Re: [UC] Reasons I won't eat at Evan's Varsity Pizza ever again

[Wilma de Soto]

I ordered from them once because a good friend at The Fairfax said they were
good.

The food was not delicious and I never ate from there again. At least I
never found vermin in any food, but found no flavor as well.

The restaurant Health Inspector's Database is a great thing; however caveat
emptor should be foremost.

A friend of mine worked for Weinfeld's Wholesale Grocer for many years, who
was a purveyor for many fine dining establishments and told me of horrors in
the kitchens of many distinguished restaurants in the City.

I used to belong to "The Women's Culinary Guild", which gave classes at 33rd
& Market Sts. at Drexel University with local and international chefs and
attended "The Book and The Cook" at bookstores I remember when cooking was
not fashionable.

I cook and have professional kitchen experience and took chef classes with
both local and international chefs at "The Restaurant School". I have sold
food at Rx. Retired Chef La Croix allowed me to tour his kitchen when he was
at The Four Seasons and at The Rittenhouse Hotel because I spoke to him and
asked him.  Great cooks never mind showing how well they do things to their
clients, but you have to know and understand what they do.

Anthony Bourdain's treatise, "Kitchen Confidential" should read by all who
regularly outsource their meals. Tony Bourdain's book was a confirmation of
personal experience.

Friends always ask me when we go out to eat why I ask chefs to tweak orders,
but they love the results I get from the kitchens.

Know your food; learn where it came from, how it was raised etc. and
scrutinize who is making it.  If you can't, don't eat it.  Cook it yourself.


On 4/30/10 3:08 PM, "Mike VanHelder"  wrote:

> I stopped eating there the day I found flies in my salad, but it's
> nice to know I'm not the only one.  Did you know that the city started
> putting their health inspection reports online?
> 
> http://www.agriculture.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_24476_1
> 0297_0_43/AgWebsite/Page.aspx?name=Food-Safety-Inspection-Results&navid=31&par
> entnavid=0&pageid=50&navcol=true&
> 
> http://pa.state.gegov.com/_templates/92/RetailFood/_report_full.cfm?inspection
> ID=77D5068E-D689-35A4-1BE2B4E681973A6F&domainID=92&rtype=RetailFood&SubType=
> 
> http://pa.state.gegov.com/_templates/92/RetailFood/_report_full.cfm?inspection
> ID=8B39A17A-3048-983B-2663131B8F92079D&domainID=92&rtype=RetailFood&SubType=
> 
> http://pa.state.gegov.com/_templates/92/RetailFood/_report_full.cfm?inspection
> ID=5FDC2345-3048-98E7-04E0A125B4E98093&domainID=92&rtype=RetailFood&SubType=
> 
> Looks like Varsity failed three in a row.  How many do you have to
> fail, and how badly, before you get shut down?
> 
> - Mike V.
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[UC] Reasons I won't eat at Evan's Varsity Pizza ever again

[Mike VanHelder]

I stopped eating there the day I found flies in my salad, but it's
nice to know I'm not the only one.  Did you know that the city started
putting their health inspection reports online?

http://www.agriculture.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_24476_10297_0_43/AgWebsite/Page.aspx?name=Food-Safety-Inspection-Results&navid=31&parentnavid=0&pageid=50&navcol=true&;

http://pa.state.gegov.com/_templates/92/RetailFood/_report_full.cfm?inspectionID=77D5068E-D689-35A4-1BE2B4E681973A6F&domainID=92&rtype=RetailFood&SubType=

http://pa.state.gegov.com/_templates/92/RetailFood/_report_full.cfm?inspectionID=8B39A17A-3048-983B-2663131B8F92079D&domainID=92&rtype=RetailFood&SubType=

http://pa.state.gegov.com/_templates/92/RetailFood/_report_full.cfm?inspectionID=5FDC2345-3048-98E7-04E0A125B4E98093&domainID=92&rtype=RetailFood&SubType=

Looks like Varsity failed three in a row.  How many do you have to
fail, and how badly, before you get shut down?

- Mike V.

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[UC] Missing medicaid announcement

[Glenn]

I was told this announcement may be missing from my earlier post. 
Announcement and rally info:


Effective May 1st 2010 Crozer-Keystone Health System will no longer 
accept people on Medicaid!*



   All 27,000 people on Medicaid that rely on those hospitals for care
   will now have to travel out of Delaware County.

~This leaves only one hospital in all of Delaware County to provide 
maternity care to these women.


~Over 9,500 Medicaid recipients will now lose access to their primary 
care doctor.


~More than 17,000 people on Medicaid used a Crozer-Keystone specialist 
last year, they will now have to travel to a different county to receive 
care.


