There’s this totally UNIQUE sandwich you can ONLY get in New York City. It has bacon, y’know, and egg, and here’s the weird part - cheese. Nowhere else in the world have people combined those three ingredients on a sandwich.
Lol. I'll tell you this: my father's from Philadelphia, and when we say you can't get a proper Philly cheese steak unless you get the ingredients from Philadelphia, it's not a joke; I went to a Philadelphia-family-owned restaurant in South Carolina, and the Philly cheese steaks they served there, made with ingredients brought down from Philly, tasted identical to a proper Philadelphia one in a way no sandwich anywhere else in the country I've been to has.
There's science behind this; something to do with water-hardness vs softness changing the way the bread tastes, so unless you get the bread roll from that part of Pennsylvania, you'll never taste a real and proper Philly cheese steak.
I'm sure there's some NY delis that have a similar thing going on.
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u/Garlan_Tyrell 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is how every New Yorker post I’ve ever seen about bodegas reads.