Posted on 02/23/2020 6:49:30 PM PST by Coleus
It’s Valentine’s Day and that means love, right? Sappy greeting cards. Heart-shaped candy. Professions of undying romance blah, blah, blah.
Let’s talk about something that actually matters today: New Jersey people and all the things we love, love, love no matter what day of the year it is. One of the many punchlines thrown our way is that we’re a joyless bunch who are quicker to hate something than to embrace it as our own. Not true! Well, not always true, anyway. Here are 25 items, behaviors and misfortunes of others we Garden Staters love above all else. Enjoy your price-gauged dinners!
A glorious trough of mozzarella balls. (Pete Genovese | NJ Advance MediItalian delis and markets
The imported pasta. The dangling logs of salami and capicola. The bread — the freaking bread, man. No Italian-American family event — birthday, holiday, funeral — is complete without a few delicacies from the local deli, of which there are dozens around New Jersey. The options are endless, the prices are ridiculously high and the smell of these places should be bottled and sold as perfume. A meteor the size of Sicily could be headed straight for Morris County and as long as the impending apocalypse was catered by a few trays of rice balls, sausage and broccoli rabe and mozzarella balls soaked in oil, it’d be a pretty good time.
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Doesn't cause cancer, does it? (asking for a friend from Brooklyn).
Who knows?
If you look on the labels for stuff, according to the state of California, just about everything causes cancer.
If anything, one would think having most of the minerals that have been depleted from most soil would improve your general health.
For many years, farmers and gardeners have been fertilizing the soil the soil with just NPK, and manure, adding no minerals, maybe just lime for Ph.
Adding rock dust and/or Jersey Greensand supplies the minerals.
Tomatoes, beets and carrots taste sweeter with the added minerals.
Maybe studies need to be done to see if this has anything to do with cancer.
If the studies are done in CA, no doubt there will be a connection found.
I'll stick with the rock dust and Jersey greensand no matter what.
As Jocelyn Elders said (and the one and only thing I agreed with from the Clinton administration), we're all going to die of something sometime anyhow.
Doesn't cause cancer, does it? (asking for a friend from Brooklyn).
Who knows?
If you look on the labels for stuff, according to the state of California, just about everything causes cancer.
If anything, one would think having most of the minerals that have been depleted from most soil would improve your general health.
For many years, farmers and gardeners have been fertilizing the soil the soil with just NPK, and manure, adding no minerals, maybe just lime for Ph.
Adding rock dust and/or Jersey Greensand supplies the minerals.
Tomatoes, beets and carrots taste sweeter with the added minerals.
Maybe studies need to be done to see if this has anything to do with cancer.
If the studies are done in CA, no doubt there will be a connection found.
I'll stick with the rock dust and Jersey greensand no matter what.
As Jocelyn Elders said (and the one and only thing I agreed with from the Clinton administration), we're all going to die of something sometime anyhow.
Doesn't cause cancer, does it? (asking for a friend from Brooklyn).
Who knows?
If you look on the labels for stuff, according to the state of California, just about everything causes cancer.
If anything, one would think having most of the minerals that have been depleted from most soil would improve your general health.
For many years, farmers and gardeners have been fertilizing the soil the soil with just NPK, and manure, adding no minerals, maybe just lime for Ph.
Adding rock dust and/or Jersey Greensand supplies the minerals.
Tomatoes, beets and carrots taste sweeter with the added minerals.
Maybe studies need to be done to see if this has anything to do with cancer.
If the studies are done in CA, no doubt there will be a connection found.
I'll stick with the rock dust and Jersey greensand no matter what.
As Jocelyn Elders said (and the one and only thing I agreed with from the Clinton administration), we're all going to die of something sometime anyhow.
Millburn Deli
Great post, Coleus!
Philly ping!
Yup. Northern NJ is still largely Italian American and breakfast sandwiches made with peppers, tomatoes,and cheese are very common.
We called them subs also...and yes, from South Jersey.
I do miss the food.
Hoagies/ subs...pizza
Italian delis...
That I miss.
The mosquitoes and gawdawful summers, not so much.
The one thing I don’t like about Rutt’s Hutt is their awful beer selection. Bud, Coors Light, Miller bleeeecch...
I’ve actually never had one there; I see people drinking it from these small cups, but I’m there for the dogs.
That selection doesn’t tempt me, either.
I managed a Callahan’s (the one in Bergenfield) when they briefly decided to franchise their brand. Had to train at the original in Fort Lee. Serving at lunchtime was truly baptism by fire. Imagine 8 or so employees inside a squared off horseshoe about 20 by 20 taking orders being screamed out by a mob of people completely swarming that horseshoe, having to do all the totaling up in your head and sharing a single register with those other 7 employees - for about 2 hours straight! It was madness. It was fun! It was actually some of the best training I can remember getting back when I was 22 or so.
It was FAST food, too. Those dogs, fries, burgers, sausage and pepper sandwiches came out of that kitchen in hurry. People don’t get that kind of service anymore.
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