Posted on 09/17/2021 6:24:49 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
I don’t think a proper cheesesteak has been made in philadelphia since the early eighties. Same with hoagies. Industry moved out, so no lunch shops catering to workmen to carry on the real cheesesteak tradition. Now it is all tourist BS with whiz and open face heaps that look more like salads than they do sandwiches.
Maxs Steaks in north Philly. Cash only line out the door from open to close nearly no tourists it’s in a very ruff area and it’s everything a classic 1980s Philly steak should be.
Lol.
“Maxs Steaks in north Philly....”
Been there. Big messy steaks. Good, but not what they were.
Late 70s/early 80s I worked next to the Schmidts brewery. From 11:00 to 2:00, there were dozens and dozens of sandwich shops making a stunning variety of steaks and hoagies. Every shop was different, but there were certain rules. The sandwiches had to be tidy and structural — you could eat them with one hand without making a mess — the bread enclosed the contents. These sandwiches were eaten standing and walking. Italian hoagies had to have capicola. Oil was on the bread, not the salad. No vineger. There was no whiz on steaks. Beer was the standard beverage even for a work lunch.
I'd completely forgotten about her. Didn't realize she passed.
God Bless her for what she struggled through. An amazing woman. I admire her bravery when confronted with death.
Or it could have been "Biden, Let Us In" shirts ...
I'm sorry, but do you still live in Philadelphia (maybe we should meet up, not too many C's around)?
I often work on the piers. There's plenty of lunch joints, good, real cheesesteaks, and hoagie joints. Are there more resturants that cater to the elite that have invaded South Philadelphia, and other neighborhoods loosely connected to Center City? Of course! But it's not like the old stalwarts completely closed.
I won't bore you with a list, but there's several weeks worth of spots.
Gee what a shock /s
MS 13 or some other latin gang fighting with another. Two AM .... nothing good happens at 2 Am or after.... One can't even get a cheese steak in peace anymore.
I haven’t seen a one handed cheesesteak or hoagie in thirty five years. I live on the “mont” side of philmont road, never lived in philly, and now rarely see sufficient reason to cross in to it. I went on a few sandwich quests back twenty years ago, and felt like I was in NYC. They didn’t call them open faced, but they are all open faced sandwiches. Impossible to eat without a table and utensils. When I was a kid, I’d buy a hoagie, a soda, a bag a chips, and a tastycake, and eat them walking home without losing a crumb. I think somehow the deli/jewish openface thing merged with the workman’s sandwich. There is a place out in the burbs that has the more traditional format of hoagie — Sam’s Italian Market. But hey bake their own rolls, and they’re just not quite right. Good, but not the way they were.
Love that history!
Yeah, things are changing. I'm thinking of waiting for my house's value to max out (huge condo development about 2 blocks away) and then getting the hell out. After 30+ years, raising a family, building treasured freindships... Too many immigrants who have no interest in accepting our values or assimilating. These new folks are running me out of my home.
Not super familair with your 'hood, I've spent time near N.E. Airport and Willow Grove, but don't think I've ever been in that section.
That, too.
However, the left intents to salt the land with this kind of stuff and turn us into a third world hell hole.
We the people cannot allow that to happen.
Glad Filthadelphia is on the other end of the state from me.
I’m just outside Philly…
I'm an hour south of Pittsburgh.
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