A weird ‘deep dish’ tomato pie, but with extra bread instead of ingredients.

Slices of American or processed cheese to further the food crime being committed.

“Pie” it too generous for this abomination

I’m inclined to agree, but one could argue so is chicken parm.

Id probably still try it and might enjoy it

I’ve always loved that the covers of books are specifically designed to allow you to judge the book, especially if they have a synopsis or something on the back.

Judge that town.

Don’t worry, you can also judge them as the town that snitched on Luigi, if that makes you feel better

It hurts that you don’t remember me

The Dutch started adding annatto to cheese to make it more orange ages ago so they could have a more uniform product year round since winter milk has less pigment than summer milk. This practice spread to other countries like France, the UK, and the US.

The Swiss later invented process cheese, and James Kraft, a Canadian businessman started making processed cheese with the annatto added. He did this in America, so the product became known as American cheese.

Processed cheese in general (and american cheese in particular) is not inherently a bad idea. It’s the best way to get a smooth melting cheese. There’s also no limit to what cheese can be used, so I’ve made processed cheese out of cheeses like pecorino (you just need to dissolve it into a liquid along with some sodium citrate). Then you have easy melting cheese that you can keep in the fridge and just toss with pasta whenever you want something like a cacio e pepe with less effort to control the heat and get the proportions right.

American cheese varies. There are cheap individually wrapped cheese product (like Kraft) that is normally white, then they dye it and sell it as 2 different products, white and yellow but I’m fairly sure it’s the same thing. Then there are slightly higher grade American cheeses like land o lakes which are better quality. Can’t say I’ve ever paid more than that, at that point I’d probably be shopping for a different product.

Anyways, food dye is your answer

It’s made from cheese curd, the stuff left over from making real cheese, other ingredients. The yellow is just food dye.

The package says it’s “made from real cheese”, which is true, but it’s only half real cheese and the cheapest possible cheese.

A mix of ingredients that must include at least 51% cheese (such as a traditionally made cheddar or Colby) is ground, combined with emulsifying agents and other ingredients that may total up to 49%, mixed and heated until it forms a melted homogeneous mixture.

to be labeled “American cheese” a processed cheese is required to be manufactured from cheddar cheese, Colby cheese, washed curd cheese, or granular cheese, or any mixture of two or more of these.

Washed curd cheese and granular cheese are the least expensive, so guess which two they mostly use.

Probably it being pizza.

It’s like what aliens would make for their Earth simulation if they only had a vague description of pizza.

I take it you’re not Italian?