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11/01/2025 10:33 am
Bring your snow shoes fellas. We'll have hard boiled egg sammies, dill pickles, chips & dips and drinks. YeeHaw!
Jack Dodds and Steve Jacobs reacted
11/01/2025 10:37 am
@100ford2003 I'm hitch hiking to Tennessee as I type.
Be careful Jack, remember the hitchhiking scene in "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert ? Be sure to dress accordingly 🤣
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Topic starter
11/01/2025 11:33 am
You guys are making me hungry..........
11/01/2025 11:41 am
No snow shovels, just skis! Once you go up and over Ober Gatlinburg you'll just ski right down to the house. I'll leave the garage door open and a mattress against the wall to stop you! 
11/01/2025 11:47 am
What, no road kill??Bring your snow shoes fellas. We'll have hard boiled egg sammies, dill pickles, chips & dips and drinks. YeeHaw!
Sorry, I'll stay home and have a home made hero washed down with a Manhattan Special.
John Bono
North Jersey
11/01/2025 11:51 am
HA! The roadkill is covered in snow but the hero sounds good. And what, John, is a Manhattan Special, a top shelf Manhattan??What, no road kill??Bring your snow shoes fellas. We'll have hard boiled egg sammies, dill pickles, chips & dips and drinks. YeeHaw!
Sorry, I'll stay home and have a home made hero washed down with a Manhattan Special.
11/01/2025 12:12 pm
OMG Tony, you've been living in the backwoods too long. It's an espresso coffee soda...it's been around forever. I was weaned on it as a baby. I guess it's a NYC thing.HA! The roadkill is covered in snow but the hero sounds good. And what, John, is a Manhattan Special, a top shelf Manhattan??What, no road kill??Bring your snow shoes fellas. We'll have hard boiled egg sammies, dill pickles, chips & dips and drinks. YeeHaw!
Sorry, I'll stay home and have a home made hero washed down with a Manhattan Special.
John Bono
North Jersey
Topic starter
11/01/2025 2:09 pm
I guess it's a NYC thing.
Well, I do know that many parts of the U.S. are unaware of this drink....
About 100 years ago I referenced it at a business luncheon. The small crowd at my table looked at me like I just floated in on a raft. It's kind of an Italian thing too. Despite my name, Moroni (100% Italian )...
I hate wine AND coffee! 🤢 🤢 🤮
Steve Jacobs and Tony Perrone reacted
11/01/2025 2:41 pm
Two Paisano's drinking this and I never knew about it. I'm going out back and eat worms - oh CRAP, I can't - too much snow.
No more RC Cola and Moonpies for me - I'm searching out Manhattan Specials!!
11/01/2025 3:35 pm
Lol, I had a big breakfast Tony. Please make sure it's a California King size preferably by Serta thank you 👍
Christopher Moroni and Tony Perrone reacted
11/01/2025 3:43 pm
Tony, you're not going to find Manhattan Special in the soda aisle at your local Piggly Wiggly. You're most likely to find it at an Italian food specialty store...I guessing not too many in Tennessee.Two Paisano's drinking this and I never knew about it. I'm going out back and eat worms - oh CRAP, I can't - too much snow.
No more RC Cola and Moonpies for me - I'm searching out Manhattan Specials!!
John Bono
North Jersey