OK, You tried a NY "thing" out of state.... (New York: appointed, hotel)
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I just returned from a trip to Maine and while up there stopped at a very nice place called Mr. *&^%$. Since an egg and cheese on a buttered whole wheat everything bagel is a death row meal of mine, I had to see how Maine did it since the state is on my possible relocation list.
Bad news.
Is it really NYC water that makes a bagel? I hate to put places down, but WOW. What a difference.
Anyone else shoot for a NY-style anything and been disappointed? How about delighted??
I just returned from a trip to Maine and while up there stopped at a very nice place called Mr. *&^%$. Since an egg and cheese on a buttered whole wheat everything bagel is a death row meal of mine, I had to see how Maine did it since the state is on my possible relocation list.
Bad news.
Is it really NYC water that makes a bagel? I hate to put places down, but WOW. What a difference.
Anyone else shoot for a NY-style anything and been disappointed? How about delighted??
Years ago I went to Daytona Beach and couldn't find good pizza. The third try we went to a place called New York Pizza. It was AWFUL. Turned out the owners were a couple of Arab immigrants who'd come to this country, spent four months in New York City, then went to Daytona and opened a pizza place. Finally someone tipped us off to another pizza place on a side street. The pizza was good, and it turned out the owner was originally from Queens.
Bagels, I don't know. I can't remember ever having a good bagel anywhere outside the NYC metro area. They usually seem to be just doughnut-shaped pieces of bread.
And once, in Colorado, I had lasagna made with cottage cheese instead of ricotta.
Pizza, any Italian meal, Chinese food, Greek food, Puerto Rican food, Hot Dogs, Bagels, Heroes (Subs), Beef Patties (Pizza joint patties), Burgers, cheesecake, Pastrami and Rueben sandwiches.
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).
I agree. Most of the New York iconic food cannot be replicated well outside of New York. The big clue is to always avoid something out of town that uses the term "New York Style." That's a sure sign for trouble.
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.
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