CockercombeTuff t1_ja0skgr wrote on February 26, 2023 at 12:03 AM

Reply to comment by Allemaengel in All Hail the Hoagie by dissolutewastrel

>I go up to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton to eat sometimes

I was going to ask if you'd ever eaten at The Chicken Coop, but now I've discovered that it closed last year! Sadness.

I know it's just a mom-and-pop chicken and burgers joint, but in college my team (XC/TF) had a tradition of going every year on the last day of the holiday season interim (we were already back on campus by Jan 2nd or 3rd).

Part of the tradition was that every freshman (men's team) had to eat the pig burger*. One year we didn't do that and opted to see how many chicken wings we could eat as a team. We ate somewhere around 2200 chicken wings (55 people). The freshman guys had to go for the pig burger their sophomore year.

I wish I had gone one last time, bummer.

(* A "pig burger" is: 20oz of Fresh, Never Frozen, Ground Beef with American, Cooper, Swiss, Cheddar, Pepperjack and Provolone Cheeses, Lettuce, Tomato, Raw Onion and a Half-Pound of Bacon served on a half loaf of Italian Bread; Served with our Fresh Cut Fries!)

Allemaengel t1_ja0t43p wrote on February 26, 2023 at 12:08 AM

75 y.o. Cooper's Seafood House in Scranton where scenes from The Office were filmed is a unique place -good food.

Also multiple pizzerias in Old Forge make an awesome dish or sheet pizza. The town is historically Italian going way back to coal mining immigrant days.

Never got to eat at the Coop.

CockercombeTuff t1_ja3l8li wrote on February 26, 2023 at 4:22 PM

Thanks for the rec's, I'll have to check those out. I get up that way every so often to go to an XC meet at Lehigh or take Rt 80 out to Central PA.

Allemaengel t1_ja3liir wrote on February 26, 2023 at 4:24 PM

In high school I ran in XC meets at Lehigh and later went to school there as well. Cool place.