CIS D-Day - February 17, 2023 - “Meat” at the Titanic!

[Felonious Monk]

You don't have to explain this to me, I worked for ISC/NASCAR for years. I was there for many a SpeedWeeks timeframe.

Bottom line, he could have been at Titanic, had the fight, and then driven back to Daytona to catch the second half of the Truck race.

Sorry, @gordonsolie is a puzzy.

He posted that thread on the WEZ at 3:00 PM Friday. He knew he had no intention of going.

An adult would've apologized for saying something out of line about his GF.

 

[Tad Footeball]

You ungrateful son of a *****!

I’d kill for a Publix. The Northeast grocery chains like Stop &Shop, Big Y, Shop Rite, etc all suck ***. I love when I come to FL and get to go to a Publix. Haha.

But I get it. When you have it every day it loses its luster. I’ve never been in a Wegmans so can’t compare it to that. Stew Leonards and Whole Foods are pretty good up here.

Haha. I'm not an ingrate, I just know better! Florida obviously suffers from real supermarket competition so that's why the best Publix in Lauderdale today is about on par with a good supermarket in Pennsylvania....when Butch Davis was our head coach.

I feel ya though in relation to some areas of the northeast- ESPECIALLY those places where godforsaken bodegas and chain pharmacies serve as the main "grocers". It's seriously one of my main aversions about NYC living.

I've actually been to Stew Leonard's in Connecticut. Not bad at all.

 

[passitback]

Haha. I'm not an ingrate, I just know better! Florida obviously suffers from real supermarket competition so that's why the best Publix in Lauderdale today is about on par with a good supermarket in Pennsylvania....when Butch Davis was our head coach.

I feel ya though in relation to some areas of the northeast- ESPECIALLY those places where godforsaken bodegas and chain pharmacies serve as the main "grocers". It's seriously one of my main aversions about NYC living.

I've actually been to Stew Leonard's in Connecticut. Not bad at all.

There is a Stew Leonards in Yonkers and a Wegmans in Harrison (White Plains).

I do the bulk of my food shopping at Shop Rite (Stamford). This specific location is YUGE and has everything I need.

 

[Empirical Cane]

**** is wild. Dudes are really setting up fights at the bar......

Gordon talked a big game...

but then came up, shall we say, limp...

I'm sure it has never happened to him beofre though...

performance anxiety and all...

 

[Empirical Cane]

Since our off season **** already has had tours of the butter and supermarket rings, I'd thought I start more ****...

Wawa is where it's at.

Sheets is the Wegmans of gas stations. Take your broke *** AMC Pacer elsewhere.

 

[Cryptical Envelopment]

Haha. I'm not an ingrate, I just know better! Florida obviously suffers from real supermarket competition so that's why the best Publix in Lauderdale today is about on par with a good supermarket in Pennsylvania....when Butch Davis was our head coach.

I feel ya though in relation to some areas of the northeast- ESPECIALLY those places where godforsaken bodegas and chain pharmacies serve as the main "grocers". It's seriously one of my main aversions about NYC living.

I've actually been to Stew Leonard's in Connecticut. Not bad at all.

What in holy wholes are you talking about, compadre?

NYC has Whole Foods (18 in NYC alone including 14 in Manhattan), a Wegmans in BK (and a Manhattan one coming this year), Fairway, Trader Joe's, Costco when you need it, more large groceries, and more specialty shops where you can get the best of what the world offers in every decent neighborhood. Just walk Bleecker Street alone west of 6th and pop into Faicco’s Italian Specialties, Magnolia Bakery, Murray’s Cheese Shop, and Ottomanelli's Butcher Shop.

Not to mention gourmet shops like Dean & Deluca, Cittarella, the Greenmarkets (especially Union Square), Gourmet Garage, Grand Central Market...

I could go on.

 

[Empirical Cane]

What in holy wholes are you talking about, compadre?

