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.

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!

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.

• 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!

• 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!

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!!

• 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

• Why Marc was actually happy to come home to Roch
• We bemoan the return of Pumpkin Spice Everything
• Rochester Schools start later because there's no risk of being too hot next spring
• NY State Fair celebrates charity and fights hunger by wasting 800 lb of food
• Cruise Ships landing in... Buffalo?
• New mini-segment: "Will Marc Eat It?"
• Olive Garden Life Hack
• Our town names and their unusual pronunciations
• What 3 things are required to make you a midsize city?
• Nonrochester construction projects being under time and under budget.
• The Skycoasters play at Lugia's (and all other venues)

Reviews:

• Char at Strathallan
• Pod Computers
• Centric Hots - tonight's featured food
• Trucchi's Cod Cakes
• Buffalo Wild Wings
• Blu Wolf Bistro
• IRISH MAFIA
• MicGinny's

In Memoriam:

• The Niagara Tour Bus
• Carbone's Greece
• Pontillos' Greece Ridge (went out of business that day!)
• Staples in Middletown OH
• LDR Char Pit in Charlotte NY (pronounced differently)
• Scrantom's Stationery
• Altier's Shoes
• Burgundy Basin Inn (and its current state)
• Piehler Subaru-GMC
• Tent City

Festivals

• Lilac Fest (artichokes, turkey legs, and cinnamon roasted almonds)
• East End Fest
• Jazz Fest
• Egyptian Fest
• Polish Fest (best food ever)
• Insert Vegetable Name Here Fest
• Cari Fest
• Car Shows

As always, thanks for telling your fellow inmates and escapees!

• Our buddy Jason joins us to give his take on Plates, life in Nonrochester, Wegmans, and more
• "What does the plate mean to you?"
• We memorialize Penfield Hots, a senseless loss
• Driving through middle IL
• Rochester Garages and Auxiliary Kitchens
• What foods are BETTER as leftovers?
• What constitutes a good breakfast sandwich?
• What is goetta?
• Wegmans introduces smart carts, and chaos will inevitably ensue
• Where Mike went to eat at 3AM
• 13 states have 9/11 memorial license plates, but not NY
• The impossible statistics about NY voters
• What the FDA said about Dairy Queen's treats
• Why a $30M budget hole was the least shocking thing we've ever reported
• Rochester's love for inoffensive soft rock radio stations
• Marc recounts a childhood tale of meeting a local celebrity
• The odd way Rochestarians say goodbye

Thanks for telling inmates and escapees about the show!

• Rochester flooding in June
• Mike reports on his Alaskan Cruise
• Why Marc thinks Alaskans are so happy and peaceful
• Restaurant reviews: Macadamia Nut Encrusted Chicken at The Hangar on the Wharf - Juneau, AK, Finger Lakes Casino Buffet Father's Day Buffet, Der Dutchman Amish Buffet, and in our feature photo, Forno Tony
• In Memoriam: Del Lago casino buffet
• Three "Unhealthy" Debates:
• -What are the top 10 fast food french fries? Mike and Marc discuss their takes on it.
• -Buffalo Wings: Drums vs. Flats? We compromise on that eternal NY conundrum.
• -How Rochester sauces stand up to condiments from other cities
• What is "animal style"?
• The Worst of the Worst: The Worst School Districts in NY, and where Rochester fits in
• "The Shooting du Jour" - what one local news station actually calls its morning news segment
• Nuke Plants: Why NYS has decided to blow more billions it doesn't have on something it used to consider dangerous
• Special license plates in NY - did ANY of that money go to saving the whales?

Thanks for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!!

• Cousin Pasquale eats the plate of the month, the Genny Plate, and provides his expert critique (Marc's excited mainly because this saved him from having to shell out $20)
• Marc interviews superfan T-Bone about a pizzeria recommendation
• Every weekend for the past 6 months, Rochester has experienced...
• Don Alhart vs Bob Barker (probably not our first comparison of these heroes)
• New Yorkers who escape to FL
• NY's population loss is the size of what entire state?
• Dr. Mike reports on the Best & Worst rated American States
• Restaurant Review: Fry Brothers Turkey Farm, Perinton Hots, Ridge Donuts
• Where does NY rank in terms of economic opportunity?
• What's the hottest county in the US for real estate sales?
• Rochester Town Stereotypes - what's each town known for?
• Mike's Birthday Tour of Food

An hour and a half of Mike & Marc's snarky goodness, which will hopefully keep you nice and full until next month.

