How many here remember this?
Posted on 02/27/2019 11:09:31 AM PST by Coleus
Move over egg creams and doughnuts. Sprouts are moving in.
Schnackenberg’s, an old-fashioned luncheonette that for 88 years served classic concoctions of seltzer with chocolate syrup, tuna melts and other staples of decades past, has closed, a victim of what its owner said were changing times and healthier tastes.
An eatery with a different menu and a different vibe will take Schnackenberg’s place on Washington Street, between 11th and 12th streets, under the name “Alfalfa.”
“Doughnuts and milkshakes are not the steady diet of modern Hobokenites,” said Joyce Flinn, who along with her husband, Eugene, bought Schnackenberg’s from the daughter of its original owners just after Hurricane Sandy.
“We had the most awesome doughnuts in town, and people would say, ‘Oh, I love those doughnuts!’ But if you eat one doughnut a month, that’s not going to pay my rent,” Flinn said in an emotional phone interview. “It wasn’t an easy decision to make, and we didn’t make it lightly. It was really a long-considered and painful choice.”
Schackenberg’s was opened in 1931 by the parents of Dorothy Novak (née Schnackenberg), who continued to live upstairs from the restaurant in the family-owned building until she passed away not long ago. During the height of the Great Depression, Hoboken was a largely working class shipping port that bore little resemblance to the popular night spot or high-rent New York City bedroom community it would eventually become. The food was basic luncheonette fare: burgers, shakes, tuna melts, store-made doughnuts, and a nod to Schnackenberg’s German heritage called the eggtzel, a kind of pretzel breakfast sandwich.
The luncheonette underwent a makeover after the Flinns took control. But, Joyce Flinn said a shrinking clientele and a protracted construction project on Washington Street that discouraged walk-in traffic made it clear
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No, but the guy who played him, Carl Switzer, was fatally shot in the dick trying to collect a $35 debt.
And that is your useless trivia lesson for today.
How many here remember this?
I’d heard about them through the years so made a point of having one at Katz’ deli when I was visiting NY last summer. Meh. No big shakes
As they say, don't knock it til you try it. I thought a peanut butter and banana sandwich sounded ridiculous until I tried it. Been eating them for 50+ years now. If you like(d) chocolate egg creams, I can't imagine you wouldn't like the You Hoo substitute with cream soda. Just has to be the right brand of CS for you, and the right proportions of the two (mostly Yoo Hoo).
It’s vanilla! With the soda water. It’s yummy if you love vanilla. No egg involved.
Chocolate Soldier was a chocolate-flavored beverage produced by the Monarch Beverage Company of Atlanta, Georgia. The drink was sold in glass bottles from 1966-1988. Chocolate Soldier was made by Citrus Products Company in Illinois in the 1950s and 1960s. It was bottled all over the United States.
ITALIAN SODAS
METHOD layer in lge glass, 2-3 tb syrup. Add 1/-3/4 c h/cream, half and half, or milk. Stir. Now
fill w/ club soda, and ice. Top with whipt cream. SERVE w/ straw and a color-coordinated garnish.
I also grew up on L.I in the 50’s/60’s. The egg cream was a favorite but the drink I loved the most and still crave ,til this day, is a vanilla malted.
Buy a container of Chocolate milk, add seltzer or club soda and you will have an egg cream. However, the Chocolate milk has to be real milk, not the 1-2% stuff. I make it half milk and half soda. I will make one after I enter this.
BTW, Fox’s UBet isn’t the same anymore. I tried it a few years back, it was awful. No egg creams around here in FLA west coast. Maybe you will find them in Boynton, Delray, or Boca Raton. Its a 5 Burroughs thingy. The generation that grew up with them are down here now.
“There was a third choice - malted milk. Same as a milk shake, but with malt added. The best, but more expensive.”
Yeah. We had that in California. We called it a malt. My Dad liked that.
No farewell in THIS house!! I make them all the time. So simple: 2 big squirts of Hershey’s syrup (I use lite), enough milk to make a strong chocolate milk (I use skim milk), then fill the glass with seltzer and stir. Heaven on Earth!
In Minneapolis, Minnesota area I remember going to Woolworth’s and Reed’s drugstore where they have a luncheon counter. Byerly’s grocery store had one. It has been remodeled into a restaurant attached to the store and the area where it was is now is a bakery and deli. I would get soft serve ice cream in a cone.
Love these pics. Seems like the ones we drank out of were clear soldier shaped.
Another loss of the old culture.
When I was growing up in Philly, there were “diners” and “luncheonettes” just like that place all over.
Loved those places. A cheeseburger, fries, Cokes or Root Beer floats, and a slice of pie for a couple bucks.
Better days.
Better people, too.
Those places are gone around here, although there's a retro version here and there. A tiny little diner where the grill was in the front window spent the years 1930-something through the 1990s on a side street in the Creston neighborhood of Grand Rapids. Loved that place.
“...Those places are gone around here...”
It’s very difficult to watch things and places you enjoy disappear... It’s natural, I guess, but that doesn’t make it easier to take.
“Retro” places just aren’t the same.
It’s the same thing with the corner taproom... what city DIDN’T have a “Murphy’s Irish Bar” on the street corner somewhere? Working guy comes home from a rough day, walks in, gets a warm greeting by familiar folks from the neighborhood, and has a cold beer or two to shake off the day’s worries.
Not the same anymore. I miss it.
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