World Series Showdown: Famous Foods of Philly and NYC

Re:World Series Showdown: Famous Foods of Philly and NYC (EatingTheRoad)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:31:53 GMT

jonjax71, man that is so cool that your dad played trumpet with Dizzy. I would love to hear more stories like that. Did he ever play with any other of the greats?

Re:World Series Showdown: Famous Foods of Philly and NYC (jonjax71)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:31:20 GMT

GNeedles59

Please don't call it "Joisey", no one here does.

I'll refrain from repeating it, however I didn't use it in an offensive matter , I have family connections to Newark and the Oranges as well as Hackensack and Teaneck, I've been visiting those areas every appx 5 years since the 60s and I like those areas. Heck the first time I went to Newark as a teen in the mid-60s, the Hershey Chocolate factory was still on Central Ave in Newark and downtown Newark still had a buslting Klein on the Square. My auntie used to take me to "Little Italy" Bloomfield Ave to get an Italian hot dog. By the 70s I was old enough to go the neighborhood bars in the hood of Newark that featured organ and sax soul jazz combos playing live.

I recall eating a burger at Hackensack's White Mana in the late 60s too, going to Palisades Amusement Park, my uncle worked at the post office on Bergenline, West New York, we would visit him at lunchtime and he'd take us down the street a few blocks to Union City and we would get fabulous Cuban sandwiches and pastries. My father was a jazz trumpeter in the 30s and 40s and he got a regular job in the late 40s when he married my mother, he was friends with Dizzy Gillespie, about a year before my pops passed in the early 80s, I had to accompany my dad to NY on a business matter, that night we went to see Dizzy play and got invited to his house in Englewood the next day for lunch, I got a kick out of the slanted parking of downtown Engelwood, so you see I am not a New Jersey hater, the Garden State is allright with me, even though as a Californian, I never get used to paying tolls on highways.

Re:World Series Showdown: Famous Foods of Philly and NYC (GNeedles59)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:54:03 GMT

Please don't call it "Joisey", no one here does.

Re:World Series Showdown: Famous Foods of Philly and NYC (jonjax71)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:38:23 GMT

Philly is known for its soft pretzels with mustard spread on them, other places are now using it but it began in Philly.

Johnny on the Pony elsewhere is called Buck, Buck in Philadelphia.

The immortal jazz saxophonist Yardbird-Charlie Parker wrote a song titled, Scrapple from the Apple upon his return to NYC after a gig in Philly

Philadelphia and New York City serve as the bookends for the Garden State, both metropolis are across a river from Joisey

Re:World Series Showdown: Famous Foods of Philly and NYC (ScreamingChicken)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:50:31 GMT

The only one I missed was #1, the question about Philadelphians' pretzel consumption.

I knew the answer about eating NY pizza style from seeing a Pizza Hut "New Yorker" commercial. TV is very educational.

Brad

Re:World Series Showdown: Famous Foods of Philly and NYC (EatingTheRoad)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:23:52 GMT

Those questions were just ridiculously easy...that's all. Those are all the typical NYC, Philly foods and questions.

....but yes, tomorrow will mark the end of the baseball season and TGIFS!

Re:World Series Showdown: Famous Foods of Philly and NYC (Foodbme)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:34:13 GMT

Well, I guess there's no interest in the foods of the World Series. Doesn't matter anyway because it's FOOTBALL SEASON!!

World Series Showdown: Famous Foods of Philly and NYC (Foodbme)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:15:46 GMT

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World Series Showdown: Famous Foods of Philly and NYC