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I went into a "deli" in Tennessee and asked for a tuna salad on whole wheat. They basically gave me a thin layer of mayonnaise and a thin layer of canned tuna (not even the whole can!), unmixed, on bread. It certainly wasn't the massive, tasty tuna salad sandwich I was used to in Astoria. To boot, it was $6! Ridiculous.
Thats pretty funny. How could a Tuna Salad sandwich not be standard nationwide?? Tuna, mayo, celery, maybe onions. Mix together. Put on bread.
A couple of years ago, I was in San Francisco staying at a large hotel on Union Square. I went into a coffee shop across the street and asked for a light coffee. The woman behind the counter stared at me as if I was babbling in Mongolian. She thought that there was some kind of new diet coffee she hadn't heard about.
I said to her, "You mean you've never had a New Yorker come in here before?" Apparently, people in other cities don't know what we mean by 'regular' or 'light' coffee.
(By the way, NYer75, it's true. Most of the rest of the country actually thinks that Domino's is what pizza should be! All we can do is shake our heads in resignation).
years ago i was in new orleans with a friend, and we went into a 'deli' a few blocks off of bourbon st to get some coffee...
we go in and rattle off our order and the woman behind the counter goes 'you guys must be new yorkers... you're the only people who know how to order a cup of coffee'
One other amusing little episode from that trip I took to San Francisco...
I was walking around town in a gray t-shirt with blue script letters reading 'Brooklyn Dodgers.' Some guy came up to me with a puzzled look on his face and said, "But the Dodgers play in Los Angeles." (I told him he had a lot to learn!)
I went into a pizzeria in Boston and asked for "a slice".The guy behind the counter asked me "what kind"?
I have never been asked that question in 25+ years in NY.
I also had a bagel in DC that wasn't bad, per se, it just wasn't a bagel. Just a puffy piece of bread with a hole in it.
This annoys me to no end. I'm not "out of state", i'm upstate and every time i want a slice of pizza up here, i have to remind myself or correct myself by specifically asking for a CHEESE slice.
I went into a "deli" in Tennessee and asked for a tuna salad on whole wheat. They basically gave me a thin layer of mayonnaise and a thin layer of canned tuna (not even the whole can!), unmixed, on bread. It certainly wasn't the massive, tasty tuna salad sandwich I was used to in Astoria. To boot, it was $6! Ridiculous.
This wouldn't happen to be a deli chain called Noshville, would it? Despite, the name, that place is a really bad imitation of NY Deli/Diner.
You can get Jewish/Kosher Deli cuisine just as good as NY in Los Angeles and Montreal.
A Carvel opened in Las Vegas a couple of years ago, but it didn't last. There was another Carvel for a while in the LA area, but I think it closed too.
All over the US now you can find bagels. Even big chains like Dunkin Donuts make them, but no one knows how to make them right. You can forget about trying to find bialys, the cousin to a bagel.
In Astoria the other day, my friend ordered a "black coffee" and the waitress brought it to her black, as she requested. After the waitress left, my friend said, "she didn't bring me any sugar." I said, "that's because you asked for it black." Friend said, "black coffee just means no milk" but she went to find the waitress and apparently the waitress told her "I didn't bring you any sugar because you ordered your coffee black."
So...if you order "black coffee" in a restaurant, should you still expect to be brought sugar packets?
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