Anyone else sad about Guss'
It gets better each day!
http://eater.com/archives/2009/07/todays_pickle_guss_must_change_its_name_when_it_leaves_les.php
I feel like NYC is disappearing before my eyes! I'm finding myself clinging to the last culinary remains of my childhood.
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6 Comments:
YES. We were driving around the lower east side last year and I was so glad to see it there. This is very sad!
italiagirl84 at 11:40AM on 07/31/09
I remember waking up at the crack of dawn to wait on those lines at the old location, about 25 years ago with my grandparents. It was a special treat to take the drive from queens into manhattan with them and spend the day. I couldn't wait to get to the front of the line so I could crunch on a giant sour pickle. While I waited on line with my grandfather, my grandmother was around the corner, picking up baked goods from gertels.
After filling the car with delicious treats from guss' and gertels, we'd go to lunch at ratners.
it's hard to believe that everything has changed...
nalega at 11:55AM on 07/31/09
Guss' pickles were always the best. I definatly remember going there as a child and getting a big old sour pickle and wondering who in their right mind would eat the pickled watermelon that they always had displayed in jars.
dozertx at 12:38PM on 07/31/09
Nalega, I so miss Ratners! I know in the end the food and service had slipped tremendously but it was still better than nothing.
As a kid we used to go for dinner with my parents and grandparents. And my dad would sometimes bring home their blintzes, pierogen, potato soup and onion rolls. My mother would fry everything up and we would feast!
CornflakeGirl at 5:17PM on 07/31/09
Maybe they could change their name to "Used-to-be Guss" or "Was Guss"
or "Original Guss." Or just change the spelling.
beth1 at 6:44PM on 07/31/09
Pickle Guys is still around on the corner of Essex and Grand, I believe, and are run by the people who actually used to work for and with the original Guss and is at the original location of Guss' Pickles - as opposed to the current Guss' pickles who I believe just bought the name from the family. Pickle Guys also have great some great pickles, and pickled everything else.
jgelfand at 4:41PM on 08/01/09