I prefer sliced provalone myself. Then again, I’m from the suburbs.

In Hoagieland, They Accept No Substitutes
By R. W. APPLE Jr.

“WHEN the future Edward VII, then the Prince of Wales, visited this staid old city in 1860, he had a little trouble getting his bearings. During his stay, he reported later, ‘I met a very large and interesting family named Scrapple, and I discovered a rather delicious native food that they call biddle.'”