Pittsburgh’s Chipped Chopped Ham Sandwiches
The star here is the thinly-shaved ham, which is not remarkable but salty and juicy and tender, swimming in a mix of this mild tomatoey sauce and its own rendered juices.
The star here is the thinly-shaved ham, which is not remarkable but salty and juicy and tender, swimming in a mix of this mild tomatoey sauce and its own rendered juices.
The sauce tastes like something that can’t decide whether it is a bechamel, a gravy, or a cheese sauce and ends up being none of the above. Elements of each present themselves and are subsumed by the whole.
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...
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