This show is for people who&#39;ve escaped Rochester, NY, but miss the city&#39;s signature cuisine, the PLATE. Hosted by Rochester expat Dr. Mike Brondon and co-hosted by Rochester radio legend Marc-Anthony Arena, we reminisce about the weather, the people, and the institutions of Rochester of yesteryear. You know, back when we had industry... and hope.Everybody has a friend who escaped Rochester, so tell them about the podcast!

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Tonight on FOP!Marc reviews the best restaurants all around the island of Sicily:<ul><li>Il Culinario</li><li>Tritalo Mediterraneo</li><li>Antica Sicilia</li><li>Collegiata Cafe</li><li>Sapori Perduti Modica</li><li>Baio di Ulisse</li><li>Apud Jatum (featured photo!!!)</li><li>Maqueda Street Food - best arancini in Sicily</li><li>How did it compare to Regulary Italy? What items didn&#39;t they have?</li></ul>Mike encounters some Buffalo escapees in Austin, TX:<ul><li>Burger with bleu cheese and jam?</li><li>Meanwhile Brew Pub</li><li>&#34;Let&#39;s Go Buffalo&#34; Popcorn Chicken Wrap</li><li>Breakfast at Dan&#39;s Hamburgers</li><li>In n&#39; Out Burger&#39;s Double-Double-Animal Style</li><li>Mustard &amp; Peanut butter burger</li><li>My Favorite Muffin and Bagel Bakery</li><li>Wurstfest</li></ul>Also:<ul><li>How Mike does Pilates</li><li>Marc is FOP&#39;s &#34;Crocs on the ground&#34; food critic</li><li>Mrs. Fields vs Great American Cookie Company</li><li>The Battle of the Hilton Diners</li><li>Resurrection of The Como</li><li>Resurrection of BTB</li><li>How our buddy describes Rochester</li><li>FOP The Movie: &#34;Eat, eat, eat, pray&#34;</li></ul>We Remember:<ul><li>Roadblock the wrestler (Correction: might still be alive)</li><li>Lyell and Dewey Tent City</li><li>Upstate Niagara Cooperative Milk Plant</li><li>3 shot on N Clinton Ave</li><li>Kodak&#39;s uncertain future</li><li>Herbal IQ Dispensary East Ave</li><li>Hempsol CBD Dispensary</li><li>Walt&#39;s Hobby Shop Syracuse</li><li>Frontier Town, N Hudson, NY</li><li>GM&#39;s Advanced Design Team, Pasadena, CA (apparently resurrected)</li><li>6 Rochester city schools</li><li>Mrs. Fields Eastview (vs. Great American Cookie Company)</li><li>Studio 34 Creative Arts Center</li></ul>Keep sharing the show with friends you know!

46 Tour of Sicily

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Tonight on FOP!We discuss:<ul><li>Move over Netflix Queue... Dr. Mike has a Rochester Hot Sauce Queue!</li><li>Toys R Us is coming back... but their demographic is now... Kidults</li><li>Tacos &amp; non-alcoholic Margs... no regrets</li><li>At McD&#39;s, Pumpkin Spice is gone, but what flavor is in?</li><li>If you were given food vouchers that expired in 24 hours, what would you eat?</li><li>Which Rochester mall is next to fall? You won&#39;t believe the answer.</li><li>Accordion Night at the Red Wings?</li><li>What is the nicest town in the USA?</li><li>Marc proposes Dating App safety features</li><li>Surveillance pricing hits convenience stores</li><li>What Rochester DJ is retiring?</li><li>Featured Plate: The Gate House&#39;s Vegan Gate Plate</li><li>Who would be on Mike&#39;s Mt. Rushmore of Rochester?</li></ul> We remember:<ul><li>Louis Rossmann escapes Manhattan, and explains why</li><li>Ridge Rattan</li><li>Roy Rogers</li><li>Xerox Tower</li><li>Xerox Webster&#39;s parking lot</li><li>U-Haul Henrietta - All their trucks &amp; trailers were taken to Virginia on a one-way trip!</li><li>Breen&#39;s Grocery Store in Williamson (it was their only one, too!)</li><li>Xceed FCU Pittsford</li><li>Hulk Hogan &amp; Chuck Mangione</li></ul> Thanks for telling other inmates &amp; escapees about the show!

