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  • 5/20/2025
Every story needs a brave and trustworthy guide, and Deli Man’s is the effusive and charming Ziggy Gruber, a third-gen | dG1fVTQ5Ti14Q3ZoMW8
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00:00What makes a good deli pastrami very lovely chicken fat soups stuffed cabbage smell has
00:14to hit hot and meatball the bursting flavor the big sandwiches pickles giving a product
00:20that you can't get anyplace else New York is the cultural spiritual homeland of Jewish
00:25deli and deli grew from an immigrant ethnic food to a trend that was really in the mainstream in
00:30the 30s and 40s it was a delicatessen on every single corner now it's really down to just a
00:35couple hundred around the country smell it folks smell the love i'm third generation in the
00:42delicatessen business all right how we doing guys there was no question of what ziggy wanted to do
00:48my grandfather threw an apron at me and i said to myself this is my calling since he was a little
00:53kid he's been an 80 year old jim you can wear one pair of pants at a time drive one car on the time
00:58how much does somebody need why anybody would want to go in this business i have no idea it's a daily
01:04battle this is going to table six he has so much stress i didn't call all the hollers in oh my god
01:14you can't do it unless you love it you put that personality to the restaurant you want to go because
01:19you want to see ziggy look how gorgeous this one like miss america when i cook i feel my ancestors
01:24around me and that's what drives me someone's got to take this food and continue it it's not one of
01:32the subtler foods you have to go for a jaw adjustment oh yeah the customer is very particular if i don't
01:39like the way it tastes i will never go back ever not ever not ever people ask me how i got into this
01:47business and i half jokingly say it's mental illness delicatessen was more than just food it was
01:55for the soul for the heart it's a link to the past we have a name for 80 years this is the life we chose
02:00this is what we're supposed to do i'm a deli man she says the matzo ball soup is too salty i said did
02:09you try it she said no it looks too salty hello valerie here now what would be your answer if i asked you
02:21what the worst film of all time was what do you know okay i'll tell you the film disaster movie is
02:28officially the worst film of all time this is according to reviews and opinion polls on imdb averaging just a
02:361.3 out of 10 rating on imdb and a 2% on rotten tomatoes haven't seen it i wouldn't bother unless you
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