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A sandwich built with more love than most relationships, handed over paper.
means A shop (or counter) selling prepared foods like cured meats, cheeses, salads, and made-to-order sandwiches.
from Short for 'delicatessen,' borrowed into English from German Delikatessen, meaning 'delicacies' or 'fine foods' — itself from French délicatesse, tracing back to Latin delicatus, 'delightful, luxurious.' The German word originally named the fancy foods themselves before it got pinned to the shops selling them; English speakers, never ones to say four syllables when two will do, sheared it down to 'deli' sometime in the 20th century.
- name origin
- short for delicatessen, German for refined food
- the number
- take one even if you are not waiting
- slicer skill
- regulars judge you by how thin you cut
- nyc density
- once had a deli on nearly every block