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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Prez wrote on Jun 24, 2024, 17:54:
I have to echo Blue here - there is NOTHING like NYC pizza. I will often be fooled into thinking that I can get pizza just as good here in Jersey, until I make the 40 minute jaunt into the city. Then I am reminded that close is not the same as "just as good as".

Really depends where - NYC still has plenty of awful slice shops.
Overall, I'm with Cutter. An Italian style pizza beats a NYC slice. Fortunately, NYC has a lot of great places for those.

There has been a solid Jewish deli near my office, not great but solid. Home made pastrami and roast beef, and they did a 50/50 sandwich. It was bought by another deli like 18 months ago. That place made changes slowly, like going from the fantastic house made fries to low quality Sysco fries. But the biggest offender, after getting rid of the house made deli meats, was adding a sushi menu. Wtf?! Thanks, Mr. Broadway
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