Pumpernickle’s
May 16th, 2008
This new Pumpernickle’s sign jumped out at me as I was driving down Olive because it’s not as cool as the old one.
As it turns out there was also a new ownership sign in the window as well.They’re saying it’s a “New York Style” deli which I don’t think they’d ever claimed before.
Here’s to hoping they don’t get rid of the The Sloppy Louie which might as well be called The Heart Attack. It’s a triple decker piled high with corned beef, turkey, pastrami, roast beef, slaw and Louie dressing on rye. You literally have to eat it with a knife and fork.
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4 Responses to “Pumpernickle’s”
I am a huge fan of the Sloppy Louie … and I hope the “new” Pumpernickles keeps it on the menu!
By Kimberly on May 16, 2008
I’m sorry to nitpick, but heart disease is more likely to be caused by the rye bread than the meat sandwiched in between. I’ve noticed you’ve been reading foodie-type books - I highly recommend your next book be “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes for a paradigm shift that will hopefully convince you to stop repeating dangerous nutritional misinformation. The lowest-density and most artery-clogging types of cholesterol are created by our body in response to refined carbohydrates, not meat.
As someone who seems to be in touch with the Slow Food movement, this should come as welcome news to you. The traditional foods eaten by our ancestors are in fact healthy. The foods created in factories on the other hand are not only completely devoid of nutritional benefit, but actually promote and cause disease. And our bodies have to expend precious nutrients just to digest these damn foods. Decaying teeth for example don’t occur from sugar directly touching your teeth - it comes from your body leeching nutrients to balance the lack of nutrients in sugar.
And another quick fact - the region in France that produces and consumes the most foie gras has some of the lowest rates of heart disease in the country. France also consumes far less sugar on average than Americans, but they consume far more saturated fats. Yet they have less heart disease. That nutrition “experts” say there is a French Paradox is to admit that they have accepted dogma over facts, and that they don’t understand that this type of paradox in science should be an immediate sign that the current hypothesis is not only deeply flawed but completely wrong.
By Hugh on May 16, 2008
It’s a valid point Hugh, and as you’ve just proven, even for people like myself that have read many of these books, the cliched tongue-in-cheek humor sometimes slips out without thinking about the things we’ve read.
It certainly doesn’t help the cause any and thanks for the feedback. I will add the book to the ridiculously long too read pile.
By Bill Burge on May 16, 2008
Hugh-certainly we americans on average have horrible diets and the related health issues. However, the French and Italians do eat refined carbs in the form of bread, pasta, and pastry, so I am not sure the answer is to substitute one form of dogma for another.
By mister on May 17, 2008