Astoria Signs

November 9th, 2009 | Culture

One of the difficult things about living in “Little Athens” is how many of the businesses here have pretty much unintelligible names. I’m talking names that don’t really use the same alphabet!


This place serves sort of mediocre pastries and when you ask for half and half in your coffee, they give you heavy cream. *puke*


This is known as “That place on the corner with the spinning meat,” or “that place that has gone out of business 4 or 5 times since we moved here.”


This is the place for fish, obviously, but I don’t know what EAAHNIKO means. Seems like a long word for fish?

Astoria is a quirky place, but I like it fair enough despite my consuming confusion.

One Response to “Astoria Signs”

  1. I may not be picking up on sarcasm, but what you write as “EAAHNIKO” would be pronounced “(H)ellenico” or something similar, I believe. Which would mean some form of the word “Greek”.

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