"Get crazy with the Cheez Whiz!"
Posted on 04/25/2016 4:49:24 PM PDT by dirtboy
ES MOINES, Iowa — Five-point plans, engaging speeches and star endorsements are all important in a presidential campaign, but how well do candidates REALLY know the cities and towns where they're wooing voters?
The supreme test in Philadelphia: ordering a cheesesteak.
Just ask Secretary of State John Kerry, who was roundly mocked in 2003 for passing up the more traditional Cheez Whiz on his cheesesteak for Swiss cheese.
"Don't come into Philadelphia and try to cater favor with us and then order Swiss cheese, which no one does in Philadelphia," Ed Rendell, former Pennsylvania governor and Philadelphia mayor, said. Hillary Clinton, he predicted, will make no such gaffe should she sample a cheesesteak as she campaigns in the state before the primary Tuesday.
Bill Clinton "would always order a cheesesteak with onions and Cheez Whiz," Rendell said. "That is the only way to order a cheesesteak."
Competitive races in both parties have sustained the intensity of the primary face-offs far beyond their usual seasons this year, increasing the spotlight on candidates and the requisite local know-how. Most recently, in New York City, Ohio Gov. John Kasich took flack for eating pizza with a knife and fork, Hillary Clinton was mocked for struggling to use a Metrocard to ride the subway and Bernie Sanders revealed he thought the subway still took tokens, which were phased out in 2003.
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I moved away from Phila 20 years ago, and have yet to find a REAL Philly cheesesteak anywhere else.
Not really just to you. A Philly Cheese Steak! Oh, nothing better. I’ll order, taste, if not good, I leave. The Popular Known places, really not good . ( no names) I love cheese steaks. Like others love they BBQ! No swiss, and surely no “hot sauce”.
Started in the 1950s but apparently reformulated around 2001.
“In the news clip I saw, the cook asked Kerry something like: “You want whiz on dat”, and Kerry just stood there dumbfounded.”
Haha!
Kerry probably thought the guy was asking him if he wanted him to pee on it!!!!
wasn’t it then candidate John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) who asked Pat’s if they had Gruyère ?
100% true. The bread is the key.. Friend had a Co. once. Tried to duplicate. Even took in the water.? didn’t work. Need Philly rolls.
yep, weird that way
I'm hearing votes from life long South Philadelphians that DEL ROSSI'S CHEESESTEAK CO. is at the top. Also have killer hamburger's. There on 4th near Spring Garden St.--Northern Liberties section.
Not without an Amoroso roll.
” I wouldn’t use Cheez Whiz for spackling my neighbor’s dog’s anus.”
The dog would love it one lick at a time.
I’d always heard provolone also.
"Get crazy with the Cheez Whiz!"
“Wit Whiz” - Does that mean that you pee on it?
And that is proof of a true Philadelphia native! The next level is the answer to the question - cheese on top, or under the steak on a toasted roll?
Or a steak hoagie, or a pizza steak ...
I remember a scuba diving mag back in the 80s having pictures of a dive operator feeding a grouper or some other large fish from a pressurized can of che...er..., "cheese".
Probably got her a lot of bookings.
Of course, pizza steak has to be steak, sauce, cheese in pizza oven until cheese melted.
Not to defend Obama because I wouldn’t, but I STRONGLY suspect that every candidate for national office is offered a hot dog at county fairs for exactly the same reason.
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