tom foolery

So let me preface by saying that I really have done more than just eat while I’ve been in Pittsburgh…the food stories just happen to be the most interesting.

i started out my lazy day intending to go to the Carnegie science center via hotel shuttle. I stood outside for the better part of a half hour waiting patiently and minutes before the said shuttle arrived, a large group of employees from the neighboring office building come over and when the bus pulled up, the ring leader runs over to the driver and says the 3 loads of people standing there all need transported to some restaurant. How polite!

Since it is a very pretty albeit hot day, I decided just to walk up the strip instead. It was hovering around noon so I made a stop in the S&D Polish Deli, where a cute little girl took my order. I think I confused her (we are talking like child of owner little girl) when I asked what her favorite kind of perogie was. She steered me towards the potato and cheddar and 4 delicious little dumplings later, I left quite happy.

I browsed several shops and galleries and gallivanted my way to the Right by Nature natural and organic foods market. They bill themselves as the most affordable natural market in the area but Whole foods knocked their socks off price wise…let alone my el cheapo foodie mecca Trader Joes.

I left empty handed (though I’ll definitely go back, if not just for the free garage parking with purchase or wide variety of izze.) Next I headed up to Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor – such a neat experience! You can read all about it on the website…I had an “authentic” cherry coke…and um, I also had a chocolate phosphate soda (phosphate used to be used mainstream for sodas) it was basically carbonated water with chocolate syrup which sounds very bizarre and well…it kind of was, but in a good way J The ice cream looked fantastic, a large group came in as I was finishing up and I enjoyed seeing all the treats they ordered. They are only open until 5 on weekdays but they area open on weekends.

I began my way back to the hotel as I was starting to suffer from hot fat girl syndrome (aka misery and crankiness induced by hot fat thigh rubbing/chaffing), stopping in several more little shops and markets…including Mancini’s where I got 2 pepperoni rolls to go..they had just come out of the oven and well, is it a siwn to say a Pittsburgh pepperoni roll is better than a West Virginia pepperoni roll? (excluding elk river foodland pepperoni rolls which are the best in all the land and I would say regardless of ownership…same with glazed donuts by the way…)

I also stopped into an asian market where I procured some Thomas the Train Pocky to be delivered to someone I know who will shortly be giving birth to an Xavier Thomas...