*Join us for a rally on Monday, May 3rd at 1:00 PM Outside 
Crozer-Chester Medical Center at One Medical Center Blvd, Upland PA, 19013.*


If you're on Medicaid and use those hospitals, feel free to let us know.

*Contact Athena to RSVP/for more info at af...@philaup.org.*

/*In cases of a real emergency, Medicaid  recipients  can still use the 
Crozer-Chester Hopistal system.  Also, some patients on a specialized 
course of treatment will be able to finish the treatment.

/

/
---
/

adultBasic, an affordable health insurance program for low-income 
Pennsylvanians is in jepordy! *If the program dies, it means 40,000 
Pennsylvanians will lose their health insurance*.  After all the work we 
did this year to expand access to affordable, quality health care, we 
can't let that happen.


The bill to protect adultBasic has been introduced and on Tuesday, May 
4th 9:00 AM the House will hold hearings on it.  We're hoping you can 
help us pack that hearing with supporters!

[UC] West Philly Community Dog Wash - this Sunday!

[Linda Lee]

West Philadelphia Community Dog Wash (4002 Pine St)

Date: 2010-04-30, 10:41AM EDT
Reply to: comm-wczgr-1717642...@craigslist.org [Errors when replying  
to ads?]


The Epsilon Chapter of the Alpha Psi Professional Veterinary  
Fraternity will proudly be holding its first annual Community Dog Wash  
on May 2, 2010 from 12-4PM at the Alpha Psi house - 4002 Pine Street,  
Philadelphia. The dog wash is being sponsored by Buzzy's Bow Wow Meow.  
A portion of the proceeds with be donated to the Philadelphia Animal  
Welfare Society to support its new Spay, Neuter and Wellness facility!  
For just $5, each dog will be thoroughly washed and dried! A  
professional groomer, provided by Buzzy's Bow Wow Meow, will also be  
there to help with any grooming issues you may have! Please come and  
support a long standing institution within the PennVet community and a  
new partner in animal welfare! We hope to see you on May 2nd!!


Please note that all breeds are welcome, however due to the nature of  
the event we ask that dogs displaying human or animal aggression  
please not participate.
The members of Alpha Psi and those running the dog wash reserve the  
right to ask that any animal displaying questionable or dangerous  
behavior leave the premises for the safety of all humans and animals  
involved.

[UC] Health care, medicaid alert, and rally

[Glenn]

I received these two alerts about Medicaid patients at Crozer and PA 
adult basic. This loss of medical providers will soon explode across the 
country. While the charade of increased junk health insurance runs its 
course, the poor and lower classes are targeted to lose most access to 
medical care.


For the sake of brevity, existing programs like Medicaid are being 
sabotaged. More people will be eligible for these programs but will be 
quietly refused on a daily basis. This started before the health 
insurance bailout.


These government cuts to reimbursements, which are happening now, are 
the "savings" and "waste" that will be transferred to health insurance 
companies for junk insurance for 30 million.  Although emergency rooms 
will get more crowded, as the middle class is transferred to junk 
insurance (like me with Blue Cross); reimbursements for emergency rooms 
are also to be "saved."



Yes, while we bask in the success of health reform, we are sitting on a 
public health catastrophe and explosion of the previously reported 
40,000 deaths per year.  Copied from e-mail:



Effective May 1st 2010 Crozer-Keystone Health System will no longer 
accept people on Medicaid!*



   All 27,000 people on Medicaid that rely on those hospitals for care
   will now have to travel out of Delaware County.

~This leaves only one hospital in all of Delaware County to provide 
maternity care to these women.


~Over 9,500 Medicaid recipients will now lose access to their primary 
care doctor.


~More than 17,000 people on Medicaid used a Crozer-Keystone specialist 
last year, they will now have to travel to a different county to receive 
care.


*Join us for a rally on Monday, May 3rd at 1:00 PM Outside 
Crozer-Chester Medical Center at One Medical Center Blvd, Upland PA, 19013.*


If you're on Medicaid and use those hospitals, feel free to let us know.

*Contact Athena to RSVP/for more info at af...@philaup.org.*

/*In cases of a real emergency, Medicaid  recipients  can still use the 
Crozer-Chester Hopistal system.  Also, some patients on a specialized 
course of treatment will be able to finish the treatment.

/

/
---
/

adultBasic, an affordable health insurance program for low-income 
Pennsylvanians is in jepordy! *If the program dies, it means 40,000 
Pennsylvanians will lose their health insurance*.  After all the work we 
did this year to expand access to affordable, quality health care, we 
can't let that happen.


The bill to protect adultBasic has been introduced and on Tuesday, May 
4th 9:00 AM the House will hold hearings on it.  We're hoping you can 
help us pack that hearing with supporters!

