Posted on 03/29/2009 12:05:12 PM PDT by Born Conservative
I think you mean “pitza”. Scamutz is the whey portion of mozzarella that’s put on pitza, sausage or meatball hoagies, etc. I’m from slightly north of there, and I had never heard of it until I moved southwest of Luzerne County and was exposed more to Hazleton traditions.
I don’t know. I think the victims have to eat the loss.
Yeah Meatball and scamutz, I lived on those things along with Coney Island hotdogs and Third Base hoagies when I was a kid. Go Mounts!!
Up in the Pittston area, it’s “henna or no, cuz?”
Yeah we say henna too, spelling, well I never really spelled the word but I've seen it spelled numerous ways..henna ya know
LOL
Pittston, we used to go catfish and bass fishing up there around Ransom that was years ago in the 70's.
Born in Scranton in 1955 but I'm Hazleton raised moved from Hazleton in 1979.
Born in West Pittston in 1963; moved to Columbia County about 20 years ago.
The lingo of “da valley”, Hazleton/Schuylkill County, and Scranton is interesting. Heyna, mingya, etc.
I used to work in Ransom while I was in college in the early 1980’s-Potlatch (formerly Swanee Paper). They dumped lots of chemicals into the Susquehanna; I sure hope you were fishing upstream from there.
“I think you mean “pitza”. Scamutz is the whey portion of mozzarella that’s put on pitza, sausage or meatball hoagies, etc. I’m from slightly north of there, and I had never heard of it until I moved southwest of Luzerne County and was exposed more to Hazleton traditions.”
Pitza, no doubt. We just ordered, and the proprietor brought it to the table and pointed out that it was “real scamutz”. We looked at him kinda funny and smiled, LOL.
Isn’t there a real killer bakery in Hazleton? I may be confusing it with somewhere else, but there’s one somewhere around there that could put weight on an anorexic just from a walk-through.
I live about 20 minutes west of Hazleton, but don’t get over there too often, so I can’t answer about the bakery. But if you find out what the name is, let me know!
“I live about 20 minutes west of Hazleton, but don’t get over there too often, so I can’t answer about the bakery. But if you find out what the name is, let me know!”
OK, the challenge has been issued. Let’s see if Pop’s memory is simply taxed, or if this is for real. (Actually, I sent an email to a fellow salesman who still works the area...)
No, Yosh Schmenge. Yosh and Stan were "The Happy Wanderers". They don't make them like "The Cabbage Roll and Coffee Polka" anymore.
Senapes Pitza and Tavern is the one most talk about. The Hazleton I knew was the most wonderful place if you liked Italian and Slavic (Hunky as they say up there) foods.
You had Senapes and Longos bakeries making "cold pitz", until you had it fresh with a cold beer you haven't been to heaven. Every Friday the Greek Catholic churches had the ladies making pirogies. Carmens Italian-American restaurant, homemade pasta and the best Beef Braciola and Baked Ziti you could ever want. Coney Island Restaurant and Jimmy's Hot Lunch had chilli dogs that would make you weep for more. There was always a fight over who had the best dogs.
That wasn't all, it has been said there was a church, a bar and a bowling alley on every block in the Hazleton, Freeland, McAdoo area and that was almost true, so many small bars had their own great food and every summer the churches had their block parties and lots and lots of delicious potato cakes.
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