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	<title>Observer &#187; The 5 Worst Places to Go in New York to Celebrate National Cheesecake Day</title>
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		<title>The 5 Worst Places to Go in New York to Celebrate National Cheesecake Day</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:17:28 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Drew Grant</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://observer.com/2012/07/the-5-worst-places-to-go-in-new-york-to-celebrate-national-cheesecake-day/20091016cheesecake-jniorsrealbox/" rel="attachment wp-att-254645"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-254645" title="20091016cheesecake-jniorsrealbox" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/20091016cheesecake-jniorsrealbox.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="255" /></a>July 30 is <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Food/Stir-It-Up/2012/0730/National-Cheesecake-Day">National Cheesecake Day</a>, truly a holiday that's been commercialized far more than better known calendar events like Valentine's Day or Christmas.</p>
<p>How about this year we forgo the laziness of picking up a cream cheese concoction from  Junior's and return to our roots by celebrating what makes Cheesecake Day so special in the first place: a chance to extoll on this nation's obesity epidemic.</p>
<p><!--more-->We urge you to make today a challenge: actually work for your Cheesecake by going to the most obscure, esoteric, and downright terrible pie places in the city. This quick guide should help...though remember, no batter licking.</p>
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<p>How about this year we forgo the laziness of picking up a cream cheese concoction from  Junior's and return to our roots by celebrating what makes Cheesecake Day so special in the first place: a chance to extoll on this nation's obesity epidemic.</p>
<p><!--more-->We urge you to make today a challenge: actually work for your Cheesecake by going to the most obscure, esoteric, and downright terrible pie places in the city. This quick guide should help...though remember, no batter licking.</p>
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