Sarah Palin gets a Cheesesteak and doesn't even go to famous Cheesesteak places or heart of Philly

[LynneSin]

http://www.tonylukes.com/directions.htm


http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/politics&id=6418537

Real politicians go to Pat's or Gino's for Cheesesteaks - those are the legendary cheesesteak places in the heart of south Philadelphia. But god forbid you put Sarah Palin in the heart of South Philly they'll boo the bejesus out of her so they found some no name place off Delaware Avenue.

And yes Gino's is the "english only" cheesesteak place but you still have Pat's OR you could go to south street to Jim's.

What a loser and what a bad photo-op for Sarah. That says alot that she didn't go into south philly, all politicians go into south philly to either Pat's or Gino's. It's tradition and she couldn't do it.

[provis99]

1. cheesesteaks are terrible.

just because its a tradition (an awful one) doesn't mean a politician should follow it.

[October]

4. Wrong!

Their cheesesteaks and pretzels are the best!

Hey -- while driving through the city, I saw women with OBAMA signs all over the Roosevelt Boulevard area (NE Philly). Now I know why!!!

Their signs were "WOMEN FOR OBAMA" and "MAMAS for OBAMA."

Smallish group -- but it was one of the most dangerous roads in the city!!! Brave souls.

[Tallison]

6. What's in 'em?

Isn't it like Steak 'um and mozzarella?

ETA: Come to think of it, I wonder what's in Steak 'um?

[jberryhill]

27. It's all about the roll

Not mozarella - provolone, American, or Cheez-Wiz.

Sauteed, thinly sliced white onions.

Quite frankly, people can argue about Pat's/Jim's/Geno's/D'Allesandro... I prefer the carts.

Mike's cart at the corner of 16th and Market is fine.

[Lithos]

35. The roll is part of it

It's the grease and roll combo. The grease can't be heavy and it can't make the roll soggy.

How can anyone not go to S. Philly and not get a real cheesesteak there? My only complaint is the parking which can be atrocious. .

L-

[Tallison]

36. What kind of meat?

And do some seriously put cheeze whiz on it?

[Hepburn]

37. Roast beef...thinly sliced...and covered with cheese and onions.

I am a native Ohioan...and that stuff rocks. Bad for the ateries...but who gives a shit!

:hi:

[Tallison]

48. I just googled for pictures of cheese steaks

Oh dear. Looks like dietary crack!

:hi:

[jberryhill]

50. I had to give it up...

I had one just about every day for a decade.

Finally got my cholesterol checked - my doctor told me I was going to die if I didn't make some changes.

I cut out the meat and cheese a couple of months ago, and have eaten more oats than your average racing stable. I'm down 10 pounds and feel great.

Once I get where I'm supposed to be, I'll go back to maybe one a month.

[noel711]

59. No, NO! It's NOT roast beef...

Yuk!

It's thinly sliced steak sauted in oil
with onion slices....

Sure its greasy, but its damn tasty,
and a cardiac on a good crusty Italian roll...

[msallied]

15. mmmm.... more for me then. I hope to die with a cheesesteak in my belly. lol

[LibraLiz1973]

25. Sacrilege

Cheese steaks are the food of the gods!!

[BlooInBloo]

56. BWAHAHAAH!!!!!

[GoneOffShore]

2. Hey - don't go hating on Tony!

He won a cheesesteak throw down against Bobby Flay!

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

17. Tony's was sure good

when i worked in Philly for a few months on a project eight years ago. There was one just off Market, as I recall and the steaks kicked ass. I always had mine "wit' and Wiz."

And Lombardi's pizza? Best Pizza EVER!

[11 Bravo]

3. I believe there are African-Americans in South Philly. They scare Sarah almost as much as questions.

[tazkcmo]

5. Ya know what?

Their scared of HER!

[Barack_America]

8. Yeah, I don't believe we'll be seeing Sarah in West Philly. nt

[SidDithers]

29. In before Bel Air...nt

Sid

[BrainStorm]

9. Doesn't South Philly have lots of Italian Americans still?

I was there some time ago and it seemed very Italian American. Do they still sell "water ice" on the corner?

[godai]

19. yes n/t

[Barack_America]

7. Tony Lukes is in South Philly, just not the Italian Market area.

It's on Oregon Ave., closer to the river.

