Indiana:
*Customer: “I’d like a jamaican beef patty”
Server: “You want a jahoozie what now?”
Customer: “”
Server: stareblinkstare
Server:…“sir, get the hell outa here and take your jahoozie idea’s with you”
You can get beef patties in the Caribbean restaurants here in the mid-Hudson valley, also in some of the grocery stores. The food service people at the school where I teach part time sometimes make them for lunch (those are good days). Never known a pizzeria to offer them, though.
This has blown my mind. I didn’t realize the pizza/wings combo was a local thing. As **delphica **said, they don’t sell those patties around here. I have had them before, but they weren’t called Jamaican patties. I thought they were a Puerto Rican thing.
Around here, I would expect a non-chain pizzeria to sell wings, hot subs, pasta, and salads and breadsticks in addition to pizza.
Around here, if it’s just a basic ma-and-pop pizza place, you’ll have pizza, a number of pasta dishes, often some fried or broasted chicken (and even fried perch), and usually something like mozzarella sticks, garlic bread, and maybe Italian beef and/or Italian sausage sandwiches. Wings & pizza as a combo is not something I grew up with here. I didn’t even discover hot wings/Buffalo-style wings until college. When we ate pizza, it was pretty much just pizza.
Italian beef is pretty much unheard of in my neck of the woods - around here, the sandwich selection on a pizzeria menu will usually include a Philly cheesesteak, a meatball sub, a sausage sub, an Italian grinder (pepperoni/salami/ham/capicola in various combinations), and a veggie sub.
A few pizzerias around here also have burgers, fish & chips, and steamed clams on the menu, but I wouldn’t expect to find any of those if I wandered into a place.
Yeah, that’s pretty much a Chicago thing, and occasionally found where there are Chicago expats that have established their own restaurants.
I actually don’t expect anything but pizza (and pop/soda) at a local pizzeria. I’ve never ordered anything but pizza from the local take-out places, and when I was writing my previous post, I was actually a little surprised that all my local pizza places offered pasta. I thought at least one or two would be pizza-only, but no.
Our (Texas) non-chain pizza places shake out into 3 main categories - the mom & pop neighborhood pizza place, which is typically a place that makes most of their money on takeout and delivery pizzas, but has a dining room that does decent business. They usually have salads, pizzas/calzones, a few pasta dishes and sub sandwiches, along with stuff like fried mozzarella sticks, buffalo wings, fried mushrooms, etc…
Then there are the more pretentious joints that have the same basic types of menu items, but concentrate on their dine-in service. They’re usually styled as “Italian” restaurants, but are at their core, still red-sauce joints. Think a local version of Romano’s Macaroni Grill.
Then finally, there are the places trying to be authentic Italian. Usually the pizzerias serve pizza/calzones and nothing else save maybe salads, and the non-pizza places serve everything but pizza, kind of like Italy (although there are places that do both).
Native NYer. Not every pizza shop, and my local favorite doesn’t have them. But lots of them do. However, I don’t ever expect them.
A bunch of places have wings on the upper east side (Yorkville). Beef patties, too BTW.
This is sadly pretty accurate. All I have around here are chain pizza places. I didn’t know what a Jamaican beef patty was before I opened this thread but now I’d like to try one.
Until Nov. of last year I lived in NYC and yes, pretty much every non-chain pizzeria had them. So did damn near every deli as well. Then I moved to the Albany area and now, no, no one nearby carries them.
I miss em.
A few grocery stores sell the Jamaican beef patties in the frozen section. They’re pretty tasty, but I don’t know of any pizza shop in Pittsburgh that sells them. However, there is a Syrian deli that sells “beef pies” that are very similar. It’s a triangular shape rather than a square, but the beef and dough are very close to the Jamaican ones (IIRC, it’s been a long time).
I voted yes, but should of read the OP. The local pizza place has burgers and other stuff, but you go there for the pizza (or ice cream)
Brian
Dammit! I knew the second part, because I would totally order it, too, and we have similar tastes, but I was depending on you to tell me where I could get one! :mad:
Now, why on earth anybody would order take-out pasta or go to a restaurant for pasta is beyond me, but that’s a different thread. IIRC, one from last year.
Yup, here in (non-gentrified) Brooklyn I don’t know any pizzeria that doesn’t have beef patties. I work in East New York, and there you can get the patty between two slices of coco bread. Weird combo to me (too much bread!), but it’s very popular.
No, it’s an empanada, but a square one. We have empanadas, but not Jamaican ones.
Do the restaurants buy them frozen or make them from scratch?
I love Jamaican beef patties, and they’re available but not easy to find (except a fast-food version in 7-11) in the DC area, but I’m not aware of any pizzerias in the area serving them.
I wish they would. In fact, I wish every restaurant (or every retail store of any kind) sold Jamaican beef patties.
That’s not quite fair to paint the whole state with that broad brush. I can get good home made Jamaican Patties (beef, chicken, or veggie) about 5 minutes from my house (and there is a brew pub right next door for an added bonus). There at least used to be a good place also near the Butler campus, but I’m not sure if it is still there or not.
That being said… I don’t think any pizza place would carry them and it could be hit or miss if the average server would be familiar with them or not.
Actually, you can. Just not every McDonald’s.
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To the OP, this was such a bizarre option that I really wonder if it was just the one pizzeria doing this. I have never heard of it before, although I have heard of Jamaican Beef Patties before (they’ve gotta be fresh though. Frozen is terrible).