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[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago

They also think they have the best of all of the above, they do not. I was there last month the pizza was ass I've had better from just about every other state I've been to, and they have fuck all for good soul food. Ask a New Yorker for some grits, biscuits and gravy, fried spaghetti, porkchop sandwiches, or collards and watch their fucking head spin. Then ask about barbecue, and when they answer, ask what style that barbecue is and the head twists right off because half of them don't know Memphis style from Western NC style if they even knew there were different styles at all.

Then they move anywhere and get pissed off that other places aren't the exact same as NYC, go the fuck back then idiot!

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Tbf I wouldn't want most of that soul food anywhere. Biscuits and gravy is good, the rest... Not my style. Unsurprised there isn't a bevy in NYC.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago

"Ayy if NYC doesn't have it, fuggheddabbouttid."

-I'm walkin' ova heah.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

So you couldn't find soul food in New York, and we're supposed to take you seriously?

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hey I don't live there, I ask where to go and I'm told "Idk we have a Popeyes." If you come to my city and ask for good Italian I'm not gonna send you to fucking Domino's (even though Domino's is legit better than the last slice I had in NYC, thing had dough made of drywall.)

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do you have clue how many pizza joints are in New York City? For an idea, at night, look at the sky. But not in New York City.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 days ago

I've been to enough of them.

[-] Snowcano@startrek.website 10 points 3 days ago

I’m just going to say it: NY style slice pizza is shit. And the thing is New Yorkers know it too. That’s why they fold the slices in half to eat it, they want it to be over as quickly as possible.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

Tbh NY "style" pizza is fine, even great from some places, but it is better outside of NYC than inside. They're not even best at their own style.

[-] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago

Southern food sucks. I fucking said it.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Bless your heart.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

they actually have new york barbecue, but its so sad and pathetic youd mistake it for pig feed

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

my dude i live in california our barbecue is grilled.

the grass can always be browner

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

In fairness to them… BBQ comes from Virginia. But we didn't really develop our own unique style, so it sort of faded out somewhat. We have BBQ here and it's usually NC or some other style (I think generally sort-of-TX more than anything, but NOT quite TX). We have some good places and some meh places.

It sucks that we don't have VA style BBQ, but............ eh. I'll take good food whatever the source. :)

[-] jeffep@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago

Always cute to watch Americans argue about good food 😶‍🌫️

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I'm a food enthusiast, personally. I love the fusion of cuisines. For example, many European cuisines were able to do amazing things with tomatoes and potatoes. And one of my favorite dishes involves Japanese curry, which went from India to England to Japan.

We have so many tasty food options these days, and it's because you can get so many more ingredients all over, and people share ideas and "steal" ideas and make them their own and make them better. :)

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Now that I've never heard of, so I assume you're correct lol.

[-] afromustache@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Even if you do manage to find good pizza in nyc the prices are beyond absurd for what you get. I feel like NJ (I live in south and work in central) tends have more consistent quality pizza for much cheaper, although I must admit it's been a while since I spent anytime in NYC so my info maybe a little out of date.

I have never tried Chicago or Detroit or any of those styles although I'd be interested if anyone knows anywhere in those parts of Jersey that are good at them.

I will also say that the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers I know talk about the almost omnipresent rudeness like it's a positive thing? Always has baffled me.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago

Even if you do manage to find good pizza in nyc the prices are beyond absurd for what you get.

I mean most places raised the price from $1 to $1.50 for a plain slice but I wouldn't call that absurd.

A big slice with toppings is ~$5 by me, which seems reasonable for what's essentially a meal.

Oh my god, I'm from central North Carolina, we call New Yorkers "halfbacks" because they move to Florida, hate it there, so they move halfway back, to North Carolina. And then you get "where I'm from, we..."

I have now decided to no longer tolerate that behavior in my presence. Next time I hear a fookin noo yoaka start a sentence about where he's from, I'm taking hostages.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

Tell 'em to keep going!

"Where I'm from we-"

"I don't fucking care. Go back if it's so great. Now."

If they wanted it to be a little similar but cheaper they should have moved to fucking NJ.

[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 points 3 days ago

I grew up in Florida (sorry about us clogging up your mountain towns in the Fall). I share the rage. That accent actually triggers me.

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I had a coworker years ago that was from Miami originally. I still remember the bumper sticker on his car that read "Miami. Flee it like a native"

[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago

I was back in Florida a couple years back. I'd been away about five years (I now live in Hawai'i) and had to go to Miami for a day. The overwhelming feeling I got while driving in Florida was that everyone wanted to be somewhere else lol

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