Pat's and Geno's are overrated anyway, from what I've heard. I don't eat cheesesteaks myself.

[LynneSin]

10. But it's a tradition - one that most politicians have done in their lifetime

I know people think it's a silly one and I'm not questioning Tony Luke's. Just that Gino's and Pat's are world famous - you go there to impress the blue collar works saying "Hey I'm one of you"

[Barack_America]

12. Barack did the right thing and strolled through the Italian Market.

That's what you do.

But that area wouldn't have been nearly as "receptive" to Palin, lol.

[Voltaire]

24. Pat's and Geno's are Tourist Steaks

You can find a better steak all over the city. I do every time I go home for a visit.

[jberryhill]

28. The carts

Depending on where they get their rolls.

Some of the carts are great, but you have to make sure they have hand cleaner in there.

[jmowreader]

42. I've always wanted to ask this of a Philly resident

Say I showed up at your door and said, "let's go get a steak. I'm buying. You lead the way."

Where would we go?

[Barack_America]

44. If you want a good steak, without the lines of tourists, you go to a truck.

The only thing is that everyone's got their favorite truck, too.

[Rockholm]

31. I like Pat's.

Got violently ill from Geno's. Jim's on South Street has bad bread.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Gov Cheesecake Eats CheeseSteak!

Or at least that is what the headline out to be.

[whistler162]

13. wit' or wit' out?

[LynneSin]

14. Always wit out and I like American Cheese on mine

I was a Gino's fan until he did the 'English Only' shit - now I'm a Pat's fan

[PCIntern]

16. BTW: It's "Geno's"

Gino's was the hamburger chain here which also served KFC in its day...

'Jim's' is my favorite place...on South St.

[Barack_America]

18. I hear that Lorenzo's actually has great cheesesteaks.

I know that I love their pizza.

As a matter of fact, I think I'll go tomorrow. Their pizza sounds damned good right now.

[godai]

20. Dallesandro's in Roxborough is the best! n/t

[Teaser]

53. meh

I live in the Borough, and I do not care for D'Alessandro's.

And, I believe, they are under new ownership, no?

[Voltaire]

26. Everybody Goes To Gino's

Everybody in the North.

God I am aging. I sure loved Gino Giants though.

[BumRushDaShow]

39. Everybody goes to Gino's, 'cause Gino's is the place to go!

Yeah we're aging... LOL

Had many a birthday party at Gino's! :rofl:

[JoePhilly]

43. My problem with Gino's now is the "English only" thing ... because ...

and I'm not Italian ... but When I grew-up in Philly, if you went to Gino's, there were always folks in their speaking Italian.

That whole area was Italian American. And lots of folks in that neighborhood spoke ONLY Italian.

The guys I knew from that neighborhood were proud of it ... and for those Italian Americans who didn't still speak Italian, well, they made fun of them for forgetting where they came from.

And ... if you went into Gino's an spoke in Italian, they greeted you like you were long lost family.

I bet they still do.

[BumRushDaShow]

57. You're confusing "Geno's" with "Ginos".

We were talking about the hamburger chain "Ginos"... :)

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/jsf0864/page1.html

It's been awhile since I've been down to 9th Street and like others, prefer the vendor stands for cheesesteakfriedonions!!! LOL IMHO, cheese wiz is nasty on a cheesesteak anyway. :P My great-grandparents grew up in South Philly before the Italians came in. Still alot of AAs around but more on the west side of Broad now.

[JoePhilly]

61. Ok, to clarify ... the Philly CheeseSteak war is between Pat's and Geno's ....

Not Pat's and "Gino's".

But the original post refers to Pat's versus "Gino's" and so maybe THAT reference is incorrect (and I should have been more careful on the spelling -- but in my defense, it has been some years since I lived there).

Geno's has the English Only policy as I described.

On some common ground ... I agree that none of the well know joints is really "best" anymore. Some of those on South street received added publicity for being near the VET and so that they got on TV during Monday night football.

But like some one above points out ... the roll is critical. Fresh Amorosa rolls. Almost anything else falls apart, and tastes like crap.

As for chesse and toping, it depends. As a teen, at 2 in the morning, after a night in the bars ... WIZ plus WIZ fries was best (use the roll to wipe up extra cheese from the fries).

But during the day ... either American or Provolone, agree on the onions.

And the occasional Pizza Steak, or Cheesesteak hoagie (but never with Mayo).

