Has an Arby’s Re-Opened in Midtown?
Ever since the food court in the Manahttan Mall closed, faux roast beef lovers throughout Manhattan have been mourning the loss of the city’s only Arby’s. But according to this email, there may be some sort of light at the end of the dark, beef and cheeseless tunnel:
I was outside eating lunch sitting by the fountain in front of the Chase building (on 6th Ave. btw. 49+50th) and saw a girl walk by with a clear plastic Arby’s cup with some sort of colorful, fruity, frozen concoction. It looked like she just got it as it was filled to the top. She was practically running by otherwise I would’ve asked her what she was drinking and from where. What’s up with that?! Did an Arby’s pop up around here undetected?
Interesting… there are many of explanations (which don’t involve a new Midtown Arby’s) for how this mysterious cup could have shown up on 6th Ave. & 50th St. Check them out, after the jump…
1. The person is a disgusting human being. First, for re-using an Arby’s cup, but secondly, for walking around in Midtown with it, thereby fooling Arby’s fans into getting excited for no reason. Either way, it’s shameful.
2. They got the drink in Jersey, and then took the train into Midtown with it… although this theory is debunked by the emailer specifically noting that the cup was practically filled the top. I don’t think a full Arby’s shake is going to make that journey.
3. There is a new Arby’s in Midtown!?!?
4. The person who sent the email is on crack.
I’m going to hope for 3, while secretly knowing it’s probably 4. Anybody have an idea how this could happen, or any intel about a new Arby’s in Midtown? Please post it in the comments, or email me at zach@midtownlunch.com
UPDATE: Are there any readers in the blogosphere more kickass than Midtown Lunch readers? Post goes up at 2:57pm. At 3:10, mystery solved. Courtesy of Shauna in the comments:
IT’S NOT ARBY’S. It’s the fruit stand on 50th b/w 6th and 7th aves. I got a smoothie the other day (hey, coulda been me walking by) and they serve them in a plastic Arby’s cup. My coworker freaked cause she thought Arby’s was back in full effect. Sadly, it was just a bangin $3 tropical shake.
To the emailer: Was this the girl you saw?
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:57 pm, June 2nd, 2008 under Fast Food Chains.
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IT’S NOT ARBY’S. It’s the fruit stand on 50th b/w 6th and 7th aves. I got a smoothie the other day (hey, coulda been me walking by) and they serve them in a plastic Arby’s cup. My coworker freaked cause she thought Arby’s was back in full effect. Sadly, it was just a bangin $3 tropical shake.
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Yep. Looks like the Arby’s franchise manager liquidated his stockpiled cups with the Arby’s logo and the smoothie guy snapped up a bargain!
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DocChuck misses this place. Instead of a jamoca shake, he always enjoyed getting them to fill a cup with the processed “cheese product” used on the beef-n-cheddar sandwich, and drink that with a thick straw instead. He has also told me that his blow-up doll (he has named her Elizabeth, but more frequently calls her ‘mommy’ in a faux child-like voice, if such things fascinate you) likes their curly fries dipped in their horsey sauce, although she is a messy eater
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RE: To the emailer: Was this the girl you saw?
Hmmm, Not Sure. I was more fixated on the colorful ingredients of the cup and then fixated on said out-of-place cup than the girl. Since Midtown Lunch Overlord Zach is a friend of mine I know he considers this pretty pathetic on my part. If I was forced to answer I’d say no, but both girls damn cute! -
Zach – your roots are showing! Only someone who grew up in Miami would make casual use of the phrase “on crack.”
Also, in the absence of Arby’s, does anyone have any recommendations for a good place for seasoned curly fries?
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There is nothing as intoxicating as a woman in a caftan.
Except, perhaps, an Arby’s bacon, beef and cheddar sandwich, piled high and drenched with their delicious BBQ sauce.
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The wendys in the rock center concourse area has started selling Arby’s roast beef sandwiches as of last friday, where have you guys been?
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I don’t have the heart (literally) to tell DocChuck that at the factory I was, uh, born at in China also manufactures the “roast beef” for the Aby’s sandwiches he proclaims his love for above. Thin sheets of roast-beef patterned plastic and laminating materials are gracefully interwined with beef waste and recycled toilet tissue by Chairman-Mao era machines (on occasion, a worker’s limb is torn free by this antiquated machinery, and they cut down on the beef waste for that single production run, if such things are of interest to you) by the talented workers of the People’s Republic.
I think the emailer may have mistaken one of those new Frutista Freezes from Taco Bell as something from Arby’s…