45 Accordion Night at the Red Wings

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Tonight on FOP! This has got to be one of the funniest episodes we&#39;ve ever done.We discuss:<ul><li>Flamin&#39; Hot Cheetos</li><li>Nonna Bella&#39;s in Boston (featured meal!)</li><li>Pies &amp; Pints</li><li>Caucasian Cultural Cuisine</li><li>Pizza Squares</li><li>Driving Alfresco</li><li>Waffle House 24 Hour Challenge</li><li>Most Affordable City in NY</li><li>Highmark Stadium visibility issues</li><li>Most passionate football fans</li><li>Comparing Dinosaur BBQ Locations</li><li>Lake Ontario</li><li>Texas Roadhouse&#39;s mice in ice</li><li>90s Village</li><li>Syr &lt; Roc &lt; Buf &lt; Tor</li></ul> We Remember<ul><li>Roc n Dealz Greece Ridge</li><li>Friendly&#39;s in Ohio</li><li>Brillo&#39;s Italian American in Albany</li><li>Hugo&#39;s Italian Bistro, another victim of the Rochester Triangle</li><li>GAETANO&#39;S (NNNNOOOOOO)</li><li>Ming on Clinton + New Ming on Monroe</li><li>Morningstar Diner</li><li>Orleans Villa Pizza + Nonnie&#39;s Country Kitchen</li><li>Goldcrest Electronics + Youdoit Electronics</li><li>Picraft Pizza + Favo (NNNNOOOOOO)</li></ul>Thanks for telling your fellow inmates and escapees about the show!

44 Who's More Desperate?

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No, we aren&#39;t reviewing drive thrus per se, but this is a drive-thru episode in that we made it relatively soon after the last one!We Discuss<ul><li>Dr. Mike&#39;s Workout Routine</li><li>Those stupid Jeep ducks</li><li>Top foods of all 50 states</li><li>NY Renaissance Faire</li><li>The new Odyssey movie</li><li>The Life Cycle of a Song on Rochester Radio Stations</li><li>What time do Roch restaurants close?</li><li>Ranch bottles vs Roch hot sauce - which would you bring on a plane?</li></ul> We Eat<ul><li>PLATE OF THE MONTH: Spencerport Hots Shaved Ribeye Plate. So preposterously good, it attempts to unseat the champion and sparks a debate.</li><li>Best of the West vs. Best of the East</li><li>Fiamma Centro Pizzeria</li><li>Italian Divorce Soup</li><li>Bill Gray&#39;s Secret Menu Item</li><li>Plum Garden Pittsford</li></ul> We Remember<ul><li>Rocwiki, the website that memorialized Roch restaurants. Oh the irony.</li><li>The Ethiopian place and Coffee Connections in Marketplace Mall food court... as well as everything else in the place.</li><li>Petite Poutinerie - went under before we could review it</li><li>The Delphi Building</li><li>Macy&#39;s Greeceridge</li><li>Antonetta&#39;s</li><li>Bushnell&#39;s Basin Milk House</li><li>Veltri&#39;s Pizza</li><li>Rick&#39;s Prime Rib</li><li>Bernardo&#39;s Pizza</li><li>Product 19 Cereal</li><li>North Coast 105.9 Smooth Jazz</li><li>The Spaghetti Warehouse, a Syracuse institution</li><li>Jim&#39;s Diner Greece Ridge - rather than put it in any one of the abandoned anchor stores, the mall decided to bulldoze one of its few functioning businesses to install a Boscov&#39;s.</li></ul>Thanks for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!

43 Drive-Thru Episode

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Happy 250th, Foppers!Tonight, we discuss:<ul><li>Midwest cookouts and their ubiquitous crockpots</li><li>Dr and Dr Mrs Mike&#39;s creative American Flag cake</li><li>The Happy Carnivore</li><li>Homemade Chicken French</li><li>Featured Plate: The Cincinnati Reds hosted a Doctor Buffet</li><li>What was the center of your Plate Universe?</li><li># of people escaping downstate vs Western NY</li><li>Krispy Kreme offers Girl Scout Cookie flavors</li><li>Epic Meal Time</li><li>The Rise &amp; Fall of Dairy Queen</li><li>Mike&#39;s HS Nickname</li><li>Hyde&#39;s Historic Registry</li><li>Cincinnati Burger Week</li><li>Those Pointless Rochester Horses</li><li>Chik-Fil-A Free Day</li><li>Marc&#39;s New Book - coming soon!</li><li>Microcenter in Dayton</li><li>Pod Computers Brighton</li><li>Geese can&#39;t figure out how to migrate out of Rochester</li></ul> We Memorialize<ul><li>Doc&#39;s Canandaigua</li><li>Mel&#39;s Diner &amp; Namaste Grocery</li><li>Wm Scheer Jewelers</li><li>Kaufmann&#39;s Irond. Mall</li><li>Tops on Goodman - what did it become?</li><li>International Tops/Martin&#39;s in Perinton Square</li><li>Kmart on East Ridge</li><li>IHOP Henrietta - what did it become?</li><li>Rachel&#39;s in Pittsford and Henrietta -their glorious pureed garlic dip - &#34;furn food&#34; was too scary for Roch</li><li>Grisanti&#39;s/Bazil&#39;s/The Crab Shack/RocFish</li><li>Uno&#39;s Webster - the final pillar falls - &#34;Only the bland survive&#34;</li><li>Smilin&#39; Jack Palvino</li><li>Tandoori Flame Webster</li><li>Pier 1 in Victor - what did it become?</li><li>JT&#39;s Pizzeria in East Rochester</li><li>Scott&#39;s Collision</li><li>Scott&#39;s Photo - a resurrected resurrection</li></ul>Thanks as always for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!