• Huge apologies for the sound quality - all technology is complicated garbage!
• Controversies:
• Waffle House Delivery?
• Rochester and Buffalo are in the hottest housing markets, but it's recovery not growth
• Restaurant reviews:
• J&E Rootbeer Stand, Middletown, OH
• Savoia Cookies
• What's on the the Roch Food Guide Pyramid?
• Thanksgiving in the Springtime?
• Meat Hot Sauce is Rochester's Hope
• Confessions from the McQ Chapel:
• Marc ate Mark's Pizza and Dunkin' Donuts
• Mike eats HOW MANY coneys?
• Tangent: 90s Minivans
• Tangent of a tangent: Reminiscing about old cell phones
• Turning malls into apartment buildings: How the rest of the world does it, and how Rochester managed to botch it
• Guns, cash, and drugs - Normally that's a tagline for an action movie, but for Roc, it's our Mayor's house.
• 3 governors (and 1 atty gen) in a row fired for, em, misconduct
• The may 2024 protest that disrupted the kite event for poor kids
• I Leave New York t-shirts
• Pizza, Carryout, and Pool Supplies!

Thanks for telling your fellow inmates and escapees about the show!

• WE RECORD LIVE IN THE BOOTH AT WAFFLE HOUSE!
• Cousin RG joins us for his first WH experience, and the waffle he ordered arrived in less than 40 seconds.
• We discuss an article called "What not to order at Cracker Barrel", and then an article on Rochester's I-Squared scandal
• Restaurant reviews: McDonald's HEADQUARTERS, Ming Hin Chicago, Amiel's Subs Rochester
• Marc is a whole different person in non-Rochester
• Why we love Waffle House, its food, and its people
• Would WH survive in Rochester?
• What would a McDonald's garbage plate look like?
• School Lunches then and now

Thanks to our friends at Waffle House for letting us eat there and keep telling your friends about the show!

• What is the Raaachester Eaccent? How do we pronounce werds?
• We realize Rochester never emerged from The Great Depression
• Mike travels to a resort in Mexico, and reviews the only part that matters, the buffet.
• While most magazines discuss retirement and estate planning, Rochestarians discuss what happens to all their debt when they die.
• The Waffle House Egg Surcharge: Will we stand by them?
• Charlie's Sloppy Plate - Indecisive Marc has a Janus moment and orders his with 2 chicken parm cutlets (one marinara one with Roch hot sauce), Square Potatoes (good ones), baked beans, raw onions, and fried cauliflower.
• That one time when Roch unleashed a robocop on 490 that sent out 25k surprise speeding tickets
• Restaurant Review: Honshu Greece Ridge
• How Rochester people utilize their dashboard navigation systems
• Mike's March Madness - The Shamrock Shake
• What's a typical late 90s meal?
• Marc's Reluctant List of Rochester Hidden Gems
• Spam on Sushi?

In Memoriam:

• Bada Korean
• Wegmans Taj Mahal's Tea Bar
• Macy's at Greece Ridge

This marks the conclusion of our second year on the air, er, grease waves! Stay tuned next month as we begin Season 3!

• We celebrate the milestone of 500 total downloads! Do we have a lot of fans, or just two dedicated loyalists who listen over and over?
• We take a boat ride to Tangent City tonight, going down memory lane with printed TV Guides, the mystique of Syracuse and Buffalo TV stations and Canadian radio stations, handheld TVs, and more.
• Our AIM names, our 90s computers and video games, and how new and fun they were.
• What's Marc wearing in his bedroom?
• Does Rochester have a dress code?
• What's the hottest real estate market right now?
• What Rochester company is buying up an OH competitor, much to Mike's chagrin?
• Rochester Real Estate - what one listing actually said about living downtown.
• What classic Roch food did the Norks ban?
• What Rochester cola is making a comeback?
• Marc reviews Thali of India buffet, and makes his own (very healthy) Indian plate
• What are the top cuisines in the world, according to pea-brained journalists? (We set the record straight afterward, and Mike explores which ones bring him joy.)
• Marc asks: What are Midwest Noodles??? Delve into their mystical world as Mike explains their variants.
• Where do we say we're from when we are traveling?
• Tonight's hilarious comedy segment: A 2012 D&C article claiming Kodak and Roch have some life left in them! We also discuss HOW Rochester companies do business, which is like a combination of a gambler on his last penny, and a bunch of crabs in a bucket.
• Finally, we have a combo Restaurant Review and In Memoriam segment - Yes, an incredible Korean restaurant called Bada went out of business BEFORE Marc could even review it on the show.

