Out of the Blue

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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Oh another story about microplastics. I have decided that I will donate my body to science so I want to consume all of the microplastics that is humanly possible so that they can conduct research on me. If dissection is involved I would prefer that they waited until I was dead though. Unless the money is right...
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