Let freedom fry
Saturday's stooping happened a few blocks away from the home stoop, though still in the nabe.
Some main events included:
The sampling of Men's Pocky (!)
I guess these oblong objects that you put in your mouth are normally for women, so apparently what makes this new kind OK for men to put in their mouths is that these ones have bitter chocolate on them.
The consumption of Freedom Fries Chicken.Is this an attempt to ward off any accusations of terrorism-via-deep-fried-chicken? This reminds me of one local corner eatery whose possibly Middle-Eastern staff put up a flag out front after 9/11 aka "the shit" with what were probably the best of intentions-- only they'd put it up upside down!
Sight of the Day and Night: Dingdingdingdingdingdingding! It's the knife-sharpening truck! This relic of olde-tyme Brooklyn came trundling down the street with the driver hitting its metal bell with a tire iron, and a Beware of Dog sign.
"What's your deal?" I yelled. "I sharpen knives!" Guess I'd been hoping for him to yell a concise history of the mobile knife-sharpening unit in Brooklyn.
posted by Colleen at 11:32 AM
4 Comments:
There are not one, but two knife sharpening trucks that roam these parts of Brooklyn?
Also, if one does a Google Image Search for "two knife sharpening trucks", pictures of babies come up. What's up with that?
Thought you might enjoy this article in the NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/08-10-2006/boroughs/story/441787p-372103c.html
I saw the knife guy out on my block, as well! Hell, maybe this picture was taken on my block! I've never seen him before, and really wished I had some decent knives for him to sharpen for me. Thanks for taking the picture because now I've been able to pass his name along to people who could actually use his services over here in Fort Greene.
I thought flying a flag upside-down is a distress signal.
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