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Old 07-19-2015, 12:19 PM
 
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That in itself does not make it good.
No but it is good.
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Old 07-19-2015, 01:04 PM
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It could happen, but nowhere near to the degree of FL. NC wont look or feel like FL in my lifetime.

I agree with your 2nd comment.
Yeah there are already tons of Northerners in NC, but the State does a better job at retaining its culture. I mean, it's not like Florida had any to begin with.
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Old 07-19-2015, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Spring Hill Florida
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Yeah there are already tons of Northerners in NC, but the State does a better job at retaining its culture. I mean, it's not like Florida had any to begin with.
Culture? You mean like agriculture, bacon and Krispy Kreme doughnuts?
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Old 07-19-2015, 02:11 PM
 
Location: FLORIDA
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Culture? You mean like agriculture, bacon and Krispy Kreme doughnuts?

Sounds like good culture to me! I'll take it!
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Old 07-19-2015, 02:13 PM
 
Location: Spring Hill Florida
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sounds like good culture to me! I'll take it!
Sold!
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Old 07-19-2015, 04:02 PM
 
Location: O-Town
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Cici's pizza is great--it tastes just like NYC pizza.
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Old 07-19-2015, 04:17 PM
 
Location: O-Town
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It's easy.

You want NY style pizza -- Cici's.

Jewish food? Toojay's

Philly Cheese Steak: Steak n Shake

NY style chinese food: Panda Express
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Old 07-19-2015, 05:11 PM
 
Location: Somewhere
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It is Pizza night, so we drive to our local Italian Pizza Parlor and order one large pie to go. The price is more or less three dollars cheaper than a NY pie. Odd, there is no Italian music playing in the background, nor is anyone spinning the dough around in the air. One guy should be spinning dough while another guy should be spreading the sauce using the back of the ladle while a third should be checking the pies in the oven and cursing at the other two guys.

No one is pushing or shoving, no one is yelling out the names of the customers, no employees search for a pie on top of the ovens. We get our pie without any drama at all, set the table, open the box and are aghast! The cheese seems to float across a sea of tomato sauce. If you move the box to the right the cheese moves right, move the box left and the cheese moves left. We try it and I do my best to say how good it tastes. The kids taste it, drop it, make faces and leave the table. Even grandma is staring at me in disbelief.

Not to be deprived of an "atta boy" for moving my family to Florida. I try to have another pizza night at another pizza parlor. Again, no spinning dough, no foul language, just one kid at the register and one kid making a pizza and me, the one customer. Oddly, this cheese doesn't float, it is crusty all around, but, the bottom is like wet cardboard. Same reaction from kids and grandma stares in disbelief.

I have tried and tried again. Up and down and across the state. I will not give up the search. It isn't that Floridians are dumb, it isn't that I can blame it on the water, it isn't that they failed pizza school. The answer is simple. No one in the pizza parlors has ever tasted a real NY pizza. It is the epitome of the saying "half ass". If you know a tire is made of rubber it does not mean you can make one in your backyard.
It's hard to keep a story straight when you are making it up. Let me guess... You don't even live in Florida.
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Old 07-19-2015, 06:30 PM
 
Location: Wake County, NC
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Culture? You mean like agriculture, bacon and Krispy Kreme doughnuts?
Not surprising that the this would pop into your head when you think of NC. You did choose Spring Hill out of anyplace you could have moved(your words), after all.

Bacon?

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Old 07-19-2015, 06:41 PM
 
Location: Florida
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"You know, it could be worse. You get a lot more for your money in Bolivia, I checked on it." Paul Newman

"What could they have here that you could possibly want to buy?" Robert Redford


Sunny Florida, the dream of reinvention, a new life. The palm trees rustle at night as a slight breeze blows through the parking lot. For some odd reason Floridians step directly into traffic in parking lots and expect me to stop my 4500 pound vehicle on a dime. In New York they would be squished on the pavement, but this is Florida. Just an odd habit Floridians have. I don't understand it, but I drive super super slow in parking lots here. I park way in the back too and never drive in front of the stores.

It is Pizza night, so we drive to our local Italian Pizza Parlor and order one large pie to go. The price is more or less three dollars cheaper than a NY pie. Odd, there is no Italian music playing in the background, nor is anyone spinning the dough around in the air. One guy should be spinning dough while another guy should be spreading the sauce using the back of the ladle while a third should be checking the pies in the oven and cursing at the other two guys.

No one is pushing or shoving, no one is yelling out the names of the customers, no employees search for a pie on top of the ovens. We get our pie without any drama at all, set the table, open the box and are aghast! The cheese seems to float across a sea of tomato sauce. If you move the box to the right the cheese moves right, move the box left and the cheese moves left. We try it and I do my best to say how good it tastes. The kids taste it, drop it, make faces and leave the table. Even grandma is staring at me in disbelief.

Not to be deprived of an "atta boy" for moving my family to Florida. I try to have another pizza night at another pizza parlor. Again, no spinning dough, no foul language, just one kid at the register and one kid making a pizza and me, the one customer. Oddly, this cheese doesn't float, it is crusty all around, but, the bottom is like wet cardboard. Same reaction from kids and grandma stares in disbelief.

I have tried and tried again. Up and down and across the state. I will not give up the search. It isn't that Floridians are dumb, it isn't that I can blame it on the water, it isn't that they failed pizza school. The answer is simple. No one in the pizza parlors has ever tasted a real NY pizza. It is the epitome of the saying "half ass". If you know a tire is made of rubber it does not mean you can make one in your backyard.
I don't understand why NY pizza makers never move to Florida. And while we're discussing--have you had any of the fairly bland stuff that pass for Chinese food here?
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