Thanks Dan for another great tour day and dinner! This was my 2nd Brooklyn Reality Tour/dinner in a row, and my first time at the Freddy's.

Each years tour is a little different, and we had some interesting unscheduled stops and things to do. It was a great day of meeting up with new and old friends, touring, and of course eating.

GoodKarmaGuy - thanks for the walk down memory lane!

Every single one of my birthday cakes & occassion cakes came from Alliotta's until I moved to NJ. You made me hungry for one of those black & whites. Good thing I'll be there next weekend.

Do I need to take orders???

That's saying quite a lot.......as I have seen you eat your way through VCE, even stopping for a snack while running to catch a train to Verona

Next year I hope there is an anniversary edition of this tour because those black and white cookies sound fabulous!

mary2e

When are you going?

You see, just like many of you have not met mrs. dhammer53, I still haven't met mary2e She always finds a reason ...

Some of you did meet my wife at a Pre-Freddies party; at quiet dinners,, and in Tokyo . After 26 years of marriage, I can assure you she does exist. (covering all bases).

I'll be in Brooklyn on Saturday mary2e . Just say the time and the place.

I think I'll post a comment on the tour thread about cawhite's

Let's just say that nobody expected to actually see a Tony Soprano type at dinner.
Wha da ya expect?
After 10 hours on the tour, you should now be able to understand dat!

Saturday is the day!!!! When I get a better sense of time, I'll PM you. I know I need to make a Landi's run to load up.

Well you also didn't expect me to run up & ring the doorbell of your childhood home, did you? There were a few surprises on Friday!

I was only on the bus from the restaurant to the bakery and then got off first with my bag of goodies at 33rd but MISSUS dhammer53 has been to our house in Petaluma and I also have had the pleasure of having dinner with the hammer couple in White Plains. Believe the MISSUS even took off early from work to meet up with us.

Looking at the numerous sated looks at the dinner it was for sure a sign that Dan had once again put together a great day. Heard that a certain president was somewhat disappointed though that Dan forgot to include numerous sightings of the NYFD on this tour. :-: :-:

You need to look harder The bakery in Grand Central Station has them, as do a lot of the delis in Manhattan. When I visited my cousins out in Garden City around St. Patricks Day, we had green and whites from a bakery there.

My dad has found a place over in Sonoma or Santa Rosa where he stocks up (guess I should find out where so Magic111 can stock up, too). The only time I've seen them outside the U.S. has been in the underground shopping arcade that connects to the Munich train station, where they were called Amerikaners.

Well at least it's not still sitting on the tour bus . Your camera is waiting for its owner to send an address so it can be returned.

Dinner was, as expected, fabulous!

I was glad to be able to meet y'all at the lunch spot and deliver 'the late one' to the tour, although sadly there were no firetrucks there this year.
Dan

As most of you saw, the trip to Canal Street between lunch and dinner was quite fruitful. Fess up Shirl ...how many did you buy???

Now poor Dan has to deal with the withdrawl that any Do-Host/Hostess has to go through. All those months of anticipation leading up to the event, the excitement of the big day.. followed by the bittersweet sadness when its all over and done with.

I'd also like to apologize to anyone who may have been offended by the jewelry tasting conversation and say that I'm very glad that VPescado no longer thinks I'm a pompous a-hole

Most ever deli in Chelsea has Black and Whites, never did get around to having one though, so can't say if they are any good or not.

Humph.

There are also many bakeries in Queens that make them - the Cake Box in Bayside makes them extremely well.

There are actually several strategies to eating one - do you eat the chocolate side first? Or the vanilla? Each person does it differently - I actually first slice the cookie in half so there are 2 black quarters and 2 white quarters - dont know why - then I alternate what I eat. Always good with a big glass of milk.

I also spotted them in Germany - I think it was Cologne - about a month ago - also called Amerikaners.

Sorry I missed the tour and dinner (which I made in a prior year) - born and lived first 3 months in Bklyn.

You should have seen the TOTALLY amazed look on the kid's face when he found out that some of us were Jewish. We were there during Passover.

Jews in a bakery during Passover???!!!

You are all going to Hell!