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October 10, 2004
Appetizing Store ("Appy")
The "appy" and the "deli" both are associated with New York.
"Appetizing stores" sell fish and dairy products.
"Delicatessen stores" sell meats.
(NEW YORK TIMES)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/nyregion/thecity/27fyi.html
F.Y.I.
Appetizing Indeed
By MICHAEL POLLAK
Published: June 27, 2004
Q. The "appetizing store," selling Nova Scotia salmon, lox, sturgeon, whitefish, sable, bagels, bialys and the like, is a vanishing New York phenomenon. The term does not appear to exist outside New York, although obviously these products do. Where does this term come from?
A. It does seem to have a New York flavor, according to the owner of Russ & Daughters, one of the most famous stores of this kind that survives. This smoked-fish emporium at 179 East Houston Street (between Orchard and Allen Streets) was opened by Joel Russ in 1914 as "Russ's Cut Rate Appetizers." (...)
"I think 'appetizing' is fairly indigenous and fairly local to New York," Mr. Federman said. Once, he said, there were 30 appetizing stores on the Lower East Side alone.
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Diminutives
... with the Lower East Side, New York, or yore, here are some more: A woman
shopping
in an "appy" (for the whitebread eaters, an appy is an "appetizing store", a
...
rec.humor.jewish - Dec 13, 1998 by Leon - View Thread (6 articles)
7 April 1914, New York Times, pg. 18:
Lenox Appetizing Store, 154 Lenox Ave.
24 May 1925, New York Times, pg. XX2:
It was from old Peretz Chalken, retired from his appetizer store, that she learned of a settlement house two blocks downtown from her home where age and education got together for a two-hour session three times a week.
30 August 1995, New York Times, pg. C2:
I am at the "appetizing" counter of the local suburban supermarket, having ordered a half-pound of Nova. (...)
...I approached the formidable Waldbaum's appetizing counter for the very
first time. (...)
I must admit that from that day forward I've been slightly intimdated when taking my ticket at the appy counter, never knowing whether I'll get an order of embarrassment and humility with my Nova.
JACQUELINE FRANK
"Appetizing stores" sell fish and dairy products.
"Delicatessen stores" sell meats.
(NEW YORK TIMES)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/nyregion/thecity/27fyi.html
F.Y.I.
Appetizing Indeed
By MICHAEL POLLAK
Published: June 27, 2004
Q. The "appetizing store," selling Nova Scotia salmon, lox, sturgeon, whitefish, sable, bagels, bialys and the like, is a vanishing New York phenomenon. The term does not appear to exist outside New York, although obviously these products do. Where does this term come from?
A. It does seem to have a New York flavor, according to the owner of Russ & Daughters, one of the most famous stores of this kind that survives. This smoked-fish emporium at 179 East Houston Street (between Orchard and Allen Streets) was opened by Joel Russ in 1914 as "Russ's Cut Rate Appetizers." (...)
"I think 'appetizing' is fairly indigenous and fairly local to New York," Mr. Federman said. Once, he said, there were 30 appetizing stores on the Lower East Side alone.
(GOOGLE)
> ShopRite Career Opportunities
> ... Experience. Must have experience in a supermarket or related Appy or
Deli Department and a thorough understanding of Appy/Deli products. ...
http://www.shoprite.com/careers/descriptions.asp?id=1729 - 4k - Cached - Similar
pages
[ More results from http://www.shoprite.com ]
(GOOGLE GROUPS)
Diminutives
... with the Lower East Side, New York, or yore, here are some more: A woman
shopping
in an "appy" (for the whitebread eaters, an appy is an "appetizing store", a
...
rec.humor.jewish - Dec 13, 1998 by Leon - View Thread (6 articles)
7 April 1914, New York Times, pg. 18:
Lenox Appetizing Store, 154 Lenox Ave.
24 May 1925, New York Times, pg. XX2:
It was from old Peretz Chalken, retired from his appetizer store, that she learned of a settlement house two blocks downtown from her home where age and education got together for a two-hour session three times a week.
30 August 1995, New York Times, pg. C2:
I am at the "appetizing" counter of the local suburban supermarket, having ordered a half-pound of Nova. (...)
...I approached the formidable Waldbaum's appetizing counter for the very
first time. (...)
I must admit that from that day forward I've been slightly intimdated when taking my ticket at the appy counter, never knowing whether I'll get an order of embarrassment and humility with my Nova.
JACQUELINE FRANK