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1. Peanut Butter & Co.: Your mom does not have a monopoly on this after-school snack. This Greenwich Village standby has all your favorite 3:15pm snacks, from ants on a log to the famous Fluffernutter, along with crazier concoctions like a peanut butter BLT and a PB&J milkshake.

2. Say Cheese!: Grilled cheese is the only food on the menu at this Hell's Kitchen counter space, where the offerings range from the classic—American cheese on white bread—to more grown-up versions, like Munster, provolone and Swiss with red onions, roasted garlic and roasted red peppers on olive bread.

3. S'MAC: If pasta is your preferred carb accompaniment to cheese, you won't want to miss the mac-and-cheese-y concoctions at this East Village specialist, which serves individual and family-sized skillets of the gooey stuff, plain or topped with bread crumbs.

4. Crif Dogs: Bypass the warm-water-marinated hot dogs served by street vendors and head to this hole-in-the-wall on St. Marks Place, where a hot dog does things you never knew it could. If you're skeptical that a dog can be a whole meal, try one lathered in avocado and sour cream or wrapped in bacon and topped with a fried egg.

5. Wafels & Dinges: If you thought waffles were not nice enough to leave the house for, then you've clearly never tried wafels, the crisp, fresh Belgian variety, served out of the window of this roving Manhattan truck-restaurant and topped with real maple syrup, or better yet, Belgian chocolate fudge.

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