>>21373931
at least you didn't grow up a CHASShole or a Shipley sissy or attend public school like Masterman or Central.
>>21373928
I'm unsure, when I was growing up in philly the mediterranean food we ate in the north was a greek place called Dmitri's which I heard closed during covid. for the most part, fishtown was an extension of the sketchy dumpy neighborhood stretching from temple to frankford ave; it sounds like fishtown has changed a lot and from the amount of childhood friends that have bought houses there i assume it's being gentrified like how passyunk and university city was when i was growin up. a lot of the eastern european and jewish places i remember as a kid were delis and diners out in the suburbs as far as the mainline or downingtown or jersey or whatever. since moving to the west coast i look back at the latin and asian food in philadelphia with disgust, maybe it's changed since i left, if i still lived in philly today i would be looking for as much of those heirloom amish products i can get -- looking back i understand why people from DC and NYC and Jersey and the Mainline would make the 1-3 hour train/drive to sunday's rittenhouse farmers markets, the next closest major city with that quality of produce at that price is probably Montreal -- along with the really good rye whiskey and beer and gin from those distilleries that have been around longer than most of America.
>>21373958
chubby's still doesn't taste the same, even when you're blackout drunk. i thought woodrow's was very good when they first opened. vernick's cheesesteak was a meme. ishkabibbles and jim's gave off tourist vibes. never ate at the tourist slop like pat's or geno's