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Ah, love. Though we may not have an overflow of the brotherly variety, Philly is offering plenty of options for those happy couples looking to sanctify said happiness with boxes of chocolates and a night on the town. We’ll tackle the latter here; we've given you some chocolate-related goodness already.

Holy crap, people! It's 2008!

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Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! Phillyist likes a good excuse to shop, and the holidays provide that in spades. This year we wanted to stay closer to home with our gift choices, and give things that were more...

You know how we love the Reading Terminal Holiday Railroad. It's the holiday model train display that's set up annually just up the escalator from the Gallery, and when we see it going up, we know Christmas and the holidays are really on their way. You can see photos from the last two years' displays, and read us gushing about them, here and here. This year they've brought back more of the interactive elements...

I may have slammed the sushi at Reading Terminal Market, but RTM is actually just about my favorite place to grab lunch in Center City. The possibilities are endless: last week, Ross and I had some pretty yummy crepes at Profi's Creperie; yesterday, we split a tasty panini at Mezze. You can't go wrong with the sandwiches at DiNic's or Salumeria, and once in a while, the daily special at 12th Street Cantina makes me feel like home.

That is not a hyperbole.

Holy crap! Somebody forgot to send us the memo, but it seems that July is National Ice Cream Month. That would be far more exciting if there weren't a scant week left before August begins and the happiest month of all (according to our tummies) ends – and we've hardly had a chance to celebrate at all!

No, we're not trying to co-opt Dan Gottlieb's new mantra, as interesting as we think it is. St. Joe's grad student Marisa McClellan is going around asking the same question of folks associated with the Reading Terminal Market, and recording the stories she gets on Stories From Reading Terminal Market.

There must be something in the Cheez Whiz, since Rick Oliveri, the owner of Rick’s Philly Steaks in Reading Terminal Market, is again in some hot water. The last time that Rick, a member of the original Pat’s Steak’s family, was in the news, was last October, when he was getting sued by relative Frank Oliveri Jr. over references to Pat’s Steaks in the promotional materials for his Citizens Bank Park location.

I can’t seem to leave Reading Terminal Market without stopping at Iovine Brothers. And I can’t seem to stop at Iovine Brothers without making a purchase. Yesterday, I saw that strawberries were on sale for a dollar. I have trouble passing up berries during the summertime anyway, but make ’em cheap enough, and you’re lucky if you’ve got any left when I’m through.

If people ask me, I definitely self-identify as Jewish. But if you know me, you know that I'm not terribly observant. I remember the Sabbath, but certainly don't keep it holy. I light candles on Chanukah. I even go so far as fasting on Yom Kippur and pretty much cutting carbs out of my diet for a week every spring. But that's the extent to which I keep kosher. I don't hesitate to combine meat and dairy on my matzoh sandwich. I shellfish. I've broken the fast on at least one occasion with a barbecue bacon cheeseburger.

Forget Ben Franklin: the greatest inventor in the area was the Dutch gal who first looked at the bottom of a pot just used to make liverwurst and thought, there has to be something more here. And so was born scrapple, the breakfast delight of Phillyites everywhere (though we've heard they look at you funny in California), including Big Ben himself.

Dear Cheese:

By George in the Reading Terminal Market sells various prepared Italian foods in addition to pizza. Both are rather disappointing, but we will just focus on the pizza.

The South Beach Diet people were out at 12th and Filbert this morning, across from the Reading Terminal Market, handing out free breakfast bars and filming...something...in the back of their van. Some kind of weird softcore porn video? No, probably not. Probably they were trying to make passers-by feel like they were on the beach in the middle of a (finally actually frigid) Philly winter. Or something. Anyway, that lady in the swimsuit waved and smiled at me after I took this picture.

The Reading Terminal Holiday Railroad Display is up and out for viewing again, from now through the end of the year, 10AM to 6PM. You'll find it under the escalator on the ground floor of the Reading Terminal, just inside the 12th and Market entrance, above the Gallery at Market East. This year's display is not as busy, exciting, and interactive as past years' have been, but it's still festive and fun. Click the picture above for more photos of the display on Flickr.

Okay, maybe it's not all that exciting, but this new sign has been up at Reading Terminal Market, at the corner of 12th and Filbert, for a few weeks now, and I've been going past it every day, to and from work, just waiting for it to be turned on so I could take a picture of its glorious bright neon in operation, and this morning it finally happened. Click through for the full version of this pic, and for more photos of the sign, including some slightly less thrilling ones that I took at the end of last month while it was still being tinkered with.

Image via Farm Aid

You know how we like local things around here. We're a local blog, after all. Well, Reading Terminal Market is hosting a fun little local event this afternoon at 4PM: a Local Food Expo! More than 20 family farmers and food producers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware will be there offering their seasonal food products for sale and - even better - for free sampling! Just some of the kind of produce you can expect to be available are fruits like apples, pears, heirloom tomatoes (yes, they're fruit), and raspberries; jams and preserves; organic meat and meat from grass-fed animals; raw milk cheeses; and gelato made from local milk. The event will be hosted by the White Dog Cafe Foundation's Fair Food Project. Sounds like it's worth swinging by, especially if you're in the area and feeling a might peckish at the time.