42 United Plates of America

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Tonight on FOP! Foodyseus takes us on a food odyssey through the midwest, where most restaurants are actually still in business.We discuss:<ul><li>Goats. Not the Greatest of all Time, but real live goats. Walking around our malls. Because there are no more businesses or human kids left here.</li><li>What NY Knicks fans burned to celebrate a win</li><li>The TWO reasons Mike is bursting at the seams</li><li>English soccer fan comes to Texas to try brisket</li><li>Scottish tourists drink Boston dry</li><li>A Swede discovers ranch dressing</li><li>Food is the common ground to peace</li><li>A new champion claims #1 in fast food customer satisfaction</li><li>Article: Top food chains</li><li>#GhostTownLife</li></ul> We review:<ul><li>Battle of the Sub Shops</li><li>KFC Buffet</li><li>Pizza Hut Buffet</li><li>Panera</li><li>Cracker Barrel</li><li>Golden Corral</li><li>Past Times Arcade in Girard, OH</li><li>Various books we were assigned to read in school</li><li>&#34;Old Reliable&#34;</li></ul> Then we dip our toes into the 8-page backlog of In Memoriams:<ul><li>TGI Friday&#39;s and Ruby Tuesday&#39;s in Henrietta</li><li>Extreme Gifts Dispensary - how NY crushes even its darling industry</li><li>Amiel Sr., founder of Amiel&#39;s Sub Shop</li><li>Jai Ho Indian Cuisine</li><li>Leonardo&#39;s Pizza</li><li>Sears Marketplace Mall - what did it become?</li><li>Regal Cinemas Culver-Ridge - what two things did it become?</li><li>Chase Bank, and Vape and Smoke, on Chili@Howard Rd</li><li>Pizza Stop in Pittsford</li><li>Pittsford Eyewear - what did it become</li><li>Brighton Vision 12 Corners &amp; Lens Crafters Marketplace Mall</li><li>Cam&#39;s Pizzeria East Ave</li><li>Rebel Pi make-your-own pizza</li><li>TWO funeral homes on the same street</li><li>New Aladdin&#39;s in Victor - just opened, but for how long?</li><li>The Resurrection of Martusciello&#39;s</li><li>Hart&#39;s Local Grocer - gone, again</li><li>Bravo and Gioia Macaroni</li></ul> Like all those businesses, this episode too was cut short! A tornado appeared in non-Rochester, so we had to call it quits. Thanks for listening and telling other inmates about the show!

41 Planet of the Goats

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TONIGHT ON FOP! It&#39;s probably the best one we&#39;ve ever done.Mike&#39;s Mini Me joins us as our special guest to explain his:<ul><li>Top 3 Chicken Strips</li><li>Top Rochy Spots</li><li>Top homemade foods</li><li>Smuggled cans of Sprite</li><li>I Can&#39;t Believe It&#39;s Not Banana Pudding</li><li>Deep Dish Debate</li></ul> We discuss:<ul><li>Heated seats and long sleeves in May</li><li>D&amp;C&#39;s Top Burgers in Rochester</li><li>CITY MAGAZINE&#39;S TOP SPOTS IN ROCH, including Chen Garden</li><li>Rochester version of Sim City</li><li>Steak at Italian Restaurants? Why?</li><li>NY State handing out fliers to call out hate - but who&#39;s the real perpetrator?</li></ul> We review:<ul><li>Buffalo Wings &amp; Rings</li><li>Steak &amp; Shake</li><li>Lugia&#39;s</li><li>TrueFood</li><li>Another Doctor Buffet</li><li>El Sazon on Lyell Ave</li><li>Insane Breakfast Burgers at IRISH MAFIA and DONNELLY&#39;S</li><li>Democrat &amp; Chronicle vs Times-Union</li><li>Gino&#39;s Harlem</li><li>Sbarro&#39;s and Sicilian Delight</li><li>Papa Joe&#39;s</li><li>Agatina&#39;s</li><li>PITTSBURGH PIZZA BATTLE: Penn Ave Pizza &amp; Steaks vs. Fazio&#39;s</li></ul> We Remember<ul><li>Tap &amp; Mallet</li><li>Most bowling alleys in Roch, such as Ridgeway Lanes and Olympic Bowl Scottsville Rd.</li><li>Rochester Rhinos</li><li>Wambach&#39;s</li><li>IHOP Henrietta (and what now defiles its building)</li><li>Executive South public golf course, Henrietta</li><li>Latta - Lea Pitch n&#39; Putt</li><li>Pittsford Optical and Bien Eyewear, and what they became</li><li>Hugo&#39;s Italian Bistro</li><li>Ginger Cove in Chili</li><li>Rocwiki.org</li></ul> Thanks for telling other inmates &amp; escapees about the show!

