New Yorkers Live Longer

I was just joking about "walking speed" with one of our SportsJournalists.com NYC visitors a few weeks back.

See, you friggin' tourists? Speed up, dammit.

 

This is our elixir right here.


And the recipe. Which reveals our secret local knowledge.

http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/a-new-york-egg-cream-primer/

 

But where are the eggs, jg? ;D


Do you actually use U-bet?

 

You bet. At least most of the time. There's always some Hershey's in the house, too, since they make a couple of reduced-calorie versions. The secret revealed in the recipe above is to stock up on the Fox's U-Bet at Passover, when it's made with cane sugar. Which, to my shame, I do.

 

It's the Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda. That stuff is the fountain of youth.

 

That's why I always carry a sock full of nickels when I go out walking. "Welcome to New York, slow-moving visitors! Now get out of my way!"

 

You're not the only sj member to always have Hershey in the house.

 

Broadway is the absolute worst. I can usually maintain a decent speed everywhere else.

 

Pedestrian speeds away from the tourist haunts are still pretty good. Having managed to concentrate many of our wonderful, free-spending out-of-town guests in Times Square has been a boon. Unless you actually work at the Times. I believe they hand you the sock full of nickels with your new-hire pamphlet. You'd never make it into the office otherwise.