Feel free to search for an extensive exchange about the difference between spices and spice/heat somewhere on this board. I believe it was in '22 or '23.
Bc I absolutely do not care to revisit it. Have fun!
Seems like this conversation is getting a bit spicy (and not in the food sense) 
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ICWYDT 
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Waiter, there’s too much pepper in my paprikash
I’m probably one of the few people who have never seen that movie.
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Oh, you must! It’s really a classic — and not just for the scene at Katz’s (one of its weaker moments, IYAM).
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Hahahahaha
Who pissed in your cornflakes today?
Too kind. 
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I’m possibly one of the few people on this forum to have almost sat at that table in Katz’s from the movie. We were two tables away as I recall.
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They have it marked 
I’ve been to Katz’s, but was blissfully unaware of my table’s location.
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I’ve seen the movie a dozen times, walked past Katz’s a few dozen times, and have yet to eat at Katz’s. 
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It’s a NYC experience . . . like going to the Empire State Building (the setting for much more classic movie scenes 
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Did you watch Shogun? I didn’t know Portuguese (Catholic) priests were in Japan that early.
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I realize it’s a classic NYC experience. 
I lived in NYC for a year. I visit the Lower East Side on most visits back to NYC. I was more focused on other foods when I lived there. I’ve never been that keen on deli meats. During the year I was in NYC, I visited Mendy’s once, because a cousin wanted a deli sandwich and we were nearby. I visited the Carnegie Deli with another cousin shortly before it closed. I’ve been to Sarge’s 3 times in the past 15 years. I order blintzes, not a sandwich.
I used to go to the Ludlow Bar just south of Katz’s, and I remember buying a stromboli rolled pizza dough type thing from the pizza spot that was located across the street, on the west corner , in the late 1990s.
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ICYMI 
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Poor Katz’s. All this negative press.
Now I’m wondering where I can get a nice Bastirma sandwich.
Been there as well as Katz. And The Stage. It’s the inner greed in me - we just don’t have those enormous over-stuffed sandwiches in Europe, so it’s a tourist treat.
As I recall , Katz was on the Lower East Side food walking tour devised by fellow Onion, RGR (Roz), which was great fun. And also appealed to the inner greed.
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I’m clearly in a precious minority that doesn’t care for a softball-sized pound of meat centered in the middle of two mediocre pieces of bread. I’d rather make 3 separate ones with that same amount and properly cover the entirety of the bread slices with the layers. Might even throw a pickle in there 
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