Facilities near special train "V" line terminals?

On Dec 5, 10:49 pm, Justa Lurker <JustaLur...@att.net> wrote:
> hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> > Years
> > ago I had a knish (sp?) maybe one of the restaurants down there serves
> > them.
>
> Probably Yonah Schimmel, or perhaps Russ & Daughters, on Houston across
> from the 2nd Avenue subway stop.

Russ & Daughters is dairy, so it wasn't there! (Which is the famous
deli that closed after many decades a few months ago?)
I don't know Yonah Schimmel.

> And don't forget Katz's down the block !
>
> Ecconomy Candy on Rivington is worth a stop for some 'dessert'. Plus
> you could probably get some nice pictures in there given all the
> varieties of colorful candy.
>
> (See, we can agree on some things :-)

On Dec 6, 11:32 am, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Dec 5, 6:18 pm, "Joseph D. Korman" <joe...@> wrote:
>
> > Knishes come in either square or round. Most if not all squares are
> > potato. The round have a soft, flakier crust and come with vegetable
> > and meat fillings as well as potato.
>
> Someone said knishes were diary. Is having a meat filling then
> unusual?

There are so many other ways to serve meat, so why bother putting it
in a knish?

And it seems like the grease would easily break through the potato
wrapping, making it even more prone to fragmenting in the hand.

> * Was the cut out Y in subway tokens done for validation purposes or
> just for style? Later tokens did not have the cut out. I would think
> the cut-out just for style would add a lot of cost to minting tokens,
> but other agencies had cut-outs too. The Diamond Jubilee anniversary
> token had a small dimaond shaped cutout which was for style only, but
> that was later on.

Two possibilities: it takes less metal to make a coin with a cutout,
so it was cheaper to manufacture them; the mechanical turnstiles we
had back then needed to sense the hole so they would know you weren't
trying to use a dime instead.

One model of token had a slug of a different metal where the hole in
the previous version had been, presumably remanufactured so you
couldn't use the cheaper ones you'd hoarded.

On Dec 6, 11:57 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Dec 6, 4:22 pm, ste...@panix.com (Steven M. O'Neill) wrote:
>
> > Where are those? I want some Presidential dollar coins!
>
> I guess you can get them any bank. I got some in change from a ticket
> vending machine. They're kind of neat. Up to #3 or #4 now.
>
> There's still the original Anthony, Sacgw (sp?), and now the
> presidential, all interchangeable.
>
> I got a bunch of Eisenhower dollar coins which I don't think are worth
> anything extra being their the clad non-silver kind. Actually, I
> think the price of silver has remained pretty stable beyond the big
> bust of some years ago.
>
> BTW, I paid for my Metrocard from the agent in dollar coins, which I
> brought up with me since I thought I'd have to use the machine.

Where is this station agent who still handles money?

On Dec 8, 12:45 am, Phil Kane <Phil.K...@nov.shmovz.ka.pop> wrote:

> Seriously. my wife produces specialty cakes and desserts which are
> totally kosher and is a local expert in this area. Natural
> ingredients such as eggs, sugar, flour, vanilla, chocolate,
> vegetables, and fruit are per se kosher unless they are processed, in

What's "natural" about sugar, flour, vanilla, and chocolate? All are
very highly processed in a factory before they ever reach the
wholesale shelves that supply the baker.

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> This is news to me, but I see by the M-W Collegiate that "lard" has
> specialized to that meaning in contemporary English. The verb it comes
> from simply means to apply fat to, no specification of the source.
>
> What's the English word for rendered solidified beef fat?

Tallow?

John Mara

On Dec 8, 2:23 pm, VINCE <HOLVBPH...@> wrote:
> John Mara wrote:
> > hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
> >> Other than transit ticket vending machines, I don't use dollar coins
> >> since the merchant confuses them too easily with quarters. Our vendor
> >> machines are serviced by visually impaired people and it's not fair to
> >> them, though the machines do take the coins.
>
> > The Sacajawea and Presidential dollar coins do not have a reeded edge.
> > No one would have a problem telling them from quarters. Maybe they
> > should retire the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins.
>
> > John Mara
>
> How can they? They're still in the machines

A blind person might still be able to feel the difference using the
coin's front/back.

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> On Dec 8, 12:45 am, Phil Kane <Phil.K...@nov.shmovz.ka.pop> wrote:
>
>> Seriously. my wife produces specialty cakes and desserts which are
>> totally kosher and is a local expert in this area. Natural
>> ingredients such as eggs, sugar, flour, vanilla, chocolate,
>> vegetables, and fruit are per se kosher unless they are processed, in
>
> What's "natural" about sugar, flour, vanilla, and chocolate? All are
> very highly processed in a factory before they ever reach the
> wholesale shelves that supply the baker.

The beets, cane, grains and beans from which they are derived are all
kosher in their native states, but the finished ingredients cited
definitely need supervision. Sugar has been especially problematic
since it was (and still is by some companies) filtered through ground
charred (inevitably non-kosher) animal bones. While some food producers
do use dried vanilla beans, most use some form of vanilla extracts
distilled from beans using alcohol suspensions (and alcohol presents its
own kosher issues, depending on how it is derived) or vanilla powder
which mixes ground beans with other carriers of various derivations
which also could present issues.

On Dec 9, 2:26 am, David Samuel Barr <dsb...@> wrote:
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > On Dec 8, 12:45 am, Phil Kane <Phil.K...@nov.shmovz.ka.pop> wrote:
>
> >> Seriously. my wife produces specialty cakes and desserts which are
> >> totally kosher and is a local expert in this area. Natural
> >> ingredients such as eggs, sugar, flour, vanilla, chocolate,
> >> vegetables, and fruit are per se kosher unless they are processed, in
>
> > What's "natural" about sugar, flour, vanilla, and chocolate? All are
> > very highly processed in a factory before they ever reach the
> > wholesale shelves that supply the baker.
>
> The beets, cane, grains and beans from which they are derived are all
> kosher in their native states, but the finished ingredients cited
> definitely need supervision. Sugar has been especially problematic
> since it was (and still is by some companies) filtered through ground
> charred (inevitably non-kosher) animal bones. While some food producers
> do use dried vanilla beans, most use some form of vanilla extracts
> distilled from beans using alcohol suspensions (and alcohol presents its
> own kosher issues, depending on how it is derived) or vanilla powder
> which mixes ground beans with other carriers of various derivations
> which also could present issues.

Looks like we've just put Mrs. Phil our of business. :-)

On Dec 9, 11:56 am, i...@analysisandsolutions.com (Analysis&Solutions)
wrote:
> In <2ad1f608-7da4-437f-a252-707be0042...@o42g2000hsc..com> "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> writes:
>
> >My mother took me down to Orchard Street on Sundays maybe twice when I
> >was around maybe 10 or younger. The crowds were huge and frightening.
> >I don't suppose there's an Orchard Street market any more.
>
> It's still going on on Sundays.

I doubt it's anything like what it was 50 years ago.

David Samuel-Barr-Sinister wrote:
>
> Sugar has been especially problematic
> since it was (and still is by some companies) filtered through ground
> charred (inevitably non-kosher) animal bones.

Sugar filtered by bones...what?