Philadelphia: Cheesesteaks

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by sycamore


Again, I must ask, WHERE was the denial about the smoking?

Nowhere. It doesn't exist. Never did. Move along, nothing to see here. You are perfectly justified in denying that you're in denial. :-)

This a bit like the old "Nathan Therm" bit back on SNL...."Defenseive? Who's being defensive! *I'm* not being defensive---*You're* the one who's being defenseive..."

So, having been duly alarmed about smoking, now you're now going to continue with it until you have actual explicit physical symptoms *again*, right? At which point it will be too late to panic.

Again.

In the meantime, you won't engage on the topic of smoking, because you'd rather play "red herring" about denial.

Ah, addictive behavior, gotta love it...:-) A bit like the five stages of grief, but postdated.

Does your lady smoke too?

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And with both cheesesteaks and hoages, it is most assuredly the bread.

Best theory I've heard on the "hoagie" name was that it was how the shipyard workers down on Hog Island used to carry their lunch to work. How we get from "Hog" to "hoag" I'm not sure. It's a damnfine portable meal though.