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Phyllis Stein-Novack is plenty pleased with Federal Donuts
This week's review is PSN gold.
Phyllis Stein-Novack is plenty pleased with Federal Donuts
In this week's South Philly Review resident restaurant reviewer Phyllis Stein-Novack heads over to the original outpost of Federal Donuts (1219 S. 2nd St.) and she's a believer.
PSN begins with a scathing dig at Krispy Kreme, the makers of donuts so cloyingly sweet that she spit out her one and only bite. Luckily Fed Nuts fared much, much better. Although the concept of a shop that sold only donuts, fried chicken and coffee sounded a bit strange to her at first, after sampling all of the above, she was sold.
The hot donuts had PSN revisiting childhood memories of her Austrian grandmother frying them up during mornings spent at the shore. She savored all of the fancies with a cup of tea while watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Opting to take a whole chicken home for dinner, she heeded the clerk's advice and reheated the perfectly fried bird in the oven. PSN enjoyed the moist, juicy and tender fried chicken with a side of homemade cole slaw and Japanese pickles.
Donuts plus chicken equals a very nice three and a half tips of the toque to Federal Donuts but even better than the stellar rating is this gem:
"Homer Simpson is probably America’s most famous donut lover, even if he only exists on TV. I can imagine what his life would be like if Federal Donuts opened a branch in mythical Springfield."
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