"Stump the Yankee"

[ReignetteC]

Hi, Laurie,

Sorry for the delay in responding to you. For faithfully getting the flu shot every fall, I am rewarded with a bout of the flu, the latest round of which was just a few days ago. Consequently, I've been out of the loop (as the kids say!)

I'm always up for some investigative work, especially since it's been a few years since I've had a McSorley's famous liverwurst sandwich. Give me a few days and I'll return with a report.

Of interest is this article from New York Magazine:

http://nymag.com/nymetro/nightlife/barbuzz/11924/

"Though McSorley’s claims it opened its doors in 1854, NYC historian Richard McDermott used public records to prove it really opened in 1862. But McSorley’s is most famous for what happened in 1970 when kicking and screaming it was forced to open its doors to women. This Village mainstay is the last bastion of the liverwurst sandwich ($3), but if gray, pasty meat by-product slathered in mayonnaise isn’t your bag, you can get a cup of soup ($3) or burger ($4.75) and wash it down with light or dark beer. The beers famously come in pairs (i.e., order one, you get two; ask for two, you get four), served in small mugs with almost as much foam in them as the good stuff. The slightest display of confusion will surely betray you as a McSorley’s virgin. “Be good or be gone” is the motto here, although after 26 or 28 of those frothy mugs of beer, it’s a little hard to heed the signs that say as much."