More About Pizza and Heroes

I had a meatball hero today. It was delicious. It was what people who come back to Long Island look for. It makes eating an imitation of this whether it be called sub, hoagie, grinder or any other name in any other part of the country very disappointing. Once you have had the real thing nothing even comes close!

Long Island Bagels Update

I was with my kids and grandkids in New Jersey last week. They assured me that my first visit to Panera Bread would be enjoyable. I ordered a poppy seed bagel with veggie cream cheese (They didn't have lox spread). The first clue should have been when they asked if I wanted it toasted. I never heard of a toasted bagel until my brief hiatus in Upstate NY when all they had were Lender's Frozen Bagels. I never got used to them. The second hint in Panera was the cream cheese. It was handed to me in a container that had a plastic seal. I opened it and spread it on my "bagel".

I guess for someone out of the area this breakfast could have sufficed but all I kept thinking of was an everything egg bagel with chopped chicken liver or an everything bagel with lox/cream cheese spread and not plastic wrap with it!

I know I am spoiled but that goes with living on the Island where the best food in the world is. Nothing else even comes close!