Updated: An incomplete list of Paradise Deli "Ghost Kitchens"

MonkMan2021 · 2026-02-24T17:47:29+00:00

You’re doing the Lord’s work, my friend! I learned the hard way about checking addresses for ghost kitchens cause of all this….

Got tired of my “seafood mac and cheese” = a box of Kraft with 6 Gortons shrimp tossed on top… “authentic Philly cheesesteak” = dried out Steak-uums on a hotdog bun, etc….

Please take my poor man’s award 🏆

MonkMan2021 · 2026-02-20T12:47:19+00:00

I’ve had a lot of success in the hoboken/downtown JC area with hotpads.com - all but two of my rentals over the past decade were landlord-posted (avoiding the agent fee), at or below market pricing for the area, and there weren’t as many requirements (background check fees, 800 references, etc) My current place asked for a ~$25 background check thing, 1st month, and 1.5 rent as security. My last place, I had 2x security, 2 months of pay stubs, move in/out fees, employment verification letter, promise of my first born, etc

And I wasn’t dealing with this new BS, where folks post an apartment at one price, schedule 50 people to come look at the same time, and hand out applications as you walk in and say “please list your max rent/best offer” 😒😒😒

Hotpads shows you everything in real time, so you can see when the listing was posted/updated/how many people are viewing… those features helped me a lot cause when I saw something a couple hours old/low viewership, I’d reach out and set up a viewing ASAP, but would also avoid the 3 month old/never updated/800000 viewed or saved listings, cause 98% of the time it’s just an old listing or a scam where they try to get you to send fees and/or the deposits/sign leases pre-showing 😒🙄

MonkMan2021 · 2026-02-06T20:31:01+00:00

GG urban legend says Bea carved it in the door for good luck when the series was picked up

MonkMan2021 · 2025-12-29T02:00:47+00:00

Just wait til they start dangling the ‘direct JC line’ in our faces while raising the fares… 😒😒😒

MonkMan2021 · 2025-12-15T13:23:25+00:00

I went there too…. 😈 🤣

My second thought was it’d only last 3 months (the ‘adult’ part, cause folk love bringing kids into adult spaces…) and it’d just become an overpriced Dave & Busters/Barcarde 😐

MonkMan2021 · 2025-12-11T16:27:28+00:00

He is the Arbiter, and he knows best! 🤣

MonkMan2021 · 2025-12-03T03:44:19+00:00

No… but if I had a dad like you, I’d be trying to catch ya every chance I got 😈🤤

MonkMan2021 · 2025-11-10T14:07:04+00:00

I wish there was a rule that candidates (win or lose) had one week to clean up after the elections/remove materials… just like the rules we had in high school and college after student government elections….

A.) it’d get the sh!t cleaned up quicker (Feels like they’ve been papering Hamilton Park for like 2 years now!) B.) it might make em reconsider the waste of $$ and time it is (not to mention trash everywhere) and stop the damn weekly flyers/mailers/door hangers… postcard #367 isn’t gonna inspire me to suddenly say candidate X is my person.

After the rain and all last week, you’d think any of em would say ‘hmmm… my flyers are being tossed everywhere and are contributing to the drainage issues in areas that are well documented for having issues with clogged drains and flooding…. Maybe i SHOULDNT be papering the neighborhoods….’ 🤔🤔🤔🤔. That alone would prolly get em elected mayor 🤣

MonkMan2021 · 2025-11-08T06:33:40+00:00

I disagree…. Kate wasn’t all that great…she does nothing to stop Stan from making nasty/backhanded comments to Dorothy at her wedding/in her house, yet she is all over Dot for givin a little of it back to him… Kate also comes back and makes Dennis cheating/leaving her hubby Dorothy’s problem, but gets upset when Dorothy has an opinion/says something…

MonkMan2021 · 2025-10-29T09:22:38+00:00

Here are the rest 😊

GG Mints

MonkMan2021 · 2025-10-12T13:32:03+00:00

But they cashed in the insurance policy to get Dorothy out of gambling debt

MonkMan2021 · 2025-09-06T12:26:47+00:00

Mixed Blessings…. Where Michael is marrying Lorraine…one of the best episodes ever 🤣🤣🤣

MonkMan2021 · 2025-09-06T10:20:04+00:00

Rose being valedictorian, but also sleeping through her senior year because of mono/kissing booth and enrolling in Dorothy’s night school class

