Ok, so city chicken is really pork?? Also, what is a salt stick? I grew up on a different side of the country. I’m imagining a salt stick like a soft pretzel with coarse salt on it?
ETA: Looking for an answer here, just curious!
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Fluid is for loosers. Would not have trusted my cousins with those two prongs. We got the whole free range kid experience. We played King of the Hill. I won once. Well for five seconds. I’ve been warned about drift and length but memory foods tend to go with stories. Heavy sigh. Always sticks here. On camping trips bored adults would carve beautiful sticks for roasting. Was surprised that cdc got into the whole grilling thing and kept throwing more food on the fire. I was just going for natural casing hot dogs slightly charred. But before I knew it we had sausages and also nearly five pounds of chicken. There is something in us that wants to feed a fire. I have to be careful lest I cook charcoal grilled hamburgers too many times. Love hamburgers but then I get spoiled and don’t want a hamburger that is not charcoal grilled. Love the smell of hot charcoal but wood is even better.
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Oh, yes, pork, or whatever cheap meat (like that exists). Fried, kinda like chicken. If I weren’t a kid when I first had it, I’d be skeptical. It’s pretty good. Mom was just trying to spice things up with some cheap meat. We liked it. Think I’m going to make a batch.
Maybe I’ll try it with chicken. Prolly close to a tender. Chicken city chicken.
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For me the salt stick is all about the caraway seeds. I mean I would not refuse one with only coarse salt but. Hmm, Will have to find you a picture of a salt stick.
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you didn’t get any messages from mods? I got one yesterday and also one the day before?
They make poppy, too, right? I just don’t do caraway.
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Thanks, I get it now and it does look tasty!
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yes. I got a serious addiction to caraway seeds for awhile. I really like them. I am not Jewish but when I go to Pumperniks and order a roast beef special bloody rare and there is a new hire sometimes they ask me if I want it on white bread. I smile and feel Jewish as I explain that a roast beef special is rye with cole slaw and russian dressing. I have tried to make the roast beef special at home but I mess it up. I simply cannot get the proportions right. Sandwiches can be more nuanced than people think.
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Awwww. Do you remember about where it was? Of course I know Woolworth, but other than civil rights stuff in videos, I can’t remember where ! know it was familiar, but I can’t remember where and why. It had to have been in Jamaica or St. Albans.
I found this, which mentions Woolworth, among many others I remember fondly.
And
“Don’t cook tonight, try Chicken Delight!”
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I absolutely loved Woolworths. Down town Santa Cruz . Loved the burgers and shake . 10 years old . Never went to the side of the store where they sold clothes . With mom . Toy section , and the pet section . Loved the fish tanks . I got a desert tortoise from there . Ended up with 2. They would live in the garden all spring and summer. Late fall they would be put in the garage to hybernate in a gunny sack bed . I remember like yesterday.
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My woolworths had a pet dept right at the exit. After a sandwich and some chocolate milk at the lunch counter I would walk past the parakeets and hear their songs. For a long time the building remained the same after woolworths closed and every time I would walk past that back entrance I could still hear their songs. My Grants experience was umm different. I think the food at Grants was even better. I could easily walk there from my dad’s bar. I was sent to pick out gold fish from their huge tank. I picked out the two I liked and took them to the bar. Where they were fed to the pirannahs in the bar fish tank. After that when I was sent the nice lady manning the aquarium was surprised that I did not want to hand pick my fish and tried to encourage me in a cheerful voice. I was not about to tell her why. For one thing I was raised to be closed mouthed. My childhood was full of small episodes like this where I suddenly felt much older than the adult who was cooing at me. The pirranahs were very beautiful and grew big and lived a very long time.
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Since we’re petering a bit, anyone remember some of the commercials/jingles?
“hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us, have it youuur way, at Burger King, now.”
“Choosy chicken lovers choose Church’s fried chicken!”
“Take hooome a package of Tennessee pride!” (It is good sausage.)
“two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.”
“Coke adds life!”
" My bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R, my balogna has second name, it’s M-E-Y-E-R, oh I love to eat it everyday, and if you ask, that’s why I’ll sayyyyy, cuz Oscar Meyer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-NA."
Have a Coke and a smile. You deserve a break today.
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That little Chihuahua and the taco bell commercial. I know two dudes who collected the stuffed dogs that say the line. I bet they still have them. Like I am gonna get much sleep with that full moon. I got lots more but I really liked my tat post and apparently there were complaints I’ve been told. I’ve never been very good at coloring within the lines. I got more though
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Before there were food trucks there were gee donk trucks. Still are I believe. These minimalist trucks show up at factories at meal times and can be a real god send to workers who can’t get their acts together or don’t have a break room refrigerator .One summer I worked at a candle factory pouring hot wax for candles. It was so hot but we all took lunch at the same time and I was often really hungry. I learned to like Taylor Pork Roll sandwiches with mustard. Hunger really is the best sauce. Fast forward years later and I tried the mennonite barbecue’s thursday special a smoked taylor pork roll sandwich on a really good roll with cheese, pickled red onions and chipote sauce. Jessie is a genius. This is along the lines of sandwiches can be art. LIke the roast beef special. It sounds trite and overused but that Pork Roll sandwich was the ultimate the whole is greater than it’s parts. Sorcery I say!
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I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony It takes two hands to handle a whopper the two fisted burger at burger king Everybody goes to Ginos cuz Ginos is the place to go.
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Even taught folks a little Spanish. Complaints about your tats? Why?Ink it up.
Spuds McKenzie and the Taco Bell chihuahua. Historic pooches.
Gino’s fan. I get that. Say are those sandwiches available with provolone? I don’t do Cheese Whiz.
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a couple of members “reached out” to the mod claiming I was going off topic. The second message from the mod suggested I take longer entries to pms. Well that is not going to happen for sure. Since you did not receive any suggestions, and really the messages were very kind and nice, I am started to think I have a “fan club”. No worries. Heh I do not do cheese whiz either just because I live near Philly yo. An abomination I think. Next you will be accusing me of using the cheese from the green tube. Now that tiny pieces of cardboard with cheese flavoring does have it 's fans. Not in my house. Probably even that gee donk truck sandwich had american cheese at least. Maybe a cheddar slice. I can find the post from Jesse’s and see what cheese it was. Love it that you are mostly savory. Way way back in the day there were no McDonalds. Ginos was the first fast food joint to open in Doylestown Pa but before that it was easy to find places that would grill you up a frozen hamburger patty. I like mine with cheese and these burgers were tasty because they had the volume and did not keep their grills perfectly clean all the time. As a little girl and even later people would offer to treat me to an ice cream cone. A hamburger was fifty cents more and I would plead for a hamburger instead. This did not always go over well but not every girl has a sweet tooth.
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I want to say that it was the one under the El, but the last time I was there I must have been about 8 years old (so 1980-ish). I do remember that it was near Gertz because our bus stop was across from it.
Our “regular” Woolworth was in Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream. That lunch counter was taken out around 1983 when the mall was remodeled and expanded.
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