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by call me Kat on February 8th, 2008

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Are there any "regional" things that only happen where YOU live? For example, in Illinois, they play a lot of Euchre, but when I moved to Cali, nobody had heard of it there. Ham salad is a common luncheon staple there, but nobody had heard of that either

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  • by FLYxNIGHT on February 9th, 2008

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    I don't know that it's exactly exclusive to the Philadelphia-NYC corridor (by which I mean New Jersey and the things that immediately surround it to the west and south-west), but Pork Roll, which may also be called Taylor Ham, is something I have rarely seen outside the region. Typically served with egg, cheese, or more often both on a hard roll, it used to be the stereotypical NJ breakfast. These days, it's a caramel machiatto from Starbucks, which costs as much, is arguably healthier, and available even as far away as in Rayong Province, Thailand. Universality is criminality spelled with a "univers". As for me, a Pork Roll, egg, and cheese is one of those things I could eat three meals a day, and it's especially good with sauteéd green peppers and onions smothered on it. Or, you could just pump the fat and cholesterol into my heart with an IV - whichever. And I'll have a 24 oz. coffee from Wawa with mine.

    Wawa is another of those things - the ubiquitous Pennsylvania/South and Central Jersey convenience store of choice, which also has a few locations in Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. It's one of the reasons I could never leave this part of the country permanently, and my household proudly pays them about $10,000 per year for the privilige drinking their coffee, eating their cold cuts, and obtaining our cigarettes there. Factor in the additional $4000 or so a year in gas we buy there alone, and you'll understand my disappointment that they are not a publicly traded company. It's sort of hard to explain, but the days in my youth when I thought 7-11 was better were best described as a time of naiveté. I chalk them up to lack of exposure. If there was a convenience store chain war in this country, I would take up arms for Wawa. It's the only part of this country I miss when I am in the Netherlands. Try finding a pack of cigarettes at 4 a.m. in Amsterdam - or a coffee of more than 4 ounces, for that matter!

    I'm sure there must be more to the place where I dwell, but in 35 years, I'll be damned if I can tell you what it is. All I can advise you is to enjoy both, but ironically, to never buy a Pork Roll, egg, and cheese sandwich from Wawa. This is the most indispensible advice you have gotten since don't go out in the rain without an umbrella... or not to "engage" a prostitute in Rayong Province without protection.

    Feel free to have a Starbucks, however.

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    • Starbucks, ick. Except for the Strawberry and Cream or Double Chocolate Chip Frappachinos, of course. We used to go to Chicago when I was a kid for the "Pig Bread" at a small bakery near the stockyards. It was a round, flat loaf of bread with cracklings cooked in it. We'd buy it still warm from the oven, and eat it right there in the car. Never seen it anywhere else but there.

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      by call me Kat on February 9th, 2008

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