re: Why do New Yorkers think a Bacon Egg and Cheese sandwich is some specifically NYC thing?

well i won't reject bacon,, think peppered fatty goodness

yes please

but 99 cent tacos? chorizo suffices

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They put that shite on a bagel

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Fresh made bagel with crispy bacon, over medium egg with heavy pepper and light salt, and cheddar cheese was my usual order at a deli before work. I'd get an everything bagel with cinnamon apple cream cheese every now and then to mix it up. Coffee and orange juice. $5 at most delis in the 2001-2003 era.

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No. According to whom?

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Bagels are a jewfood so putting bacon on one is an odd choice

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Weirdly enough, on social media it is. “Bodega” culture, which is itself trying to make average convenience stores “special”

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It is the strangest thing in the world. The bastards will drive to Myrtle Beach on vacation, stopping at multiple convenience stores along the way, and when they get home, hell even while in dirty myrtle, claim that convenience stores ONLY exist in NYC. If you asked one of them IN the convenience store they would insist that the very establishment they are standing in does not exist outside of NYC. Its actually pretty impressive that the entire community is so emotionally invested in something so petty and demonstrable false....

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They say it in a way that assumes that everyone else wants to live there but couldn't hack it, afford it, or "make it".

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I like New York. It is a fantastic city at least in the top 5 worldwide in my opinion. I wouldn't live there if you gave me the damned place. It is simply too much...too many people, too much stress, just too much. I would not make an attempt to hack, afford or make it....because it is not a nice place to live by any measure. It is a fantastic place to visit, about like Six Flags. I also would not live at Six Flags but enjoy taking the kids every 3 years or so. I feel exactly the same way about my hometown Atlanta. Love Atlanta. Until I was 30 or so I did not think there was anywhere else on the planet to live. I matured and had the means to find out otherwise. Each to their own of course but most of the defense of living in places like NY and London is based on the need to justify not moving the frick out....

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people from louisiana and texas are pretty bad about this too

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People from Louisiana are right to do so. Not ALL food in Louisiana is great but a damned good bit of it is fricking fantastic and unique, or was until the mid 80s or so. This is not true of Texas. In my opinion Texans do 3 things better than most, sausage, commercial beer and ice cream. Thats a pretty impressive list by most areas standards but it is not incredible.

I've only heard about this from this thread. I have 3 friends from NYC. One still lives there. I messaged all 3. Only one has replied as of now. He says, "Bro, no idea, honestly. It seems to be select people on the internet making a big deal out of nothing."

2nd morning waking up to this thread, I’m going to find a quality BEC sammich right now.

The most geographically unique breakfast sandwich in that area is the pork roll egg and cheese sandwich.

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Fresh made bagel with crispy bacon, over medium egg with heavy pepper and light salt

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Wait, they think putting pepper on eggs is some code they've cracked?