@waltman And in #food-themed #music trivia, a young version of my band The Phoenix Trap made a grungy appearance on the 1998 compilation CD “#Scrapple Rocks,” alongside #Philly hitmaker #RobertHazard (songwriter for #CyndiLauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and his own #NewWave hit “Escalator of Life”)
TIL that you can buy the official #Philly cheesesteak cheese, Cooper Sharp, in #kingstonNY. I've never seen it in NYC.
However, if you order a cheesesteak here, you get precooked roast beef (!!!), sliced then heated on a griddle with American cheese, and served on a round roll.
@APBBlue This happened to me some untold number of years ago when Philly started adding a lot more bike lanes. I was biking on a street w/o a bike lane & I guess some drivers were interpreting the new lanes as demarcating where bikes were allowed to be. So a driver pulled up next to me, slowed down, opened window, & screamed BIKE LANE, BITCH!! as loud as she could.
To my fairly great surprise I screamed back SHARE THE ROAD, BITCH!!
I created my own custom emoji "from scratch" for the #Philly#trolley! Behold: :trolley:
It should match the :mfl: :nhsl: :bsl: :bus_septa: emoji Jawns already had.
I pulled the logo from Wikipedia as an SVG. Then I used Inkscape to make it a 400x400 PNG, since the emoji is apparently displayed as 20x20 by default and this should make it look crisp at any resolution:
inkscape -w 400 -h 400 input.svg -o output.png
Then I used Curtail to make the file size smaller with lossy PNG compression.
All the #Philly peeps: no getting coffee at Ultimo locations until the company signs the new contract for the baristas union. They’re asking customers to boycott.