Melting (Soup) Pot
One afternoon taking a break between chores I stopped for lunch at the 2nd Ave Deli, one of my favorite eastside haunts.
After a leisurely meal I was waiting on line to pay my tab when I overheard the following conversation at the take-out counter:
Young Asian woman: “What soup do you have today?”
Old deli guy: “Split pea, lentil, mushroom & barley, chicken noodle, chicken & rice, vegetable, and kreplach.”
Young Asian woman: “Kreplach?”
Old deli guy: “Jewish dumpling.”
Young Asian woman: “Ah, that sounds good, I’ll take a quart.”
Did I tell you I ❤️ New York?
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– Dana Susan Lehrman
Dana Susan LehrmanThis retired librarian loves big city bustle and cozy country weekends, friends and family, good books and theatre, movies and jazz, travel, tennis, Yankee baseball, and writing about life as she sees it on her blog World Thru Brown Eyes!
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I’ll take a quart too.
I’ll ask if they deliver to the frozen North.
I miss mushroom barley soup SO much (I wrote about it for “comfort food” prompt), but isn’t it interesting how some foods translate across the culture barriers? Love this, Dana.
Yummy!