You Know You Are From Long Island... #59

59. Its rare to get really bad bagels or pizza on Long Island, almost as rare as it is to get good bagels and pizza anywhere else.

(This is from the list from the post of December 15, 2008)

In just had an everything egg bagel this morning. It was fresh and only like you can get on the Island. I have had people who have moved off Long Island tell me about the bagels and pizza they are now getting. Funny that they continue to compare them to the ones they got on the Island.

This is serious stuff! Since I had an 11 year hiatus from living on the Island, i have some experience in this. It is when you come back to visit or in my case to live that you realize what you were missing and that nothing even comes close!

It was at my Aunt Marge's and Uncle Torrey's in Bellmore about a year after we left that we visited. Aunt Marge had some fresh fruit and some hard rolls for breakfast. I buttered up a hard roll and took a bite and let out an "Ah!!!" I forgot. Now I remembered. I hadn't tasted that taste or texture in over a year! It was sublime. Where I moved to I was eating globs of dough that they called rolls. This was a work of art! A delectable delight!

My Uncle John came to visit and we bought two loaves of Italian Bread. We had half of it gone before we got home. He let out the same "Ah!"

We ordered pizza one night for some out of town friends. They were all "Ahing!" It was like a chorus of Ahs!

People come back for a visit and they list Pizza as a must have meal. My niece who is 13 years old recently filled out one of those online e-mail surveys. For her favorite food she listed Aunt Lucy's dumplings and NY Pizza. There is simply nothing like it.

This Morning On Long Island

Last Night On the LIRR

I love train travel! The Long Island Railroad provides some interesting illustrations in life. On the train into Flushing last evening I overheard a young man talking on his cell phone to a friend. He was heading into the city to meet this young lady he had met a few weeks ago in New Jersey. They were having their first date. All the arrangements were made. His mom said to him as he left, “Suppose she doesn’t show up?” He said to his friend, “Way to build up my confidence, Mom!”

True To Form

While my friends in the south and west think we are getting what the rest of the northeast is getting we really are not. If you'll excuse the pun, people who have not lived on Long Island just don't get our weather.

I have seen predictions of major snowstorms and it turn out to be nothing. I have seen predictions of freezing rain, have the temperatures moderate and again- just good rain just like last night. Just the opposite happens upstate- they get a warning and they get hit.

We have had many winters with no snow days. This is our coldest month. I'll start my seedlings as soon as I get all the Christmas stuff put away. That is life on Long Island. Then again some of our biggest snows have come in February, ...then melted and we are in the thaw!

Weather on the Island

Long Island's weather is interesting. Surrounded by water our temperatures often moderate. This morning was very mild and in what is our coldest month, we picked green onions from our garden and our goldfish were up thinking it was spring time.

That will all change this evening with snow and then freezing rain. Winter is here and we get the weather to prove it but quickly it changes. After this storm the ten forecast shows mostly sunny weather with cold temperatures. This will be our deep freeze. By February a thaw will come and by March spring clean up begins.