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I've never got any soft pretzels from street vendors before.
I always end up throwing them away after few minutes of
chewing. Since then, I give up on street pretzels all together.
From my own experience all the good soft preztels I had were
all from stores.
I've noticed the quality of everything in NYC going down the toilet over the past 30 years... Pretzels are just another casualty of the great force of suck that plagues the area.
In philly the fresh soft pretzals are 25 cents a piece, if you were to buy a stack from the factory direct, it'd probably be a dime or a nickle each. And it's much better than Aunt Annies. AA's runs about $3-4 per pretzle dipped in oil, butter and covered in cinnamon--no thanks.
The pizza is overrated (and over priced), and so are the water ices.
The only food stands out in NYC are the variety of it's highend restaurants, nothing else really.
Those of you who can't find any good food in NYC are either extremely lazy or jumping to conclusions based on limited experience. You guys are seriously telling me there is no good affordable food in all of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and all the other areas in NY?
It's harder to find cheap, good food in Manhattan nowadays, but hardly impossible. There are literally like a million options if you include all the street carts. Maybe you guys just have outrageous standards?
And as for pizza, there is some outstanding pizza in NY. I guess it is overrated in that there are way too many mediocre pizza places popping up, but if you look even a little can easily find some good stuff.
Those of you who can't find any good food in NYC are either extremely lazy or jumping to conclusions based on limited experience. You guys are seriously telling me there is no good affordable food in all of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and all the other areas in NY?
It's harder to find cheap, good food in Manhattan nowadays, but hardly impossible. There are literally like a million options if you include all the street carts. Maybe you guys just have outrageous standards?
And as for pizza, there is some outstanding pizza in NY. I guess it is overrated in that there are way too many mediocre pizza places popping up, but if you look even a little can easily find some good stuff.
No... I think NYC got the best foods in the world. We are talking
about pretzels from street vendors sucking big time only.
Pretzels, candied nuts of any kind (bait-n-switch with a smaller bag than on display), chestnuts (tiny bag, half of them are rotten or raw), hot dogs (just meh)
Great from carts:
Coffee!! (I don't care where you go, it's hot and good, a buck a cup, and skillful flirting by the cart guy!), pastries (also a buck and fresh)
just go to auntie annes or pretzel time, the street pretzels are trash.
Aunt Annies pretzels are great --- but NOTHING beats a NYC street vendor pretzel (at least the ones "back in the day"). I know what the OP is talking about. A couple of weeks ago, I just had a taste for a pretzel and it was disgusting: hard as a rock, dry as all heck, and no taste at all. It could have been a piece of cardboard with rock salt on it for all I knew. I tossed it out --- I don't even think the pigeons would have wanted it!
Pretty sure he was refering to all food in Nyc. I never get anything from those pretzel carts, so I can't really comment on that.
Even if he did, it is getting tougher to find good cheap eats. You're right that it is out there and you have to look hard, but I have noticed a decline.
Hubs and I ordered take out twice in one night on Saturday; twice because the first was so terrible we couldn't eat it, and the second order from a different place was terrible also. After spending $70 on takeout that sucked, we just gave up and went to bed hungry. Almost all take out/cheap places that we've enjoyed for years are really slipping and harder to replace.
As for the pretzels, it's been years since I had a good one from a cart. I gave up on that too. They used to be a staple of mine for after-school eats.
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