Comments on: Canonical sandwichery

By: ‘Can it be two words?’* « Come friendly bombs

‘Can it be two words?’* « Come friendly bombs — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:05:37 +0000

[...] someone else do the sandwich construction for this Sandwich Party. At Sandwich Parties past I painstakingly constructed, or reminisced about, or at least observed the preparation of, sandwiches to which I had some sort [...]

By: Scary Mommy

Scary Mommy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:49:06 +0000

Yum. I am here drooling over that. I just stumbled upon you and am so glad I did. Your blog is fabulous and your pictures & kids are gorgeous! I’ll be back soon :)

By: juliloquy

juliloquy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:59:16 +0000

I’ve lived in Philly for more than 5 years now and am still sandwich-confused. I cannot tell you the difference between a grinder, a hoagie, and your EYE-talian, above. (I have to pronounce it that way to irk my half-EYE-talian husband.)

But I am salivating. Off to fetch my lunch of leftover macNcheese and veggie jambalaya.

By: gaoo

gaoo — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:37:47 +0000

oops, sorry, that last was NOT Anna, who has been a vegetarian for many years, even if once she did have a turkey and bacon Italian. She used to like the tuna ones, too. But now it’s just veggie for her. Sigh.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:35:28 +0000

Tuna Italian, please. Please! In Amato’s-speak: “Large loaded tuna.” Mmmmm, because the mild chunks of tuna set off the extreme salt of the Greek olives and the yow-sourness of the pickle. A completely different animal than the Regular.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:50:50 +0000

Once I had a turkey AND bacon Italian. So.
: )

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:41:43 +0000

That looks awesome!

By: victoria winters

victoria winters — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:49:15 +0000

I’m hungry.

By: simon

simon — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:42:41 +0000

Love this: “Extraneous oil is a feature, not a bug. You will wipe it on your belly in the sun at the beach.”

By: jer

jer — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:23:28 +0000

Now that brings back oily memories!

I lived in Bangor, ME for a few years. I’d just moved East after growing up in Nebraska/Wyoming/South Dakota where “sandwich” is something your mom makes. It was a bit confusing having so many shops to choose from: most of them offered choices of sandwiches, hot or cold. I remember one place which was packed all of the time and they only made one sandwich, your Italian.

Beach? Not in northern Maine.

By: Erik Rasmussen

Erik Rasmussen — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:15:27 +0000

Weird. I tried to comment on this from my iPhone, but it got lost, apparently.

I think it’s funny that we arrive to adulthood with the idea that such arbitrary and geographically variant concepts, such as your Italian archetype, absolutely must be a certain way.

Great write-up.

By: Elsa

Elsa — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:22:05 +0000

Well done! A sandwich from the canon indeed. One of my earliest memories involves a trip to Two Lights, the Greek olive from someone’s Italian (quite possibly yours), and a very cross seagull.

Incidentally, I think you mean a crabmeat salad sandwich roll. On a bun.

(”And that’s what it’ll say on the sign!”)

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:05:35 +0000

I love how we arrive to adulthood with such firm ideas how regionally variant concepts must be. Lovely!

By: jane

jane — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:38:16 +0000

Excellent.

By the way, there’s an Italian restaurant/deli up the road from me. Guess what I’m having for dinner tonight? Hint: not a crab roll.

(I probably shouldn’t mention that when trying to deploy this post, I temporarily lost it in the wilds of your Wordpress database. Obviously, I persevered [as Erik can attest to] and managed to get this to publish. And we are all better for it.)