40 Mike's Mini Me - 2hr special!

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Tonight on CEP!We reminisce<ul><li>It&#39;s prom night - which formerly-classy Roch establishment do you pick for dinner? Benucci&#39;s? Crescent Beach? Well, those two are now defunct.</li><li>What is White Lady Castle and has it been bulldozed yet?</li><li>High School graduation cookies and cakes</li><li>Getting our drivers licenses at Emerson &amp; Glyde or Sykes &amp; Maple</li><li>A hypothetical WalterFest - a music festival only Rochester could pull off</li><li>Will the Lilac Fest be frostbitten or scorching this year?</li><li>Automatic traffic cams return to Roch - do you have any recourse to dispute your tickets?</li></ul> We eat<ul><li>Pictured Dish of the Month: The plump, tender Chicken French from Flaherty&#39;s Honeoye Falls</li><li>Debate: What do you do with the lemon on the dish?</li><li>Tomato fraud?</li><li>Firehouse Subs&#39; ingenious &#34;Mike Day&#34;</li><li>Pino&#39;s Deli in Greece, NY</li><li>How many free birthday cookies did Mike get from DiBella&#39;s?</li><li>Chicken &amp; Wok - a Chinese, Mexican, and fried chicken fusion restaurant, and other fun combo spots</li><li>Royal Cafe in Fairport - homemade gelato &amp; soups</li></ul> Marc&#39;s Ketchup Segment<ul><li>Local felon concocts a spiteful casserole for Fairport Police</li><li>Mozzeroni&#39;s in Victor has become the fourth incarnation of Bay &amp; Goodman Pizza</li><li>The &#34;Pot Mobile&#34; proves that in NY, even foodtrucks become dispensaries</li><li>It&#39;s Car Show Season! It&#39;s the only safe, free outdoor activity we have during our three weeks of summer.</li><li>What local establishments passed or failed their health dept. tests?</li><li>Car crash lawsuits are getting so bad, they&#39;re even spooking Governor Hochul</li></ul> As always, thanks for telling inmates and escapees about the show!

39 Take Your Date for a Plate

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We ring in Season Four of FOP with a 2-hour special!<ul><li>Marc meets a local celebrity</li><li>Mike gives his State of the Plate address</li><li>It&#39;s Easter, which means another homemade plate. This one looked incredible.</li><li>Mike also shattered his previous record for how quickly he ate the whole thing.</li><li>What NYers moving to FL should know</li><li>Should we set up toll booths to beg from those who are about to escape?</li><li>When you go to a new place, what do you order?</li><li>When you go to a familiar place, do you have a go-to dish?</li><li>Kodak shocks the world with sales growth</li><li>&#34;Rochester&#39;s biggest asset is its people&#34;</li><li>Confessions from the McQ Chapel</li><li>People who&#39;ve made us homemade garbage plates</li><li>Does money grow on... casinos?</li><li>A special guest joins us for the second half!</li></ul> We review<ul><li>Flaherty&#39;s Honeoye Falls</li><li>Connie&#39;s Diner</li><li>Canal Days Festival in Fairport</li><li>Rochester Shepherd&#39;s Pie</li><li>Qdoba Baltimore</li><li>Homemade fried rice</li><li>Rivers Casino Schenectady</li><li>Irish Mafia Bloomfield - pretzels and breakfast burger w tots</li><li>Wimpy&#39;s Burger Basket</li><li>Garbage Plate Salad?</li><li>Karl&#39;s Top 5 American and Top 5 Italian restaurants in Roch</li><li>Karl&#39;s homemade timpano</li><li>Tony D&#39;s</li></ul> We remember<ul><li>Marc&#39;s turkey/egg/avocado croissant, RIP</li><li>That one Waffle House that&#39;s now takeout only</li><li>Crescent Beach in Greece</li></ul> Thanks for telling your friends about the show!

