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      Am I the only one that has trouble turning on a T.V. set today?   I can’t seem to turn on my T.V. set with one click anymore.  Worst yet I have 6 remote controls. One for the actual factory T.V. one from The Cable  Company’s remote another for  the VHS another for the DVD player & yet another for the Blu-Ray DVD  Player..

I bought a  Blu Ray DVD Player..I  got myself a deluxe copy of Ben-Hur & The Ten Commandments to watch on the upcoming Passover Easter Holidays.

Years ago you put the DVD into the slot and that was it.. and presto the movies started !

Today when you put the Disc into the player there are  several options that appear on the screen..One for play another for Strictly Music  yet several more for directors extra cuts.. However I couldn’t for the life of me find the play button..there had to be at least 50 buttons on the remote control  and not one was labeled the play button.

I pressed every button at least a hundred times and finally I must have hit the right one and the movie started.  After 2 hours the movie paused for intermission and I was  ready to commence to push the play button or some button  in order something to start the movie again.

Low and behold I finally got lucky & got it to work  for me..but it proceeded to return to the beginning if the film. .and no fast forward button..at least none that I could find.

Prince Phillip of England who is a very smart fellow said that you practically have to make love to the remotes to work. How sad they can send a rocket to the moon but they can’t create an Instant on T.V. and Simplified Settings.

12-13-09 – Legend Lerman Lassos National Latke Eating Title to become the first Jewish Prince of Latkes

Joey Kosher Cuisine Levine,  Greg Dady Kosher Levine, Joel The Cannon Podelsky,  Tiny Tim Rauscheder, Prince of Latkes Lerman, Paul Pork Slap Arcaria, Chris The AmericanSchlesinger,   Mike The Real Skinny Hoffman,  Debbie The Full Package Sisco

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Promo For Zans Deli Latka Contest2010 Professional Latka Eating Contest-click to watch!

ANTHONY PASQUALE RUGGIERO  OBITUARY0

         Anthony Pasquale Ruggiero lived a life committed to full bellies, whether it was customers at his Lake Grove deli, seniors in his meals program, or volunteers battling wildfires in Suffolk County, his family said Sunday.

“He loves to feed people. That’s his thing,” his daughter, Denise, ofNorthport, said. “He worked really hard all his life, woke up every morning and worked 15 hours a day.”

Ruggiero, of Head of the Harbor, died at home Saturday after a struggle with diabetes. He was 67.

He underwent two kidney transplants, was legally blind and used a wheelchair, but he still worked full days at Zan’s Kosher Delicatessen in Lake Grove, which he owned for nearly 30 years with his brother, Pat.

The brothers fed about 800 seniors a day through meal distribution programs with the towns of Smithtown and Islip and through the deli’s Supper Club 60, which invited seniors to the establishment for discounted meals. They also aided the Red Cross in feeding first responders during crises, such as wildfires.

Sunday was Pat Ruggiero’s first day at the deli without Anthony.

“It was very difficult,” the Port Jefferson resident said. “When you spend day after day with a person for so many years, it becomes a part of your life and you wonder if maybe they’re just out sick and might be back tomorrow.”

Anthony Ruggiero was born in Brooklyn, graduated from Midwood High School in the early 1960s and served in the U.S. Army from 1965 to 1967, based in Frankfurt, Germany, his family said.

He worked as a meat courier before opening the deli.

His business wasn’t without challenges. He clashed with Smithtown officials in 2000 after pulling out of a contract to run the town’s beach concession stands.

Nevertheless, he inspired many with his dedication to the deli, despite his medical condition. “He had a lot of physical ailments, and he did it on sheer will,” his son, Anthony, of Franklin Lakes, N.J., said. “He had a gruff exterior, but behind it, he was a real softy with pure heart and pure drive.”

Ruggiero met his wife, Nilvia, in the third grade at St. Rose of Lima in Brooklyn, she said. “He threw a rock at me, that dirty rat, but we’ve been laughing ever since,” she said of their 46 years of marriage.

The couple spent Anthony’s last night baby-sitting their grandchildren, whose mischievous ways had him chuckling. “At least he died laughing and dreaming about his grandchildren,” Nilvia Ruggiero said.

In addition to his wife, daughter and son, Anthony Ruggiero is survived by three grandchildren.

