Matt M. wrote: >also, both Elsie's and Tommy's Lunch closed down. NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!1!!!!1!!!!!!11!!! Where can you get a knish??? Or a pastromi sandwich??? [note special b0gus boston spelling] ^ Someone told me Buzzy's in Boston by the Chuck Street Jail (at the foot of the Chuck Street Bridge) closed too. Say it ain't so! (Hell, even the Chuck Street Jail jail closed, I heard. Well, the food there sucked, anyway.) >Tommy's is now a >place called "Tommy's House of Pizza," but Tommy isn't there to glare >at you in person, and there's no sign threatening digital mutilation, >so it's not the same. Fuhgeddaboutit. >I really miss Elsie's. Mmmm, Russian dressing. >Emack and Bolio's moved way up the street to a spot between Harvard >and Porter Squares. It is next door to Boca Grande, living proof that >change is not all bad. Boca Grande rules. What's a Boca Grande? And is there still a kick-ass Mexican restaurant hiding in that bar up the street (the Forest Cafe, I think it was called)? Mexican, not Tex-Mex. >They're talking about knocking down the building the Wursthaus is in >and putting up another Garage-type mini-mall thing, in which the >Wursthaus will allegedly be given a spot. Sacrilege. They should just NUKE Harvard Square flat and replace it with a Harvard Square Disney World ride, with mini-mall food concessions and souvenir stands, and special Audio-Animatronic skater kids, law students, irritating tourists, Hare Krishnas, bagpipe players, and that guy who sold the Militant in front of the Coop saying "Central Amer-ee-ca, South Africa, Central Amer-ee-ca, South Africa" over and over again. There are some who say this has already happened.
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