Thanks for telling other escapees about the show!

There's no room for FOP at the inn, so here we go:

Topics we lambaste:

• The Rochester indoor heating dilemma
• Marc's Incident (Rochester crime affects us all, directly)
• Christmas Eve Church Car break-in spree (16 cars at one church alone)
• Is NC part of The South?
• Mike's hero enters the Guinness Book of World Records
• Fan Mail
• A funeral home that sells what?
• What makes a good or a bad onion ring
• Unbeknownst to each other, we each brought Christmas poems

Restaurants we review:

• The science of eating a Waffle House All Star Special
• Buffet City, St Petersburg, FL
• Iron Chef II, Mason, OH
• Sushi585
• Kocina Stingray Sushifusion's OG Trashplate
• Empire Hots Trash Plate
• J&E's Rootbeer Stand, Middletown, OH
• Skyline Chili Dogs
• Great Wolf Lodge Christmas Buffet
• Ponderosa, Somewhere, OH

Once all three of our fans download this episode, we'll have broken past the 500 download mark!!!!

• Where did Marc go to eat for his birthday?
• Our Thanksgiving Reports
• Thanksgiving pizza?
• Why Celery Sucks - ended up doing that segment twice
• Confessions from the McQuaid Cafeteria
• Plate of the Month: Italian American Community Center Thanksgiving Luncheon (with pasta and what Mike calls Italian Pillows!)
• Emotional Support Ponies - how they're treated at Wegmans vs how they're treated at Tops
• The Rochester Train Station is called what???
• Make Rochester Great Again?
• Our New Year's Resolutions
• "We're teetering on the edge here, people"
• "Fat Guys: They know what's up"

Restaurants We Review:

• Stockholder's Boston
• Schooner's Boston
• Bello Valentino's New Smyrna

We Memorialize:

• East Roch funeral homes (there's nobody even left to die!)
• Sticky Lips BBQ
• Chappy's Hots
• Bertucci's Corner Chicago
• Pizza Mafia in Fairport
• Democrat & Chronicle printing press in Greece
• Combo Shutdown: Ken's Pizza Corner and Brownstein's Bagels
• Golden Fox Diner on Culver
• and a special surprise business Resurrection!

As always, thanks for telling your friends about the show!

• The long-awaited Tribute to Coach Mike. Marc expresses gratitude for our driver's ed (and tennis) coach who taught us defensive driving. He then spends around half an hour outlining the ways Rochester drivers are clueless: None of them have ever heard of turning on your inside lane when turning onto a four-lane road. Also, when turning off of a main road, most of them slam on the brakes, make their turn, then signal afterward, not realizing the purpose of signaling.
• Dr. Mike goes to New Orleans to sample its cuisines. Baked Alaska at Antoine's, Po Boys, Gumbos, and a surprising connection to Rochester.
• Fox's and House of Guitars achieve well-earned listings in a historic registry.
• We lambaste CNN's "Top 10 American Foods" which should be titled "Top 10 of the most obscure non-American foods you've never heard of".
• Mike discusses the food-related Project 2025, calling for the resurrection of Pizza Hut Buffets, Blockbusters, 1987 airline breakfasts, Salisbury steak, and more.
• Restaurant Reviews: Fairfield's Chicken French Sandwich, CoreLife
• Tonight's Plate: The Olympia Barnyard Plate. Scrambled eggs, hash browns, chopped raw onions, mac salad, Roch hot sauce, and buttered rye toast. Delicate and delectable.
• Mike makes homemade Philly Cheesesteaks for his family
• In Memoriam: Canalside Jewelers, Bamboo House, Benucci's, The Diplomat, Big Boy (Roc and OH), and the resurrection of FYE!
• We finish up by discussing our FOPpy plans for Halloween.

