Philly cheesesteaks became big in Lahore
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Makes sense that the Cheesesteak would be a popular export. Its origins are Italian, and like other Italian foods you can make it anywhere if you get the prep and the ingredients right. It's also heavily customizable and can last a while like pizza.
IMO getting the bread right is the hard part, but I imagine a good chef will recognize that quickly. Philly has special bakeries that supply a lot of the steak places (Amorosos, etc).
Also I'm sorry but cheese wiz is disgusting. Get Provolone :).
I like cheesesteaks every once in a while, but the green chile versions around the US Southwest were my absolute favorite. I wish I could get them where live now. The tikka version mentioned in the article really piqued my interest though.
https://thechutneylife.com/recipes/dinner/spicy-chicken-chee...
Humans can't resist mixing food cultures. And music. Always where the best stuff comes from.
Do you have a good recipe? I've been wanting to add a really authentic Philly Cheesesteak to our menu at our bakery here in Vietnam but I don't have a lot of experience with that particular sandwich.
I know the American expats here would appreciate if we get it right though.
My grandmom's theory was that it was the water from the Schuylkill that made the rolls inimitable. I wish I had a recipe I could share with you, but instead I can only wish you luck.
You're going to want a hoagie roll [1][2]. They are shaped like a baguette and have the same ingredients, but way softer, chewy-er and denser. It's a process with multiple rises, then it's baked in steam to keep it soft.
This [3] seems to get the details right, but I haven't tried it. Conshohocken is a suburb outside of Philly known for microbreweries and baking so it's legit if that's the source.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoagie_roll
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR8oA5ACqPg
[3] https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/21448/real-italian-hoagie-...
You want a soft roll, not actually dense, despite GP’s statement but not airy like sourdough. In texture it’s closer to a hamburger or hotdog bun. In size and shape it’s like a sub or a hero.
Hogie rolls are long and soft, closer to baguette but with softer (less protein) flour and some light steam during the bake.
You could probably hack it with a baguette recipe subbing some AP flour, and baking at a slightly lower temp with a pan of water under the baking sheet.
edit: I also had some success in the past with a naan recipe that I didn't have time to cook w/ a flat-top, and rolled into vaguely hogie shapes. It had yougurt and a small amount of canola oil, which kept it soft -- that might be an option.
Edit: Forgot to mention. Steaming the roll is essential to a good cheesesteak. Even more than the bread after you've met a certain floor.
Cool, I didn't know that.
Maybe you are referring to The Cheesesteak Shop (est. 1982) which has 20 or so locations in the SF Bay Area.
Incidentally, I find the default cheese when you order in person (white American cheese) is better than provolone.
(I've had better steaks in Philly suburbs and NJ than in the city itself, too.)
typical philly cheesesteak is like… 800-1600 calories from what i can tell and not very much nutritional value. am i being dramatic?
Wake up and shovel donuts into your face, and then pack a bunch more carbs and fat at dinner and yeah that cheesesteak will definitely help kill you.
Eating mostly veggies and reasonable choices + a couple of cheesesteaks a week and you'll be alright.
Also, I wouldn’t say it has little nutritional value…it’s full of protein and carbs (which are nutrients).
Speaking strictly for myself, it's like a game day thing, but when I was younger it was up to twice a week. If you get full you can eat half and stick the other half in the fridge. Now a days if I'm doing a steak later in the day, it means I'm skipping a meal beforehand. I'll also ask them to add vegetables so it makes you feel full faster.
The big differentiator isn't really the calories but the cost. Like other Philly food, it's very affordable for not being fast food. It also gets cheaper if you order it in batches for parties, and it keeps super well so there are always leftovers. Because of this you just see it around Philly a lot.
Some fun ones:
Tribal People Try Spicy Korean Ramen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttRFYZXwddc
Tribal People Discovering Cheesecake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYQxH2-VM8
Tribal People Try McDonald's Breakfast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7oSDvuLjNE
Edit: Must admit the channel seems real/genuine although might be perhaps a bit exaggerated/click friendly.
They interview some of the people near their homes, etc. and it seems pretty honest - Chaudhary Rafique's Home Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy9n0y9L7K8
He takes me to this place where they were selling Philly Cheasesteakes, sold by Pakistanis(because 'halal'). It kind of blew me away when I learned nearly most of the halal PCs sold there were by Pakistanis. I guess the diaspora that returned to their country might have taken the delicacy to Lahore?
