y'all are making me hungry --but living here in Pittsburgh - all of the eastern ethnic foods are very available - and not just from the frozen food section (by the way , Mrs. T's is actually from Northeastern PA - I think outside of Hazleton - I went to Penn State with a couple of the kids - it is the Twardzik family). I echo Lee's enthusiasm for the Nits on Saturday night - what a great game (now if the Steelers could just start their season!). Lee - i talked to some people today who were in State College on Sat night - said it was the wildest (but controlled) the place has been for years -- the roads out of town were still clogged up at 3:00am.
Back to food - a "delicacy" type thing here is a "Pittsburgh Sandwich" - made famous by a place called Primanti Brothers - basically any kind of meat and cheese you want - but grilled and with coleslaw and fries on the sandwich (between the slices of bread) - started many many years ago in the warehouse district (called the strip district) by truck drivers who would throw sanwich, fries aand slaw all together in a bag and eat it one handed as they drove