A look at the Facebook group where the battles happen.
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Delco has a not-at-all-undeserved reputation as a bellicose community. And Facebook is, of course, a place where people love to go to fight. So it’s not at all surprising that a local Facebook group called Delco Restaurant Review would have its share of beefs and battles among its 42,000 or so members.
“I find that anytime someone says that this place is the ‘best’ at anything, the situation can devolve quickly,” says Frank Naimoli, moderator of the circa-2013 group. “People in Delco are fiercely loyal, so if you say that some new place has the best whatever and that’s not someone’s place they’ve been going to for years, they will come after you, even if the place they’ve been going to for years is no good.”…