Comments on: The Monday Vendy Effect: Excitement or Fatigue?

By: Proby

Proby — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:32:26 +0000

Maybe I’m being over-protective of our local favorites here in Midtown, but does anyone else have a problem with a far-away, weekend-only purveyor winning the Vendy?

I realize that it’s the ‘Vendys’ and not the ‘Midtown Street Foodys’, but somehow it just doesn’t sit right.

By: win

win — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:57:38 +0000

stevenp – love the post :D, couldn’t agree with you more!!

By: stevenp

stevenp — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:55:47 +0000

Mama: not me. I’m gonna eat only at vendy-nominated places for the next 2 weeks. In fact, I will be eating at the Vendy-Nominated Rickshaw Dumpling Cart every single day, so I can scarf down their craptastic overpriced ‘gourmet’ dumplings while I read and re-read their glowing self-promotional advertisement on being a true Vendy-Nominated star of the NYC food scene. (Of course, each day I’ll then proceed to hurl right in front of their truck, point at the sign and yell “This is BS!!!” They deserve no less.)

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:17:15 +0000

My fears are that the Vendy’s will result in way too long lines at my favorite spots. The wait already was long at The Biriyani Cart. Now I’ll have to skip it for a month till cold weather keeps people from going far or outside at all! BOOO!

By: adamprato

adamprato — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:12:48 +0000

Now that redhook is out of the running for a repeat performance at the vendy’s, ERdS needs to step up their game to try to compete for next year :)

By: Mamacita

Mamacita — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:37:18 +0000

I would assume that for us regulars we should hit some “not vendy nominated’ carts for a couple weeks. Give some love to the El Rey Del Sabor, or Kosher Oasis… until the food-tourists get over the hype.

By: Bossman

Bossman — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:04:28 +0000

See Zach, you use the word diary and the cretins go amuk.

By: adamprato

adamprato — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:24:07 +0000

One was a blue collar guy who looked like he could be a cousin of mine. I know these guys get short lunch breaks. I can take my time, so I let him go and didn’t give it any thought (though the girl behind me wasn’t as happy). The other one that cut was this asian guy who looked a bit bewildered. I told the girl behind me to shrug the cutting off as the food comes out fast, and the more people who honor Schnitzel & Things in midtown, the better chance that they’ll be in midtown more often, so it’s a win-win situation.

Also, I didn’t say I was intimidated, I said that the people who cut were anxious/aggressive (the construction worker was aggressive in a friendly-but pushy way, not in a threatening/intimidating way, and the asian guy was anxious, but probably just a trader). I let the construction worker guy know I was there first, and he defended himself, but that I was happy to do him the favor and let him cut since his lunch break is shorter and that if he liked the food, then Shnitzel & Things would be back more often. He actually thanked me and we were cordial.

So yeah, us “New Yawka’s” know a thing or two about confrontation.

By: tacologic

tacologic — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:18:37 +0000

Cupcake Stop was being interviewed by somebody today as well.

By: Rudy McBagel

Rudy McBagel — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:48:04 +0000

I 2nd bossman…………….Zachova…remember that black pudding salad…then look at the generic bluuuurrrhhhggg of most carts.

Also, i still have a bet with paddy power(irish bookmaker here, i know sounds like a mick super hero) that one vendor will shoot another within manhattan b4 new years.