Philly Cheesesteaks Suck

A Philly transplant shares why she left his hometown, the superiority of Maryland crab cakes, and the friendships built over Mario Party. A light, funny, unexpectedly honest look at reinvention, food loyalty, and East Coast identity.

The conversation spans from preferred social activities to crab cake recommendations and secret cheesesteak spots, revealing how regional identities and leisure choices evolve as we move between cities.

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Introducing Rideshare Road Talk

Speaker 1 0:12

Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk Conversations in Motion, a podcast where we create unfiltered talk space that examines the meaningful lives of my passengers while engaging in personal and topical discussions. Examines the meaningful lives of my passengers while engaging in personal and topical discussions. I'm your host and driver, john Foddis, and we're cruising the streets of Washington DC. Buckle up, let's drive.

Speaker 2 0:36

So what's your story? I used to live here and now I live in Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 0:40

You're just visiting.

Speaker 2 0:41

And I'm visiting here for a conference, all right.

Speaker 1 0:44

It's a good time and a place to be visiting DC.

Speaker 2 0:47

Yeah, and not actually being here.

Speaker 1 0:48

Yes, you know, like when you you know there's like crazy shit going on in the world, right yeah, but deep down you just feel there's people out there that are doing the right job to protect us.

Speaker 2 0:59

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:07

No one has that feeling anymore. Yeah, that's the sentiment at least. Yeah, I would um, and so it's just there's a very odd energy in the city, just a very, very odd energy. Yeah, um, anyways, um, what do you do for fun up in uh, philadelphia?

Speaker 2 1:17

um, like to read and I like that wait, wait, wait that's the first thing out of the gate.

Speaker 1 1:23

is you like to read? I have nothing against literacy, but come on.

Speaker 2 1:27

Well, the main actual fun thing I honestly like to do the most is just spending time with my friends. Okay, but that's just because I love my friends, yeah going out just eating cocktails, whatever the usual. I prefer hosting and staying in.

Speaker 1 1:45

I like that.

Speaker 2 1:46

I like that we play a lot of Mario Party.

Speaker 1 1:49

What is that?

Speaker 2 1:51

Oh, it's basically a board game, but it's on a video game.

Speaker 1 1:54

Mario like the doink, doink, doink.

Speaker 2 1:56

Yeah, you got it.

Speaker 1 1:58

Okay, I'm down, it's fun, it's very fun. I mean, I'm a Gen Xer man, I get it. Yeah, I'm the video game generation. Yeah, but how has it expanded beyond what I remember?

Speaker 2 2:08

mario, being it's probably not much. I mean there's just yeah, it's awesome, there's like a little bit of some new characters okay oh my god, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 2:16

I don't want to take offense to this. Are you a dork? Play mario video games with your friends maybe that's awesome.

Speaker 2 2:22

I love that I mean, I definitely prefer that than like going out to a loud bar where I can't hear them speak. Personally, sometimes I do like that, but yeah, I'm mostly I'm 56.

Speaker 1 2:33

Right, I have less years in front of me than I do. Oh, you don't know. No, oh, I've. It's been fun, trust me, I've gotten enough in for four lifetimes already. But all those years I spent like in bars, yeah, like talking, yeah. And you come home and your voice is like why is my voice all the way? Yeah, like I would so much rather like you. Well, not so much. I mean. Yeah, kicking it home now, but give me a lounge, yeah, you know, and a glass of bourbon, yeah, and lounge, yeah you know, and a glass of bourbon, yeah, and maybe some background music and just talk, just bullshit.

Maryland Roots and Crab Cakes

Speaker 1 3:10

I agree, just don't need the. Yes, and everyone smells like yeah, bo, and vending machine cologne, yeah right, that kind of stuff I don't need that good for you good for you.

Speaker 2 3:22

Where do you live?

Speaker 1 3:23

now I live in the Maryland suburbs. Okay, a place near Rockville. Okay nice and yeah again. I just I know DC intimately, yeah, but I don't come down here a lot to know where the ever-changing hot spots are.

Speaker 2 3:41

That's fair.

Speaker 1 3:42

And so. But I have been learning by proxy, by just talking to people like you and dropping people off, and it's always nice to kind of look at things with a fresh lens, and you know doing this as fun because it gets me out of my comfort zone and you know, I grew up in maryland, so yeah, whereabouts uh near glenburnie.

Speaker 1 4:01

Oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, the uh one of my favorite crab cake places up that way. Uh g&m up by the airport. I don't think I've been there it's either g&m or timbuktu, the two that always yeah, I don't know either of those, wow you're missing out.

Speaker 2 4:16

Yeah, I'm not kidding, I grew up hating seafood, which was a sin, obviously, because of where we because you're like yeah by the chesapeake, yeah, literally, yeah, my brother used to joke that I was adopted, which was very funny might not be far off it's definitely not not far off the uh.

Speaker 1 4:33

You know, it's one of those things where it's not the greatest. I mean, it's a fantastic crab cake, don't be wrong, but it's the audacity factor that's like as big as my hand Nice, yeah, yeah, yeah. And if you get the double platter, like I'm a big dude, I can barely finish it.

Speaker 2 4:48

Nice, it's like insane. Okay, yeah, then that's worth it then.

Speaker 1 4:50

It also costs probably, like God, probably close to 80 bucks. Okay, yeah now, but you should check it out. It's like if you're ever flying in and out of BWI for whatever reason it's actually called Timbuktu. Timbuktu, and then the other one is GNM.

Speaker 2 5:05

GNM, gnm, yep, yep.

Speaker 1 5:08

And GNM is cool because it has the main restaurant. It's kind of like a weird, quasi-industrial, not very fun area Hammond's Ferry Road, I think it's what it's called, but they have the regular restaurant part and then but they have this old school like lounge bar area and it's got like exposed red brick and it's like a funky cool bar and there's some maybe like 20 little small white tablecloths, tabletops, and it's just gangster it's just awesome it's really cool. We don't have much, just awesome. Yeah, it's really cool.

Speaker 2 5:46

We don't have much time left. But besides, mario, what else are you doing up in Philly? Hitting the streets when the Eagles win the Super Bowl, burning my city down? What?

Speaker 1 5:56

else would we do, seems reasonable, being Philly and all.

Speaker 2 5:59

Yeah.

Speaker 1 5:59

Hey, I got news for you the best cheesesteak is not in Philadelphia. I don't want to hear about it. Where I just don't when it's White House in Atlantic City. Okay, you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 6:08

No, I've never been to Atlantic City.

Speaker 1 6:10

Are you sure you're from Philadelphia?

Speaker 2 6:11

I'm not from there, I'm from Maryland.

Speaker 1 6:14

But you live there, I don't have a car. Walk down the expressway as if you're going to Atlantic City. Okay, and then in the old neighborhood across from the casinos, it's called White House. It's been there since like 1940-something, I'm not kidding, it's amazing.

Speaker 2 6:33

Well, now I have to go.

Speaker 1 6:34

You have to go.

Speaker 2 6:37

Yeah, this is good to know. See, I benefited.

Speaker 1 6:40

See, I benefited about my own local spot. That's well, if you believe me, yeah, sure, lovely chatting with you?

Speaker 2 6:47

yeah, you too. Good luck with everything thanks.

Speaker 1 6:50

The podcast is called Rideshare Road Talk. Okay, good to know it's up on Apple perfect, sounds good. White House, white House, white House, yes sir have a good one, take care now, bye, bye. Yes, sir, have a good one, take care now, bye-bye.