My visit to Brooklyn went smoothly considering the round-trip involved traffic
for JFK and LaGuardia Airports on a travel Sunday, Rockaway Beach on a blazing
summer day, and Manhattan on any day, since it remains the heart of the most populated city in
America by over 100%. But it was great visiting my aunt, so braving the traffic
was worthwhile, and it gave me a chance to practice my cursing at other drivers.
For lunch we ended up getting pizza, which is notoriously impossible to
properly recreate outside of New York City. In the same vein, Kxmode commented
about my mention of pastrami, saying that "any pastrami sandwich from a New York
deli will be 5x better than anything here in California." Sort of a reverse of
the taco rule, I guess. That 5x estimate is probably both too low and too high.
At the bottom end, you can get a pastrami sandwich in an ordinary deli in New
York and get a thin layer of cold pastrami straight from the Boar's Head
package. I assume that's what most of the country is used to, so that's just as
disappointing here. But yeah, at the pinnacle, a giant hot pastrami on rye from
a proper Kosher deli is an amazing experience, and probably even more than five
times as wonderful as a pale imitation.
So here's a tip for visiting Manhattan. There's probably a Hard Rock Cafe
somewhere close to your hometown. Instead of eating in the Times Square version
of that, take a trip down to the lower east side and get a pastrami sandwich at
Katz's. It's possible the orgasm
sounds you make will be caused by the food, rather than your one-of-a-kind
recreation of
When Harry Met Sally. For the at-home version, although my
beloved Carnegie Deli closed its doors in 2016, you can
still order from them online. This works
surprisingly well. The protip for that is to double the portions for a more
authentic experience. The four sandwich kit is more properly for two sandwiches
with the grand tradition of a leftover half for each.
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