1. I really do like 4 chicken wings and fried rice with Hot Sauce, especially from my dirty spot on Winthrop and Utica.
2. I will pull up somewhere stepping out of the car all fabulous and saditty yet blasting something like this from the speakers.
3. I have a sneaker collection and will base an outfit around the sneakers for that day.
4. I can jump a chain link fence and hop a turnstile.
5. I am quick to ask someone “what you lookin at?” although I try to act classy now that I’m grown and say “Excuse me?”
6. I would leave my house at midnight for Ju.nior’s ch.eese.cake, Red velvet cake from Ca.ke M.an Rav.en, a party in the city or the movies.
7. I know where to find the best pizza, roti, bagel, beef pattie, hamburger, sushi and jerk chicken in NY.
8. I know six different ways to sneak into Bo.ys & Gir.ls’ old field where the summer concerts are held.
9. I also have never paid to get into the African Festival on Fu.lton Street due to uh…flirting with security.
10. In my college days, I spent many a wee morning having old men buy me and my friends drinks at Sug.ar Hi.ll’s (shut up Fresh!)
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May 5, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Amadeo
When I was at Morgan no one knew where I was from at first. They figured it out because I kept saying “Yo”. I’m told that in Bmore we put our Yo in a different place then up north and we also say it much more.
May 5, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Dee
There’s nothing like getting fried plaintain or fried rice with french fries (with hot sauce and ketchup on them) from behind bullet proof glass. Even my children look forward to hood Chinese food when we go to NYC. I made that red velvet cake for my birthday…*too good*.
May 5, 2008 at 1:59 pm
CreoleInDC
1969: Down the street from the hotel is the best pizza place in the city.
CreoleInDC: Okay! We’ll go there! What’s it called?
1969: I don’t know, but it’s in an old church.
CreoleInDC: *BLINK* *BLINK* *BLINK*
May 5, 2008 at 2:18 pm
1969
Amadeo…Baltimore folks say *zink * instead of sink and you also say *dug* instead of dog. That’s all I remember from my B’more days, yo!
Dee….ahhhh….dirty chinese with hot sauce and ketchup. Delish!!!!
Creole…ahem. Did you go and get some of that pizza? IT IS THE BEST IN NYC!!!!!
May 5, 2008 at 2:27 pm
checkmymelonie
1. That’s the first place I hit when I’m in Brooklyn…my local Chinese spot! Gotta get the garlic wings and extra crispy fries! I never understood the whole Mambo Sauce thing in DC but I can still appreciate four wings and some fried rice!
4. I’ve hopped a turnstile only once and almost got busted, lol! That was the end of it!
6. Do you know if they’ve finished the renovations? The last time I went the line was out to THERE lol! But I got me some cake!!
7. I’m tired of these pizza places looking at me like I’m crazy when I ask if there’s beef patties on the menu, lol. And don’t tell nobody but I picked up a beef patty down in West Philadelphia, took it to the pizza spot on Chestnut, and they put cheese on it for me, lol!! It still wasn’t the same. Sigh.
May 5, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Roycee
LMAO @ jumpin a chainlink fence and hoppin a turnstyle…I think that is a north eastern thing cause I got that one on lock too.
And I guess you know I’m from Jersey cause I still remember how to steal a car…alls I need is a screwdriver and some duct tape LMAO!!!
Dayum, now I want some Roti for lunch…Thanks Sixty!
May 5, 2008 at 2:29 pm
BK
lawd geesus.. I spit my tea on the monitor.. she said sugar hill!!! hahahaaa girl that was THE after hours spot!!! hahahaaa
I’m wit you on all of these Sixty especially sneaking into the old boys high field..
LOL
The chinese behind the bullet proof.. Miss Annie say.. u want regular? I say yes.. Mmm nothing like french fries with hot sauce & ketchup!!!! Nothing like shrimp fried rice with hot sauce LOL and NOTHING like them damn crab sticks!!!! hahahaaa
Ooh what i would do for a slice with extra cheese or beef patty & cheese from the spot.. or a damn doubles and corn from my man on the court.. Sixty you took me back to Brooklyn this mawning!!!
