The 'Boys venture into this rust belt wasteland on Sunday night. To help us all to know the City of Brotherly Love a little better...

The Philadelphia cheesesteak was actually invented in Trenton, New Jersey. Restaurants in Philadelphia adopted the sandwich because it was a handy way to rid their kitchens of rats.*

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*Source: a guy from New Jersey who swore the information was accurate with such conviction we took him at his word.