Re: [UC] Traumatic stress of poverty, Inq

[Glenn]

On 4/29/2010 3:21 PM, Andy Frishkoff wrote:

instead of rallying your neighbors to address the problem head-on.


Andy, I believe I am asking neighbors "to address the problem head on."  
This report is more updated evidence of the far reaching damage of 
poverty!  (We've known the technical aspects of the pediatric medical 
problems, like failure to thrive and obesity, for a long time.  This 
report directly connects a variety of medical problems, including abuse 
and injury,  with the hardships of poverty and shows how the damage has 
increased in multiple regions as the economic depression worsens in 
these communities.)


Of course, the important band aid food programs mentioned have been 
heartlessly and foolishly squeezed for a long time.  These programs do 
save many at risk kids from the immediate damage of insufficient 
nutrition, but not chronic poverty.  It is important to restore these 
important minimal band aids for survival, and I hope people from BID 
communities demand action from the corporatist political parties.  We 
seem to agree on that.


 But after that, we disagree about shortsightedness and failure to look 
at the bigger picture.  You wrote:


 "Philadelphians who live in business improvement districts and 
neighborhood improvement districts vote overwhelmingly for local, state 
and federal candidates who favor the expansion of each of the public 
programs cited in the Pediatrics article.  Here is another fact that 
will entail more research:  Philadelphians who send their children to 
private schools vote for those same candidates."


Andy, I was also told that this privileged liberal middle class 
supported the "peace" candidates, and that they voted for the democrats 
who passed "health reform."  I'm sorry that enlightened BID residents 
failed to understand these issues with more depth, and didn't demand 
honesty or good policy from these wonderful candidates they supported!  
They appear to believe that these "partisan" fights between corporate 
republicans and corporate democrats are real, and that they supported 
the good guy, like they supported Hulk Hogan.


The band aid approaches, in our so called safety net, do not end the 
stress and damages of poverty in society.  That is where I am asking 
neighbors to stop the positive thinking and self-righteous claims of 
charity, and look deeply at the underlying problems!  Feeding the 
homeless on Christmas day might feel good and give nutrition for the 
day, but it does not solve the problems of the homeless.  WIC can and 
should temporarily help with malnutrition, but does not solve the 
stresses and damage to children from chronic poverty.  (I'm not saying 
that immediately fixing the craters in the safety net is unimportant.  I 
am saying that these issues are part of a much larger problem and that 
the middle class needs to stop thinking of band-aids only.  I'm also 
asking them to stop thinking that supporting their righteous political 
parties allows blissful ignorance.)


Example:  The war on drugs continues because the middle class does not 
understand that education and intervention helps societies problems and 
persecution makes these worse.  The corporate politicians of both 
parties simply use middle class anger and ignorance about this issue to 
keep their cronies in business!  Both parties understand the data and 
the evil war, but the middle class does not!!!



Andy, privatizing schools and funneling taxpayer resources to BIDS are 
false solutions for society's problems, as the underlying problems of 
poverty are ignored and getting worse.  (Remember the announcement of 
grants for a Clark Park redesign that came around the same time that 75 
of 75 sample Recreation centers looked at were reported to have serious 
problems with basic maintenance and safety?  Did the people of the UCD 
district and their politicians oppose this selfish hording of resources? )


(The problem for poor schools is the funding gap with wealthy districts, 
and that is the one issue that both parties keep off the table! Single 
payer health care is real health reform, and that was off the table as 
these wonderful "liberal" politicians claimed success!) I don't see 
these lies as successes, and they make the problems of poverty worse, 
and for more people!


Andy, voting for either dishonest corporate political party is not a win 
for truly progressive policies.  An enlightened and involved population 
moves policy forward, as the great historian and activist Howard Zinn 
taught!


Thanks for raising this honest disagreement.  Instead of using tricks, 
like we see so often, this has been a constructive discussion!


Glenn
PS: I'm glad you take the study results seriously and I'm glad I posted 
the link.

[UC] Most restaurant inspections now posted on the Web

[Frank]

There's a searchable database now available from the PA Dept. of Agriculture.

http://www.agriculture.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_24476_10297_0_43/AgWebsite/Page.aspx?name=Food-Safety-Inspection-Results&navid=31&parentnavid=0&pageid=50&navcol=true&;

Here's the Inky article:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20100430_Most_restaurant_inspections_now_posted_on_the_Web.html

Other counties here:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/daily/92467534.html

Frank
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[UC] Anyone find a car key?

[Kathleen Turner]

A single car key (not on any kind of keychain) was lost last night in the
4700 block of Cedar Avenue -- closer to 48th Street.  If anyone picked up a
key, could you please contact me by email (khturne...@gmail.com) or phone --
215-834-1034.

Thank you!

Kathleen