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MorrellManMorrellMan Posts: 3,241 ✭✭✭
in Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum
...Happy Hanukkah; may we all ingest our fill of Hanukkah gelt and latkes. Pass the dreidle - baby needs new shoes!image
Mark (amerbbcards)


"All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

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  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    As Judas Maccabee used to say, "Who's job was it this week to make sure we had enough oil for the lamp?"
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,409 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Pass the dreidle - baby needs new shoes! >>


    Hi Mark
    The very best to you and your family and everyone else! You have been a great contributor on these boards and a real gentleman.
    Now on latkes, no one makes better potato pancakes than my grandmother!

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    Happy Holidays!
    Your friend
    Mike
    Mike
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    My Great Grandma Lena made the best latkes (or so I am told). I can't say as that I've ever had bad latkes (potato pancakes for the goyim reading this thread). Those things are darned tasty.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Vargha
    Fri nite at Martin's Deli in Detroit in the 70's: brisket (gravy), latkes and derma; start with a chopped liver appetizer, matzah ball soup - you just died and went to cholesterol heaven! image

    your friend
    Mike
    Mike
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    Chopped liver is the best! The rest of my family is disgusted by it. I love those triple decker deli sandwiches with chopped liver, pastrami and Russian dressing on Rye.
  • RepublicaninMassRepublicaninMass Posts: 255 ✭
    Vargha, we should do lunch. I'll take a half corned beef, half liverwurst on dark rye with a side of gefilte fish!
  • MorrellManMorrellMan Posts: 3,241 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Chopped liver is the best! The rest of my family is disgusted by it. I love those triple decker deli sandwiches with chopped liver, pastrami and Russian dressing on Rye. >>



    David, did I hear anybody say Billy's in Pasadena?

    Mike - Can't beat Cantor's, on Fairfax, for Matzah ball soup, unless my grandmother made it. Her matzah balls were so fluffy they floated to the top of the bowl!image
    Mark (amerbbcards)


    "All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    I've never been there.
  • MorrellManMorrellMan Posts: 3,241 ✭✭✭
    Billy's sandwiches are piled so high with corned beef, liverwurst, whatever - that you could eat half, throw the other half on eBay, and make back whatever you spent!image
    Mark (amerbbcards)


    "All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
  • elway65elway65 Posts: 157
    Homer: Mmmm, pastrami.
    everywhere you go
    there you are

    marc in Hawaii
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Carnegie Deli in NYC - the slices of Rye they use for the corned beef sandwiches are the size of Barry
    Bonds' head! It must weigh a couple of pounds!
    Now, I am in latke envy-land - there are a total of ZERO kosher/kosher-style deli's in San Antonio! There was one called David's that opened and closed practically the same day - for some reason when they tell ya Shalom y'all - just seems to lose something in the translation.

    your "corn beef deprived" friend
    Mike
    Mike
  • DirtyHarryDirtyHarry Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭
    Eating a reuben at Carnegie's Deli is like opening a box of wax..... with great anticipation, you savor it - slowly. You don't want to (and can't) just belt it down, so you stretch it out over a couple of hours.

    Making good chopped liver is a lost art. As a kid in the Bronx in the 1950's, I vividly remember walking to the Kosher butcher shop on the Grand Concourse with my mother once a week to get our meats and cold cuts. The highlight was that the butcher would always give me a few saltines with chopped liver while waiting for our order. And we'd buy a half pound to take home.

    Creamed herring is another of my favorites. I am in the food industry, and started out working in a deli, where Ben Shumann taught me the right mix of sour cream, vinegar, sugar and onions to make the herring hummmmmm. I also learned how to mix a master blend of chopped liver, and how to perfectly slice razor thin Nova and lox.

    At risk of sounding like the food network - Happy Hanukkah to all my compadres here. Despite being a mick, I think I have always been considered a mensh, and maybe sometimes a meshugina, by some of my best friends. Excuse the phoenetic spelling. Regards !!
    Proud of my 16x20 autographed and framed collection - all signed in person. Not big on modern - I'm stuck in the past!
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,409 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Despite being a mick, I think I have always been considered a mensh, and maybe sometimes a meshugina, by some of my best friends. Excuse the phoenetic spelling. Regards !! >>


    Harry
    That's OK , you're alright in my book!...last name Rothstein...raised RC...married to a Southern Baptist!

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    Mike
  • helionauthelionaut Posts: 1,555 ✭✭
    Stone, come on up to Austin. Katz's on 6th street is just an hour away. It's not a 100% kosher menu, but they've got kosher food. $9 for a corned beef sandwich, but it's $9 worth of meat. And at least one off the HEBs (no, they are not called "Heebs") has a kosher butcher counter/deli (Far West Blvd). And it's funny you mention it, but a friend has a tile next to his front door that says "Shalom Y'all" but he's not Jewish. Don't know why it's there.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,409 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Stone, come on up to Austin. Katz's on 6th street >>


    Helio
    Thanx for the info! I will have to try it out...even if it is close to NY, it's miles better than nothing!

    Shalom y'all!
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    Mike
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