Here’s the burning question: provolone, cheese whiz or American?
We are narrowing down the comments among hundreds (maybe a thousand) ignited by a Youtube video entitled “Top 10 Reasons Not to Live in Philadelphia.”
The devilish video by a guy called “Briggs” aroused more violent passions then the last 60 seconds of a tied Eagles-Cowboy game.
We won’t list Briggs’ ten nasty blasts at Philly, but he certainly got tons of feedback by declaring Philly pizza is lousy.
Some agreed but most said Briggs wouldn’t know a good pizza from a hockey puck. Somehow the comments turned to cheese steaks, which sparked a really hot debate among locals and visitors.
There were many “deep thinkers” who wrote clever comments such as “The whiz is great.” And “Whiz rocks the cheese world.” Another declared “If it’s not whiz, it’s not a Philly cheese streak.”
But an out-of- town visitor who mostly liked the city wrote: “What really shocked me was that a true Philadelphia cheese steak was topped with Cheese Whiz! If you ever thought of using Cheese Whiz in Chicago, we’ll throw you into Lake Michigan.”
A guy from Boston jumped in to say they have a similar sandwich called a “steak bomb” and it always contains American cheese. This idea was backed by a writer who said, “I have a cheese steak cart and I only use American.” Still another commenter declared, “The standard is definitely American.”
However, another commenter said, “Just be sure it’s provolone not the yellow whiz".
This post got 20 thumbs up from others.
We’ll give the last word to a female commenter: “I’m from South Philly and never had whiz, and the idea of ‘wit’ and ‘witout’ is foreign to me.”
There might be an important lesson in the cheese steak debate. Ever since Trump got the GOP nomination and the presidency, families have been torn apart. People yell. They call each other “stupid” and bitterly cut family ties over politics.
Our suggestion is quickly changing the topic from politics to cheese steaks.
Yes, Uncle Phil may like provolone and Cousin Larry might say whiz is the best. But, at least, they won’t shout and cut family ties over this debate.