[phillysuse]

21. I'm a Rick's cheesesteak lady - Rick is the third

generation of his family in the cheesesteak business and he is still at the Reading Terminal Market. Tony Lukes is a cheap chain and unfortunately he will be moving into the Reading Terminal Market - a political thing with Rick of rick's Cheesesteaks. Rick will be moving out to the Main Line and I hope he will do quite well but I will miss his cheesesteaks at the Market.

Tony Lukes is to cheesesteaks like sparking cider is to champagne - a pale imitation.

[willing dwarf]

22. East of 95 on Oregon Avenue?

What did she do, stop on her way up from the airport?

Tony Lukes? Who gave her that location. That is really weird!

[jberryhill]

52. She was auditioning at Charlie's Dream

They turned her down.

[MichDem10]

23. It wasn't MOOSESTEAK!!

:evilgrin:

[regnaD kciN]

30. I'm surprised she didn't go to Subway...

...so she could get "those good cheesesteaks, just the way we have 'em in Alaska!" :eyes:

[BlueInPhilly]

32. Did you read the comments in that article?

Where are these people from?

[MrSlayer]

33. Actually, this is one decision she got right.

Pat's and Geno's suck. Tony Luke's is hardly a no-name place by the way, it's quite famous here. He has places in several locations around the city including the ballpark. Of course, if she was really good she would have went to Jim's on South street which are the best in the world.

[maseman]

34. I've been to both

I like Gino's better.

[KharmaTrain]

38. She Couldn't Find A Parking Place

For her Yukon on those narrow South Philly Streets. I'm surprised...she'd be very welcomed at Gino's...IRC, Rudeeeee did a big photo op there during the primaries.

She's truly a "kept" woman now.

:rofl:

[BumRushDaShow]

40. Since the Phillies clinched the NL East yesterday, South Philly might not have been a place

for her to appear. The wandering drunk celebrating hoards were (and probably still are this morning) in full effect. She might have been welcoming child #6 in 9 months! :rofl:

[msanthrope]

41. Tony Luke's makes the best cheesesteaks in Philly---better

than Pat's or Geno's....but their Pork Italian is to die for.

It's not a no-name place--but I bet thy picked it because it's right off 95--accessible in case she needed to get out quick from booing crowds.

[BrainStorm]

45. Ok, Lynne. Let's kill her! Now! How dare she not go to Gino's!!!

She probably thinks Dominos is real pizza too!!

Oh the horror!!!!

[rvablue]

46. What I don't get is why is she spending two entire days in democratic voting city? n/t

Are they especially well known for implanting micro chips or something?

[johnfunk]

47. Send her a T-shirt reading:

"I ran for Vice President in 2008 and all I got was a lousy cheesesteak!"

Welcome back to Nowhere, Alaska, tootsie! Say hi to the witch-hunting pastor for those of us in the reality-based world!

[flvegan]

49. Could've had Olive Garden.

[BlueIdaho]

51. Sarah Lee? nm.

[jberryhill]

54. Put her out north of K&A and see how long before she gets picked up /nt

[JackBeck]

55. Yeah, but she could see South Philly from where she was eating her cheesesteak.

So it still counts.

Mmmm, cheesesteak. I just ate dinner and now I'm hungry all over again.

[BlueInPhilly]

58. Tony Luke's is well known for their roast pork sandwich

and broccoli rabe. Best in the city! For cheesesteak, I go to local pizza joints, but personally, I prefer chicken cheesesteak.

http://www.tonylukes.com/

[Sugarcoated]

60. My Philly born and bred husband

agrees - Tony Luke's roast pork rocks. For cheese steaks he prefers Steve's Prince of Steaks in NE Philly. I like the local sandwich place around the corner from my house just outside of the city.

But Lynnsin is absolutely correct - if you're running for office you go to Geno's or Pat's in South Philly.

And one more thing - you don't get food from a cart unless you don't get too skeeved if you find something weird in the food. I've got some stories, but I won't go there.

[zulchzulu]

62. I was trying to figure out where Sarah was at as well

Maybe South Street is where the liberals go... yep, if you're getting a cheesesteak, it's Pat's, ferchrissakes. And Gino's, being the English only hangout, is way off the list.

It would have been a hoot to have Sarah go to TLA for the midnight show of Eraserhead. It is about a baby after all... :rofl: