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Sheldon > wrote:

> On Mar 4, 9:50?pm, Stan Horwitz > wrote:
> > In article
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> > ?Sheldon > wrote:
> > > Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > > > ?Sheldon wrote:
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> > > > > You shouda ordered a kasha k'nish,
> > > > > some kishka, and tried the chopped liver... and ate a hot dog w/kraut
> > > > > washed down with a cel-ray tonic while waiting for a zoftig tongue n'
> > > > > pastrami combo on club, and a plate of fries with a fresh bottle of
> > > > > Heinz. ? And no sour tomatoes, what kinda Jew Joint is that???
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> > > > ?Pftthhggbbtt! ? ? No, he should have ordered what he wanted to eat -
> > > > and it looks like he did. ?:-) ? You want the knish and the kishka and
> > > > Dr. Brown's Cel-ray tonic, well, you should go and order it. ?:-) ?
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> > > C'mon, Barb... even you know chicken is no yardstick by which to
> > > measure a restaurant... everything tastes like schicken! LOL
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> > No single menu item could be a yard stick on which to measure a
> > restaurant, so I tend to agree with you. That's one of the reasons I
> > also ordered the kasha and the matzoh ball soup, both of which are
> > staples in a Jewish deli. It is also why I purchased their Kosher
> > salami, cucumber salad, and macaroni salad to go. The pickles and health
> > salad I ate at the 2nd Ave. Deli were also first rate. So was the food I
> > ate later that day at home.
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> > That being said, I don't claim my review was comprehensive, because it
> > was clearly not
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> Aside from any review I still wouldn't have gone all that way and then
> ordered plain old chicken, and certainly not at $21 for that half
> pigeon... it's actually not traditional for a kosher deli to serve
> roast chicken, they typically served boiled chicken (how do you think
> they make real chicken soup), that's why I bet the soup you had came
> from a can... if there was no boiled chicken on the menu then they
> definitely serve canned soup (doctored with lot's of eye candy

You're speaking out of ignorance. Boiled chicken was on the menu. I am
not a boil chicken fan and it was the same price as the baked chicken,
which is indeed a staple in any decent Kosher deli.