His wake will be held at Moloney’s Hauppauge Funeral Home Tuesday and Wednesday, and his funeral will be held at Sts. Philip & James Church in St. James on Thursday. He is to be buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

    Whenever WHAT EVER HAPPENED  TO THE OLD STYLE Cantonese Chinese Restaurants IN N.Y.?  YEARS AGO IN NEW YORK IN WHATEVER NEIGHBORHOOD YOU WENT TO  THE FOOD RECIPES WERE IDENTICAL FROM  BENSONHUST TO CANARSIE TO FLATBUSH FLUSHING AND SO ON WHAT WE HAVE TODAY IS SIMILAR RECIPES BUT EVERY RESTAURANT IS A CRAP SHOOT , WHAT  YOU HAVE IN ONE PLACE LETS SAY KUNG PO DING

( SPICY CHICKEN WITH PEANUTS)MAY AND  WILL TASTE DIFFERENT FROM  PLACE TO PLACE.

  MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT THE CHINESE FOOD YOU GET IN TAKE OUTS AND SIT  IN RESTAURANTS  IS NOT AUTHENTIC CHINESE ETHIC FOOD , BUT THE WORK AND CREATION OF THE GREAT CHINESE AMERICAN CHEFS FORM OLD TIME CULINARY SCHOOLS, TODAY THERE IS NO  LONGER A CENTRAL CULINARY SCHOOL AS  IN THE PAST.

 THE OLD TAKE OUTS IN THE 50′S HAD SEATING WITH BOOTHS AND YOU COULDN’T  SEE THE KITCHEN TODAY THEY HAVE AN OPEN PERFORMANCE  KITCHEN AND THESE NEW TAKE OUTS WHERE STARTED BY IMMIGRANTS FROM HONG KONG THE FOOD THERE ALWAYS TASTED DIFFERENT IT WAS NEVER AS GOOD  AS THE OLD CANTONESE PLACES , WHICH GAVE YOU WHITE GLOVE SERVICE CHAMPAGNE AT A BEER POCKET BUDGET.THE CHOW MEIN THE MOO GOO GAI PAN  THE Char SHOO DING IS ALL A  THING OF THING OF THE PAST , HOW SAD PERHAPS SOME CHINESE RESTAURANT OPERATORS MAY READ THIS BY LINE AND BRING BACK THE TASTE OF OLD.

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 The Federal Government should not give any Federal Welfare SSI  Food Stamps  or Medicaid to Immigrant  Non Citizens.They should relay strictly on sponsors upon entering this great country.If they didn’t put into the system they shouldn’t takeout of the system period .Let it be up to Private Institutions  and Houses of Worship to support all of the Elderly Immigrants arriving here..Let all  of the Young and Healthy Immigrants get off their rear ends and work for a living.

Those who refuse to work should  be deported ..

Many American citizens have no medical insurance and it come s a time when they have be hospitalized and their out of luck up shits creek without a paddle…  but newly arrived  Immigrants will  get everthing  on a silver platter for free .Whether the New Imigrants is in need of a Nursing Home or Child Care Services ..Rehab Center or whatever Uncle Sam picks up the tab by supplying non citizens aliens with Medicade & can stay in Hospitals and receive medical benefits forever in perpetuity. This is the injustice in the system. One person can take millions out of the system.Money that can remain in the governmental  coffers and go for defense or infrastructural rebuilding or Veterans and Active Duty Serviceman  plus a thousand other things .end

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1. The Salvation Army Collecting at stores in July and at the stores that people go primarily to save money such as Wal-Mart & K Mart’ 

why don’t they set up shop in front of stores such as Norstrom & Bloomingdales were people can afford it?

2. Prices at the   Gas pumps Always end in9/10 such as $3.70 9/10 Why the deception? why not say $3.80?  Maybe they they don’t want you to do the math  as to the actual tally at the pump at each sale this, this pricing gimmick must end.

3.Also gas stations have a  pump designed for quick in and out , that is swiping your credit card  and then make you go inside to pay a lower price for cash and by doing so holding up the bay for another  motorist.

4.Retail stores that buy their stock  for cash . then charge sales tax and don’t turn it  all in t o the sales tax dept.

5. Restaurants that have a coupon for x amount off your  check  but demand you present it before ordering. I always believe when you do your getting  bargain or smaller  portion and not the actual  portion that is on the menu.

6. Have you ever been driving your car and you want to get to a red light to read something, you make all the lights. however if your in a hurry you hit every red light

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