11 Comments

  1. By Garrett
    January 19, 2010 at 11:33 am | permalink

    Meanwhile, a testament to the decline of the bagel-industrial complex lingers on in the abandoned Bagel Factory on South U.

  2. By Rod Johnson
    January 19, 2010 at 12:05 pm | permalink

    “de-Schlotzkelization”? Where’d that intrusive l come from? (ulotrichous–mefi high five)

  3. January 19, 2010 at 1:12 pm | permalink

    Well, “Schlotzkyzation” just didn’t sound right.

  4. By Rod Johnson
    January 19, 2010 at 4:29 pm | permalink

    I’m casting my vote for “Schotzkification.”

  5. By Cosmonican
    January 19, 2010 at 9:03 pm | permalink

    I vote for “Schlotzkelization” with its implied relationship to “proselytization”. Using an “I” instead of a “Y” can be left to personal preference can it not?

  6. By Rod Johnson
    January 19, 2010 at 10:47 pm | permalink

    Philistines!

  7. January 20, 2010 at 10:02 am | permalink

    If I remember correctly, Walgreen’s is planning to put a store there, so deSchlotzkelizationists, be careful what you wish for.

    I guess that makes me an antideSchlotzkelizationist, and my movement would be antideSchlotzkelizationistism.

  8. January 20, 2010 at 10:14 am | permalink

    Once I was an antideSchlotzkelizationist too. I enjoyed the unusual pizza-like products and the unique spongy bread. Tasty. Then, came the great blunder; Schlotzky’s Bill Knapp moment if you will; when they hired somebody’s cousin to come up with a new tag line to address their brand challenge:

    “Schlotzky’s: Funny Name, Serious Sandwich.”

    I could not help but read this as “Semitic Name, Protestant Sandwich.” Somewhere, in some meeting, someone threw out the idea that perhaps their Deli was perceived as Too Jewish, and that it was standing in the way of their expansion. So I say, bring on the deschlotzkelizationists! Down with antideschlotzkelizationalism!

    Plus, there’s nothing serious about those sandwiches. That dang spongy bun is fundamentally preposterous.

  9. January 20, 2010 at 2:32 pm | permalink

    A deli that was perceived as being “Too Jewish”??!!! Now that is Too Funny!

  10. January 20, 2010 at 2:53 pm | permalink

    “Bill Knapp moment”. I will hang on to that one.

  11. By Rod Johnson
    January 20, 2010 at 5:02 pm | permalink

    “Bill Knapp moment” belongs with “bagel-industrial complex” in some kind of “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius” lexicon of things people *should* say every day.