Some of you guys are really snobby. The reason why it's popular is because it's good, and more importantly, cheap.
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Is New York serious with this “chopped cheese” bullshit?
- Thread starter zoggy
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If any more air is pumped into the New York ego, it will burst and blanket the entire eastern seaboard in hot gas. We are trying to save the world.
Cheese Whiz is fantastic in the right circumstance, broaden your horizons breh.
lol
American cheese has the properties to be the best cheese to put on a burger. I'm not surprised you guys don't know that.
No. you're being snobby towards people who live in harlem and the Bronks who can't rwally afford to go to some bullshit hipster place and pay ridiculous prices for food.
It's chopped up hamburger New Yorkers push so they feel like they actually created something. Cost isn't a factor for this thread.
Not really. There's shit loads of other cheap things on the menu aside from the chopped up hamburger and cheese that people are mocking for claiming 'heritage' and ownership of.
Processed american cheese got big because it melts well onto burgers. it's specifically an "extra layer of fat on my junk food" product
We have actual cheese too. But some specific foods really are better with the cheap, artificial ingredients. Real cheese doesn't melt over a burger in the same way as a Kraft Cheese Product ®
I think it's more a reaction to people acting like it's some amazing, novel food invention. It's a cheeseburger in a different bun, of course it's good. It honestly looks like something a snobby chef would make and call "my take on a deconstructed cheeseburger" or something.
The best food has always come from poorer people making due with what they have access to. Also from people sharing food and doing their own takes on someone else's recipe. All over the world. For all of history.
FWIW, I've had some good Philly cheesesteaks everywhere EXCEPT Philly. I was there a while back staying near the Reading Terminal Market and people told me to try the one in there at some place, and it was pretty dry and lousy. I did like the scrapple at Dutch Eating Place though. As I was eating it, I looked it up online and discovered it was made of "pork offal". Then I looked up what that was, and discovered that offal is butts and guts and eyeballs and stuff all ground up together. Then I decided it was good anyway and came back and ate it for breakfast the next day too.
On topic, whatever NYC. My poor midwestern grandma always made that for us. Chopped Cheese is a stupid name for a good sandwich and it's pretty silly to "claim" it.
At Quiktrip, the great convenience store chain in KC (convenience store is what normal people call "bodegas"), they have corn dogs on the rollers with no sticks. People like them. They discontinued them for a bit and had to bring them back because people wanted them. We should totally claim stickless corn dogs and come up with some goofy, pretentious, non descriptive name.
The fact that "Chopped Cheese" in no way describes the sandwich is just perfect. It's like it has a built in "you know or you don't" factor. For a cheeseburger on a hogie roll. lol.
On topic, whatever NYC. My poor midwestern grandma always made that for us. Chopped Cheese is a stupid name for a good sandwich and it's pretty silly to "claim" it.
At Quiktrip, the great convenience store chain in KC (convenience store is what normal people call "bodegas"), they have corn dogs on the rollers with no sticks. People like them. They discontinued them for a bit and had to bring them back because people wanted them. We should totally claim stickless corn dogs and come up with some goofy, pretentious, non descriptive name.
The fact that "Chopped Cheese" in no way describes the sandwich is just perfect. It's like it has a built in "you know or you don't" factor. For a cheeseburger on a hogie roll. lol.
Nope, way off the mark, I'm riffing on how everything in New York is "legendary".
detroit style is 100% better than chicago deep dish (the crust always reminds me of a biscuit and not in a good way) and chicago thin crust (I didn't sign up for an appetizer.) I still need to try pequod's next time i'm out there. I fully respect the NY pie and often enjoy it more but putting Chicago "pizza" on that level is gross falsification
Does it have stories about it? Then it's legendary.
The inflation of the word "legendary" isn't really the concern of New York tbh.
Except LA, where the San Gabriel Valley has better Chinese and East Asian food than anywhere else in the country.
It's a word to describe a specific regional sandwich. There's like 15 of them on the board at the deli around the corner from me. This one just got noticed by white people.
Taylor pork roll has a following here in SE virginia too. Best thing for a breakfast sandwich.
Ha ha ha. Good responses, I'm sold.
The rest of the country struggles to make American food palatable while California continues to house the best international tastes around the world in one state
basically Pizza here sucks but everything else is fantastic
and watching people trying to hype up a glorified frankstein burger subway sandwich is hilarious
basically Pizza here sucks but everything else is fantastic
and watching people trying to hype up a glorified frankstein burger subway sandwich is hilarious
It is basic. It's a cheap sandwich using cheap meat for people who don't have a lot of money.
Detroit pizza is basically spongey wonderbread crust. It's good, but it's not what I'd associate with pizza. It's basically warm focaccia.
I think you might just have a unfounded dislike for New York that you should address for your own sake. Legendary is used a lot by all sorts of people. At my work we get many employees from the UK office who upon me fixing their computers or software problems call me a legend. I don't know why but I can only assume that's something they do there and don't feel a need to be made upset by it.
That and this thread is silly. Having grown up in Brooklyn and spent a large part of my life in Queens, no idea Chopped Cheese existed.
I have heard them literally claim to have the best:
Chinese
Italian
Sushi
French
Greek
BBQ
It actually goes a long way to explaining how Donald Trump speaks.
Yeah this thread is silly. It's a resetera junk food thread. The banter isn't serious. I don't think Will Sasso was being serious either.
Ya'll are trying to pour a gallon of bullshit into an 8oz cup, when we are just having fun here.
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Jesus Christ, shots fucking fired.
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he ain't lying, they really do pull this shit lmao
Aren't New Yorkers always going on about how outsiders simply don't get the depth of all your regional cuisines or whatever? As many of the replies in this thread attest. Same goes for other cities, if you can believe it.
I'm telling you, if you want to insist on the type of definitions that a tourist would use, be my fuckin' guest
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I think the internet has collectively pumped that shaft dry. Give it a few hours to recuperate.
The only people genuinely acting like that are the Inside Foods, Buzzfeeds and whatever basic social media site goes to Harlem for an hour and comes back acting like this is some revolutionary thing when people who've lived in and around New York have known about it for years and we've kept our mouths shut about it because it's just cheap junk food that keeps us going.
I mean the dudes later posted in the OP are clearly having fun at the expense of And Now We Feast. Talking about how you need a "B" health grade, dirty flat top, the "half and half," etc. "Legendary" is being put on in this case by transplants to New York who are in their own heads about the glitz and glamor of a city they just got to, not realizing that there's an entire other portion of the city they'll never go to because it's not filled with affluent white people where they can get bottomless mimosas for $25 and eggs Benedict for $35 topped with truffles on an artisanal English Muffin that doubles as brioche.
At least I appreciated when Bourdain would go and do his show at some of these places because at least he was real about it. He didn't act like he was "discovering" some new food trend. He treated poor food with the reverence it deserved. Maybe it's a function of him being from Jersey and understanding that grease is what drives poor people and cheap comfort food is more of what some people need than some over the top deconstruction of chicken noodle soup.
Steamed hams but Superintendent Chalmers is from New York.
He is. He's from Utica.
I'd like to say yes. It's in all Greek menus at places I've been too and it's super easy to find as most supermarkets cater to European cheeses in my experience. At last in NYC.
More of a Halloumi guy myself, which is also as prevalent. There are sizable Greek communities in New York and the good is fantastic.
It is funny to see the hipsters in Brooklyn take the sandwish, add some kale and charge $15 cause it's grass fed organic beef which is all about the community and stuff lol