The Philly Cheasesteak itself was super delicious though. Couldn't stop eating and I went back to that place the next two evenings as well.
I also had a Philly Chesesteak in New York in some food truck right at the exit of One World Trade Center building. And I guess that was run by some Arab person. That was delicious too.
The area around the mosque is called Valley Forge. And its beautiful. Its also has some history associated with it(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Forge). I'm sorry no matter how much ghost walked these places. I just couldn't find the Chesesteak place.
Food trucks I guess are available all over New York, or may be I got lucky to find one right outside One World Trade Center.
If India / Asia starts eating as much meat/dairy as Americans/Europeans do, we're @#$%^&*.
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-type?coun...
In India, they just call it food. About 40% of Indians are vegetarian[1].
[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/08/eight-in-te...
This is how it should be everywhere. Non-vegetarian food is massively subsidised in the West. A Big Mac ought to cost tens of dollars, not five.
But of course, vegetables and such should be cheaper than meat.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...
https://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create-m...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56723560
The media keeps picking on my stakes, ICE engines, decently warm home, etc, because they get paid to divert attention. And then the naive do gooders pick it up and hammer their fellow working class citizens. For what? If everybody on my level makes his life 50% less comfortable we won't even make a single digit percent dent on the environment impact.
Don't shit on the environment. Don't leave the lights and heating on for no reason, don't throw trash in nature, don't get a 7 liter engine for in town driving and so on. Those are the only kind of things an average guy can realistically do. And most of it he can't afford to do anyway. But when you come after my steak sandwich this is where I draw the line.
You can enjoy it all you want if you take responsibility for its consequences. Right now the externalities of a lot of our actions are not taken into account for many things, and so the people who suffer the consequences are not the ones that are enjoying the benefits.
I was a strict vegetarian at the time, but I wonder how many döners a helicopter ride is.
> https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...
you're saying that the big polluters are Shell and Aramco, and then complaining that we're asking you to stop using ICE engines? Who do you think Shell are selling all this oil to?
> https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56723560
"The wealthiest 5% alone – the so-called “polluter elite” - contributed 37% of emissions growth between 1990 and 2015."
Given the forum we are conversing in, I'm pretty certain we're all in the world's wealthiest 5%..
> Don't shit on the environment. Don't leave the lights and heating on for no reason, don't throw trash in nature, don't get a 7 liter engine for in town driving and so on. Those are the only kind of things an average guy can realistically do. And most of it he can't afford to do anyway. But when you come after my steak sandwich this is where I draw the line.
So basically, "don't make me do anything I don't want to do" ?
Commercial and industrial entities. Retail for cars is little by comparison. See the 15 ships vs all the cars article.
> Given the forum we are conversing in, I'm pretty certain we're all in the world's wealthiest 5%..
What can I even say here? Why are you speaking for me?
> So basically, "don't make me do anything I don't want to do" ?
You don't need to maliciously "summarize" my arguments. I have already done so in the first sentence of the paragraph. And that was "Don't shit on the environment."
> I think you're misunderstanding the articles...
And I think you are trying really hard to misunderstand what I'm saying just for internet points.
And who are they selling to? At the end of the day, it's feeding us, the consumers
> What can I even say here? Why are you speaking for me?
An annual home/family income of more than 50k USD before tax puts you in this 5%. I think this covers the vast majority of people here
We where talking about personal ICE cars. Now you're switching it up to try to win the argument. I'm done with you as you are not replying in good faith.
> An annual home/family income of more than 50k USD before tax puts you in this 5%. I think this covers the vast majority of people here
And I still think you should only speak for yourself as regards to income. You pompous self righteous ignorant american.
That's kind of obfuscatory though. It's kinda like arguing that supermarkets are the ones responsible for bio-industry because they're the ones who buy so much meat from the farmers, while ignoring the demand created by their customers.
The argument is no way similar to meat and supermarkets, because no consumer demands that his goods be shipped with two stroke diesel engines that burn what is basically crude oil.
As I understood it regulating the ships is made difficult because they stay in international waters and off-load their cargoes onto small ships for the last leg of the deliveries. The companies maximise their profits because that's what companies do. If you have ideas about how to regulate against their pollution I'd (genuinely) be very glad to hear them.
With the meat thing, I basically look at purchasing as voting. If you buy goods shipped from around the world and you understand what that means from a pollution perspective then you're effectively voting for it to continue happening.
