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Bagel Consistency

by Derek on November 7th, 2011
Bagel Consistency

Yet another comic about the bagel place I’ve been going to. It turns out that there are a lot of ways to go wrong when your bagel order consists of six specific requirements. So far they’ve never messed up the “bagel” part of the order, so I’ll give them that. Yes, it’s always been a bagel. This time they didn’t toast it, otherwise everything else was just fine.

This wouldn’t be as much of an issue if their bagels were as awesome as the bagels at Terrace Bagels, but while they’re much better than other bagel shops I’ve been to. If Terrace Bagels is a 100, I’d say this place is scoring somewhere around high 70s. For reference I’d put a deli around 50s, and everything below that is some place that is outside of New York (though I’ve heard good things about Montreal bagels, so I’m not counting them out yet).

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Bagel Disbelief

by Derek on September 26th, 2011
Bagel Disbelief

We’ve been going to this new bagel place in the neighborhood and so far the only consistent thing has been their inconsistency. There are three guys behind the counter and it’s kind of a crapshoot who you’re going to get and how well they’ll be able to make your order.

I feel like I’m watching the training of the ultimate bagel people. You know, the guys who you yell the order at really fast and they remember it perfectly? Yeah, these guys aren’t there yet. They write down the orders and more often than not I’ve had to repeat myself when I make this order. So yesterday I said it to him really slow so that he had ample time to write it down. When I got home and sat down I found out, my bagel came with a slice of lox, a lot of onions and no tomato. Hopefully they’ve leveled up their memory and bagel skills by next time they take my order.

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The Scarlet Bagel

by Derek on April 28th, 2011
The Scarlet Bagel

I’ve known all this time that ordering my bagel with lox, cream cheese and tomato without onions was breaking the traditional recipe for this bagel. I just don’t really like onions in this combination even though I understand it’s like taking a letter out of a BLT. This was the first time I had heard of capers being in this bagel before so it took me aback a bit. Sure enough, a quick Google search reveals that this is indeed a thing. It kind of makes sense, a whole lot of salty stuff together in one bagel. Maybe I’ll try it next time for the full on effect.

Did anyone else know about capers on a bagel with lox? I wonder if this is something that has extended past the bagel mecca of New York into other regional bagel shops.

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Sandwich Man

by Derek on October 28th, 2010
Sandwich Man

When I was in high school I ate turkey sandwiches just about every day for lunch. Later on when I was living with my sister we’d have sandwiches with awesome cold cuts from a great deli nearby her apartment. Also she toasted her bread and put avocado in her sandwiches. Since then I’ve loved having avocado in my sandwiches. Ever since I became unemployed we’ve had these turkey sandwiches for lunch almost every day.

I wasn’t expecting it, but someone at the Key Food where I get my cold cuts now knows me as the “half pound of turkey and quarter pound of provolone” guy. So now I have a sandwich man. Or cold cut man to be more specific, but “sandwich man” sounds catchier.

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Free Rice Works Chips

by Derek on July 15th, 2010
Free Rice Works Chips

This is what the original sign looked like:


I had never heard of Riceworks chips before this so it was quite a confusing sign.

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Deli Prognosticator

by Derek on May 20th, 2010
Deli Prognosticator

This happens whenever I get a sandwich at the deli. After the guy slices the sandwich he looks at the two pieces very intently, then proceeds to wrap it in paper. Sometimes they just take a glance, other times they look like they’re trying to use the contents to read my fortune. Only other theories I’ve had were they’re checking for weird things that shouldn’t be there or if maybe they gave me too much stuff in my sandwich. Still though, they’ve never done anything but wrap it in paper after staring at the contents. Maybe someday something else will happen.

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Deli Buffet

by Derek on May 7th, 2010
Deli Buffet

Yes this actually happened. I watched a man purchase nearly pounds of deli buffet food at a price of $7.99/lb. It’s beyond me why someone would spend this much on some of the worst food you could possibly get for your buck. The deli guys seemed equally flabbergasted and gave him his bags of potato chips for free.

I remember one time I had deli buffet macaroni and cheese because I was curious and it looked good. My experience was similar to the first time I had tasti-d-lite which was that the food had all the texture of food, but the flavor was like eating air.

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Insect Free Lettuce

by Derek on May 6th, 2010
Insect Free Lettuce

Before I saw the menu for this new takeout place I had no idea there was any religious thing revolving around not consuming insects. I found this article about how the Torah prohibits the consumption of insects which means there are people who must go through great pains to clean lettuce and other vegetables so that they’re suitable for consumption. It’s weird that I haven’t heard of this until now.

I thought it was odd that the menu of this takeout place mentioned the lack of insects in their lettuce no less than four times which is why I googled it before posting this comic. The menu also says that the lettuce is greenhouse grown under “strict rabbinical supervision.”

I guess you learn something new everyday. This is like when I finally learned what Halal meat is.

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Deli Burgers

by Derek on April 8th, 2010
Deli Burgers

When I get takeout for lunch I usually go back to this deli that I went to because it was nearby work before we moved offices a couple blocks away. I’m just too lazy to seek out other delis which probably serve me food of similar quality. I know what I’m getting and I know the cashiers are lightning fast.

That said, I know that the burgers I get there aren’t the best burgers in the world. Usually I show up a bit late and since they don’t make burgers to order (it’s a deli, not a restaurant) sometimes I get the burger that was sitting on the back burner in anticipation of someone ordering a cheese burger. Then after they put it on the grill (or metal plate stove thing whatever it’s called) they proceed to press down on it squeezing all the juices out until it’s showing signs of crumbling and all dry.

I’ve even seen one guy squeeze it so much it fell apart and he had to toss it. I don’t know why they do this, maybe it’s some sort of liability thing with raw meat, but it kills me when I see it. Yet I still go back there and get the same burger because I’m just too lazy. Also for the burger, fries and soda it’s still a much better value than McDonald’s. Also I know that the patty came from ground beef slapped together that day and not some patty that has gone through the McDonald’s factory system that makes it oh so… gross.

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Deli Tips

by Derek on March 18th, 2010
Deli Tips

When I first started going to my current deli there actually wasn’t a tip jar in front of the grill area. I think in the past few months one was added. It was a jar wrapped in paper with no markings on it. Just recently they wrote “TIPS” on it because I guess people didn’t realize it was for tips.

The question is, how much do you give to the two guys who for nearly a year remember your order without even a word from your lips? On top of that they do it with a smile like they’re actually happy to see that you came in again that morning.

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