St. Louis’ Prosperity Sandwich
The first clue is right there in the description for this sandwich on the Wikipedia List of Sandwiches. “Ham and turkey topped with broiled cheese,” it says. “Sometimes includes bacon and tomato.” Hm, I...
Author: Jim Behymer
The Portuguese Prego
The first thing that the word “Prego” makes me think of is an unfortunately named commercial pasta sauce, and the genre of slack-faced noodle-slurping pregnancy announcement photos that feature a jar of it. The...
Primanti Bros. Sandwiches
Often when we cover a city’s “signature sandwich” here at the Tribunal, there is an apocryphal origin story accompanying the sandwich, one that cannot be verified and is unlikely to be true but is...
Antipodean Prawn Rolls
According to Wikipedia, prawn rolls are a common takeaway item in parts of Australia. Wait, wait, let’s back up a minute. There are a couple of things, scientific and cultural, that require explanation if...
The Original Breaded Pork Tenderloin
Breaded Pork Tenderloin sandwiches–sometimes abbreviated BPT but usually just called tenderloins for short–are something I’ve written about once or twice on this site. They were a favorite of mine in my hometown of Quincy,...
Pork Chop Buns from Macau
Macau is a Chinese administrative region across the South China Sea from Hong Kong. Whereas the latter was a British colony whose sovereignty was returned to China in 1997, Macau was returned to China...
Finnish Porilainen
Almost every English-language writeup online that I’ve found of the Finnish Porilainen sandwich–and there aren’t all that many, to be honest, but hey! we’re adding to that number–uses some form of the phrase “a...
Polish Boys in Cleveland
When I told people my wife and I would be visiting Cleveland for our anniversary this year, reactions (apart from the obligatory Rock and Roll Hall of Fame references) were divided, seemingly between those...
Porchetta sandwiches
Porchetta is a type of Italian pork roast. In Italy it is a street food, sometimes served in a panino, in which a whole pig carcass is deboned, flavored with garlic, fennel, citrus, and...
Po’ Boys, the hot subs of New Orleans
Have you ever heard of a cold cut po’ boy? I haven’t either. Though the sandwich is New Orleans’ take on the sub/torpedo/hoagie/hero/grinder style of sandwich, the fillings of a po’ boy are generally...
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