Personally I try to consider these things when making decisions. Not everyone is in the position to have the time or opportunity to look for alternatives and that's fine, but personally I find having that luxury and not taking it to be morally questionable.
Trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing
> If you buy goods shipped from around the world and you understand what that means from a pollution perspective
"You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local ...
Transport is a small contributor to emissions. For most food products, it accounts for less than 10%, and it’s much smaller for the largest GHG emitters. In beef from beef herds, it’s 0.5%.
Very little food is air-freighted; it accounts for only 0.16% of food miles.
Many of the foods people assume to come by air are actually transported by boat – avocados and almonds are prime examples. Shipping one kilogram of avocados from Mexico to the United Kingdom ... is only around 8% of avocados’ total footprint. Even when shipped at great distances, its emissions are much less than locally-produced animal products."
But the points you're making are fair. Indeed the pollution involved in meat consumption is a big reason why I don't eat meat. There are many contributing aspects to the carbon morality of the products we buy and I try to be mindful of them where possible.
Not beigh wasteful is all I can do and I can't even afford to be wasteful so that's that.
I heard that just over half the American military budget is for fuel
Anyway, feels good now that I'm older and there is more and more science backed evidence to show you can be healthy without animal based products and how much better it is for the environment, but I wish I could go back and tell that lonely 10 year old kid being mocked by other kids and adults that he made the right choice.
...and good on you "do-gooders" who have the strength to think beyond yourself and change your habits even if it isn't convenient to you. You make the world go round and better to be in
Yeesh.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-type?coun... (updated, Pakistan 20kg/person/year, 5x less people than India)
Its varieties include additives like chicken or meat but that's about it.
Almost always its given as a way of offering to "feed the poor" and anyone around just turns up and is given a handful.
Don't know if any other place does something similar.
Edit: yeah, plain tahri is just rice cooked with turmeric and garnished with deep fried onions or spring onions.
A way to mass feed a lot of people for cheap.
So maybe it's just a holdover term to dig don't any pulao mixed with a tharka?
At least the "tahri chawal" dish I'm looking at on google seems to be what my parents call pulao
Our version of rice is plain, without embellishments.
A paupers food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJP3x46PCZs
And a random pulao recipe
> Tehari is a rice-based dish that is popular in Bangladesh and Pakistan, as well as other parts of South Asia. While the basic preparation of the dish is similar, there can be differences in the ingredients and flavor profiles used in Bangladeshi and Pakistani versions of Tehari.
> One of the main differences between Bangladeshi and Pakistani Tehari is the type of meat used. In some regions of Bangladesh, beef is a popular choice for Tehari, while in Pakistan, goat or lamb may be more commonly used. In some regions of Pakistan, there are also variations of Tehari that are made with chicken or fish.
> Another difference is the level of spiciness. Bangladeshi Tehari is often spicier, with the use of more hot chili peppers and spices such as cinnamon and cardamom. Pakistani Tehari, on the other hand, may be milder in flavor, with the use of more subtle spices such as cumin and coriander.
> The type of rice used can also differ. In Bangladesh, aromatic long-grain rice such as Basmati is often used, while in Pakistan, a shorter grain rice may be used.
> Finally, there can be variations in the way the dish is served. In Bangladesh, Tehari is often served with a side of lentil soup and a hard-boiled egg, while in Pakistan, it may be served with a side of raita (a yogurt-based side dish) or pickles.
> Overall, while both Bangladeshi and Pakistani Tehari share many similarities, there can be subtle differences in the ingredients and preparation that reflect the culinary traditions and preferences of each region.
I have made some exceptional vegan cheesesteaks with marinated seitan and pumpkin puree + nutritional yeast "cheese" sauce. The key is the bread - if you can head to a local bakery for a proper fresh hoagie roll, the rest will follow. I personally like grilled onions and Bavarian mustard on mine. Fantastic sandwich - just don't put lettuce and tomato on yours!
Good start for cheese.
pumpkin puree + nutritional yeast "cheese" sauce
Ultra Orthodox Jews even follow the rules about not mixing fabrics in clothes. There are even “kosher” fabrics.
This in contrast to not mixing milk and meat, which is an expansion of "do not cook a kid in its mother's milk" from deuteronomy 14:21.
If you look at the two it would seem wearing linen and wool together is much worse than mixing milk and meat.
why is baffling, but thats religion.
For any given moral position you can keep asking why forever and never come to a satisfying conclusion unless you actually define what a moral is.
