Yes, there are good garlic knots in Florida
@stephenrobles Siracusa will disagree. Just wait…
@caseyliss Started bracing myself the moment I posted
@stephenrobles @caseyliss “knot or not” is a podcast I am willing to listen to. (Sorry!)
@caseyliss @stephenrobles is originally from NY, right? So his opinion could be well-founded. Of course, I don’t know what part of NY, and how old he was when he left…

@siracusa @stephenrobles I know this is going to blow your mind, but it is possible to find exquisite versions of New York staples

…not in New York.

@caseyliss @stephenrobles Possible, maybe! But not likely.

@siracusa @caseyliss @stephenrobles far be it from me, an internet stranger, to defend Casey on something related to food, but we were in Paris last year and a lot of their baguettes are made from frozen now.

The world is a changing place. I’d bet money that the best NY pizza isn’t made in NY anymore.

(Ducks for cover)

@siracusa @stephenrobles brb collecting my eyes which just ROLLED OUT OF MY HEAD

@caseyliss @siracusa @stephenrobles
This thread has me imagining a video version of the ATP podcast in the form of a cooking show.

Totally worth all the effort to spruce up the recording room, fine tune lighting and audio, wardrobe and makeup, and edit the results right?

@caseyliss @siracusa @stephenrobles this SoCal place makes vv good garlic knots. They claim to be NY style. I find them perfectly tasty.

https://mrmotopizza.com/locations/

@caseyliss @siracusa @stephenrobles Don’t get me started on bagels.
@dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa @stephenrobles Everyone knows the best are Montreal style anyway.
@michaelgemar @dmoren @siracusa @stephenrobles your donuts are delicious! Bagels they are not.

@dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa My bona fides:

1. Born in brooklyn

2. Moved upstate near poughkeepsie at 5, frequently visited city with family

3. In college, interned in times square for 2 summers so was in the city 6 days a week.

4. Moved to florida after college at 22

5. Have returned many times since to visit family and brought my kids two years ago

6. I have searched far and wide in FL for good pizza. Several get *close* to NY quality. None match it perfectly, but are very good... 1/2

@dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa
7. For bagels, there is a place called "Uncle Nick's Bagels" in lakelanfloridada, a family transplanted from manhattan, and those are the closet to NY bagels I've found
@dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa You guys should take ATP on the road to central Florida and we'll do a YouTube series where I get 3 chances to convince John there's good pizza here
@stephenrobles @dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa you are going to need more chances.
@stephenrobles @dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa also I will bet my whole house that there is no way you get John to travel to Florida for pizza. And I do not blame him
@stephenrobles @dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa I would back this as a Kickstarter. One of the levels should be to livestream John sampling the pizzas.
@stephenrobles @dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa John will barely travel to New York for pizza so Florida seems impossible.
@upbeats_steam @dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa Maybe there's a family + Disney World peer pressure play here
@stephenrobles @upbeats_steam @dmoren @caseyliss Maybe I’ll come so I can use your Internet connection.
@stephenrobles @dmoren @siracusa I would absolutely do this, but it will end in sadness for both you and me
@stephenrobles @dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa oh man that would be incredible, no joke! ATP member style episode, video format, NY pizza themed, special guest / host Mr Robles, chef’s kiss 😙👌
@stephenrobles @dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa I would upgrade my membership to see a series where the three hosts road trip down to Florida together. There’s no way that wouldn’t be a good series of episodes.
@harpaa01 @stephenrobles @dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa I mean, the Upgrade guys have recently been wildly successful in starting an offshoot podcast using Kickstarter. Should be worth a shot, no?
@stephenrobles @dmoren @caseyliss @siracusa it's about as hot as a pizza oven here right now 🙂
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@caseyliss @siracusa @stephenrobles

I haven’t had a decent hot pretzel or Bagel in 45 years.

And it wasn’t that they were from ny or not. It is more that everyone wanted to get in on the act, make it their own, and obliterate the narrower standard.

Pizza may never recover. Even Italian American food isn’t ’Italian’ any more. It barely ever was.

@caseyliss @siracusa @stephenrobles OMG, I heard that in Casey’s voice.
@siracusa @caseyliss @stephenrobles facts. I lived in NYC for ten years; my opinion counts, lmao