As always, thanks for listening and telling inmates and escapees!

• We lament new pumpkin spice "innovations"
• What's your ideal Plate? Tonight we debut a new segment called Fantasy Football Plate:
• For Rosh Hashanah, we let our imaginations run (very) wild as we describe our ideal Jewish food plate.
• Marc reviews the food at Whiskey River and WHY YOU NEED TO GO
• Mike reviews
• The unbeatable $1.38 hot dog combo at Sam's Club
• Oreo Coke Zero
• Mom Jeans Radio
• How you can score a hamburger dinner for only $1... at most restaurants.
• Restaurants discussed:
• Friendly's
• Dahlia's
• Sicilian Delight
• Pizza buffets & white pizza
• We memorialize:
• James Earl Jones
• Alpha & Omega (just Penfield)
• Kenny Rogers Roasters
• Cici's Pizza (just Rochester)
• and we also anti-memorialize a nonRochester business that's actually GROWING!
• Amazon, which is struggling in western NY because it has no employees
• We Debate:
• Paying your bill in cash vs credit
• What flavors "take over" a meal?

So, come find the joy in life with Flyover Plates. Thanks for telling other escapees about the show!

• Mike drops off his family at the airport, just so he can go down in the basement and record an episode.
• Marc enjoys his new back deck before the snow flies next week.
• Sampling a flight of... hot dogs? (Where else besides FOP would you hear that?)
• It's Mike's turn to review a plate, and it's a good one. The Amber Rose Hungarian-Lithuanian plate includes pork schnitzel with cream sauce, a delectable-looking potato pancake, and the only sauerkraut he considers worthy.
• Culver's is a consolation prize for escapees who miss Bill Gray's
• Ponderosa vs. Old Country Buffet vs. Golden Corral
• Mt. Hope Diner - good food, but also good Samaritans
• Memorializing Phil Donahue
• When to get FREE hot tubs in Rochester

They're droppin' like flies, so we spend the second half of the show catching up on the MANY businesses in Rochester that have gone under lately:

• Bar Louie
• Ruby Tuesday
• Macaroni Grill
• RED LOBSTER
• Mt Hope Garage - went out of business a few days before Marc's car broke down behind it
• COSIMOS PIZZA - NOOOOOO
• West Webster Furniture Strippers
• Grinnell's - Allegedly Roch's best Chicken French
• Ruby Gordon Furniture Henrietta
• THE NUT HOUSE BRIGHTON: A great story about them, and what the building is now
• Scotch&Sirloin
• Joe's Crab Shack

Thanks as always for sharing the show with other Rochestarians near and far!

Tonight we welcome our first special guest! Cousin RG is our biggest fan and has a lot to say about Rochester - its crime, its food, its mystique.

We discuss:

• A Rochester Legend: Red Fedele's Brook House
• What's the best part about visiting Rochester?
• The legality of Boneless Wings
• What's missing in this episode?
• Confessions from the McQuaid... Cafeteria
• RG's definition of the ideal Plate

We review:

• Mike's kids give their opinion on Roch burgers
• Orbaker's Rte 104 Plate (pictured above)
• The Winfield's Boneless Buffalo Plate
• Gia's Pizza
• Beck's Wings
• Ciaccia's Deli

We Memorialize:

• Bamboo House Chinese & Thai Restaurant
• Bulldog's Alehouse Chicago - AYCA FISH FRY

We Debate:

• Ranch vs Bleu Cheese
• Raw vs Sauteed Onions
• What's the best sub shop in Rochester?
• Crispy or soggy fries on your Plate?
• Wegmans vs Tops
• What's the best flavor of wing sauce?

As always, thanks for telling inmates and escapees about the show!

We drove along Empire Boulevard, looking for a Plate place that would let us record a live episode in the dining room. Eventually, Webster Hots said "come on in!"

