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motown
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Atlanta by way of Detroit
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Posted: Jun 2, 2012 8:08pm
The other day I was thinking about a salad from my Detroit days that I really miss:
The J. L. Hudson Department store Maurice Salad and dressing.
http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?1697-Hudsons-Maurice-Salad
I'm sure all of us grew up with a food or beverage from our home town/state that we can never get enough of.
Besides the Maurice salad, I've always loved Vernors, a ginger drink, that when combined with vanila ice cream makes a great Boston Cooler.
So, what's yours?
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Bob1Dog
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Wife: It's me or this houseful of
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Posted: Jun 2, 2012 10:53pm
Skirt steak....hard to get outside of NYC and NJ from my experience. Most folks don't even know what it is, but it's absolutely wonderful. Then there's the old NYC egg cream at a soda fountain.
Motown, that salad looks great; gonna have to whip one up....it's got everything I like in a salad.
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about? 
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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critter
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Spokane, WA
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Posted: Jun 2, 2012 11:08pm
Every time I go to Seattle I have to get oyster shooters at Ivar's. I also like their clam strips but I can get those at the Ivar's here, but ours don't have the shooters. Ivar's does the shooters better than anyplace else.
Burger Royale here on Trent is one of two restaurants in the US claiming to have invented the Stromboli sandwich, not to be confused with the Old World stromboli, this is an entirely different thing.
We have a lot of awesome microbrews made in the state or in neigboring Oregon.
Skeleteens soda company used to be in Seattle years ago and they closed. They made Blue Brainwash, the greatest soda ever made.
Dick's in Spokane (no relation to Dick's in Seattle) makes amazing cheap greasebomb burgers. And they still to this day only take cash.
At Zip's you can get not only decent burgers and a huge variety of shake flavors, but a big tub o' tots, fries, or fried mushrooms.
My favorite sit-down restaurant in Spokane is actually an Irish Pub named O'Doherty's.
Flamin' Joe's in Spokane is the greatest wing joint in all the world.
There was some study a while back where Spokane had one of the highest restaurant concentrations to population or something like that.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
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motown
Inner circle
Atlanta by way of Detroit
4781 Posts
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Posted: Jun 3, 2012 1:57am
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On 2012-06-02 22:53, Bob1Dog wrote:
Skirt steak....hard to get outside of NYC and NJ from my experience. Most folks don't even know what it is, but it's absolutely wonderful. Then there's the old NYC egg cream at a soda fountain.
Motown, that salad looks great; gonna have to whip one up....it's got everything I like in a salad.
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Bob, glad you like it.
It's my all time favorite salad. The only way I can have it living in Atlanta is to make it myself. The dressing is the most difficult part to make, but it's worth it.
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landmark
Inner circle
By now they've deleted all but
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Posted: Jun 3, 2012 9:09am
Manhattan Special is a commercial bottled carbonated coffee soda that I have yet to see outside a few neighborhoods in NYC. Easy to get hooked on!
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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Cliffg37
Inner circle
Long Beach, CA
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Posted: Jun 3, 2012 10:25am
I still miss the old NY egg cream sodas, thanks for the nostalgic reminissance.
Magic is like Science,
Both are fun if you do it right!
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MobilityBundle
Regular user
Las Vegas/Boston
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Posted: Jun 3, 2012 10:26am
I grew up in Vegas. Amidst the ever-changing sands there, happily there's one restaurant I always return to: T-Bird lounge. They have decent food, but certainly nothing special. But we'd always seem to end up there during my formative, trouble-making years. During my studious years, I'd study there. At this point, it's just a compunction. Same story with my old neighborhood pizza place growing up, Metro Pizza. They started as a tiny shop barely making ends meet, and now they have several locations all over town.
There was a place in Chicago called River Kwai. It was a classic hole-in-the-wall restaurant, with the ceiling literally coming down in spots. It opened at 10:00 pm, and by 10:15 there would be an hour wait for food. The food was actually awesome, and there was a little after-hours Kwai culture going for a while. Eventually, the place closed... the building was condemned, and then a short time later one of the two proprietors had a heart attack. But as a testament to how much of a following that place had, their yelp page still gets reviews, YEARS after the place closed. Mostly people waxing nostalgic.
In Santa Barbara, there is a place called, simply, The Cantina. I (and half of UCSB) lived off their food, and the proprietor, Sheri, was the adoptive mother of half the campus. I once drove from Vegas to Santa Barbara solely to re-charge my Cantina batteries.
In Boston... ummm... nothing yet. I guess I'll have to leave before I realize what things are special. 
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motown
Inner circle
Atlanta by way of Detroit
4781 Posts
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Posted: Jun 3, 2012 11:14am
Two other things I miss are Coney Dogs from Lafayette Coney Island in Detroit:
http://www.fancymag.com/hotdoglove.html
Perfect after a ball game, a night of drinking or even a wedding.
American Coney was right next door and as you walked up, each would try to get you into their place. Spirited fun.
The other is a Rueben from Eph McNally's Delicatessen in Detroit's Cork Town. The best I've ever had. I't was a combination of great tasting corn beef and a way of getting the meat so tender that seemed like it melted in your mouth. Oh, those were soooooo good.
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
– Karl Germain
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Bob1Dog
Inner circle
Wife: It's me or this houseful of
1237 Posts
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Posted: Jun 3, 2012 1:40pm
The Porterhouse Steak at Peter Luger's in Brooklyn. The best steak in the whole world.
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
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Posted: Jun 3, 2012 2:14pm
I like the Porterhouse at the Wolf Lodge in Idaho, following the Rocky Mountain Oysters.
When I went to the Thousand Islands in upstate NY, I did not buy a $10 bottle of dressing, so I can't say if it's better at the source.
I had an egg cream at a fake New York deli in Vegas. It was good but way too small for the price.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
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landmark
Inner circle
By now they've deleted all but
2908 Posts
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Posted: Jun 3, 2012 3:34pm
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-New-York-Egg-Cream
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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