38 State of the Plate

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Tonight on FOP!We discuss<ul><li>Why Antarctica is better than Rochester</li><li>Mike&#39;s Mt Rushmore of Food: What are your Top 4 big fast food favorites? What are your Top 4 obscure chains?</li><li>Brinner: Why is it so venerated, and why do we frown on its opposite: Leftovers for Breakfast?</li><li>Why did Wegmans slip in customer satisfaction? Where do we shop?</li><li>White pizza - do non-Rochestarians know what it is?</li><li>Pancake syrup</li><li>Coaches who yelled at us, and why we&#39;re better off because of it</li></ul> We review<ul><li>Plate of the month: Naantastic&#39;s fried grouper - over rice, quinoa, cucumber, corn, craisins, chickpeas, drizzled with sweet tamarind chutney sauce. Insane.</li><li>Rubino&#39;s Chicken French w potatoes</li><li>Cafe Vesuvio&#39;s in New Smyrna Beach, FL</li><li>Faircraft Brauhaus, Fairport, NY</li><li>Sip N Jerk Jamaican Foodtruck, and Joe n Sal&#39;s Pizza, in Brooklyn, NY</li><li>The Spicey Pickle, and Favorite&#39;s Pizza, Lewiston, NY</li><li>Steak n Shake</li><li>Gino&#39;s Pizza and Dolly&#39;s Diner, WV</li><li>7-11 in Seabreeze, NY</li><li>Grand Super Buffet and China Buffet, Henrietta, NY</li></ul>Thanks for telling other escapees about the show, because I&#39;m pretty sure there are no more inmates left.

37 Mike's Mt Rushmore of Fast Food

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Tonight on FOP! We celebrate achieving 1000 downloads the only way we can - by ripping into Rochester&#39;s rottenness and fawning over the food.We reminisce:<ul><li>B&amp;W television (Marc still owns one)</li><li>Local TV news and their anchors</li><li>&#34;500 Anytime Minutes&#34;</li><li>Mike&#39;s HS nickname</li><li>Back when life was finite and manageable</li><li>&#34;Mister Food&#34; on local cable</li></ul> We discuss:<ul><li>The Shamrock Shake</li><li>Italian grandparents cooking on YouTube (Look up Chef Pasquale and Grandma Gina!)</li><li>Mike&#39;s meatball birthday party</li><li>Meatloaf vs meatballs</li><li>Pasta Fazool - what is the best broth consistency?</li><li>&#34;Game worn&#34; Josh Allen Buffalo wing sauce bibs</li><li>Mike&#39;s Florida trip - what he ate and how he watched WROC-TV8 on the beach</li></ul> We review:<ul><li>Gia&#39;s and Fairfield&#39;s - pillars of Italian greatness on the east side</li><li>Featured Dish: Gia&#39;s Artichoke French</li><li>Phillips Seafood in Newark, NJ Airport</li><li>Centric Hots in Kodak Park (diced peppers and onions! what a genius idea)</li><li>Coco Garden Malaysian Restaurant in Henrietta</li></ul> Mike brings the articles:<ul><li>Canada&#39;s Open Home Program: Food brings people together</li><li>What one guy did when he received his Doordash of Steak Tartar</li><li>&#34;Per Tutti&#34; Italian kids school in LI</li><li>Top 2 cheapest NY cities by median home sale prices - but what about property taxes?</li><li>Is Syracuse or Rochester larger, in terms of zip codes?</li><li>NYS is reaching out and taxing people who&#39;ve already escaped, and people who remotely work for NY companies, and what you have to do avoid their reach.</li><li>How many people escape NY per minute</li><li>A new industry in Rochester: Stealing from the elderly</li></ul> Thanks for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!

36 Tears of Joy

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Tonight on FOP! A surprise episode where we clear our consciences and cleanse our palettes in anticipation of a new year.We Remember<ul><li>Bad 2 the Bone BBQ, Ontario NY</li><li>QDOBA Webster</li><li>#Snap Burger in Greece</li><li>ER Sweetland</li><li>ER&#39;s cursed building: Odyssey/New Yorker/CornER Diner/Broken Yolk - currently El Greco</li><li>Big Lots all across Rochester - where else can you go to buy a couch, cereal, mouthwash, and foot lotion?</li><li>Boxcar Donuts - Roch Public Market</li><li>Gates cursed building: Fatso&#39;s XL, Tony Rigatoni, Yianni&#39;s, Cucina 21, Dinemore, currently Fazools</li><li>OTB on West Ridge - and what it became</li><li>Crystal Barn - a classic for high-end 80s events - and what it became</li><li>Quaker Steak &amp; Lube Gates NY - the glorious meal and the tragic timing</li><li>Donuts Delite (just the one on the west side)</li><li>Pizza Oven Niagara Falls</li><li>Long Pond Meats in Greece - and what it became</li><li>Valley Cadillac, and most other car dealerships - and who took them over</li></ul> We Celebrate<ul><li>Pane Vino on Monroe</li><li>Basin Pub</li><li>Tonight&#39;s Featured Plate: Empire Hots Trash Plate</li><li>Arby&#39;s Secret Meat Mountain</li><li>Sheet Pizzas</li></ul> We Believe<ul><li>Confessions from the McQuaid and LeMoyne Chapels</li><li>Mike makes French Toast... in bacon grease.</li><li>Philly Steak sandwiches with bacon?</li><li>Do plate establishments advertise, or is it more like, IYKYK?</li><li>Best ways to cook Brussels sprouts</li><li>What does Don Alhart eat for Christmas?</li><li>What are most of the pictures on Mike&#39;s phone?</li></ul> (bonus points if you get the three category names)So from all of us here at Flyover Plates: Happy Holidays, Prosperous New Year, and fill your soul with food.

