What is the history of NYC's "Chopped Cheese"

[maxamusa]

This didn't exist when I was still technically a resident.

How did this become a thing and when?

 

[Sauce Mane]

 

[maxamusa]

2 cool for school huh? Fits the M.O.

Edit: What year your parents came here from what island?

 

[Canada Goose]

I first heard of it in the late 2010s, it's just a Philly cheesesteak with the cheese chopped up w/ the meat rather than the cheese sitting on top of the meat. I wonder who was the O.G corner store who came up with Chopped Cheese as well.

 

[Remote]

I remember loosie cigarettes and 5 cent caramels and even those 2 for 5 cent mints in the Dominican bodegas.

But I don't remember chopped cheese growing up.



Not hating. It just either wasn't my era or something.
Chicharron at the bodega hit the spot tho.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Isn’t it just chopped up hamburger meat? I just order a hamburger

 

[maxamusa]

I first heard of it in the late 2010s, it's just a Philly cheesesteak with the cheese chopped up w/ the meat rather than the cheese sitting on top of the meat. I wonder who was the O.G corner store who came up with Chopped Cheese as well.

Some cheap fukkking ahki no doubt. I don't understand how this became a MEME and a false "staple"

 

[maxamusa]

Isn’t it just chopped up hamburger meat? I just order a hamburger

It is. Its disgusting. Anyone who co-signs it is transplant status in my eyes or 1st generation. But all these MEMEs have it looking like something different.

 

[Collateral]

I’m not from ny but man give me a chopped cheese on a roll with salt, pepper, no mayo or ketchup.

shyt slaps harder than a Philly cheesesteak facts.

 

[Collateral]

It is. Its disgusting. Anyone who co-signs it is transplant status in my eyes or 1st generation. But all these MEMEs have it looking like something different.

Damn

 

[UncleTomFord15]

It got big for whatever reason around 2016-2018ish. Before that I think it was just some Bronx shyt or Harlem .

 

[Flexington]

I dunno


Always assumed it was just a quicker way to make a burger.


Papi or ahk got tired of customers talking about "It's not cooked all the way through" and said fukk it and chopped it up mid cookery

 

[maxamusa]

I first heard of it in the late 2010s, it's just a Philly cheesesteak with the cheese chopped up w/ the meat rather than the cheese sitting on top of the meat. I wonder who was the O.G corner store who came up with Chopped Cheese as well.

Thank u for your honestly. Some clown ass Brooklyn BREH tried to play me. They Staten Island status at this point anyway but still.

 

[Sad Bunny]

I first heard of it in the late 2010s, it's just a Philly cheesesteak with the cheese chopped up w/ the meat rather than the cheese sitting on top of the meat. I wonder who was the O.G corner store who came up with Chopped Cheese as well.

Cap. It’s more like a cheeseburger chopped up. It’s not cheesesteak meat.

 

[maxamusa]

Cap. It’s more like a cheeseburger chopped up. It’s not cheesesteak meat.

AYO I THOUGHT U WAS FLATLINED U BAK!?