Tonight on FOP!

We discuss

• Why Antarctica is better than Rochester
• Mike's Mt Rushmore of Food: What are your Top 4 big fast food favorites? What are your Top 4 obscure chains?
• Brinner: Why is it so venerated, and why do we frown on its opposite: Leftovers for Breakfast?
• Why did Wegmans slip in customer satisfaction? Where do we shop?
• White pizza - do non-Rochestarians know what it is?
• Pancake syrup
• Coaches who yelled at us, and why we're better off because of it

We review

• Plate of the month: Naantastic's fried grouper - over rice, quinoa, cucumber, corn, craisins, chickpeas, drizzled with sweet tamarind chutney sauce. Insane.
• Rubino's Chicken French w potatoes
• Cafe Vesuvio's in New Smyrna Beach, FL
• Faircraft Brauhaus, Fairport, NY
• Sip N Jerk Jamaican Foodtruck, and Joe n Sal's Pizza, in Brooklyn, NY
• The Spicey Pickle, and Favorite's Pizza, Lewiston, NY
• Steak n Shake
• Gino's Pizza and Dolly's Diner, WV
• 7-11 in Seabreeze, NY
• Grand Super Buffet and China Buffet, Henrietta, NY

Thanks for telling other escapees about the show, because I'm pretty sure there are no more inmates left.

Tonight on FOP! We celebrate achieving 1000 downloads the only way we can - by ripping into Rochester's rottenness and fawning over the food.

We reminisce:

• B&W television (Marc still owns one)
• Local TV news and their anchors
• "500 Anytime Minutes"
• Mike's HS nickname
• Back when life was finite and manageable
• "Mister Food" on local cable

We discuss:

• The Shamrock Shake
• Italian grandparents cooking on YouTube (Look up Chef Pasquale and Grandma Gina!)
• Mike's meatball birthday party
• Meatloaf vs meatballs
• Pasta Fazool - what is the best broth consistency?
• "Game worn" Josh Allen Buffalo wing sauce bibs
• Mike's Florida trip - what he ate and how he watched WROC-TV8 on the beach

We review:

• Gia's and Fairfield's - pillars of Italian greatness on the east side
• Featured Dish: Gia's Artichoke French
• Phillips Seafood in Newark, NJ Airport
• Centric Hots in Kodak Park (diced peppers and onions! what a genius idea)
• Coco Garden Malaysian Restaurant in Henrietta

Mike brings the articles:

• Canada's Open Home Program: Food brings people together
• What one guy did when he received his Doordash of Steak Tartar
• "Per Tutti" Italian kids school in LI
• Top 2 cheapest NY cities by median home sale prices - but what about property taxes?
• Is Syracuse or Rochester larger, in terms of zip codes?
• NYS is reaching out and taxing people who've already escaped, and people who remotely work for NY companies, and what you have to do avoid their reach.
• How many people escape NY per minute
• A new industry in Rochester: Stealing from the elderly

Thanks for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!

Tonight on FOP! A surprise episode where we clear our consciences and cleanse our palettes in anticipation of a new year.

We Remember

• Bad 2 the Bone BBQ, Ontario NY
• QDOBA Webster
• #Snap Burger in Greece
• ER Sweetland
• ER's cursed building: Odyssey/New Yorker/CornER Diner/Broken Yolk - currently El Greco
• Big Lots all across Rochester - where else can you go to buy a couch, cereal, mouthwash, and foot lotion?
• Boxcar Donuts - Roch Public Market
• Gates cursed building: Fatso's XL, Tony Rigatoni, Yianni's, Cucina 21, Dinemore, currently Fazools
• OTB on West Ridge - and what it became
• Crystal Barn - a classic for high-end 80s events - and what it became
• Quaker Steak & Lube Gates NY - the glorious meal and the tragic timing
• Donuts Delite (just the one on the west side)
• Pizza Oven Niagara Falls
• Long Pond Meats in Greece - and what it became
• Valley Cadillac, and most other car dealerships - and who took them over

We Celebrate

• Pane Vino on Monroe
• Basin Pub
• Tonight's Featured Plate: Empire Hots Trash Plate
• Arby's Secret Meat Mountain
• Sheet Pizzas

We Believe

• Confessions from the McQuaid and LeMoyne Chapels
• Mike makes French Toast... in bacon grease.
• Philly Steak sandwiches with bacon?
• Do plate establishments advertise, or is it more like, IYKYK?
• Best ways to cook Brussels sprouts
• What does Don Alhart eat for Christmas?
• What are most of the pictures on Mike's phone?

(bonus points if you get the three category names)

So from all of us here at Flyover Plates: Happy Holidays, Prosperous New Year, and fill your soul with food.