Comments on: 5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About John Andrews

by: john andrews

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:06:49 +0000

Another favorite New Jersey diner: Tick Tock Diner in East Rutherford (famous for Bill Parcels as customer, the NY Giants/Patriots guy, and the “eat heavy” neon sign). I stopped there many an early a.m. for eggs, toasted english’s and in my more active years, black & white shakes, both before and after they remodeled. They’re even featured on RoadFood.com.As for Union City, “New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba” has probably changed by now, but was amazing. I bought my first Phantom road tires in Union City, and ate cuban for lunch that day.

I think your NJ Facts are tons more interesting than the NJ page. They should link to you. Wikipedia is so lame it links to pages like this, instead of yours.

, instead of yours.

by: Hans Kaspersetz

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:34:43 +0000

The diner on route 46 is stilled called Paul’s. It has a big green sign and has the BEST sugar free cheese cake. Uhmm….. I remember my disappointment when I learned that sugar free cheese cake is no less calories then with sugar. Bummer. Cyber X Designs is located right up the road in Denville, so we hit Paul’s pretty regularly. Michael does live in Mountain Lakes, seems like the NY PHP crew is moving to places like NY, Texas and Washington at an alarming rate. I think my favorite diner is the 4 Star diner in Union City. It is right across the street from the Park Performing Arts Center. I have spent many many nights there. I think the only dinner I might have spent more time in was the Malibu Diner in Hoboken. We used to hit that place on our way home from Manhattan. Did you know NJ has the most diners?

I hadn’t seen that site yet, but I will definitely pass it along to Allie. The wheels are turning.

by: New Jersey Web Design

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:22:09 +0000

Hmmm….. seems like doing dishes is a right of passage. I washed dishes for three summers at Michael’s Deli in Bayville, NJ. Michael’s was a Italian deli run by a polish guy. I think most of the customers thought he was Italian. I think I started when I was 13 or 14. My last job at Michael’s was delivering crabs to the NY fish market in the middle of the night. I did dishes and delivered meat for George’s. George’s is a polish deli in Bayonne, NJ. I did it to earn money to snowboard and pay for gas for my ‘85 Dodge Horizon which I paid $50 for. Now I work for New Jersey’s Best web design company, Cyber X Designs, and I do dishes at home a couple of times a week.

Hans

John Replies: Welcome to TheBlog, Hans. I have similar experience across the Hudson river. But when I lived in New Jersey I loved the diners. We have some out west, but nothing like you have in New Jersey. I especially liked the one in Mountain lakes… right on route 46. I don’t think it’s called Paul’s Diner anymore, but I’m not sure. Doesn’t Michael DeWitt live there now? Also Princeton Diner was always awesome. We used to go there when I rode a Yamaha Virago… pre-kids. We’d go for a late night ride from Morristown down 78 to route 1 / Newark -Princeton corridor. Back in the days of not having to be back home ever if the climate was good and we had cash in our pockets. In the summer there was this gradual dip on route 78 south around Bernardsville, where the cool air just sort of rested, and you’d ride down into it, for a few miles, just long enough to feel the chill before the road came up a little and warmed back up. And speaking of New Jersey, did you know about this site?

by: Jeff Loiselle

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:51:09 +0000

“learn from my mistake and do not pack a salami sandwich and chocolate milk as your lunch. There are better choices.”

Too funny! Hey did I ever tell you I’m on the search for the world’s best chocolate milk. Every time I travel across country by car, whenever I stop at a convenience store, I buy the local dairy chocolate milk. I like to pretend I having a rating system (but I really don’t)… I sit there and basically gargle the chocolate milk until ultimately I decide whether it’s better or worse than the previous chocolate milk. I wish I could say that I had a better science abot it, or that I could remember a specific chocolate milk.. but I can’t. It’s basically just a reason to drink lots of deliciously chocolatey milk.

by: SusanT

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:28:51 +0000

Shoot! I didn’t know that about you, John.
I was the only girl in my neighborhood growing up (aka/ tomboy) and just “one of the guys”. Never tried skeet or trap, but I loved shooting rifes and shooting pool (actually got pointers from Willie Mosconi and placed 2nd in the US Intercollegiate 9-ball tournament at Purdue).