May 5, 2008 at 4:51 pm
brran1
You’re right Sixty, people in Baltimore do talk like that, I had to move away and back to catch the accent. Wtf is a Zink anyways?
1.,6., & 7. Hey Sixty, I’m gonna be up in Brooklyn visiting some family this summer after I get home from Atlanta and Miami and they always take me to BS food spots. Can you tell me where your spots are?
2. Ghostface is the business. But I stick with C.R.E.A.M. by Wu-Tang when I’m speeding *cough, cough* i meant riding down Flatbush.
3. I go out and buy shoes first, then buy clothes matching the shoes. Now I just need to find a spot that sells Size 15’s…
4. I tried to hop a fence once but I got stuck on it. lol That was the first and last time for me.
May 5, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Funky Fresh
You’re lucky you called me out cause I was ready to unleash the comments on the Su.gar H.ill joint!!!!!
It’s not really Chinese food unless you gotta break your arm to give them the money behind the bullet proof 10 inches thick window or you gotta put your money in the little rotating joint.
I never ever jumped a turnstile….nope…..*moving before lightning strikes*
BK lying…she know 100 ways to get into Boys and Girls…..
I thought Roycee was from the burbs of Jerz?!?!? She talking about screwdrivers and duct tape….
Good post…..Took me back…..
May 5, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Funky Fresh
Hey wait….you forgot one….
Tell them how you keep V.aseline in your purse to grease up your face in case somebody starts some mess and you gotta get hood on ‘em…..
May 5, 2008 at 5:12 pm
G. Mo
hot sauce??? no…
mumbo sauce??? hell yeah!!!
begins working on blog entry entitled “Ways You Can Tell I’m From DC”
May 5, 2008 at 5:41 pm
jameil
you drink hooch!! lol. I’ma need you to share your knowledge of “where to find the best pizza, roti, bagel, beef pattie, hamburger, sushi and jerk chicken in NY” and “six different ways to sneak into Bo.ys & Gir.ls’ old field where the summer concerts are held” in case i ever go!!
May 5, 2008 at 5:47 pm
onefromphilly
You can take the girl outta the Hood
But you can’t take the Hood outta the girl…LOL
I understand, I leve by the same principle!
May 5, 2008 at 5:48 pm
onefromphilly
that is “live”
May 5, 2008 at 9:22 pm
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May 6, 2008 at 1:25 am
Dee
Haha. It’s not vaseline. It’s vastaleen.
May 6, 2008 at 2:03 am
DollFace
Cakeman Raven…I had someone make a run for me today
There’s just something about Brooklyn that feels like home.
May 6, 2008 at 5:20 am
Timah
You know it’s home when the Chinese food spot knows your voice on the phone when you order. Hot sauce and ketchup is that good stuff!
When I was at Hampton I had a Junior’s cheesecake delivered to me. Fe.d.Ex screwed up and sent it to my neighbor’s apartment instead and he, his girlfriend, and his cousin ate my cake. Junior’s sent me another, but he was evicted within 48 hours!
My Roti spot on Church & 32nd went out of business. Now I’m at a loss.
I still look at people sideways here when they eat their pizza with utensils. Fold that joint and bite!
Here’s one for you… You took dollar vans to Kin.gs Pl.aza because they were quicker than the bus. “Flatbush, Flatbush!” “Utica, Utica!”
May 6, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Nineteen69
Timah….for roti….Ali’s on Fulton and Nostrand is the joint! And what? I lived between Utica and Schenectady growing up. I stayed on a dollar van…UTICA UTICA!!!!
May 6, 2008 at 6:58 pm
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May 7, 2008 at 4:01 pm
ms.lee
Ha. U know I feel you on this one.
Oh, but to sing along with the Dollar van tunes. That’s how you stayed up to date on the new ish (before u hit the Q Club…LOL) Half of Bklyn was up in that joint, don’t front!!
4 wings and fries for $2! Where else can you get that, but BK?! The dirty spot on Snyder and Utica where they put scallion (pronounced skellion by the carib natives, and skal-yun by the Americana) and hot sauce on top of the wings…Whoa!
Post jacking…coming up!
May 8, 2008 at 3:09 pm
nineteen69
YES!!!! Ms. Lee. The best wings ever. They call them soy wings. You are my homegirl for real!