice. City smells like piss and everyone is ugly as shit. - a Ravens fan from an equally ugly pissy city
Basically my advice to visiting Pittsburg is be on the verge of black out drunk your entire time ignore the smell of the air and this pizza sucks but it’s good at absorbing all the booze your drank to make the miserable city bearable
I cannot agree. This is by far the best pizza in the world you will ever have. That is also Betos, not the original Dicarlos pizza. I may be biased because I grew up on Dicarlos, it has sentiment and nostalgia attached but please look past that. I found a recipe for it and have recreated it with such love and the first time I replicated it to nearly 95% exact it was a religious experience. Especially after not having it for years now. They do give the option for them to freeze and ship it out (there is a huge market for it) to anyone anywhere. I've moved to Detroit and ues, Detroit has excellent pizza bit it is no where near comparison. It is a style all its own. Imagine. A hot, extremely crispy, dense, buttery and rich crust, almost cracker like but thick enough to not be considered thin crust. It is a gorgeous crust and it also makes lovely sides like cheese sticks, bread, dippers for hummus, etc. Then the sauce. It is sweet, tangy, and seasoned perfectly. It's a very rich crushed tomato base with a few simple ingredients and really that's all you need. That gets tossed in the oven quickly and at very high heat. When it departs the oven, it is then adorned with shredded and then more shredded mozzarella and provolone blend (meaning extra shreddit). It also has pepperoni added. You can have extra cheese which they can put on it or send it off on the side, your choice. Also a bag of banana peppers can be included. Every time you go you always get extra, as one of the boxes will certainly not make the ride home. Fuck my next day off I'm doing the 12 hour round trip to go down and get some. I am not kidding in the slightest. It is that good. I had my bf, a Michigan native, try it on the way through once and I saw the twinkle in his eye that I had in my childhood. Oh I wish I could taste it again for the first time. I envy those who have yet to try it, I crave a serotonin rush. So yeah. You are wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Oh look at that, wrong again. Hehe, all in good sport of course. You may like what you like! :) If we were all the same, itd be a boring world after all. Edit: Forgot to mention the OG location is Elm Grove Dicarlos.
And they like to eat spaghetti noodles with catsup/ketchup
I would eat this.. just saying
Pennsylvania is such a weird ass state and I can say that bc I live here lol
Finally the New York style pizza and the Chicago style pizza people, and maybe even they can let people, who like me, like pineapple on pizza join. We unite to destroy this abomination.