• We ordered some very unique plates - shredded Philly cheesesteak plate and a house-made breaded chicken sandwich plate - and review them. Spoiler alert: BOY were they good.
• We memorialize: Holiday Inn Airport & Conf. Center, Golden Dynasty, Cottage Sanibel, MacGregor's Webster, Beale Street, Barry's Pub, Zebb's, Greece Sports Complex, and Mike's dad's old office.
• Mike reviews the 2 other plates he ate whilst at home - one at Bill Gray's and one at Abe's
• We drive by the Rochester Trifecta of businesses
• Mike gets "grease drunk"
• The average age of a Rochestarian
• What anti-improvements have been done to our city lately?
• What is "Plate Terroir"?
• A little Rochester TV Trivia

We hope you love this monumental episode!!! Tell your fellow inmates and escapees about the show!

We discuss:

• A recap of Don Alhart's final news broadcast in all its classiness
• The nightmare of dating in Roch
• Emus wandering the suburbs of Cincinnati
• Church summer festivals
• Rochester Radio Stations and the 6 songs they play on repeat
• Who is Brother Wease?
• Steve T------'s Hats and Pataytas
• Dr. Mike's childhood stories of eating there
• (I just went to stevethots.com and apparently they have apple pie logs?)
• A Fish Fry Plate?
• 1983 Televisions

They're fallin' faster than we can memorialize them, so tonight we remember:

• D'Mangu and El Sabor de la Isla
• Bathtub Billy's
• Allen's Cobblestone Deli (We hardly knew ye)
• ROC Communications (Installed 80s car phones w. curly antennae)

As always, thanks for telling your fellow Rochestarians about the show! Tell normal people about it too so they can get a taste of the madness!

He's one of the few things that East-siders and West-siders agree on.

He's on Rochester's Mount Rushmore, alongside George Eastman, Walter The Accordion Man, and Brother Wease.

He's about to retire after a record-smashing career.

He's Don Alhart.

Tonight we give tribute to The Don, the greatest newscaster of all time.

We start out with some fun facts about him, such as:

• How they deduced how long his career was via carbon dating
• His interview with King Solomon
• His coverage of The Battle of Hastings
• His political party of choice
• and so much more.

We reminisce about his 1982 TV special with Wanda Miller as they inaugurate the then-prosperous Marketplace Mall, replete with egg contests and raffles that truly built a sense of community.

Tonight we ask the tough questions:

• Will people still watch Channel 13 without The Don?
• Who will take his place at the newsdesk of honor?
• Who are these other flunkies they just hired?
• If a Dunkin Donuts goes out of business, does it become another Dunkin Donuts?

And the tangents continue as we explore:

• What Mike did with a month's worth of leftover Rochester Hot Meat Sauce
• What is Portillo's and how Marc wants to sample their sandwiches
• The Schaeller's Plate
• (Editor's note: There was SO much hot meat sauce on it, I forgot to mention the curly fries!)

Finally, tonight we memorialize:

• Kodak Park
• Krispy Kreme
• Buckman's Donuts
• Panzari's

It's another festival of food and fun you won't want to miss! (Doesn't that sound like an 80s TV commercial?) Thanks for telling your fellow inmates and escapees (and restaurateurs) about the show!

First, we look back on the past year and discuss such highlights as:

• The Great Debate: Do baked beans belong on a garbage plate?
• The Flying Alharts
• Our explanation of Chicken French
• Wood Paneling in Basements
• and so much more!

Then we discuss:

• Marc getting sucked into The Rochester Eternal Surgery Vortex
• The Pittsford Wegmans Shooting and its implications
• Rochestarians are even pitied by people from Cleveland!
• Who was Don Alhart's College Roommate?
• Memorializing our HS gym teacher
• You'll also get some restaurant reviews of: Lipman's and Fattoush
• And the moment you've been waiting for: Marc's review of The Polska Chata Polish Plate

Finally: Every business in Rochester goes out of business every day. Afterward, they become one of three things:

A Dispensary, a Dunkin' Donuts, or a satellite surgery center.

So tonight we debut our modified In Memoriam Segment. We now ask: What did they become?

