Posted on 07/30/2022 4:41:08 AM PDT by Magnatron
Firefighters finally had a blaze at Jim’s Steaks in South Philadelphia under control Friday afternoon, several hours after it broke out and weaved through the popular cheesesteak joint's heating and cooling system.
More than 100 firefighters responded to the blaze and they had a hard time putting it out because of difficult to access flames snaking through the building's HVAC system, Philadelphia Fire Department Commissioner Adam Thiel said at a press conference shortly before 2 p.m. Eventually, the fire was placed under control, officials at the scene said.
“We’re very concerned about the structural stability of this building. There really is almost no way to assess that," Thiel said. "So again, we’re taking a defensive posture in an abundance of caution, and we’re hopeful that we’ll be able to preserve as much of the property as possible – at least the building itself.”
Firefighters responded to the eatery on the corner of 4th and South streets after someone reported that some wires had caught fire around 9:15, Thiel said. Smoke could be seen billowing from every floor of the four-story building as firefighters knocked down windows.
The floors on top of the cheesesteak shop, a city staple dating back to the 1930s, were empty and are used for storage, Thiel noted.
A manager at the eatery told NBC10 the air condition had stopped working in the morning and then started smoking. That's when she said she got everyone out of the building. Everyone was OK, the manager said.
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Jim’s is so much better, its not even close.
I recently saw one of those social-media sites that aggregate (read, “rip off”) from Reddit. It was posting all the nastiest-LOOKING foods from around the world, including the most exotic, bizarre, medieval items like maggot cheese from Italy. Hands down the winner was the Philly cheesesteak.
If you know what you’re looking at, there was nothing gross.
The foil wrapper made the bread steamy, and therefore wrinkled. The provolone cheese was melted so it was semi-transparent and looked like slime and invited the most nasty comments. People guessed sincerely whether the carmelized onions and peppers were [on second thought, I’ll edit this so people won’t think of it when they eat cheesesteaks... let’s just say various lower forms of life]. Even the shaved steak is hard to recognize as beef.
I decided I’d better state the purpose of that post: It seemed amazing how something that tastes great and is so iconic IF YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS could be so badly misinterpreted visually by so much of what it is. The cheesesteak is our own little secret.
The only negative I got from your post was the callout for provolone cheese. On a Jim’s steak, it’s wiz-wid — all the way.
It’ll be interesting if a Freeper can come back with an interpretation of wiz-wid. They are true cheese-steakers.
BTW, a single Jim’s cheesesteak could power a small home for three days using its caloric capacity alone…
Cheese-Whiz!
That’s the wiz! And the wid?
Cheese Whiz with onions? Peppers? Mushrooms?
Been a long time since I was in South Philly at night. And I was usually ordering while in a state of “fog”. LOL.
If it doesn’t have Chiz-wid, then it isn’t a Philly.
It’s just a cheese-steak.
Hard to find down here in Florida, though there is a place in St. Augustine, run by a couple of guys from Philly, that uses cheez-wiz.
I have threatened to just buy a can and put it on myself. I may still one day.
Dunno, thought it meant with...
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Wifey and I ate there once on the advice of a local. ‘Twas pretty good.
so sad....
Well, the picture depicted provolone. I’m from the Northeast, but not Philly, so I don’t take sides in debates about which Philly Cheesesteak is the most authentic.
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Reduce it by 90%: in other words, the elites get to keep their cars.
As for bugs: large, slothy animals will always have a better ratio of feed to yield weight. There’s nothing to this whole eating bugs thing other than an implicit threat: if you don’t vote green, we’ll make you eat bugs.
Was Jim’s always on that SW corner in the photo? In my long-ago memories of Philly, I can’t picture it beside Eyes Gallery back in the day. Or did Eyes move?
It's been there as long as I can remember. I moved to Philly in '95 and it was there then. What I'm not sure about is if it changed ownership over the years. Earlier when I lived in Philly, it was mostly run by white folks. Now, it's 100% staffed by black folks. Same great steaks, just different employees. Then again, the area around South Street has changed racially as well.
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