We ring in Season Four of FOP with a 2-hour special!

• Marc meets a local celebrity
• Mike gives his State of the Plate address
• It's Easter, which means another homemade plate. This one looked incredible.
• Mike also shattered his previous record for how quickly he ate the whole thing.
• What NYers moving to FL should know
• Should we set up toll booths to beg from those who are about to escape?
• When you go to a new place, what do you order?
• When you go to a familiar place, do you have a go-to dish?
• Kodak shocks the world with sales growth
• "Rochester's biggest asset is its people"
• Confessions from the McQ Chapel
• People who've made us homemade garbage plates
• Does money grow on... casinos?
• A special guest joins us for the second half!

We review

• Flaherty's Honeoye Falls
• Connie's Diner
• Canal Days Festival in Fairport
• Rochester Shepherd's Pie
• Qdoba Baltimore
• Homemade fried rice
• Rivers Casino Schenectady
• Irish Mafia Bloomfield - pretzels and breakfast burger w tots
• Wimpy's Burger Basket
• Garbage Plate Salad?
• Karl's Top 5 American and Top 5 Italian restaurants in Roch
• Karl's homemade timpano
• Tony D's

We remember

• Marc's turkey/egg/avocado croissant, RIP
• That one Waffle House that's now takeout only
• Crescent Beach in Greece

Thanks for telling your friends about the show!

Tonight on FOP!

We discuss

• Why Antarctica is better than Rochester
• Mike's Mt Rushmore of Food: What are your Top 4 big fast food favorites? What are your Top 4 obscure chains?
• Brinner: Why is it so venerated, and why do we frown on its opposite: Leftovers for Breakfast?
• Why did Wegmans slip in customer satisfaction? Where do we shop?
• White pizza - do non-Rochestarians know what it is?
• Pancake syrup
• Coaches who yelled at us, and why we're better off because of it

We review

• Plate of the month: Naantastic's fried grouper - over rice, quinoa, cucumber, corn, craisins, chickpeas, drizzled with sweet tamarind chutney sauce. Insane.
• Rubino's Chicken French w potatoes
• Cafe Vesuvio's in New Smyrna Beach, FL
• Faircraft Brauhaus, Fairport, NY
• Sip N Jerk Jamaican Foodtruck, and Joe n Sal's Pizza, in Brooklyn, NY
• The Spicey Pickle, and Favorite's Pizza, Lewiston, NY
• Steak n Shake
• Gino's Pizza and Dolly's Diner, WV
• 7-11 in Seabreeze, NY
• Grand Super Buffet and China Buffet, Henrietta, NY

Thanks for telling other escapees about the show, because I'm pretty sure there are no more inmates left.

Tonight on FOP! We celebrate achieving 1000 downloads the only way we can - by ripping into Rochester's rottenness and fawning over the food.

We reminisce:

• B&W television (Marc still owns one)
• Local TV news and their anchors
• "500 Anytime Minutes"
• Mike's HS nickname
• Back when life was finite and manageable
• "Mister Food" on local cable

We discuss:

• The Shamrock Shake
• Italian grandparents cooking on YouTube (Look up Chef Pasquale and Grandma Gina!)
• Mike's meatball birthday party
• Meatloaf vs meatballs
• Pasta Fazool - what is the best broth consistency?
• "Game worn" Josh Allen Buffalo wing sauce bibs
• Mike's Florida trip - what he ate and how he watched WROC-TV8 on the beach

We review:

• Gia's and Fairfield's - pillars of Italian greatness on the east side
• Featured Dish: Gia's Artichoke French
• Phillips Seafood in Newark, NJ Airport
• Centric Hots in Kodak Park (diced peppers and onions! what a genius idea)
• Coco Garden Malaysian Restaurant in Henrietta

Mike brings the articles:

• Canada's Open Home Program: Food brings people together
• What one guy did when he received his Doordash of Steak Tartar
• "Per Tutti" Italian kids school in LI
• Top 2 cheapest NY cities by median home sale prices - but what about property taxes?
• Is Syracuse or Rochester larger, in terms of zip codes?
• NYS is reaching out and taxing people who've already escaped, and people who remotely work for NY companies, and what you have to do avoid their reach.
• How many people escape NY per minute
• A new industry in Rochester: Stealing from the elderly

Thanks for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!

Tonight on FOP! A surprise episode where we clear our consciences and cleanse our palettes in anticipation of a new year.

We Remember

• Bad 2 the Bone BBQ, Ontario NY
• QDOBA Webster
• #Snap Burger in Greece
• ER Sweetland
• ER's cursed building: Odyssey/New Yorker/CornER Diner/Broken Yolk - currently El Greco
• Big Lots all across Rochester - where else can you go to buy a couch, cereal, mouthwash, and foot lotion?
• Boxcar Donuts - Roch Public Market
• Gates cursed building: Fatso's XL, Tony Rigatoni, Yianni's, Cucina 21, Dinemore, currently Fazools
• OTB on West Ridge - and what it became
• Crystal Barn - a classic for high-end 80s events - and what it became
• Quaker Steak & Lube Gates NY - the glorious meal and the tragic timing
• Donuts Delite (just the one on the west side)
• Pizza Oven Niagara Falls
• Long Pond Meats in Greece - and what it became
• Valley Cadillac, and most other car dealerships - and who took them over

We Celebrate

• Pane Vino on Monroe
• Basin Pub
• Tonight's Featured Plate: Empire Hots Trash Plate
• Arby's Secret Meat Mountain
• Sheet Pizzas

We Believe

• Confessions from the McQuaid and LeMoyne Chapels
• Mike makes French Toast... in bacon grease.
• Philly Steak sandwiches with bacon?
• Do plate establishments advertise, or is it more like, IYKYK?
• Best ways to cook Brussels sprouts
• What does Don Alhart eat for Christmas?
• What are most of the pictures on Mike's phone?

