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Originally Posted by shroomgirl  lolol.....NYC Jew. I can remember walking into a kosher deli in Memphis (as a teenager) and asking for swiss on my corn beef, also a side of mayo too.....
the deli owner looked at me hard and said he'd sell me a slice of swiss but I'd have to put it on my sandwich, outside.
One of my dearest friends grew up in NYC and is adament about "the only true way of serving certain foods", like NY has a corner on correctness.....I love her to pieces and just poke her occasionally to illicite a reaction, it's fairly entertaining. |
Funny story about the Memphis deli. It's only been relatively recently that I could get behind cheese with certain meat, although cheeseburgers, for example, were never a problem for me. But cheese with corned beef or pastrami - sheesh! Don't people know
anything about the correct way to eat such meats.
Now here's the strange thing - if I go into a Kosher style deli, and get a nice corned beef or pastrami sandwich, I'll never put cheese on it. However, if I go into the little Italian deli and get a corned beef sandwich, a slice or two of cheese is more than acceptable. Of course, the corned beef/pastrami are of somewhat different style, but still, it's somewhat odd behavior, even to me.
Shel