35 Christmas Special: The Straight Up Plate

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TONIGHT ON FOP!<ul><li>Thanksgiving - where we went, what we ate.</li><li>What&#39;s the most annoying Christmas gift?</li><li>What passes for salad in Rochester</li><li>Are Mac &amp; Cheese and Green Bean Casserole appropriate for Thanksgiving?</li><li>Mike eats stuffing... by itself?</li><li>Italian barbers having cookie trays at Christmastime</li><li>What exercise Mike logged in his FitBit this week</li><li>Mexican and Irish Traffic Lights</li><li>Kegs &amp; Eggs</li><li>WNY Raccoon moms</li><li>Meet the HENRYS</li><li>A nationwide network of junkyards</li><li>Rochester&#39;s famous Tom the &#34;Conehead&#34;</li><li>Willy Wonka</li><li>An Olde Timey Newspaper&#39;s opinion of Rochester in 1812</li><li>For the first times in their lives, Mike and Marc were both at a loss for words tonight.</li><li>State Senator Jeremy Cooney&#39;s flier welcoming you to Rochester</li><li>Another Christmas poem from Dr. Mike!</li></ul> Reviews:<ul><li>Abington Ale House, MA</li><li>Merc&#39;s and Wakeup Cafe in New Smyrna FL</li><li>Sweet Tomatoes SOUP BUFFET</li><li>The wait is over. Marc finally ate a Rubino&#39;s Italian Dinner Plate and reviews it for all both of you listeners.</li><li>Apple Country Spirits aka Rootstock in Williamson, NY</li></ul> From ALL of us at Flyover Plates, Happy Holidays and eat well!

34 FINALLY, The Italian Plate.

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Tonight on FOP!<ul><li>Italian contact lenses</li><li>Mike attempts TV repair in honor of Marc&#39;s bday</li><li>Bills fans are now spreading their ruckus across the country</li><li>What&#39;s the common secret ingredient in Jewish and Italian food?</li><li>Thanksgiving-Flavored Oreos? Find out which flavors they offer.</li><li>A Pumpkin Spice radio channel?</li><li>Britney Spears is now considered soft rock?</li><li>BBQ in Outer Space</li><li>Zubaz pants popping up everywhere</li><li>How Rochester ruined modern mallpartment life with one stupid placement decision</li><li>HoHoHos holiday treats</li><li>The World Series of Cheese</li><li>The most difficult Italian dishes to make</li><li>Why regional chains should stay regional</li><li>Featured food: Gia&#39;s Chicken Parm</li></ul> In Memoriam<ul><li>Marketplace Mall</li><li>Most stores in SouthTown Plaza</li><li>Pep Boys N Greece Rd</li><li>Log Cabin in Macedon - best brinner award</li><li>Bob Evans in Batavia</li><li>JimmyJohn&#39;s Henrietta</li><li>Food at Fishers Station</li><li>ChitChat Cafe Victor</li><li>Pier1 Imports Victor (and what it became)</li><li>The Springhouse</li><li>The Princess and The Dutchess diners</li><li>Niagara Falls, ON</li><li>Cheeburger Cheeburger</li><li>All Quizno&#39;s in Rochester</li><li>BigLots (nooooo!)</li><li>Pizza Uno in Victor and Chase in Gates</li><li>Two M&#39;s</li><li>Woolworth&#39;s Pittsford</li><li>Lindburger&#39;s</li><li>The Como, Niagara Falls, NY (soon to be resurrected!)</li><li>The Sizzler - resurrected!</li></ul>They&#39;re goin under faster than we can memorialize them! Thanks for being a fan, and why not have a listening party to get your friends into FOP!

