Thursday, June 25, 2009

♣ for: Dirty Deli and Smelly Deli

We have two Delis that are really close by, enabling them to be our “local delis”. The first one, Dirty Deli is closest to our office, and been rewarded its name cause of unclear decisions. It’s not too bad actually just…not the most clean place on earth, but then again so isn’t my room and I sleep there every night. Moving on. Pakistani’s who are really nice runs it, a lot of bilingual greeting phrases are exchanged and they always get all of my change in coins. The most interesting guy is by far the red-bearded one making the sandwiches. Like our doorman, Darren, he never shuts up. Problem is here it is literally impossible to interpret anything he says which makes sandwich buying intriguingly interesting. But as always a good smile and a portion of tranquil gets you far. Obviously the place deserved a good ♣♣♣+ only from the moment I spotted the red beard.

Smelly Deli
. You have to walk another block to reach this place, which immediately removes a ♣ just out of sheer exhaust. Since they have a much nicer and broader choice of menu it directly contains more unhealthy food as well (and the odor - hence the name). Which should automatically move ‘em up the ladder you think? Wrong. Remember the walk – if it wasn’t for the walk they’d be better ranked. This is America, home of obesity. We don’t do walking here. I can also never ever settle for just one thing as you pick your own food here. The decisions are endless with and overwhelming buffet and my mix often varies from fried bananas to rice and macaroni and cheese to many different assortments of meat and poultry + eggs in some shape all clustered together in a nice mix-mash. The range of food is nevertheless nice so they get a respectable ♣♣♣.

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