• Mendon Wok
• Quimby's
• Spy Outlet
• Taste of China
• JB Smokehouse
• Bad to the Bone
• Hick's & McCarthy

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• Marc comes back refreshed from his trip to NonRochester! The plane back to Roch was less than packed, and people were less than thrilled to be on it.
• The Plate makes it all the way to Nairobi!
• Dr. Mike makes himself an Easter Plate! The base ingredient was bacon grease, and the burgers were shaped like eggs. We'll see if he survives.
• What does Dr. Mike look for in a plate?
• The Roc Remote: A program that pays remote workers to move to Rochester - and a subtle admission that you have to bring your own job because you won't find one here!
• Total hours of sunshine in Roch for Jan 2024 (Yes, it's even less than you think)
• Marc's Special Report on the Rochester Economy
• In Memoriam Segment: "It Is" and Six50 Black Oven Cooking
• Ceramic Horses: Why everyone got on that bandwagon.
• Kodak is hiring for the first time since the 80s!
• What Rochester celebrity has announced his retirement? (Hint: "We all know Father Time is undefeated, but this man gave him a run for his money.")

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• Mike obtains a secret family recipe for Rochester hot meat sauce
• He conjures up the Jurassic Plate and promises to make it on a future episode
• People obsessed with Charlie Sheen vs People obsessed with Don Alhart
• Where Marc wants to be buried and why
• Is there ANYWHERE worse than Rochester?
• 18% Gray: The official color of Rochester's skies patented by Kodak photographers
• Game of... Plates?
• A rescue shelter for homeless TVs & VCRs facing extinction
• How to properly watch The Godfather
• The dish known as Waffle Heaven
• Tom Wahl's 55 Junker Plate: A simple, less-greasy way to initiate kids into the hobby
• New Roch restaurant reviews: Bada Sushi and Royal of India
• We receive a letter from a coach
• Marc's Google review of a popcorn brand

As always, thanks for telling other escapees about the show!

You get to hear:

Dr. Mike's experience with pork tenderloin in IA

(and what condiment from east of the Mississippi might've worked with it)

What happens when you refrigerate homemade Rochester hot sauce

His encounter with a Rochester sports team down in FL (and what he tried to rename them to)

Marc mailing Bill Gray's hot sauce to cousins on the west and east coast

Mailing the Pope a garbage plate??

Waxing nostalgic about mid-90s Packard Bell PCs and RCA TVs (Get this: they did what YOU wanted them to do, instead of the other way around!)

This month's Rochester Plate was the DogTown Junkyard Plate. It had what on it? Wait... so, it was healthy?

For our In Memoriam Segment, we remember Henrietta Outback, Boston Market, and DeliSandro's

All this and a lot of laughs on tonight's Flyover Plates! Keep telling your fellow Rochester escapees about the show!

Mike makes his own homemade Plate - not his first rodeo, but it's the first time he EATS it on the air. Will he finish the whole thing by the end of the show?

What's the most important (mostly inedible) ingredient in a Plate?

New segment: "Confession from the McQuaid Chapel"

Marc reports on his experience with the Jeremiah Plate.

What are Bonus Burgers?

Marc gives a Monroe Ave Manhattan Gridlock traffic update.

What is Nick's Italian Feast?

Where's the only place outside of Roch that you can find Chicken French aka Francese?

What do the American Girl 1990s Throwback Dolls include that may or may not have been influenced by The Flyover Plates Podcast?

Mike Sings The 12 Days of Rochester Christmas

What's the best place to get a Chicago Deep Dish Pizza?

Where in Roch can you find chocolate covered everything?

And we finish off the show by memorializing two legendary Rochester businesses and what local institutions have taken over their buildings.

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• Dr. Mike's stepmom made Cioppino for Thanksgiving. Yes, it was amazing.
• Dr. Mike, an emigrant to Ohio, made Chicken French for his family so they could learn what their Rochestarian ancestors ate
• Marc attended a dinner catered by Papa Joe's - The Chicken French was insanely tender.
• We reminisce about elementary and high school Hot Lunches
• The beloved BOOK-IT program returns from the 80s to bless a new generation with greasy rewards for learning
• We discuss the symptoms of "meat hoarding" and how to achieve it, rural or urban
• Marc reports on the Bill Gray's Great Plate and why it's so great (see episode icon)
• Mike invents Rochester Poutine.

As always, thanks for telling other inmates and escapees about the show! We've surpassed 100 downloads!

Mike encounters yet another Rochester escapee hiding in the Flyover States

Marc enjoys a Thirsty Turtle Plate on his last day in Victor, NY. Mike asks a hard-hitting question and then points what out is lacking!

Marc just moved to the Can of Worms... What is the Can of Worms?