33 Thanksgiving Flavored Oreos?

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Tonight on FOP! It&#39;s a tangent-filled nostalgia fest filled with the usual food and folly. Scandals<ul><li>What two high-ticket items Rochester people throw away every fall</li><li>Pumpkin spice... pumpkins?</li><li>Buffalo Bills uniforms and logos in church</li><li>UofR tries to anti-improve its brand</li><li>Savastano&#39;s &amp; Papa Joe&#39;s robbed</li><li>Rochester, North Korea, or Gaza: Which is worse?</li></ul> Reviews<ul><li>Top 10 Italian restaurants</li><li>Top 10 delis</li><li>Japanese centenarians vs. Rochester workers</li><li>Wegmans saving leftovers for UofR students</li><li>Mike&#39;s IA trip, including BBQ BUFFET</li><li>Toll House Pie</li><li>Sibley the Christmas Mouse</li><li>Shen Yun: Rochester Edition</li><li>We forgot to review a plate, so we review Mark&#39;s Pizzeria&#39;s latest not-totally-original innovation</li><li>Cedar&#39;s Lebanese restaurant, Monroe Ave.</li></ul> Reminiscing<ul><li>Portable CD players</li><li>Lou Gramm and Foreigner entering the Natl Rock n Roll Hall of Fame</li><li>Metallica and Gary the Happy Pirate started... where?</li><li>Mike waxes poetic about Wegmans and their video dept</li><li>The Cookie Monster Club</li><li>The Sunday Morning Showcase of Homes on local TV</li><li>What glorious 80s institution would you bring back?</li></ul> In Memoriam<ul><li>The Stereo Shop (one location still exists)</li><li>Happy Joe&#39;s Pizza in Iowa</li><li>Kinko&#39;s</li><li>Toys R Us is back!</li><li>Schaeller&#39;s West Henrietta Rd</li><li>Sibley&#39;s, McCurdy&#39;s, B. Forman Company</li></ul> Thanks for telling inmates and escapees about the show!!

32 What would you bring back?

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Tonight, on the long-awaited Sept episode of Flyover Plates, we review:<ul><li>Pumpkin Spice flavored... WHAT?</li><li>NY State does the most ironic thing in history</li><li>Mike actually likes keeping some foods from mixing</li><li>Flaherty&#39;s</li><li>Nick&#39;s Italian Feast Buffet</li><li>Great American Ballpark&#39;s Doctor Appreciation Buffet</li><li>Frontier Field</li><li>The Flagship Friendly&#39;s Restaurant</li><li>Chik Fil A + Country Sweet: A Match Made in Heaven?</li><li>GenericBurger, Omaha Airport</li><li>Mike&#39;s Christmas Present to Himself</li><li>Chester Cab Pizza</li></ul> Mike&#39;s Trip to Rochester<ul><li>Holiday Inn Express</li><li>Strong National Museum of Play</li><li>Tully&#39;s Good Times</li><li>LuGia&#39;s Ice Cream</li><li>Gia&#39;s Pizza Kitchen</li><li>Clubhouse Minigolf</li><li>Abe&#39;s: An Honest Meal (Featured Plate of the Month!)</li></ul> We Memorialize<ul><li>Silver Stadium</li><li>Paetec Park</li><li>anyone who was shot outside of Paetec Park</li><li>The Rochester Rhinos</li></ul> New Mini Interview!<ul><li>Cousin Dom gives us his hot take on Vasko&#39;s plate, a new place on Park Ave</li><li>We then have a hearty debate about Mark&#39;s Pizzeria</li></ul>

31 The Second Homecoming

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Tonight on FOP!<ul><li>Why Marc was actually happy to come home to Roch</li><li>We bemoan the return of Pumpkin Spice Everything</li><li>Rochester Schools start later because there&#39;s no risk of being too hot next spring</li><li>NY State Fair celebrates charity and fights hunger by wasting 800 lb of food</li><li>Cruise Ships landing in... Buffalo?</li><li>New mini-segment: &#34;Will Marc Eat It?&#34;</li><li>Olive Garden Life Hack</li><li>Our town names and their unusual pronunciations</li><li>What 3 things are required to make you a midsize city?</li><li>Nonrochester construction projects being under time and under budget.</li><li>The Skycoasters play at Lugia&#39;s (and all other venues)</li></ul> Reviews:<ul><li>Char at Strathallan</li><li>Pod Computers</li><li>Centric Hots - tonight&#39;s featured food</li><li>Trucchi&#39;s Cod Cakes</li><li>Buffalo Wild Wings</li><li>Blu Wolf Bistro</li><li>IRISH MAFIA</li><li>MicGinny&#39;s</li></ul> In Memoriam:<ul><li>The Niagara Tour Bus</li><li>Carbone&#39;s Greece</li><li>Pontillos&#39; Greece Ridge (went out of business that day!)</li><li>Staples in Middletown OH</li><li>LDR Char Pit in Charlotte NY (pronounced differently)</li><li>Scrantom&#39;s Stationery</li><li>Altier&#39;s Shoes</li><li>Burgundy Basin Inn (and its current state)</li><li>Piehler Subaru-GMC</li><li>Tent City</li></ul> Festivals<ul><li>Lilac Fest (artichokes, turkey legs, and cinnamon roasted almonds)</li><li>East End Fest</li><li>Jazz Fest</li><li>Egyptian Fest</li><li>Polish Fest (best food ever)</li><li>Insert Vegetable Name Here Fest</li><li>Cari Fest</li><li>Car Shows</li></ul> As always, thanks for telling your fellow inmates and escapees!