(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.

TONIGHT ON FOP!

• Thanksgiving - where we went, what we ate.
• What's the most annoying Christmas gift?
• What passes for salad in Rochester
• Are Mac & Cheese and Green Bean Casserole appropriate for Thanksgiving?
• Mike eats stuffing... by itself?
• Italian barbers having cookie trays at Christmastime
• What exercise Mike logged in his FitBit this week
• Mexican and Irish Traffic Lights
• Kegs & Eggs
• WNY Raccoon moms
• Meet the HENRYS
• A nationwide network of junkyards
• Rochester's famous Tom the "Conehead"
• Willy Wonka
• An Olde Timey Newspaper's opinion of Rochester in 1812
• For the first times in their lives, Mike and Marc were both at a loss for words tonight.
• State Senator Jeremy Cooney's flier welcoming you to Rochester
• Another Christmas poem from Dr. Mike!

Reviews:

• Abington Ale House, MA
• Merc's and Wakeup Cafe in New Smyrna FL
• Sweet Tomatoes SOUP BUFFET
• The wait is over. Marc finally ate a Rubino's Italian Dinner Plate and reviews it for all both of you listeners.
• Apple Country Spirits aka Rootstock in Williamson, NY

From ALL of us at Flyover Plates, Happy Holidays and eat well!

Tonight on FOP!

• Italian contact lenses
• Mike attempts TV repair in honor of Marc's bday
• Bills fans are now spreading their ruckus across the country
• What's the common secret ingredient in Jewish and Italian food?
• Thanksgiving-Flavored Oreos? Find out which flavors they offer.
• A Pumpkin Spice radio channel?
• Britney Spears is now considered soft rock?
• BBQ in Outer Space
• Zubaz pants popping up everywhere
• How Rochester ruined modern mallpartment life with one stupid placement decision
• HoHoHos holiday treats
• The World Series of Cheese
• The most difficult Italian dishes to make
• Why regional chains should stay regional
• Featured food: Gia's Chicken Parm

In Memoriam

• Marketplace Mall
• Most stores in SouthTown Plaza
• Pep Boys N Greece Rd
• Log Cabin in Macedon - best brinner award
• Bob Evans in Batavia
• JimmyJohn's Henrietta
• Food at Fishers Station
• ChitChat Cafe Victor
• Pier1 Imports Victor (and what it became)
• The Springhouse
• The Princess and The Dutchess diners
• Niagara Falls, ON
• Cheeburger Cheeburger
• All Quizno's in Rochester
• BigLots (nooooo!)
• Pizza Uno in Victor and Chase in Gates
• Two M's
• Woolworth's Pittsford
• Lindburger's
• The Como, Niagara Falls, NY (soon to be resurrected!)
• The Sizzler - resurrected!

They'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!

Tonight on FOP! It's a tangent-filled nostalgia fest filled with the usual food and folly.

Scandals

• What two high-ticket items Rochester people throw away every fall
• Pumpkin spice... pumpkins?
• Buffalo Bills uniforms and logos in church
• UofR tries to anti-improve its brand
• Savastano's & Papa Joe's robbed
• Rochester, North Korea, or Gaza: Which is worse?

Reviews

• Top 10 Italian restaurants
• Top 10 delis
• Japanese centenarians vs. Rochester workers
• Wegmans saving leftovers for UofR students
• Mike's IA trip, including BBQ BUFFET
• Toll House Pie
• Sibley the Christmas Mouse
• Shen Yun: Rochester Edition
• We forgot to review a plate, so we review Mark's Pizzeria's latest not-totally-original innovation
• Cedar's Lebanese restaurant, Monroe Ave.

Reminiscing

• Portable CD players
• Lou Gramm and Foreigner entering the Natl Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
• Metallica and Gary the Happy Pirate started... where?
• Mike waxes poetic about Wegmans and their video dept
• The Cookie Monster Club
• The Sunday Morning Showcase of Homes on local TV
• What glorious 80s institution would you bring back?

In Memoriam

• The Stereo Shop (one location still exists)
• Happy Joe's Pizza in Iowa
• Kinko's
• Toys R Us is back!
• Schaeller's West Henrietta Rd
• Sibley's, McCurdy's, B. Forman Company

Thanks for telling inmates and escapees about the show!!

Tonight, on the long-awaited Sept episode of Flyover Plates, we review:

• Pumpkin Spice flavored... WHAT?
• NY State does the most ironic thing in history
• Mike actually likes keeping some foods from mixing
• Flaherty's
• Nick's Italian Feast Buffet
• Great American Ballpark's Doctor Appreciation Buffet
• Frontier Field
• The Flagship Friendly's Restaurant
• Chik Fil A + Country Sweet: A Match Made in Heaven?
• GenericBurger, Omaha Airport
• Mike's Christmas Present to Himself
• Chester Cab Pizza

Mike's Trip to Rochester

• Holiday Inn Express
• Strong National Museum of Play
• Tully's Good Times
• LuGia's Ice Cream
• Gia's Pizza Kitchen
• Clubhouse Minigolf
• Abe's: An Honest Meal (Featured Plate of the Month!)

We Memorialize

• Silver Stadium
• Paetec Park
• anyone who was shot outside of Paetec Park
• The Rochester Rhinos

New Mini Interview!

• Cousin Dom gives us his hot take on Vasko's plate, a new place on Park Ave
• We then have a hearty debate about Mark's Pizzeria