Is it just an aesthetic judgement on behavior? Is it a product of the ability to evoke pleasure & pain? Is it simply whatever you desire? Does the term even have any meaning at all?
Does anyone have a well sourced "origin story" for why mixed clothes might have been prohibited in Judaism?
It's one thing to dress modestly[0] and to exhibit moderation (circumstance will determine what is appropriate dress for the occasion, whether it is appropriate for one's station in life and within one's means, and so on). It is another to deny others goods simply because others do not have access to them. The latter is envy and a vice.
That seems to misconstrue the nature of law, and we're talking about religious law here (though the distinction between religious and secular law is made first by Christ in Matthew 22:21). There is nothing inherently wrong about eating a cheeseburger per se. The combination of meat and cheese isn't intrinsically evil. So you have to ask what the purpose of these various restrictions are. Naturally, all law has a moral good in mind. That's what law does: it determines the moral or natural law within the given circumstances for a certain end, so a prudential element is involved (and still further in its application).
One answer is that these dietary and clothing restrictions exist as a discipline that perfects its practitioners spiritually. For example, Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays not because it is intrinsically immoral to eat meat on Fridays, but because canon law includes this restriction as an act of penance that is binding on all Catholics. Same with fasting required by canonical law. The discipline of self-denial, of the care shown to meet the law's requirements, its sacrificial nature, point to a higher end for which something is sacrificed. I mentioned penance, which is very important here, but the development of temperance is another, where temperance is the virtue of moderation and spiritual order, which is to say true freedom from the irrational, destructive, and slavish indulgence of the appetites that human beings easily fall into. There is also the cultivation of right obedience that conforming oneself to such practices facilitates. Willfulness is opposed to reason and reasonable faith and trust in divine providence, and human beings are well-versed in acting willfully and even against what they know is right (which is the definition of sin).
Another function of, e.g., Jewish dietary law was to set the Jews apart from other people in preparation for some divinely chosen end.
In any case, the point is that these prohibitions and restrictions are not necessarily condemnations of some behavior or practice as such, considered in itself. They can involve restricting practices that in themselves are morally good as an instrument for some other end. Sacrifice works that way. We sacrifice lower goods for higher goods.
>One answer is that these dietary and clothing restrictions exist as a discipline that perfects its practitioners spiritually.
And what is the need to perfect oneself spiritually?
>Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays not because it is intrinsically immoral to eat meat on Fridays, but because canon law includes this restriction as an act of penance that is binding on all Catholics.
Penance is described by catholics as 'good', which is a moral judgement.
>We sacrifice lower goods for higher goods.
Right, but trading a lower good for a higher good is still an expression of morality, you're just preferring the greater good of the two.
Consequentialism says you look at something's effects and work backward from there. Deontology says you do it by interpreting some moral code. (Usually one received by divine revelation from a source wiser than you, which is why you'd believe you should do it that way.)
Obviously you're free to reject deontological ethics, but It's more accurate to say "I disagree with how they do ethics" than to say "what they're doing is not ethics".
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So I think its fair to say "random rules aren't ethics" instead of your qualification, which is what you get when you're so mired in the names of things you don't think that people can make statements on whether something is ethics or not, which is outright not true.
Ethics are subjective, not objective. I think people can make statements on whether something fits within their definition of ethics.
If you can think of an objective way to define ethics, one that all reasonable people operating in good faith would agree with once they heard it, then you'll have done something no philosopher has ever achieved.
Ethics are a function of values. First you place values on different things, like happiness or virtue or the preservation of life or obedience to god (if you think there is one). Then you work out the implications of how those values influence the decisions you make, and then you have ethics.
As long as you're doing this process, it's ethics. It's somewhat analogous to math in that once you define some axioms, then you can do math. Different people might choose different axioms, after which they won't agree on everything, but they're both still doing math.
Morality is a composite of several concepts.
(A) You start with pain and pleasure -- the definitions I use for those words cover every living thing that tries to achieve homeostasis, with pleasure being moving towards and pain as moving against. This covers pretty much every living thing, including microbes, plants etc.
(B) Sufficiently social creatures create a meta organism (the society.) Virtue and vice are the pleasure and pain of this meta organism, respectively. As an aside, this can clash with (A). Consider the soldier jumping on a grenade to protect comrades (painful-virtuous), or the sexual deviant (pleasurable-vice.) As virtue and vice are a function of a given society at a given time, that is why many say morality is relativistic.