30 Hazardous Summer Festivals

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Tonight on FOP! Put on your 1993 &#34;Bud at the Glen&#34; cutoff shirt and get ready to enjoy.<ul><li>Our buddy Jason joins us to give his take on Plates, life in Nonrochester, Wegmans, and more</li><li>&#34;What does the plate mean to you?&#34;</li><li>We memorialize Penfield Hots, a senseless loss</li><li>Driving through middle IL</li><li>Rochester Garages and Auxiliary Kitchens</li><li>What foods are BETTER as leftovers?</li><li>What constitutes a good breakfast sandwich?</li><li>What is goetta?</li><li>Wegmans introduces smart carts, and chaos will inevitably ensue</li><li>Where Mike went to eat at 3AM</li><li>13 states have 9/11 memorial license plates, but not NY</li><li>The impossible statistics about NY voters</li><li>What the FDA said about Dairy Queen&#39;s treats</li><li>Why a $30M budget hole was the least shocking thing we&#39;ve ever reported</li><li>Rochester&#39;s love for inoffensive soft rock radio stations</li><li>Marc recounts a childhood tale of meeting a local celebrity</li><li>The odd way Rochestarians say goodbye</li></ul>Thanks for telling inmates and escapees about the show!

29 Auxiliary Kitchens

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Tonight on FOP!<ul><li>Rochester flooding in June</li><li>Mike reports on his Alaskan Cruise</li><li>Why Marc thinks Alaskans are so happy and peaceful</li><li>Restaurant reviews: Macadamia Nut Encrusted Chicken at The Hangar on the Wharf - Juneau, AK, Finger Lakes Casino Buffet Father&#39;s Day Buffet, Der Dutchman Amish Buffet, and in our feature photo, Forno Tony</li><li>In Memoriam: Del Lago casino buffet</li><li>Three &#34;Unhealthy&#34; Debates:</li><li>-What are the top 10 fast food french fries? Mike and Marc discuss their takes on it.</li><li>-Buffalo Wings: Drums vs. Flats? We compromise on that eternal NY conundrum.</li><li>-How Rochester sauces stand up to condiments from other cities</li><li>What is &#34;animal style&#34;?</li><li>The Worst of the Worst: The Worst School Districts in NY, and where Rochester fits in</li><li>&#34;The Shooting du Jour&#34; - what one local news station actually calls its morning news segment</li><li>Nuke Plants: Why NYS has decided to blow more billions it doesn&#39;t have on something it used to consider dangerous</li><li>Special license plates in NY - did ANY of that money go to saving the whales?</li></ul>Thanks for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!!

28 Unhealthy Debates

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Tonight on Flyover Plates! It&#39;s the Summer Fling Edition... Except Roch still hasn&#39;t been warm enough to wear shorts.<ul><li>Cousin Pasquale eats the plate of the month, the Genny Plate, and provides his expert critique (Marc&#39;s excited mainly because this saved him from having to shell out $20)</li><li>Marc interviews superfan T-Bone about a pizzeria recommendation</li><li>Every weekend for the past 6 months, Rochester has experienced...</li><li>Don Alhart vs Bob Barker (probably not our first comparison of these heroes)</li><li>New Yorkers who escape to FL</li><li>NY&#39;s population loss is the size of what entire state?</li><li>Dr. Mike reports on the Best &amp; Worst rated American States</li><li>Restaurant Review: Fry Brothers Turkey Farm, Perinton Hots, Ridge Donuts</li><li>Where does NY rank in terms of economic opportunity?</li><li>What&#39;s the hottest county in the US for real estate sales?</li><li>Rochester Town Stereotypes - what&#39;s each town known for?</li><li>Mike&#39;s Birthday Tour of Food</li></ul>An hour and a half of Mike &amp; Marc&#39;s snarky goodness, which will hopefully keep you nice and full until next month.

27 Rochy Stereotypes

This show is for people who've escaped Rochester, NY, but miss the city's signature cuisine, the PLATE. Hosted by Rochester expat Dr. Mike Brondon and co-hosted by Rochester radio legend Marc-Anthony Arena, we reminisce about the weather, the people, and the institutions of Rochester of yesteryear. You know, back when we had industry... and hope.Everybody has a friend who escaped Rochester, so tell them about the podcast!