You know, I always thought that certain symbolic aspects of various cities or more accurately some of the cultural stereotypes or maybe even city legends is the best way to phrase it, anyway I always thought they were just that, legends or myths. You know what I mean, like New York being a city that never sleeps or San Francisco being the city by the bay, okay well that one should be taken literally. But like London fog, well that’s really pollution, you know? So all of these legendary associations I just sort of thought were actual legends. But what I discovered recently completely blows the lid on all those earlier assumptions. And I apologize to any competing cities, but Philadelphia really does have the best cheese steak sandwiches in the world.

The manner in which I came to this realization is sort of classified. By me that is, I can’t actually reveal why I was there, but I was and I have my Philadelphia hotel receipt to prove it. What I can tell you about the trip is that before I took it a good friend of mine, actually a few, told me to be sure and have a cheese steak sandwich while I’m there. I sort of laughed, or rather shrugged, off their requests, but when I was there I discovered I actually was hungry for a cheese steak sandwich, after having smelled them for two straight days. So, I decided to perform my own experiment and I went about trying all of the sandwiches I could from all of the different venues.

In total I had over twenty cheese steak sandwiches in six days. That’s not a huge amount I know, but it was enough to convince me that Philadelphia is definitely the sandwich’s capital. Some of the best ones I remember I had at places like Pat’s King of Steaks and Jake’s. But hands down my favorite came from a place in South Philly called Geno’s Steaks. And lucky for me they are open twenty-four hours a day. Ooops, hang on I need to take this call. Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it. She said yes. Stacey is going to marry me. So my reason for being in Philadelphia is no longer classified, I was afraid I would jinx it before, and it looks like there are more cheese steaks in my future.

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