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Citizen complaint of the day: South Boston's latest addicts making East Broadway unsafe
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The complainer has a good
The complainer has a good sense of humor. haha I live in South Boston and this complaint is accurate. I would also add the double parking for this business on Broadway is dangerous as well. It's in a bad spot. It's a high traffic area. I hope they can find a solution before someone gets hurt.
I think Adamg got beat up by
I think Adamg got beat up by someone from South Boston as a child.
Those pantywaists?
Sorry, but go read the rules to being a Gaffin hata again: Everybody knows I'm a frickin' fly-in from Nooyawk, which no Southie kid would ever admit to venturing near.
Can you throw down, Adam?
Love UHub and contribute often. Just curious: can you swing those things when you have to?
Oh, sure, I'm the Texas of Boston
Don't mess with me :-).
I'm the Texas of Boston
You were stolen illegally from Mexico?
Careful!
He's got the ebola!!
Who would have thunk it, the
Who would have thunk it, the day you hear complaints about beagles in Southie? What's this world coming to?
Damn Dogs
I think you meant bagels not beagles.
Damn spellcheck!
Just wait, soon they will be complaining about the dog walkers.
It is a pathetic spectacle to behold, the bagel junkies,
lying about in a carb-induced near-coma, sesame seeds littering their chests, spent schmear-sized containers of cream cheese scattered about them.
Time for a..
"War on Bagels"
Indeed!
We need a Bagel czar.
As a reformed bagel addict...
My last trip to the doctor's revealed a higher-than-normal cholesterol count. Now, oatmeal is the preferred mid-morning snack item.
From in the infamous NYT "sobo" piece:
Bagel addicts, where does it end? We all know double-parking is only allowed for dunkins, funerals, and any old local with green mass plates (usually all three at once). Get outta here bagels, go back to New York, and take your bagel-related crime with you!
It is also New Yorkish in that the bagels
aren't great, just like in NYC, where a really good bagel is increasingly nearly impossible to find.
Nothing is good enough...
for the wannabe Andelman.
The “wannabe Andelman”?
In one sense that is true. I have long expressed my admiration for the Andelmans as businesspeople. They’ve found a way to make an impressive living in food media, whereas I’m purely a hobbyist: as much as I love the food writing gig, I have to work in a day job outside of the industry to pay my mortgage.
I write one professional restaurant review every other week for the Improper Bostonian, a small lifestyle publication, plus the odd feature here and there. I have maybe 10,000 social media followers between Twitter and Facebook who like my ongoing commentary on the Boston food and drink scene. For better or worse, the Ooey Gooey Covered with Cheese Brothers are far more influential.
But I couldn’t do what they do. Their empire is predicated on prostitution: they will give a tug-job to any business that waves ten bucks at them. And they’ve gone further: Dave runs the Restaurant and Business Alliance, a Beacon Hill lobby that does awful things like try to get legislation passed to suppress the innovative food truck industry on behalf of his brick-and-mortar clients. You might also note that many of the restaurants he praises on his TV show just happen to pay RABA's thousand-dollar annual tribute. (He's also a big Charlie Baker supporter, reason enough for me to hold my nose and vote for Coakley: I like the food trucks.)
The Andelmans may be thriving, but it's at the oldest profession in the world. I can look in the mirror every day knowing that whenever I praise a restaurant, it’s purely based on my own personal opinion, free of commercial considerations. Unlike the Andelmans, I don't have to strap on knee pads when I go to work. I will never have to gargle at the end of the evening to get the taste of restaurant dong out of my mouth. But I give them credit where it's due: whoring may not be the most honorable line of work, but it is undoubtedly hard work.
(On a side note, on behalf of food geeks everywhere, I'd love to hear who you think makes a decent bagel, here or in New York.)
wannabee Andelman
I do not know the Andelman brothers nor Mr MCslim but I think that Mr MCSlim has just ruined his credibility
as a food critic and as a judge of character. It's one thing to write a somewhat unfavorable restaurant review
but to just slander people is totally unprofessional, repulsive and revolting not to mention it makes you look totally
foolish. Why all the hate???? What a pity!
It's not slander if it's true
Mr MC Slim is by no means the only one saying those things about the Andelmans.
yep, not slander
You are really reaching here with the bleating about slander and credibility. The Andelman's are the ones who lost credibility a long time ago and this is known, repeated and talked about by everybody interested in the local Boston food scene. Slim's views represent the majority viewpoint - you represent the minority opinion in this regard.
Clearly someone doesn't know the Andelmans
If I were an Andelman wannabe, I wouldn't be calling Boston Bagel Co.'s product so-so; I would be lavishly praising it after securing an advertising/lobbying deal from them.
