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Best of your best - Your Top 25

Hello.

Something light for a change...

As we all know, each region does certain things best. Whether it be chicken wings in Buffalo or bratwurst in Milwaukee or cool cars and hot girls in Southern California.

What does your area do the BEST??? This could have been a Top 10 list, but a lot us would have more, so why not go all the way to 25?

In Philadelphia, we are tops for:
1) Hoagies - you call them submarines or heroes

2) Cheesesteaks - but you already knew that

3) Pizza - thin crust, and traditional toppings

4) Soft pretzels - no doubt, and one of my weaknesses

5) Italian water ice - fruit flavored ice, NOTHING can cool you down faster on a hot day. You'll still be cool even an hour or two later on a humid 95 degree East Coast day

6) Macaroni and gravy - you call them spaghetti and meatballs

7) Fishcakes - as opposed to crabcakes which belong to "Balteeeeemore"

8) Pierogies - heaven from Poland/Ukraine

9) People with "addytood" - as if I haven't shown it here

10) Jersey girls - BIG hair!

11) Rowdy sportsfans - the Broad Street Bullies are still our favorite team

12) The South Jersey Shore - we say "down the shore"

13) Ben Franklin - would have been a MAJOR audiophile

14) Rocky - YO Adrian!!!

15) Frankie Avalon - well, before he got to those California beaches

16) Bobby Rydel - the one who stayed

18) Warren Zevon - your adopted city REALLY misses you

19) John Coltrane - as above

20) Gamble and Huff - The Philly Sound

21) The Fresh Prince - now he's Will Smith

22) Pat Croce - a real Philly guy - see addytood again

23) Grace Kelly - Princess Grace to us

24) Yo - yes, you guys took that word - a greeting, a question, an exclamation

25) Yous - fills the English language's need for the plural form of you. No, you guys didn't steal that one, because you hate it so

When you come to Philly, make sure you try everything on the list. And, when I visit your town, I am going to try my best on your list. Thank you!
trelja
tubegroover
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"I thought the women from the Greater Northeast had the big hair too!"

and who could forget (that can remember that far back) the South Filwee girls with that big hair, some of the biggest as a matter of recollection, it wasn't just the South Jersey and NE girls!

Treja a few more from my fond memories of Philly even though I left 30 years ago

F..kin "A"

Smokin Joe Frazier

Teddy Pendergrass

Connie Mack Stadium (20th and Lehigh)

Concerts at the Spectrum

The Academy of Music

The Robin Hood Dell concerts

The Mounted Police in Fairmont Park

The deer in Pennypack Park

The Zoo

and does anyone remember Billy Harner from the 60's?

What I miss most are the sports fans, the most knowledgable in the country. Yeah they have their bad habits but lets face it, they don't pay their hard on money to see Santa at a football game. You get what you see, tough love. The teams really seem to understand that relationship.

PS First thing I look for when I visit are the soft pretzels, the original ones not the boutique type and Rosatti's Italian water ice (lemon please....)
tubegroover
2,320 posts
 
sorry about that....no pun intended, should be hard EARNED, what were my tinger's finkin?
shubertmaniac
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I forgot the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, I saw Muddy Waters there in 1970. My next door neighbor ( sexy Yvonne, she was 4 years older than I) went to American Bandstand a number of times in the late 50s, early 60s. Edmund's Scientific was over in Barrington, NJ if you wanted something goofy and scientific: magnets, optical stuff, telescopes,etc. And were you around when the original Spectrum roof blew off! Towers annex on South Street had the largest selection of classical music, until they moved to Broad street. I wish I could meet up with you, but unfortunately I will be in Monterrey CA at the Asilomar conference center for a week then to Boston for a week.

And how could anybody forget Mayor Frank Rizzo!
Go Flyers, 1-0 over the Debs.
trelja OP
3,224 posts
 
Ah Shubert, we need to catch up at some point...

The Main Point! My neighbors George and Charlotte Britton were the owners, in addition to founding the Philadelphia Folk Festival. I guess the Folk Festival also deserves to be on the list.

Rizzo is gone, but not forgotten, a true 20th century icon.

Tubegroover, the new ballpark should really please you from what I hear. It looks like we're going to need a new list soon that lays out the vernacular of one's region since you brought up Saufilly. The next time you are in town to hook up with Bill LeGall, let me know - I can meet you there.

Now that I think of it, Bill deserves to be on our list as well, best speaker guy in the country, if not the world - just ask the likes of Jeff Joseph, Carl Marchisotto, Dan D'Agostino, etc.
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snook2
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I moved out of the Philthadelphia are about 25 years ago. They had the best vinyl store I have ever been in,THIRD STREET JAZZ. Tower Theater Concerts, Stars, Bijou Cafe. Haven't been back since. City could use an enama
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