Wild boar with sweet garlic fries mirrors classic steak frites, macaroni and cheese gets dressed up with truffles and Cuban mojo sauce dresses duck with a side of Alsatian rosti laced with manchego.

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For decades, passers-by affixed their chewed Bubblicious and Juicy Fruit to tree outside a cheese steak joint creating a technicolor gummy mosaic all Philadelphians came to know if not love, and now it's gone.

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I'm listening to your voice and I'm trying to hear the cheese steak in Amos Lee.

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More accurately, it is a mountain of French fries topped with a steak, an egg and a piece of ham rolled around a glob of melted cheese.

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Other contests include oysters, hamburgers, cheese steak, baby back ribs, buffalo wings, jalapenos, asparagus, meatballs, catfish and corned beef.

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