Editing 3142: (City)-Style Pizza

{{comic
| number    = 3142
| date      = September 15, 2025
| title     = <City>-Style Pizza
| image     = city_style_pizza_2x.png
| imagesize = 480x314px
| noexpand  = true
| titletext = If you want to see true audacity, do an image search for 'Altoona-style pizza.'
}}

==Explanation==
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Many varieties of {{w|pizza}} in the US are named after a city — usually where the style originated or was popularized, such as {{w|New York–style pizza}} and {{w|Chicago-style pizza}}. A New York-style pizza is characterized by a thin, but not hard, crust. In contrast, Chicago-style pizza, or Chicago deep-dish pizza, is notoriously thick.

This comic contains a chart that compares the tastiness of pizza styles with the size of the city in the name. They generally span a broad range, but poor-tasting styles are mostly found only in small cities. The suggested reason is that these are due to restaurant owners in small towns who are bored and make up strange styles of pizza as a prank on visitors. According to [[Randall]], New York-style pizza is near the top of the tastiness axis. New York happens to be the largest city in the US, and it's also where pizza was first brought to the US by Italian immigrants.

The title text mentions an {{w|Altoona-style pizza}}. Created in the Altoona Hotel in {{w|Altoona, Pennsylvania}}, it has a thick square crust, with a slice of melted American cheese on top of tomato sauce, bell peppers, and salami. The “true audacity” of this style may include that people may not consider it pizza, and some may even see it as a sandwich. It is noteworthy that a remarkable spike in Google searches for Altoona-style pizza was observed at the publication date of this comic, as can be observed on [https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11nmt6q5kp Google Trends].

The original comic's title has an encoding error in terms of HTML rendering, and it was copied to this wiki page. It reads "&lt;City&gt;-Style", which is interpreted by web browsers as containing an HTML tag and rendered as "-Style".

==Transcript==
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:[A graph.]
:[The x and y axes have no unit markings, and are labeled:]
::[X axis: City size →]
::[Y axis: Tastiness of "<city>-style pizza" ↑]

:[A shaded region is bounded by a lower bound and an upper bound. The upper bound has a slight curve up corresponding to a smallish city, but is otherwise mostly flat. The lower bound appears on the X axi] close to the left, evens out to being almost flat in the middle, and rises toward the right.]

:[An arrow points to the right end of the shaded area, with the label:]
::New York up here somewhere

:[A label is in the middle of the shaded region at a medium X value. Many arrows point outward from the text, which reads:]
::various controversial regional specialties

:[An arrow points to the region with a low x and y-value, where the line for the lower bound is missing. This region is labeled:]
::towns with bored restaurant owners who have come up with a fun prank to play on visitors

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[[Category: Food]]
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