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Google maps entry with photos, menu, etc:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Your+Hometown+Deli/@39.839...

Street view: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8401111,-75.239345,3a,90y,10...

No pastrami on the menu, even though it's a NJ Deli. Hmm.

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Yeah, that's weird.

When I think Deli, it's usually something like this place [1]: http://firesideplainview.com/deliNsandwhiches.asp

Sandwiches, cold cuts, salads, drinks and some catering.

[1]Looks like it's really into Italian tropes with the Mussolini and Godfather sandwiches.

I'd associate pastrami more with NY Jewish delis than NJ delis. Actually, being from NJ, I didn't even know "NJ delis" were a thing, besides for Wawa. I'm going to just include delis that are in hoboken/newark/the rest of the NJ-side of the NY metro region as NY delis.

The closet thing I think we have are hoagie shops, but those aren't particularly special apart from the fact that we call them hoagies and not subs or even just sandwiches.

Maybe just me, but a place with the word "deli" in its name, without at least one of a Rueben/Corned Beef/Pastrami is weird, anywhere in the north east.

I can't speak for NE USA at all (I'm from SW UK, ha) but for me that's not at all a requirement, it'd almost be exceptional. I don't even know what Rueben is.

I gather it's quite different in the US though. (A 'deli' there being probably culturay Jewish? Whereas to me it's just a place that sells.. I don't know, cheese, olives, oily antipasti, anything it wants really just with an emphasis on fresh and nice and prepared or preserved in some way. Greek or Italian if anything, rather than Jewish.) Honestly the Street View photos someone posted look like a sandwich bar in a war zone!

One has to distinguish between a grocery-store deli and "a deli". The latter is strictly a type of restaurant (or walk-up food counter, if you want to distinguish that from a restaurant). Some of them might sell meats and cheeses and such but you wouldn't expect a random deli to do so.

As for a delicatessen shop, there are surely some not actually attached to grocery stores, but, for example, I'm unable to convince google maps to show me any in a region of 2MM+ people (in the [US] South) no matter which term I use containing "deli". If I needed to find one I'd probably search for "butcher", "grocer", or "market", and Google Maps confirms this is a good start for finding the right kind of store.

In the UK some supermarkets (as in, some branches of some chains) do have what you might call 'a deli counter', but that isn't what I mean.

Stand-alone delicatessens here tend to be only barely 'a restaurant' (even then more 'only barely a café', really) with one or two tables for two. They sell cheeses, biscuits, olives, other antipasti, pickles, perhaps some select nice sandwiches or bruschetta, etc. Some sell probably higher margin items like boxed teas, coffees, and biscuits, related merchandise like cafetières, cotton bags, and tea strainers.

They are decidedly not 'diner' type venues, the place linked on Google Maps would be called a café in the UK.

(To be clear I'm not saying anything's right or wrong, just that it's interesting, terminology, and something that's very loosely the same but also really different.)

War zone? The street could use paving but it looks like typical suburban neighborhood to me.

Yes, it's a regional thing there. You can confirm with google, though. Search for places with the name "deli" in it in the northeast US. You'll see most of them serve pastrami and corned beef sandwiches.

This is not my experience at all, and I've eaten from at least one deli in every state between PA and ME except RI, and grew up surrounded by Italian delis. The two Jewish delis in the area were called "kosher delis" and were attractions specifically because they were not the typical kinda-Italian-ish suburban deli, or the white-bread-American rural deli.

Not true for an Italian deli.

If anything, I associate "deli" with "Italian deli", and "Jewish deli" is the exception that needs qualification.

I wonder why it has a 50 foot antenna tower.

This seems like a pretty relevant question. Maybe this deli is perfectly located for some HFT play?

You'd expect that to use a different antenna, something directional and for higher frequencies.

E.G. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-08/the-gazil...

Go back in time on Street View and you'll see it was a Conrail family assistance center (?)... so maybe they used that to talk to the trains. Look at the elements on that tower and looks an awful lot like stuff I've seen out the window of a train. Little rectangular bow-tie looking things, mounted so their long axis is up-down.

Yes, those look like folded dipoles for VHF, which is the band railroads use.

I think I'd rather eat at McDonald's than this place. Warren Buffet has the right idea going to the McDonald's drive thru.

"Buffett"

"Warren Buffet" eats at the buffet.

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