(C) Sufficiently intelligent creatures have the ability to mirror neurons; empathy in other words. Apply this ability to (A) to create the rules for the nodes that represent (B.)
Both Christianity and Islam preserve a place for Jews as Jews in their theology. Only Jews are expected to be required to obey all the rules in the received scripture. Which components of the Jewish law are considered to apply to non-Jews, or carried forward as part of the newer revelation, depends on their interpretation, including the function or purpose they're understood to serve.
Conversely, Judaism itself has both concepts and literal rules for determining and justifying which rules (or derivatives) are supposed to be applied to non-Jews.
Also, though I'm not sure about Islam's perspective, both Judaism and Christianity understand Jews to have (present tense) a unique relationship to God, and part of that relationship demands Jewish obeyance, at least part, purely for the sake of manifesting that relationship. So if God commanded Jews to stand on their head, it doesn't matter whether that rule served some efficacious esoteric purpose; the pertinent function of the rule from an earthly perspective is defining and distinguishing who is a Jew, and especially an observant Jew. If you're commanded to stand on your head, you stand on your hand without asking questions; subservience--faithfulness--is the point.
Many churches and certainly the big catholic one interpret the word of god for their believers (this is called magisterium), so if you are catholic, you don't believe in the bible but in the particular interpretation. And the differences are huge.
Any reading of the Bible is an interpretation. It makes no sense to speak of ANY text, or any spoken word, apart from interpretation. All of them are interpreted. So the question really is: do you have the correct, or at least a licit, interpretation? The Catholic Church interprets Scripture through the lens of unbroken tradition. Compare this with the 40,000 Protestant sects in the US alone, most of which interpret things however they want. That doesn't even touch on the question of translation, as well as how one translation may render something more accurately than another.
And, of course, there's the other bit, namely, that the Bible was compiled by the Catholic Church, again, through the lens of tradition. How else are you going to determine which gospels are reliable and worthy of being made canonical, which books are apocryphal, which are fabrications, and so on, if you don't rely on something parallel to and 'outside' the text? (Luther did somehow manage to convince himself that he was qualified to 'tweak' the Bible, but I'll leave it at that.)
Yeah and also always promoting its own power. So when the Bible explicitly says the bishops should be married men, the Church says actually no we don't like that because it would lessen our power over the bishops so let's make them celibate. Thus making lots of people very unhappy and some commit horrible crimes. How can anyone believe the Church's interpretation is correct is completely beyond me.
I wish people would not make blanket assumptions. A portion of the New Testament is committed to explaining that certain parts of the Old Testament laws were for the Israelites only.
There is probably a joke in there about being so hammy...
Long live the Carangi Roll!
E.g. in my 500K city in the east, we had at least 5 burger shops/restaurants with Philly cheesesteakes on the menu, only 2 carry it still. None of has comparable quality to my beloved Philly cheesesteak from South-Texas.
Example: https://www.instagram.com/steakcrush
Halal as well.
Its been a while since I lived in Philly, but have visited regularly since graduating college (2012). The best I had when I lived there was Joe's under its previously extremely racist name, followed closely by Jim's.
Recently took a friend from out of the country to Philly for her first cheesesteak and although I enjoyed Jim's still, she didn't understand the hype for a cheesesteak, so we avoided them the rest of the week.
Took her to Joe's on Torresdale as we were leaving the city (apparently one month before that location closed forever in favor of a more popular area), and she finally understood why it was a famous regional dish. Their cheesesteaks are amazing.
Also I'm completely convinced that the internet hype around broccoli rabes is a completely made up SEO infecting real life phenomena. None of my friends from college who grew up in Philly had ever had one when I asked about it and when we made treks to the various "famous" locations, everyone was just mad we didn't spend the gas on getting cheesesteaks instead. The best cheesesteaks in the city are pretty established since the 80s and people have their opinions pretty set in stone so b/vloggers don't have much to write about outside of hyping up something that isn't popular.
Like, roast pork with broccoli rabe? My family are from South Philly and I can attest that those have been around for a long time and are indeed delicious.
Best cheesesteak in the city is from Rocco's in the Home Depot in South Philly. I'm not kidding.
For the longest while, I'd refer people to the tiny Mexican "restaurant" in the back of the gas station at the intersection of Hwy 41 & Pioneer Trail in Chaska, MN for their amazing food, so I get what you're saying.
Sadly, they are long gone!