The big nasty.
May 2, 2017 12:01:53 #
What is it, you ask? Well, for one thing, it's seriously delicious. I'm eating one now. It's made with 8oz of Angus beef, gravy, and shredded cheese; served on a toasted hoagie roll. I got mine with double meat. I'm beginning to wonder if I can finish it. Hungry yet? 
May 2, 2017 15:33:03 #
Mr Bombastic wrote:
What is it, you ask? Well, for one thing, it's seriously delicious. I'm eating one now. It's made with 8oz of Angus beef, gravy, and shredded cheese; served on a toasted hoagie roll. I got mine with double meat. I'm beginning to wonder if I can finish it. Hungry yet?
Looks like an open face beef sandwich except for the hoagy roll. I prefer Philly steak sandwiches or steak hogies. What is the orange drizzle stips topping? Looks like orange cheddar cheese strips.
May 2, 2017 17:05:58 #
pafret wrote:
Looks like an open face beef sandwich except for the hoagy roll. I prefer Philly steak sandwiches or steak hogies. What is the orange drizzle stips topping? Looks like orange cheddar cheese strips.
All I know is that it taste good. Good enough for me.
May 3, 2017 06:34:44 #
May 3, 2017 09:03:23 #
Nutter wrote:
Ah, the Philly cheese steak with sauce. Best from the side walk venders!
I remember buying a cheese steak in Philly. I can still taste it, more than 30 years later. I hope I have the opportunity to buy another, before I die. They're THAT good.
May 3, 2017 09:28:31 #
Mr Bombastic wrote:
I remember buying a cheese steak in Philly. I can still taste it, more than 30 years later. I hope I have the opportunity to buy another, before I die. They're THAT good.
I had the pleasure of eating them for 16 years. I averaged two a week and sometimes late at night I would hear one calling me so I would go out at 1 am and find a steak sandwich joint still open and silence that plaintive sandwich. I can hear them calling me from here, Philly is only 4 hours away.
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May 3, 2017 10:04:59 #
pafret wrote:
I had the pleasure of eating them for 16 years. I... (show quote)
There just aren't any substitutes. I've tried Philly cheese steaks, in many different locations. Many of them were pretty good. But no one does them Philly.
May 3, 2017 12:28:24 #
Mr Bombastic wrote:
There just aren't any substitutes. I've tried Philly cheese steaks, in many different locations. Many of them were pretty good. But no one does them Philly.
One of the best suburban places to get a Philly cheesesteak back in the sixties was from a chain called Luigi's. Luigi had the best tasting steaks in the area, no one else's came close to how good those sandwiches tasted. Every Friday we had to eat lunch at a Luigi's, it was a ritual and Friday wasn't the end of the week without it.
One Friday I drove to the Luigi's nearest my company and as I pulled into the parking lot I thought "something's wrong, this lot is almost empty". I walked up to the door and was blocked from entering by two suits, with the usual dead pan faces. One of them grunted at me, "closed"? I said "What do you mean closed, it's Friday noon and Luigi's is never closed on a Friday". He stepped aside and the door was padlocked with an official notice posted which said, "Closed by Order of Penna. Dept. of Agriculture".
I asked why was the Dept of Agriculture shutting down Luigi's. Seems that the secret of Luigi's fantastic tasting steak sandwiches was horse meat.
May 3, 2017 12:39:30 #
pafret wrote:
One of the best suburban places to get a Philly ch... (show quote)
Why would that be a problem? Horses aren't endangered, and meat is meat? Is there any rational reason why we can't eat horses?
May 3, 2017 13:02:42 #
Mr Bombastic wrote:
Why would that be a problem? Horses aren't endangered, and meat is meat? Is there any rational reason why we can't eat horses?
At that time eating horsemeat was illegal in Pennsylvania. The main reason was that Luigi's was selling beef steaks (ribeye), not horsemeat which was considerably cheaper. Since the meat was illegal it had obviously not been processed in an inspected facility, so it's sanitation was also questionable. The State of New Jersey had legal horsemeat vendors in the seventies but at that time, if you bought it and brought it into Penna you could still be prosecuted.
May 3, 2017 13:07:27 #
pafret wrote:
At that time eating horsemeat was illegal in Pennsylvania. The main reason was that Luigi's was selling beef steaks (ribeye), not horsemeat which was considerably cheaper. Since the meat was illegal it had obviously not been processed in an inspected facility, so it's sanitation was also questionable. The State of New Jersey had legal horsemeat vendors in the seventies but at that time, if you bought it and brought it into Penna you could still be prosecuted.
Then they should have regulated it! Sheesh. Can't they do anything right?
May 3, 2017 13:35:09 #
Mr Bombastic wrote:
Then they should have regulated it! Sheesh. Can't they do anything right?
Pennsylvania used to have "State Stores". All liquor and wine sales were through an official State Regulated and controlled store. You walked in, told the guy behind a counter what you wanted and he retreived it from a back room. If you didn't know the name of what you wanted you were out of luck, there were no lists of available types and brands. Se******n was limited. Contrast that with New Jersey which had supermarket style liquor stores with huge se******ns and better prices. Of course, if you got caught bringing untaxed liquor into the state you were a smuggler and they confiscated your car. People used to stock up at the holidays and Penna. sent troopers in plain clothes to the parking lots in Jersey liquor stores. They would radio back license plate numbers and car make so that when you came across the bridge you got snagged.
Jersey retaliated by arresting the troopers. It used to be quite lively around the holidays.
May 3, 2017 15:27:07 #
pafret wrote:
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LOL! I remember those days. I'm a native of PA. Glad I left at the earliest opportunity.
May 3, 2017 17:34:47 #
I went to PA last week to buy fireworks. The guy a the store told me I could buy them because I was from OUT of STATE but if I were a Paian I'd have to get a permit to buy them and couldn't shoot them off in the State. Go figure. Mike
Mr Bombastic wrote:
LOL! I remember those days. I'm a native of PA. Glad I left at the earliest opportunity.
May 3, 2017 17:45:22 #
teabag09 wrote:
I went to PA last week to buy fireworks. The guy a the store told me I could buy them because I was from OUT of STATE but if I were a Paian I'd have to get a permit to buy them and couldn't shoot them off in the State. Go figure. Mike
New York tried the same tactic of sending troopers to watch the parking lots of fireworks dealers. Bringing them into the state involved criminal charges because they were an explosive and there are special laws for t***sporting across the bridges into New York. Everybody who went to Pa used to find somewhere to hang out for half a day until Pennsylvania ran the New York snoops away from the lots. Pennsylvania doesn't care who else's laws you break, just don't break theirs.
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