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Then again? I also love LOTS of foods originally conceived by or served to slaves down South, so it's sort of appropriate...
The difference is, some of that stuff (chitlins, collard greens) seems to still hang around for nostalgic and/or cultural value more than for its culinary value like lobster.
What's really funny about lobster is that it was once considered worthless crap food -- the Chitlins of New England if you will. One New England colony (can't remember which one -- Massachusetts probably) even passed a law forbidding people from serving slaves and indentured servants lobster 7 days a week; they had to give 'em something else to eat at least 1 day a week. Now we pay $20+ to eat 1/3rd of a sea roach.
(Psst. I get all I want for FREE!)
It used to be that the very poor folks on the coast of Maine would survive hard times by eating lobsters gleaned from the shore and fried crab apples taken from backyard trees. However, they would take great care to hide the lobster shells so that nobody else would know how poor they were.
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Ahhhh, Clam Broth House....shells on the floor......fresh steamers and juice.....cold, cold beer......no women on the bar side....hey let's take the PATH over to the city and go to Umbertos for some clams.....sounds good to me...... I'm in heaven......O.K. time to wake up.
Actually, now that my nostalgia's all cranked up I think it's gonna be the PATH to some pirogis on the lower East side washed down later by a few a McSorley's, a liitle thin-crust wood/coal fired oven NY pizza would make a good dessert
Actually, now that my nostalgia's all cranked up I think it's gonna be the PATH to some pirogis on the lower East side washed down later by a few a McSorley's, a liitle thin-crust wood/coal fired oven NY pizza would make a good dessert
Will you be heading over to Johns Pizzeria on Bleecker Street?
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Will you be heading over to Johns Pizzeria on Bleecker Street?
If you say that's the place to go I'll give it a whirl
I can actually get a decent thin-crust fix here in Jersey but a year or so ago it seems the ladies from the Ukrainian church on E 7th had a little food concession going just down the street from McSorley's, hope with the fall season they'll be back making comfort food, a hot bowl of borscht on a cool fall day is one of life's simple pleasures
I'm from Boston. I'm not sure what you're serving here, but it's not a pizza.
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It looks like a Sicilian Ricotta Cheesecake with sauce on it. That can't be pizza!
THANK you!!!
Under the sauce!!!!!!!!!!?????????
That's RETARDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chicago blows in every way - THAT'S why they call it the windy city!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't help but laugh that people are almost resorting to violence over whose town has better pizza. I lived in New Jersey for a while, I thought the pizza was excellent. I was in Chicago last year, and I went to Giordano's. I went to another place but I can't remember the name of it. I thought Chicago pizza was very good, but I'm sorry guys New York/New Jersey has it beat hands down. At least that's my opinion.
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