NYC has Whole Foods (18 in NYC alone including 14 in Manhattan), a Wegmans in BK (and a Manhattan once coming this year), Fairway, Trader Joe's, and more specialty shops where you can get the best of what the world offers in every decent neighborhood. Just walk Bleecker Street alone west of 6th and pop into Faicco’s Italian Specialties, Magnolia Bakery, Murray’s Cheese Shop, and Ottomanelli's Butcher Shop.

Not to mention places like gourmet shops like Dean & Deluca, Cittarella, the Greenmarkets (especially Union Square), Gourmet Garage, Grand Central Market...

I could go on.

This thread is delivering in ways we never could have imagined from the first porst.

 

[Tony4Canes]

Kum & Go in Missouri

 

[JD08]

What in holy wholes are you talking about, compadre?

NYC has Whole Foods (18 in NYC alone including 14 in Manhattan), a Wegmans in BK (and a Manhattan one coming this year), Fairway, Trader Joe's, Costco when you need it, more large groceries, and more specialty shops where you can get the best of what the world offers in every decent neighborhood. Just walk Bleecker Street alone west of 6th and pop into Faicco’s Italian Specialties, Magnolia Bakery, Murray’s Cheese Shop, and Ottomanelli's Butcher Shop.

Not to mention gourmet shops like Dean & Deluca, Cittarella, the Greenmarkets (especially Union Square), Gourmet Garage, Grand Central Market...

I could go on.

If you were planning on going to Alleva Dairy, you might want to do so before Mar. 1st. They're closing after 100+ years.

 

[Cryptical Envelopment]

If you were planning on going to Alleva Dairy, you might want to do so before Mar. 1st. They're closing after 100+ years.

Ugh, that's awful. 130+ years. Little Italy is disappearing inch by inch. We're not in NYC often this time of year so won't make it back. A lot of the old guard are disappearing. I recently saw that Cowgirl Creamery is closing their Point Reyes, CA shop after 25 years too. Not the same, but always a stop when we are up there.

Thankfully, this old girl is going nowhere:

The New York Bakery Where Frank Sinatra Liked to Buy Pastries

Founded in 1894 and run by members of the same family ever since, Veniero’s is an icon of Italian American New York.

www.nytimes.com

Edit re: Alleva, UGH:

Alleva Dairy, a Little Italy Cheese Shop, Will Close After 130 Years

The Grand Street store, known for its fresh ricotta and mozzarella, owed more than $600,000 in back rent to its landlord.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Tad Footeball]

What in holy wholes are you talking about, compadre?

NYC has Whole Foods (18 in NYC alone including 14 in Manhattan), a Wegmans in BK (and a Manhattan one coming this year), Fairway, Trader Joe's, Costco when you need it, more large groceries, and more specialty shops where you can get the best of what the world offers in every decent neighborhood. Just walk Bleecker Street alone west of 6th and pop into Faicco’s Italian Specialties, Magnolia Bakery, Murray’s Cheese Shop, and Ottomanelli's Butcher Shop.

Not to mention gourmet shops like Dean & Deluca, Cittarella, the Greenmarkets (especially Union Square), Gourmet Garage, Grand Central Market...

I could go on.

I don't deny any of that but what you're describing is also what is supposed to service 8 million people. If there were adequate full-size supermarket options in NYC then the bazillion bodegas and Duane Reades wouldn't exist.

And nothing says NYC-livin' like paying $14 for a box of Raisin Bran that expired in 2006 at the corner bodega but pretending like the egg & cheese sandwich they make somehow makes up for it because you're living in center of the universe, baby! Throw me on some Francesa and the Doggy and let's scream a little about the Mets!

 

[JD08]

Ugh, that's awful. Little Italy is disappearing inch by inch. We're not in NYC often this time of year so won't make it back. A lot of the old guard are disappearing. I recently saw that Cowgirl Creamery is closing their Point Reyes, CA shop after 25 years too. Not the same, but always a stop when we are up there.

Thankfully, this old girl is going nowhere:

The New York Bakery Where Frank Sinatra Liked to Buy Pastries

Founded in 1894 and run by members of the same family ever since, Veniero’s is an icon of Italian American New York.

www.nytimes.com

Times change, demographics change. It's the nature of diaspora. My last visit to Little Italy, almost the entire wait staff had Russian/Eastern European accents.

