The pastrami on rye is hanging in there as a strong second.I used to enjoy eating a pastrami on rye in my first job. I was just a kid about 13 and I went to work with my dad on the weekends when he did taxes to pick up extra money. He worked for this old jewish accountant who became my friend and mentor for many years. Now he was the first guy I ever saw who pulled the lunch ploy. What that was he bought breakfast and lunch for the whole office. Seems very nice right. But what that did is made sure everyone ate and was done in about ten minutes or maybe twenty at the outside. Nobody took an hour. He would send me out to get sandwiches and it was always a big treat when I would go to the Blarney Stone to get corn beef and brisket and pastrami sandwiches. I kinka liked the brisket a little better but the pastrami was good stuff. We washed it down with Dr Brown's cream soda or black cherry or his celery tonic. Man that was good eating.
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I said lean, Troop, lean! (Goyishe kop.)
That's exactly what Saul used to say when he swatted me off the head with a rolled up 1040 and sent me back to the bar to get better sandwiches. You think I woulda learned by now?
But don't you know by now that I like it with a little fat on it, so to speak.
Troop: Herey'ar', Mr. Goldvasser, they winked at me at Blarney Stone and put a hot cherry pepper in with the sandwich instead of the sour pickle you like, I hope you don't mind.
Mr. G: The peppa I can live with kid, but I told you lean, lean!
I'd use lantsmen insteada these Micks but between their kvetching about the way I'm a slave driver and the way they go on and on about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire...nach, better I go with the goyim. The kid'll never get my order right but at least he doesn't hoch me a chainuk about the sandpaper toilet paper in the bathroom. A man's gotta cut corners, nu?
I like the lean.
With a high quality pastrami, fat can be good, but a very rare thing. I don't like it when I can feel my arteries hardening....
I haven't commented on the sandwich poll. My faves aren't on there: reuben or italian sub.
Ohhh...love a reuben sandwich, knox. And that pastrami looks delicious.
My favorite sandwich right now is a sub that has turkey, sprouts, cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and avocado spread. Mmm.
Ok. Time to exercise again. *sigh*
Knox!
I made a pitch for the Italian, too.
I'm in northern Michigan and this bunch of gentiles does not do deli.
What I would give for that sandwich right now........
Where are you in N. Michigan, rustbelt? I own property in Houghton Lake.
Lean, you shitheel? No, you order the fatty pastrami. Take the regular if you must but LEAN?????!???eleven!? (And, God help us, there is an Extra Lean [shudder].)
BTW I can tell this pic is a Katz's. There is no substitute. If we were playing Magic and Katz's sandwiches were a playing card, it would be a card like "Thermonuclear Arsenal of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" or "Yahweh." Katz's is literally unbeatable.
Anyone who voted for the cheesesteak has never been to the temple on Houston and Ludlow. You could even put up the corned beef, beef brisket, hard salami or tongue. The oyster po'boy would possibly compete if you'd been to Katz's six times that week already and needed a change. Meatballs? Cheeststeaks? Bwahahahhahaa.
Oh, btw you can get a cheesesteak at Katz's now. Don't know why bother, but you can. Someone who cares should order one, ask about the type of meat, etc. More fatty pastrami, corned beef or brisket for me! Mmm. Knobelwurst if you're on a budget, or a frank which will also be very very good.
Oooh, Katz's.
The hell of it is, there probably used to be two dozen places like Katz's, on the same order of magnitude of goodness. Just like there were many Sammy's Roumanian-type places. (Schmulka-Bernstein's, my father is always going on about.) Sadly, this type of food is less popular. Instead there is wheatgerm and artisanal whatevers. Blah.
I'll ask you again, Troop, is that place Sam's closed or what?
My favorite sandwich right now is a sub that has turkey, sprouts, cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and avocado spread. Mmm.
--Darcy, I perceive that you are a girl.
BTW Katz's ships. I once ordered for a fraternity rush party (VPI&SU) and got a spread from Katz's. Fifteen years later, brothers still reminisce over it. If that Cho kid could have got a nice corned beef he woulda never shot up the place...he woulda had to take a nap after whacking his GF.
A brilliant perception, Nichevo. :)
Yeah. Upon reading the description of my fave sandwich again, it definitely is girly. I think guys would like it too, but most probably would never order it.
I also agree with you on the fat on pastrami and corned beef, but that's also why I rarely eat either. Another girly thing.
Darcy--we probably shouldn't get started here on the merits of diets. That could lead to "Celebrity Diets" or some such. :)
Good point, chickenlittle. :) I don't want to contribute to the "dieting" discussion. It's not dieting for me to choose healthier foods, though. Especially when the choices are delicious...and it is not like I won't have the pastrami or corned beef if I really want it!
She don't like fashions, she don't like phonies
She don't like junkies, she don't like druggies
She just wants my beef baloney
Beef, beef beef, beef baloney (x4)
She don't like salami, she don't want pastrami
She don't want a chicken, she don't want a roast
She just wants her double dose
Beef, beef, beef, beef baloney, beef, beef, beef baloney
Lyrics by Lee Ving of Fear(1982)
(sorry Darcy, not intended for you, but I couldn't resist--going offline now for a awhile) :)
Ha ha, chickenlittle. Fried bologna. Mmmm.
My favorite sandwich right now is a sub that has turkey, sprouts, cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and avocado spread. Mmm.
That's so funny that you said that, because this one shop in Dayton (gone now) used to make a veggie sandwich I loved that was very similar to that.
I think where most veggie subs fail is that they don't make them tasty enough. Without meat on a sandwich, you've really got to put a dressing or a spread on it that's really flavorful.
Darcy:
Mt. Pleasant area.
Is Mt. Pleasant where Central Michigan is?
Right now I am really into egg sandwiches. Scrambled Egg, Swiss Cheese on a Croissant. Is that girly? I did have a Steak Cheese and Mushroom sub last night and it was delish. Are steak cheese and mushroom subs really fatty? A girls got to watch her weight.
rustbelt: Well, hey, neighbor!
And yes, Titus, it is the home of Central Michigan.
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