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Originally Posted by MelZ
NYC northern suburbs and Northern NJ
1. Wedges
2. rippers
3. white manna sliders
4. Pizza (not the stuff they sell anywhere else)
5. Pastrami sandwiches
6. Celray soda
7. Bagels (not the stuff they sell anywhere else)
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Rippers as in hot dogs that are crispy overcooked? Yup, love it! And I know what you mean about the pizza. It's the water. They did some tv show where they made pizza with water from different places and they taste tested and proved it was the NY/NJ water. The best pizza. Also, bagels are only bagels when they're made with great water and boiled first; chewy outside and bready inside.
Anyone know about Sloppy Joes but not the ground meat ones. I'm talkin' about the deli 3 layer ones with corned beef and cole slaw, turkey and Russian dressing. Sooo good. Most people who have never had one look at me like I am making that up but you have to experience it to believe it and the rye bread has to be just right.
When I moved from NJ to PA I was looking for an old NJ standard of a buttered roll for breakfast at a convenience store and couldn't find one anywhere. When I asked a clerk if she could make me one she tried to butter a hamburger roll. Apparently they had no idea about buttered hard rolls. To them a hard roll is one leftover from last week!