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I eat everything whole grain. Whole Foods is my favorite grocery store, so that gives you an idea how I eat. Not really a fast food or a fried food person. I'm a skinny guy and I make sure I stay that way.
Ethnic restaurants generally have good portions of vegetables and meats, along with rice. In Manhattan I can even get brown rice at these places. At Subways I always get the whole grain buns.
So now I'm not really a fan of any pizza joint, or any deli.
I think your nostalgia for an earlier era of NY manifests in your preference for all these things that some would claim are quintessentially NY. I don't care about these things. I eat pizza so rarely if every pizza joint in the city disappeared, I would not care. I don't like fast food either.
All the places that I would eat out in tend to be either aimed at immigrants, or gentrifiers so this gives you an ideas what kinds of businesses I like. Not a fan of old school New York businesses and as they get gentrified out or forced to change to the times I'm usually happy.
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When I see old school videos of New York, the bodegas seemed to have a low key but neat appearance.
Nowadays, most of them are fugly! Stock images of various food on the windows, and really ugly signs, often with the color changing lights. It's almost like the owners go out of their way to make them ugly as possible!
I don't know how far back you're looking, but I'd say somewhere in the 1970's they switched over to be ugly as the neighborhood demographics changed. Then when the demographics changed again in the 2000's and gentrification arrived they became more boutique looking.
I don't know how far back you're looking, but I'd say somewhere in the 1970's they switched over to be ugly as the neighborhood demographics changed. Then when the demographics changed again in the 2000's and gentrification arrived they became more boutique looking.
I don't know maybe it's the nostalgia but I feel bodegas had a certain nyc charm to them in the 80s and 90s. The red and yellow awnings were pretty classic lol. Some of these stores just never changed with the times though and even if it's a small business some money needs to go towards aesthetic upkeep.
You guys know that subways chicken is 60% meat right?!
Yeah the rest is mostly soy. I believe their rotisserie chicken option is a higher percentage chicken though, you can tell the difference big time.
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