Steve R.

I should mention that I regularly buy both dried cranberries and orange flavored dry cranberries. For years. I don't know why they exist, but they taste good. Better than the yam flavored ones at any rate (yes, that part's a joke).

Reading this part of the thread, I have become depressed over realizing that my story of getting seltzer delivered in these bottles is now 40 years old. The depressing part is remembering that my roommates and I laughed about it being "retro" back then, as our delivery guy was the last in the area & had been a solitary provider for years already.

Baldness & a Brooklyn accent. One of these legacies keeps expanding, while I think that 6 years in the Midwest got rid of most of the other.

So, many years ago, in a local Italian restaurant, my wife ordered a Caesar salad. It came and it was made with iceberg lettuce. She complained to the waitress, who told her that she was sorry but that the kitchen had run out of romaine. We joked about it later on as a "what were they thinking?!". Until, that is, I realized that what we had expected (& would've easily accepted) was romaine with a dressing that was not like any that a real Caesar recipe would detail. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm on both sides of this argument. As I discovered in Florida, I really like "Grouper Reubens". And, as I discovered in Italy, "Spaghetti with Meatballs" aint a thing. 🤔

Depends. Sometimes I’m not in the mood for a large entree & would prefer finger food. 😇

Just as an aside, I’d suggest a good Chianti.

What's old is new again. About 20 years ago (longer?), a local Chinese restaurant (with Chinese American owners whom I sorta knew) closed its doors and then re-opened, mostly as a take-out/delivery place, in a less populated nearby area. We all got flyers, with the full menu, advertising this. Soon thereafter, the neighborhood got flyers announcing the opening of a "country kitchen" take-out/delivery place with fried chicken, meatloaf, etc. And, not long thereafter, another bunch of flyers advertising a new ribs/bbq joint for takeout/delivery. All with different names, all with different phone #s, all with completely different menus. All with the same address and, as I quickly found out, the same kitchen. The Chinese food still sucked, the country kitchen was ehh/okay & I liked the ribs place's stuff. I went there and told the owner that.

Its all your faults! I read this thread yesterday and ordered from a local Chinese place. The last time I did this (from another local place) was during the 1st wave of COVID in April when I was jonesing for Chinese food. That was terrible and this was not any better. Could we please get thru this so that I can get back to a good place -- I'm out of delivery range for any of them and its frustrating. And, please, no one start a similar thread on Indian food.

This new one, the original around the block in Clinton Hill & the big one in Williamsburg at the old Domino Factory site. (just being helpful 😀) Congrats Daniel.

The River Cafe is open (outdoors, with that view).

Not that I'm THAT old, but Leff started Chowhound's board in late 1999 or so. I started participating in early 2000. The software sucked but it was highly entertaining. And informative. And argumentative. The first exodus from CH came here and, while some stayed, others moved on to OA (with Plotnicki) and then to MF. Some of us never left any of the boards and just added another one as they came, sometimes using different "names" (you know who you are, "weinoo"). I lurked here for years before joining, as I didn't want to write that damn essay. As to "face to face"; well, I'd guess that I'm friends in the real world with a dozen or so food board contributors and have met (& had meals with) well over 100 of them (that might actually be a very conservative estimate). I've been pleasantly surprised that the overwhelming number of you all seem reasonably sane in person, although I'd guess that may not be a vice versa assessment. Not a bad way to get through 20 years of eating.

One of the places I used to get my cans of Cafe du Monde after hitting up the original version of Vanessa's Dumplings up the street.

ahh, to be a fly on the wall when "significant eater" asks weinoo how the movie was. 🤕

Happy Birthday. Lucky I didn’t see Wu’s delivery car coming down the street - it may not have reached your place.

Pretty sure that the original was from Brooklyn and had something to do with swimming with the fishes.

liuzhou: "I don't know where you get this idea that everything originates in just one place. Many things have been discovered or invented over and over again in different places". You mean, like this thread? 😇

When this thing blows over, go to one of the Dongbei restaurants in Flushing (Fu Ran closed but I think Golden Palace on Cherry St (off Main) is still going to still be there. At any rate, they both put this dish out just about every time I've been there over the years. Sometimes during the meal, mostly at the end. Never on a dish, always sticking to the edges of what it was cooked in. A solid mass needing statue carving implements after awhile, but satisfying a month's sugar craving all the same.

My favorite quote (well, for today, anyway). Yes, I'll grant that if you call it a "kebab", then you can trace it to Central Asia. At least you can trace the name there. Otherwise, I'd guess that putting meat cooked over an open fire on a skewer of some sort might have occurred to other people in other lands. The relevance of this escapes me, even though I seem to have a lot of spare time to ponder things.

Only 59 &, from my very limited interactions with him over the years, a really nice guy.

Dinner by delivery from our local good N.Y. Red Sauce Italian place (Queen Restaurant). I almost feel that I had a normal day.

Yeah, but remember - New York isn’t an open carry state... yours is. Sorta changes the dialogue.

Trust me, the risk is greater if you try to eat what I'm able to prepare. 🤢

Welcome to eG, Steve. In case any other members need a local's recommendation for this guy's key lime pies, well I've been eating them for just about all of his 25 years in business.

Welcome to a fellow Brooklynite.

The latest is that the 5 stores (all in Manhattan) and the Bronx distributer are in negotiations to be bought. Afterwards, the plan is for the new owners to keep the Fairway name on those stores and stay in business. The other stores (like mine in Red Hook, Brooklyn) are, for now, staying open with the current owners, who are shopping them around for buyers. The current owners are saying that this is temporary and that they cannot afford to keep them open themselves for long.