Hi Dan,
Hi Dan,
Try not to get any of the ooey gooey on your keyboard while you're posting.
My favorite part of your
My favorite part of your incoherent blathering was your user name, where you made your entire spiel useless by showing us that you're actually just shilling for the gubernatorial candidate that MC Slim JB (who has spent years accruing the good will of Bostonians everywhere--remind me what you've done to establish your own credibility, anon?) made a passing feint against.
Are you a person, or are you a Perl script that specializes in character assassination of people who don't like Charlie Baker, anon? Inquiring minds want to know.
Born and raised in NY and on
Born and raised in NY and on weekend bagel breakfasts, I know a good bagel. You need to travel out of the city to get a good bagel in NY, Brooklyn and Long Island have their fare share.
As for Boston, Kupel's in Brookline is the best, IMO.. Don't go on Saturday though, they are closed for the Sabbath.
For bagels in the Boston area, I like
Katz's of Chelsea best. I've heard good things about Bagelsaurus, but haven't made it over there yet. I stopped going to Kupel's after their nasty health-code violation story a couple of years back, though even before that, I thought it had been on a long downhill slope.
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i actually kind of like the Boston Bagel Co's bagels, although only with cream cheese - I don't much care for the microwaved egg sandwiches. I'd probably say they have the best bagel in that area of southie, or maybe all of southie? If I want an egg sandwich I'll usually just go to Cranberry (and deal with the miserable attitudes of the girls who work there), or otherwise grab a ham & cheese on croissant at Provisions. What are your picks for southie breakfast-to-go options?
My favorite Southie breakfast is
the bacon, egg & cheese on English muffin from Sidewalk Cafe. I also like the diners: Galley (had me some linguiça and eggs there just the other day), My Diner (turkey hash) and Mul's (eggs and pancakes or grilled muffins).
Cafe Polonia is also fun on weekends: potato pancakes stuffed with Polish ham and bacon and topped with three eggs, plus some Polish beer. Some Saturdays I'll get a late breakfast of corn fritters and bacon and maybe an Irish beef stew pie or sausage roll at KO Catering & Pies. It opens at 11am.
Once in a great while, I'll get a potato, pepper, pepperoni and egg sub at Joseph's Bakery, but that's a giant, heavy breakfast.
Boston Bagel Co. isn't bad by Boston standards, but that's a rather low bar, and best bagel in Southie is lower still.
Yep, Bagelsaurus
Grudgingly, I have to say that Bagelsaurus makes a hell of a bagel. It is everything you could ever hope for in a boiled-and-then-baked breakfast bread. I haven't been to the new brick-and-mortar place, but the shop in Brookline serves a mighty fine bagel, and in a surprising variety of flavors.
I say 'grudgingly' because their breakfast sandwiches have managed to turn me against the best bagel I've had in Boston. If you want lox and a schmear, head a mile north to Kupel's because the argument isn't even close.
You also have the Tasty
You also have the Tasty Burger across the street and they are finally renovating the gas station next door to it and from what I heard putting the first Dunkin's on the East Side of Southie!
THE MADNESS ON L STREET!!!!!!!! ;)
Hey, I've got a green MA
Hey, I've got a green MA plate. So there.
(made it through inspection again this year, too...one of these years, they're gonna make me get a new one, but not yet)
Green plates in Boston...
are like diplomatic plates in NYC, carte blanche. Damn....I really want your plates.
Double Parking? South Boston? I'm shocked, shocked.
The guys bringing the cannon Henry Knox brought from Ticonderoga up to Dorchester Heights had to wait for someone to move their cart out of the way because it was blocking Dorchester Street at West Eighth.
Double parking is as Southie as people getting arrested for tree cutting in Cambridge and letting everyone know that saving a Norway Maple and some weeds on privately owned land is akin to Henry David protesting the Mexican War.
Double parking in Southie?
Since when have the locals complained about this? Everyone knows (even a relative outsider like me) that double parking on Broadway (East or West) in Southie is a known hazard.
Mind readers
How do you know if it's a Yuppie or long time resident who is complaining. I can tell you one thing, it's the Yuppies who are double parking on L Street and Broadway.
Sorry, but I live in Southie, too,
and when it comes to double-parking, everybody does it, yuppies and old-timers alike.
it's the Yuppies who are
Gosh, I wonder how they ever might have gotten the impression that this was acceptable behavior in that neighborhood.
Bageks in Southie?
You could take a piece of Wonder Bread and poke a hole through it and Bostonians would think it was a great bagel.