The McQuaid vs Aquinas rivalries: Which school was better at which sports?

All Rochestarians, including the least Italian among us, eat a kettle of Sunday Sauce

The Circle of Meat - aka how Mike's in-laws passed down a Midwest tradition

Zubaz pants - do people still wear them?

Pumpkin Spice flavored... communion?

The Good Rochester vs Bad Rochester Segment

We memorialize still more Rochester businesses (since we lose so many each month)

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• What Rochestarians do when Labor Day comes round. (It usually involves buying another Chevy and hunkering down for another 14 months of grey skies.)
• Marc goes off on a tangent about those giant 80s satellite dishes, because, well, this is FOP
• Dr. Mike loses his golf bag on a flight to Iowa, and we marvel at how good the airlines are at losing things so reliably.
• We memorialize Bob Barker (you can watch his old episodes 24/7 on Pluto btw) and how he got as close as he could to $1.00 without going over
• Steak bomber sandwiches
• Famous donut shops in Dayton, Niagara, Boston, and Rochester
• Marc pulls a stunt by eating something on air instead of just discussing a recent meal

Finally, we delve into Chicken French (see episode photo):

• What it is
• Where it's served (We'll give you one guess.)
• Who invented it
• What restaurants make it
• What it's best served with

Stay tuned for more episodes that take you away from the frustrating modern world, and thanks for telling your friends about the show!

Tonight our Field Reporter Marc tests out a plate from Favored Flavors Catering, and compares it to last month's plate.

We also reminisce about Wegmans VHS rentals and the Sense of Occasion that an outing to a video rental store would give. It was a special time filled with boxed chocolate and the smell of microwave popcorn.

We then discuss The Battle of Upstate New York Hot Dogs - which of them wins your heart? "There are no right answers."

Finally, we introduce our mascot, Theo the Plate Cook, and warn you about his piercing stare as he hovers over a greasy stove.

• We're now available on many Podcast Directories, so tell your friends to search for the show
• Catholic School carnivals and the sense of belonging you get from participating in them
• NY State announces regional license plates. We discuss what stereotypes should go on them. Buffalo wings? Guns? Gaaarbage plates - on license plates???
• Field reporter Marc reviews O'Callaghan's Calli Plate, replete with hamburgers, onions, meat sauce, crispy fries, and an exceptional mac salad
• Our In Memoriam segment remembers some of the many small businesses that have tanked in Rochester this month

If you haven't already, consider throwing a party where you and your friends listen to our episodes!

We discuss a veritable parade of Rochester topics:

• Does Sheet Pizza exist outside of Rochester?
• Rochester loves its annual festivals, with traditional food, cover bands, stabbings, and brawls
• The PGA was hosted here, and someone handed the commentators a garbage plate (hope there's no brawl there)
• Mike's collection of Roch hot sauces on a wine rack
• McQuaid High School seniors graduating 3 weeks earlier than the rest of town, and smoking cigars in the building to celebrate this
• Places you can take your driving test here
• Our city school district is one of the worst in the solar system - and what one couple is doing to help the kids in it
• "Hail Mary" anti-projects that were supposed to save the city but just added more billions to our debt

It's yet another zany episode of what makes Rochester Rochester. Thanks for telling your friends about the show!

Tonight we discuss:

• Jerry Springer & Bob Barker
• Top 4 Best Low-Budget Local Commercials
• Stuff you'd see in the typical Rochester basement in the 1980s
• Explaining what a garbage plate is to Iowans
• Explaining what White Hots are to you

It's another pile of reminiscence waiting for your enjoyment! Thanks for telling your fellow Roch escapees about the show!

Today we discuss the Three Major Things that Rochester people bond about - no matter where they are in the world. (You'll have to listen to find out what they are!)

Dr. Mike and co-host Marc-Anthony Arena dive down the rabbit hole of Rochester institutions, and somehow come out the other side unscathed! We talk about:

• Mall Santas
• The Great House of Guitars
• How Rochester has the best line of condiments around
• The Monroe Ave traffic abomination (all in the name of progress)
• Salt Potatoes

and so much more!

Everybody has a friend who escaped Rochester, so tell them about the podcast!

(Thanks to Nolan Derosia The Bearded Guitarist for the music)