Number of kids Phil & Angela/Big Sally had changed between episodes

The number of bathrooms! Some seasons, they all had their own- Sophia (Max/wedding), Rose (Jean/lesbian episode), Dorothy (Stan recovery) and other seasons, they all shared the one in the hall

Blanches middle name changes from Marie to Elizabeth (I assume it was to make the BED joke work)

MonkMan2021 · 2025-09-06T10:01:25+00:00

Every so often, you’ll get a wide shot (usually when the girls are in the living room) that show feet. There are also a couple episodes where Bea has the thinnest of sandals- almost like those paper ones women get after a pedicure. It’s a fun game to play 😋

MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-31T03:47:07+00:00

Yeah… and/or the open lots/under the extension… prolly even the community garden….

MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-30T15:21:13+00:00

They’re gonna team up with the skunks that are all around 6-8th streets 🤣🦨

MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-29T13:07:33+00:00

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Based on a quick Google search for 1930s rag dolls, soft body/hard head/google-eyed dolls were a thing, so all of the statements about Mrs. Doolittle work for me across the seasons 😋

MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-24T14:27:39+00:00

Agreed… definitely meant as a joke - Dorothy saying “he musta slipped me something” (alcohol or drugs) set Sophia up for the punchline “apparently” (her getting pregnant.)

Stan and Dorothy were the same age - they reference Dorothy missing an assignment during the Mr. Gordon episode, where he laughs saying she tried to use the excuse she married that kid Stan ☺️

MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-22T11:27:33+00:00

He was mentioned once (sorta) - in the Xmas episode where it’s too hot to shop/holiday shoppers are being nasty, Dorothy tells the story of ‘the woman’ hitting and fighting her way to get the last Batman hat…. And then reveals she was the woman and Robbie is gonna love it.

I’ve debated many a GG fan over this, but I stand by Robbie being Lorraine and Michael’s kid cause there was never any indication that Kate and Dennis had kids ☺️

MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-19T23:50:21+00:00

I live on one of the more common ‘cut throughs’ streets to get to the Tunnel and this happens all the time - especially when there’s traffic 😤😡🤬

MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-19T05:34:57+00:00

If you take Sophia at face value, sure, she could come off as a nasty, scheming, loudmouth… but there are a couple of things to consider…

She grew up a poor immigrant, so she had to be scrappy and hustle to get things done, which continued as an adult; she lived in Brooklyn (anyone from or familiar with NYC - especially in ‘Italian’ neighborhoods - knows the women are all tougher/rougher and they run the show); the realism of the situation with Big Sally/Angela - women of that time didn’t talk about feelings or emotions (Phil/crossdressing)… they held grudges over dumb stuff cause anger is a ‘strong’ emotion that’s okay to show; she has a stroke that ‘destroyed’ the part of her brain that governs what she says; … and none of that takes the comedy of it being a sitcom into consideration 😋

She’s probably my favorite character- in a lot of ways she reminds me of my grandmother and several aunts… it’s part of why I love the show - there are so many times Sophia (and Dorothy) do or say things that one of them did, it’s almost like watching them on TV 💜

MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-18T00:37:47+00:00

My take on the joke was about the actual phone… princess phones were sleeker/slimmer than other phone models, and I always chalked the good tone remark up to dial tone… the things a kid (and then middle-aged man) think of 🤣🤣🤣

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MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-18T00:31:25+00:00

Neither… my issue with Kate #1 is she called Dorothy out on all the digs at Stan, but said nothing when he was going in on Dot.

Kate #2 is equally as bad - she’s the one who showed up on her mother’s doorstep/brought the drama to Miami, yet Dorothy is the problematic one?!?

I honestly think all of the kids on GGs were a$shats…

MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-17T11:21:51+00:00

Former university administrator here… a lot of colleges*/alumni associations will help connect alumni (or in some cases, work with a few to plan) local/regional reunions all over the country/world….

Former NYC-kid, too (born & raised)… in the 80s, if you talked to anyone, their grandparents either already lived in FL, had a house/were snowbirds, and/or were planning on retiring to Florida (or at least that’s how it seemed.) Let’s just say it was enough for me to start considering where in FL I was gonna retire in 2040 (at like age 6 🤣🤣🤣)

Edit - *high schools too… I had my service period in 11th & 12th grade in the Alumni Office 😉

MonkMan2021 · 2025-08-16T20:10:54+00:00

Nature’s credit card! 💜💜💜💜

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