The Chopped Cheese’s Sharp Rise to Fame

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/nyregion/chopped-cheese-sandwich-harlem.html

by samclemens • 10 years ago

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OtterCoder• 10 years ago

How is a sandwich review in any way 'imperialistic'?

Guy has opinions about a sandwich, guy exercises his fourth amendment right to share that opinion. Other people disagree, which is also fine. End of story. How is this even news?

sithadmin• 10 years ago

guy exercises his fourth amendment right to share that opinion.

Wrong amendment.

But I do find thinking about the implications of the Fourth Amendment for sandwich reviews to be infinitely more amusing than the article at hand, so thanks for that.

qq66• 10 years ago

Opening the bread to inspect the contents: illegal search.

Holding it with one hand: illegal seizure.

Reviews based on the above: subject to the exclusionary rule. All mentions of the contents must be stricken from the record.

mc32• 10 years ago

Well, you have to take things with a grain of salt..,

"And it did not help that the reporter called the bread a “sub roll,” not a hero, as it is commonly called in New York, revealing herself to be an outsider"

I mean, if you have to reduce criticism down to cant or a regionalism to support your point of view, then I think that point of view is very weak.

I mean, the irony is these same people are the ones who will say, you have to see things from a global perspective (fine by me), we're not an island but then go right back into ultra-islander mode.

douche• 10 years ago

Looks delicious, like a low-rent cheesesteak.

The sandwich I wish would grow some legs is the ham hoagie. Apparently this is a sandwich that only exists in north-western Maine (I've never been able to find it anywhere else), but it is simple, cheap and delicious. Take a sub roll, and load it up with provolone cheese, sliced ham, and bacon, optionally some mustard and mayo, and toast it until the cheese melts.

marcusgarvey• 10 years ago

Sounds similar to a grinder from Philly.

brightsize• 10 years ago

Or a grinder in pretty much anywhere in New England.

slackstation• 10 years ago

If a simple sandwich gets famous and then goes up in price, it isn't the fault of people outside the neighbourhood, it's the fault of they guy who runs the bodega on the corner. He realizes that he can do business where last week a chopped cheese went for $4, this week, he can sell it for $10.

He's making a profit from the demand. People get mad that things get popular but, that's just a small downside for an otherwise hyper-efficient capitalist system works. Also an option is making them at home for next to nothing. Bread, ground beef, provalone cheese, some spices and thinly sliced lettuce? It's not like this would be that hard nor expensive to make.

justareader• 10 years ago

please rtfa.

what the article describes is nothing like what you are arguing about. There's nothing about the price going up at the original bodega.

fred_is_fred• 10 years ago

Serious question - how is this different from a cheesesteak?

DrScump• 10 years ago

The meat is hamburger (ground beef), not steak.

The Chopped Cheese’s Sharp Rise to Fame

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