Chicago Sandwich Canon: The South Side’s Jim Shoe
A good Jim Shoe is a mess, combining corned beef, roast beef, gyro meat, onions, mustard, gyro sauce, cheese, lettuce and tomato in a hoagie roll. It is a lot.
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Getting the Reuben Right
There are a lot of ways to fuck up a Reuben sandwich. You’d think it would be an easy win, with so many good things going for it–corned beef, rye bread, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut,...
Dyrlægens Natmad, or What the Horse Doctor Ate
Dyrlægens natmad is a form of Danish smørrebrød whose name can be translated as something like “Veterinarian’s midnight snack.” Seems that back in the early 20th century, there was a veterinarian called Sigurd Keilgaard–a...
A Donkeyless Donkey Burger
Look, you can’t get donkey meat in the US. OK, back up a minute. You probably can, shipped frozen from overseas. But they sell it by the shipping container, so the minimum order is...
Dagwood – A Retrospective
The Dagwood. A cartoonishly gigantic sandwich invented by a cartoon. It’s a giant stack of meat and vegetables and such between 2 slices of bread, popularized in the comic strip Blondie from the newspaper...
To Carve the Corned Beast
I have a tendency to obsess over things. No, not you, Jim! Not the guy who wrote a 4000 word history of club sandwiches earlier this month! Yes, me, hard as it may seem...
Arby’s Meat Mountain or Molehill?
(Hat tip to Jim for inspiration for the title) Not long ago, word hit the internet that popular fast food chain Arby’s had added a sexy new “secret menu item.” If you’re a person...
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