Posted on 07/08/2012 5:08:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If you walk into the Second Avenue Deli - a kosher eatery that relocated from the East Village, when it actually was on 2nd Avenue, to Midtown - with $24.95 in your wallet, you'll have just enough moolah to buy a little snack called the 'Instant Heart Attack.' The 804-calorie towering sandwich, made up of sliced pastrami and fried potato latkes, is like the Tim Tebow at Carnegie Deli - a symbol of food excess that tastes delicious all the way to the doctor. Except the one at Second Avenue faced a bit of a legal problem.
Enter The Heart Attack Grill. This properly-named Las Vegas joint opened in 2005 and, to describe it in a nutshell, the website for the restaurant has a banner that says "Fight Anorexia!" and a sign that showcases its Guinness World Record for the Grill's healthy serving known as the Quadruple Bypass Burger. So that's the image it's going for - a cholesterol-laden reputation that it was willing to sue the Second Avenue Deli over.
Unfortunately for the Grill, the suit was brought here to New York, where we take our food very, very seriously. For that reason, a Manhattan judge decided yesterday to let the Second Avenue Deli continue to sell the calories, handing owner Jack Lebewohl a victory over his Vegas rivals.
A trademark infringement case over a sandwich called the 'Instant Heart Attack'... God bless America.
As well as the 'Instant Heart Attack,' the Deli will also be able to sell their new option, the Triple Bypass sandwich, which owner Jack Lebewohl described as including "everything but the kitchen sink." It includes three latkes and is an additional $10, raising the price of your surgery to $34.95.
As the story goes, the judge must have had the time of his or her life making the decision - one that was based on noting the clear differences between the two sandwiches. One of the main ones: Second Avenue Deli is a kosher deli and The Heart Attack Grill is not. In the gastronomic world, that's like black and white.
But, nonetheless, if we are to learn anything from this suit, it's that no one can come between New Yorkers and their food. No one.
Is it just me, or do New Yorkers get a little pompous now and then?
Is it just me, or do New Yorkers get a little pompous now and then?
What are latkes?
A cross between a potato pancake and hash browns.
As per your tag line, I was too lazy to “look it up” so thanks for the reply. We don’t have anything like latkes here out West.
Well, except their OWN MAYOR!!
Too thick to get into my mouth! And - Where is the deli mustard, the rye bread, and the kosher dill pickle?
freedom of choice if you ask me.
Why not? They have the world’s greatest pizza, just ask em.
I have no idea why they think that, I can go to Mountain Mikes and get one as good as I’ve ever had in NYC.
You want the best pizza? Try Italy.
Freedom of choice for them, but mandated healthcare payments for the rest who have to foot bills for their triple bypass surgeries. Thanks Obamacare!
804 calories? I think the Carls Jr. $6 burger is about 1000 calories.
They can be found at any synagogue around Chanukah!
Burgers, and any other food laden in animal fats actually protect you against the heart attacks that are caused by margarine, crisco, and poly-unsaturated vegetable fats, that also are the proximate cause of type 2 diabetes.
Get in contact with reality!
The foods that are attacked by the MSM and the’health’ nazi are the healthiest choice. Read UN Agenda 21 and see what is really happening.
There are a bunch of dinners that have a hell of a lot more calories than this.
I know this is going to sound strange to you, but I live in a very rural area of eastern California, and there isn't a synagogue within 300 miles or more of here. I know of no Jewish folks around here.
hehe
Lots of European ethnicities have the same thing, or almost the same.
There are plenty of recipes out there for do-it-yourselfers.
Hard to believe there’s anywhere 300 miles from a Chabad House but I guess it’s possible...
No Europeon ethnic types around here. All we have are mainly Protestant whites, plus a few Catholics, and American Indians. But I will look up some recipes online. Sounds interesting. Thanks!
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