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I really am not thrilled with the TJ's organics. I just don't find them appealing and usually only buy them when they're out of the regular ones and I think the Polly-O ones are a bit dry and plasticky.

I noticed you didn't try the Market Pantry ones from Target; they're pretty good. They taste a lot like the TJ regular ones.

And the TJ Fresh Mozzarella ones are weird, but a nice change of pace if not a hair messy and milky :-)

@Hawk Krall That may be true, but that's about as valid as making a list of the greatest football players of all time and leaving Brett Favre off because he had a few bad seasons with the Jets and Vikings and completely ignoring everything he did in the 90% of his career up until that point.

I'm sure Nathan's may not be as great (to some) as it used to be, but Jesus, the place is still the quintessential hot dog and one of the greatest dogs (in the original, anyway) as can be had anywhere else. They're no more "fast food mediocre" than Gray's, that's for sure.

I just don't get it. I'm not saying "my guys are the best and they should be there," it just caught me by surprise. To me, it's like making a list of the best steakhouses in NYC and not including Peter Luger or Old Homestead.

I'm almost in a mindset where I'd take mediocre homemade over good Pro pizza. I really do appreciate homemade. I joke with my wife that she's my favorite pizzeria.

Adam, not to belabor the point, but which one did you try? I've heard the quality varies between the one in the Village and the one in Grand Central (which is the one I frequent)

I've always been a New York Strip kinda guy myself, but the truth is you can't go wrong with a steak period ;-)