SC - was buffalo wings now spiedies

[Angie Malone]

Good history about spiedies.  I live in the Southern Tier so I can add
something which I was surprised wasn't mentioned.

There is a spiedie festival, which involves lots of spiedies and other
food, balloon rides.  It was started a while ago, and has turned into quite
a tourist attraction to celebrate the birth place of spiedies.  I think it
is around the time of Pennsic, I think the weekend before the NY state fair
starts.

A most famous spiedie (and other general purpose) marinade is Salamida's
marinade that is for sale in local stores here and maybe beyond.

There is a spiedie restaurant, (well ok. hole in the wall) called Lupo's
charpit.  I think there is one in Binghamton and one in endicott, NY.

My .02 cents worth.

	Angeline


At 06:37 AM 9/16/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Stefan li Rous wrote:
>> 
>> > Good heavens, man! Buffalo wings not important??? Off-topic,
>> > maybe...Next you'll be telling me you don't know about spiedies! ;  )
>> 
>> You got it. What are spiedies?
>
>Sorry, that was pretty much a case of furriner-baiting. My apologies.
>Unlike buffalo wings (but more like beef on weck) spiedies are pretty
>much a New York State thang that hasn't been adopted by most of the rest
>of the world.
>
>An American variant on the Italian spiedini ("little skewers"), they're
>usually cubed beef, pork, veal, or chicken, marinated, grilled on a
>skewer, and served with grilled or sauteed onions and peppers, a slice
>of high-gluten bread, and a sauce of more of the vinaigrette marinade.
>Simple enough.
>
>This is, however, the common street food across most of the Southern
>Tier (look at a map and you'll see what that means) of New York State,
>and they take it pretty seriously, with cookoffs at the State Fair and
>such. Supermarkets sell spiedie meat marinated and ready to grill, and
>bottles of spiedie marinade/sauce.
>
>Naturally, since I'm never certain New York City is part of the United
>States, let alone part of New York State, most people in New York City
>have never heard of this, in spite of the fact that we are demonstrably
>part of the Southern Tier. All right, we're mostly on a disconnected
>land mass, separated by the Hudson river, but still...
>
>Adamantius
>-- 
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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