[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Are the TooJays different in service and quality here in the Villages? We have only been to the one in Sumter Landing but my Mom sometimes goes to the one in Spanish Springs after golfing up in the northern area of the Villages. And the one in Brownwood is quite a trip. The Villages | TooJays

There may be. I've never been to the one in SS, Both LSL and Brownwood has reasonable food. The service at LSL on the 3 occasions I've been there is among the worst in TV, the service in Brownwood is fairly good.

[rivaridger1]

Toojays is Toojays. Sometime okay, sometimes not. It seems the management is somewhat indifferent to their customers at times and that just tracts with the management of the majority of restaurants in The Villages area. We were in our favorite Italian restaurant yesterday and were treated to ten minutes of the staff arguing loudly with each other over some issue in the kitchen without regard to customers in earshot. For those that say if you do not address your concerns with the manager they can not be rectified, Phooey ! The manager was in earshot as well and did nothing to quiet the staff. If you live here, sometimes you will be fed well with good service as part of the deal. Generally though, you probably should expect that mediocrity will constitute your restaurant experience.

[jblum315]

I love Toojays but not for corned beef. Every meal I've had there has been delicious except the corned beef and cabbage. Thee beef was tough and tasteless and the cabbage was tasteless and cold

[autumnspring]

Originally Posted by Allegiance

That looks delicious. Grandma was right, it's all about the ....SCHMALTZ

Schmaltz is the secret to delicious chopped liver - American Food Roots


I bet the Schwartz family has some great chopped liver recipes.

1. Is your grandmother REALLY still alive?
2. I am now an orphan with the death of my mother at 86.
3. Around here, many would need to look up what Schmalz is.
4. I remember a guy who used to sell pickles out of a wooden barrel on Canal Street. You cannot make a good pickle without a wooden barrel. Oh and if you were to try to make them in a wooden barrel the food inspectors would probably close you down. I'm not sure if the place is even still there. I quit buying pickesa from him when I saw him sneeze into the barrel. TRUTH-he saw me look and declared. "It adds to the flavor.
5. NY Corned beef is KOSHER corned beef and Hebrew National controls it. You must have a Kosher deli to get it and there are only less than 20 Kosher Delis left in the United States.
6. Corned beef is yet another used to be cheap. Brisket, used to be cheap as it is flavorful but TOUGH. Cook time is like THREE HOURS and it shrinks by about 1/3. Here, the packaged corned beef is at best OK if you know how to pick a good one and how to cook it. As you loose at least 1/3 even more when you trim off the fat, you can buy the already cooked stuff from Two Jays for the same or lower cost.
7. It is GONE-just like inexpensive good quality caviar. Perhaps, it gets better in memory than it really was.

[Allegiance]

Originally Posted by suesiegel

1. Is your grandmother REALLY still alive?
2. I am now an orphan with the death of my mother at 86.
3. Around here, many would need to look up what Schmalz is.
4. I remember a guy who used to sell pickles out of a wooden barrel on Canal Street. You cannot make a good pickle without a wooden barrel. Oh and if you were to try to make them in a wooden barrel the food inspectors would probably close you down. I'm not sure if the place is even still there. I quit buying pickesa from him when I saw him sneeze into the barrel. TRUTH-he saw me look and declared. "It adds to the flavor.
5. NY Corned beef is KOSHER corned beef and Hebrew National controls it. You must have a Kosher deli to get it and there are only less than 20 Kosher Delis left in the United States.
6. Corned beef is yet another used to be cheap. Brisket, used to be cheap as it is flavorful but TOUGH. Cook time is like THREE HOURS and it shrinks by about 1/3. Here, the packaged corned beef is at best OK if you know how to pick a good one and how to cook it. As you loose at least 1/3 even more when you trim off the fat, you can buy the already cooked stuff from Two Jays for the same or lower cost.
7. It is GONE-just like inexpensive good quality caviar. Perhaps, it gets better in memory than it really was.

