The Best Philly Cheesesteak ? Pat's VS Geno's - Famous Philadelphia Food Rivalry
A visit to the two Philadelphia cheese steak rivals who's buildings directly face each other . Before hand I ran the Rocky steps to get my energy up for the challenge . ..Pat's vs Geno's !
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today's adventure brings us to the city
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of brotherly love Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania the home of one of the
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Three Stooges Larry fine as defined by
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this mural supposedly he was born where
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this building now stands hence the
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painting and that's not the only pop
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culture icon this city is known for
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Rocky Balboa the silhouette of the
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statue in front of the Museum of Art
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it's not how hard you hit it's how hard
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you can get hit and keep moving forward
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that's how winning is done not only am I
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getting a wave of emotion over me but
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also a little bit of energy there's
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something I must do
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bow-bow I'm not gonna lie that's pretty
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freakin cool welcome everyone Adam it's
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a whoo here one of the best things about
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traveling is being able to scratch items
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off your bucket list but there is a
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second category when you go to places
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that you rarely visit and that is the
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win in Rome moments and that is what the
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topic of today's video will be got a
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little a little hungry a little appetite
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starting to build up from running those
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stairs and that will transition into
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what's going to happen the rest of this
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episode
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join me shall you a couple miles outside
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downtown is an intersection by the name
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of Pasi unk Avenue you can see off in
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the distance the building's just
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protruding are up over the basketball
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court the thing that's fascinating about
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this particular spot and the reason I
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stopped off here is because on this
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corner is Geno's steaks and on this
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corner is Pat's
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king of steaks and while there is no
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shortage of other establishments selling
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the food of this namesake these two have
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been battling it out just a stone's
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throw from each other for years now you
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could even equate it to the Italian
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stallion versus Apollo Creed
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that made this area so famous who will
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win
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I'm about to find out right now the neon
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sign with crown states that paths was
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the inventor and the originator and this
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historical marker goes on to say that it
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began in 1930 no matter which one you
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choose neither of them accept credit
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cards so you must have a handful of cash
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if you want to go home with one of these
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delicious steaks these trash cans are
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painted like basketball players
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look there's the eyes and teeth and
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mouth oh she's winking at me
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sorry first time a garbage cans ever
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winked at me with an eye shot of their
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competition a little battle of where
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it's going here on the side of the wall
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Oh shots totally fired above the order
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counter our faded photographs of lots of
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different people who have eaten here
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over its existence in these frames some
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familiar faces their share Tony Danza
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even rotten e Dangerfield and a friend
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and even some older some older
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photographs on this side and also tucked
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away on this beam including Joan Jett oh
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and Frank Stallone check that out
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walking a few feet now and see some of
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the photographs that's on the wall over
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there taking it a step further they have
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place pictures on the roof as well as
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the walls Carson Daly they're inside the
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kitchen
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ooh Vanna White and Pat Sajak nice as
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far as history goes 36 years later in
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1966 this location was built
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unlike the counterpart 1930 across the
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street
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however Geno's has a separate building
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and a store keeping up nicely with the
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color scheme
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you can see the reflection of the cheese
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fries in the front door window in this
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overgrown lot is an old mural with
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paintings of Frankie Avalon Bobby Rydell
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Eddie Fisher and a newer mural here of
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Pat and Harry Oliveri who were the
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cofounders of the original Pat's king of
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the stakes right there now I just need a
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local residence to help me consume crazy
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Joe Adam the room from mega podcast ik
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how did you know oh are you wearing the
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shirt yeah but I knew you before this we
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try to pretend like this is an organic
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meeting but I got a hold of you and
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asked if you wanted to help consume one
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from Pat's and one from Gino's which one
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do we choose first you have any ideas
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I don't how about we flip a coin do you
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have a quarter I don't think I watch
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that is a shiny 25 cent piece is the
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reason that you get so excited why they
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call you crazy Joe well that and you
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have to talk to my psychiatrist heads
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will be Pat's tails will be Gino's let's
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take a look at it do it
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there it is there it is there it is it
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looks like it's heads we're eating Pat's
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first since I'm a little new to this
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there's some steps here on how to order
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you know one through four and the prices
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are as so are there any you got three
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choices you can have American you could
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have Cheez Whiz where you could have
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provolone provolone is my favorite okay
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the one I recommend but the cheese was
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also quite popular there are the options
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right there and we have no thanks so
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much they got a cut in half so we can so
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we can share a few condiments available
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as well these peppers who is even like
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even some other peppers down in here and
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assorted goodness in these vats even
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some relish salt and pepper and mustard
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and this is what we're dealing with we
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did not ask for a specific cheese they
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just gave us this particular one with
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the cheese whiz type topping right there
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you can see it's pretty good-sized and
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first impression without biting into it
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it looks it looks rather tasty and see
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all the meat down in there and the bread
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looks to be a little bit hardened and
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slightly toasted on the outside
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nice even the napkins are promoting the
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establishment probably gonna need plenty
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of these all right grab yes grab your
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side I'll grab my side what's presented
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present it towards the camera we just go
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in you do the countdown four three two
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one and we're gonna will bite it all
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right three two one
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how crazy are the earth very that's it
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that's all you know it's good it's not
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greasy it's not right do you prefer
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provolone over the Cheez Whiz I do now
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the advantage to Cheez Whiz is it really
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gets in there it's liquidy so it gets in
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there real good
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gooey goodness bright goes down inside
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but I think the provolone tastes a
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little better it's not like you're gonna
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get a bad one either way though it's not
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bad it's been a long time so I have to
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stay safe to say after eating half of
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this one and a half from Geno's I'm
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gonna be probably pretty full how much
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my stomach will be happy
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oh good get him
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it's getting better Maura eat it
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like the first couple bites were okay
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but now that it's like working its way
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out of my mouth is starting to the
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flavor starting to come out it is
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flavorful how many of these from all
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over Philly think you've had in your
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lifetime of living here more than I can
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count
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there you go what was that a bird down
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there there's a bird down there he wants
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the leftovers but he flew off okay one
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down one to go
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didn't we had a little bit left over a
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little cheese a little bit of a little
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bit of leftovers now that Birds back
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he's down there there he is
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you can't have this bird it's not
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healthy so it's not healthy for me
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either but less healthy for fowl Pat's
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even has some hash tags the original the
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inventor what's that making the short
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hop skip and jump over to Gino's now I
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think this option we're gonna go with
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the traditional up top and instead of
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getting the whiz which we got a moment
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ago we're gonna go with the provolone
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this time even some accessories here as
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well relish cherry peppers okay thank
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you so much thank you
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this is Geno's we went for the provolone
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this time and the interesting trivia
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Pat's invented the cheesesteak blame it
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at the steak sandwich Geno's was the
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first of a cheese on it
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oh they kind of perfected it in a way
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and it's obviously the cheese is not
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quite as noticeable as the whiz version
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provolone is kind of it's almost like
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hidden in there not quite as bold three
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two one
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oh yeah noticeably different the bread
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is different the bread is softer here
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than it has
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I'm dripping grease
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I like the provolone taste better but I
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like how the cheese whiz really gets in
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there
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yeah the provolone me it's not as not as
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bold definitely a cheesier flavor at
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paths versus Gino but I think the steak
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aspect and the bread I like better here
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it's tough though they're both really
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good
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it'll be very difficult to eat two of
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these two full ones of these it's good
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thing that we have them but we did see a
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guy in line it was going back for a
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second so the guy has been done well I
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was talking to him earlier before you
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got here
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he got one from each then he went to
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another one down the road and that was
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back to this one and he would eat a
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couple bites and then take food to his
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wife and kids in the car oh it would eat
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the rest of it and he's trying to hit as
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many as humanly possible but it keeps
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coming back to Gino's and hats well Gina
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isn't bad to the two most famous if you
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had to guess how many establishments
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just in Greater Philadelphia do you
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think there are two have cheesesteaks
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all right it's gotta be hundreds it's
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gonna be under it's living here the
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first thing you hear people say when
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they get here is I gotta go get a
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cheesesteak that's me first thing
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besides I've in Iran the rocky stuff so
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I earned it I earned I made to the top
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so that's the first thing you would do
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get off the truck and be like I want to
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get the local cuisine whatever it is
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yeah
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we're getting shocked back there sounded
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like a bug zapper don't see one though
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no bugs or no zappers I'd like to know
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where to get a big vinyl sticker like
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that it's on the electrical box here
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around the side originally I was going
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to get one of each of the steaks and eat
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them at either/or location you know have
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both of them and do a taste test let's
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say at this table it's a good thing I
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didn't because the rule states they are
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only allowed to eat food from this place
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at this table so I think the way we did
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it by flipping the coin is probably I'll
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be the best option peeking in the window
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at this shop the door is locked
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currently did you have some shot glasses
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a cardboard stand up there a motorcycle
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and some t-shirts if the mood hitch and
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now for a little natural ambiance just
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listen
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school folk they say these are the best
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but so the best is the best but some of
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the newer people they have other
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opinions yeah my dad's generation
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couldn't beat these the young kids today
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they're like yeah that's for the
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tourists I'm a tourist I'm going with
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your dad's generation what's your
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favorite cheese steak in Philly I'll see
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you in the next video the vlog is over
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the lion or some sort of tiger or a bear
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oh my well he just flew off I'm
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wondering how he enjoyed the leftovers
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it's a relic if they test it out test it
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out is there a dial tone there is not
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fail how about we flip a coin do you
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have a quarter I don't think I why