 

[WaterburyCane]

Kum & Go in Missouri

 

[passitback]

Ugh, that's awful. 130+ years. Little Italy is disappearing inch by inch. We're not in NYC often this time of year so won't make it back. A lot of the old guard are disappearing. I recently saw that Cowgirl Creamery is closing their Point Reyes, CA shop after 25 years too. Not the same, but always a stop when we are up there.

Thankfully, this old girl is going nowhere:

The New York Bakery Where Frank Sinatra Liked to Buy Pastries

Founded in 1894 and run by members of the same family ever since, Veniero’s is an icon of Italian American New York.

www.nytimes.com

Little Italy is uptown in the BX, bub.

 

[Tad Footeball]

Since our off season **** already has had tours of the butter and supermarket rings, I'd thought I start more ****...

Wawa is where it's at.

Sheets is the Wegmans of gas stations. Take your broke *** AMC Pacer elselsewhere.

Hahahaha!

Brother, this thread can't handle that Sheetz vs Wawa fire. THAT might end up in a real-life fight actually materializing. Not to get political but trying to balance THAT line actually caused John Fetterman to stroke out and end up in a subsequent depression.

 

[Cryptical Envelopment]

I don't deny any of that but what you're describing is also what is supposed to service 8 million people. If there were adequate full-size supermarket options in NYC then the bazillion bodegas and Duane Reades wouldn't exist.

And nothing says NYC-livin' like paying $14 for a box of Raisin Bran that expired in 2006 at the corner bodega but pretending like the egg & cheese sandwich they make somehow makes up for it because you're living in center of the universe, baby! Throw me on some Francesa and the Doggy and let's scream a little about the Mets!

Haha. Good **** lol.

The bodegas and drug stores are for convenience. You walk 20 feet from your place and get the 5 things you need and be home in 10 minutes. If you choose to. But if you want to go shopping, the same way people all across the country leave their house and drive (or whatever) to their big supermarket to load up, the options in NYC are (probably) unparalleled. It's possibly a reason TO live in NYC, let alone avoid it! And btw every Wallgreens/CVS etc in America is the same as the ones in NYC. Except probably not stocked as well.

And these supermarkets will mostly deliver as well. You don't even have to carry your stuff home!

 

[Cryptical Envelopment]

Little Italy is uptown in the BX, bub.

It's not, but lol anyway. Little Italy is literally a designated neighborhood in NYC, bordering chinatown. Now if you want to say its become a shell of itself and Arthur Avenue is the better spot for Italian, I will not object : ).

BTW many prefer the Chinese restaurants in Flushing and Sunset Park over Chinatown.

 

[423Hurricane]

The **** with all that. Go to Wal-Mart.

Save money. Live better.

 

[SWFLHurricane]

It's not, but lol anyway. Little Italy is literally a designated neighborhood in NYC, bordering chinatown. Now if you want to say its become a shell of itself and Arthur Avenue is the better spot for Italian, I will not object : ).

BTW many prefer the Chinese restaurants in Flushing and Sunset Park over Chinatown.

The China Town I remember as a kid in NY, isn't anything like it is today unfortunately.

 

[Fluffhead]

What in holy wholes are you talking about, compadre?

NYC has Whole Foods (18 in NYC alone including 14 in Manhattan), a Wegmans in BK (and a Manhattan one coming this year), Fairway, Trader Joe's, Costco when you need it, more large groceries, and more specialty shops where you can get the best of what the world offers in every decent neighborhood. Just walk Bleecker Street alone west of 6th and pop into Faicco’s Italian Specialties, Magnolia Bakery, Murray’s Cheese Shop, and Ottomanelli's Butcher Shop.

Not to mention gourmet shops like Dean & Deluca, Cittarella, the Greenmarkets (especially Union Square), Gourmet Garage, Grand Central Market...

I could go on.

My buddy's roommate used to manage Murray's. I spent a few afternoons at the Blind Tiger, a slice or two at Bleecker Pizza, and then top it off with a tour of Murray's.