The good Ole days. Reminds me of when Little Italy was not so little.
Traditions are great.

[jblum315]

Gracie I'm not sure what Toojays is but I know it is not a fish restaurant. Nor is it a. Jewish delicatessen

[JSR22]

Originally Posted by jblum315

Gracie I'm not sure what Toojays is but I know it is not a fish restaurant. Nor is it a. Jewish delicatessen

It is very far removed from a Jewish deli and their corned beef is awful.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by jblum315

Gracie I'm not sure what Toojays is but I know it is not a fish restaurant. Nor is it a. Jewish delicatessen

Jeanne. I was kidding around. TooJays is to me anyway, a shiksa, a Jewish Deli. Corned beef and cabbage I associate with St. Patrick's day. I was kidding around. Anyone who knows me knows who the huge painting in my front hall was painted for. In memory of.

[Carl in Tampa]

Originally Posted by suesiegel

5. NY Corned beef is KOSHER corned beef and Hebrew National controls it. You must have a Kosher deli to get it and there are only less than 20 Kosher Delis left in the United States.

I am prepared to be corrected by an expert, but this goy is under the impression that obtaining Kosher food is no assurance that the food is of higher quality than other similar food, but rather that the food is prepared in conformance with Jewish laws found in the Torah and expanded in the Talmud. (Well, I will make a concession to Hebrew National that their hot dogs possibly don't contain animal eyelids and lips, which is arguably a quality issue. All they actually say is that their hot dogs are "all beef.")

With the ceremonial aspects, and the required separation of cooking vessels used for preparing various foods, it must be extremely difficult for a commercial food preparation establishment to maintain a Kosher kitchen. I certainly would be surprised to discover that a chain restaurant, like TooJay's, would serve Kosher food.

As an interesting sidelight, the Muslim practice of producing Halal (acceptable) meat and the Jewish practice of producing Kosher meat are extremely similar. (They kill the animals by slitting their throats.) Of course, both religions forbid the consumption of pork.

On the matter of corned beef quality. Actually, I have gotten food from various Deli's in New York and in Washington, DC. I simply don't like corned beef. Give me hot pastrami sandwich every time.

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Jeanne. I was kidding around. TooJays is to me anyway, a shiksa, a Jewish Deli. Corned beef and cabbage I associate with St. Patrick's day. I was kidding around. Anyone who knows me knows who the huge painting in my front hall was painted for. In memory of.

\My daughter married a guy from Ireland. He explained that in Ireland they have ham cabbage and potatoes not corn beef that's an American invention

[Ecuadog]

Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa

... Actually, I have gotten food from various Deli's in New York and in Washington, DC. I simply don't like corned beef. Give me hot pastrami sandwich every time.

Ahhhhhhhhhh... Katz's.

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by swooner

Toojay's is in Florida, not NY which makes a comparison meaningless..

come back? so the the standard of quality etc are different for restaurants in Florida vis a vis New York? that dog won't hunt

[Carl in Tampa]

Originally Posted by jblum315

Gracie I'm not sure what Toojays is but I know it is not a fish restaurant. Nor is it a. Jewish delicatessen

Surely you knew a joke when you saw it.

The fact is that there are dozens of "Jewish style deli's" in Florida that are more than adequate. The purist declaration that they don't measure up to those in New York can only evoke a response of "So what? We aren't in New York."

And that gets very close to the bumper sticker that says, "We don't care how you did it up north."

At least here you can go in to TooJay's and order potato pancakes, cheese blintzes, chopped chicken liver, and matzo ball soup. Try going to New York and ordering grits, ropa vieja, a deviled crab or a Cuban sandwich.

[Chatbrat]

Guaranteed to be as lousy as Toojays corned beef- whatever you do==do it right--go to Katz's and eat a real sandwich then you will really know what a real corned beef is

[Gpsma]

Originally Posted by rubicon

Toojay's does a terrible imitation of a New York Deli

But they do a decent imitation of a NY diner.