Chicago Fights Back!
February 8th, 2006First, gossip columnist Cindy Adams slams Chicago in the NY Post:
EXCUUUUSE me? I read in last week’s paper that The Second City - Chicago - is now calling itself the Number One City in America. Chicago, that toddlin’ town, The First City?
Excuuuuse me? Take away Al Capone, the Merchandise Mart, O’Hare and Sinatra’s favorite song and what have you got? A nice little gritty city that has decent beef, a few tolerable restaurants, some OK hotels, the stockyards and The Loop. But let us all calm ourselves . . . New York it’s not.
Now comes the rebuttal by Richard Roeper in the Chicago Sun-Times. Although my heart is still in NYC, my body and my job are in Chicago, and based on the strength of these two pieces alone, the score is Chicago 1, New York 0.
Adams calls us a “deprived lot” after posing these questions: “Do you have New York cheesecake? New York sirloin? New York bagels? New York water? New York Post? New York attitude?”
The correct answers: Don’t need it; yes; yes; don’t need it; no thanks; and God, no.
Update: This response is even better. Chicago 2, New York 0! [via GB]