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West Coast Starvation

07.20.2009 · Posted in Home and Garden Articles

The West Coast is famous for many of the rare exhibits of our country. California has the coasts, Oregon and Washington have the lush forests, and even Texas can claim a home in the West with it’s circus of entertainment and adventure. However, I can’t shake the different kind of excitement that is offered by our opposing coastal friends and their culture on the East Coast.nn I seem to always have found my home in the Western United States, so my exposure to the East Coast has been limited to visits there. Returning from these visits, I would always feel a loss of the certain charms I saw in the East that were vacant in my own part of the world. Maybe with great effort, we can bring some Eastern delights to our side of town. nn I’m not the first to mention this, but the number one East Coast trademark has to be their pizza. Let’s be serious and note that California Kitchen and their pizza chips are not what I’m talking about. Pizza needs the unbeatable depth of the Chicago deep dish. Not even Domino’s can give you that. nn East Coast pizza can’t be ordered anywhere on our side of the country. This melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness can only compare to the great Italy itself. When you have to fold the pieces in half, wipe the drippings from your elbow, and stretch the cheese across the table, you know you are eating at a real pizzeria. nn Search all you want to in Utah, California, Washington, or even the laughable pizza of Texas, and it won’t hold the tiniest candle to New York City’s or Chicago’s perfected pizza pies. However, man cannot live on pizza alone, and there are other like enjoyments depriving the westerners. Not surprisingly for me, I’m also referring to food in this case also.nn For example, there is a good reason they are called Buffalo wings. I’m not talking about Buffalo, Wyoming either. What Texas can do with barbecue sauce, the East Coast can do with chicken wings. Sure you can have the delight of gnawing on a wing anywhere, but the original and most scrumptious on the market comes only in New York. Just try to deny yourself a bucketful. nn I like hot wings just like the next person, especially smothered in bleu cheese, but my all time passion has got to be sandwiches. This passion was founded during my time in a place called Pittsburgh. This town has concocted the most unusual mouth watering creations ever found on a sub. The cheese steak sandwich taking the cake, with steak, cheese, coleslaw and fries — this is all on the sandwich, mind you — is a shame to miss out on. nn Also, if you are a converted Reuben fan, you haven’t had the best until you come to Pittsburgh. Plus only Pittsburgh, or even the entire East holds the rights to other culinary treasures like gyros, pierogies, and pitas. You’re taking quite a risk asking anyone in California to make you something like that. It’s better not too, so they don’t get embarrassed. nn Too many of my cravings have been left ungratified because I sadly live on the wrong side of the country. However, while we may not have these certain things for ourselves in the good old West, we do have claim to our own luxuries that have no business on the Eastern seaboard. These favorites of the East Coast must make the east what it is, and therefore they can keep it too themselves. I can always come back for a visit.

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