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For someone who likes Polish cuisine and wants to try a lot of it, there are few better places to live than the Chicago area.
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Deli “Special” Sandwiches
I’m going to let Wikipedia speak to this one. There isn’t a separate page, but in the List of Sandwiches, our guidebook here at the Tribunal, it describes “Specials, Deli sandwiches” as being from...
Richmond, VA’s Sailor Sandwich
Knackwurst is a favorite of mine. More commonly spelled Knockwurst here in the US, it’s basically a stubby, fat, garlicky hot dog in a natural casing that pops and cracks while the sausage is...
Finnish Ruisleipä
Finland loves its rye bread. Though it has perhaps the mildest climate of the Nordic countries, the northernmost parts of Finland are in the Arctic Circle, snow lies on the ground for 6-8 months...
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,...
The Perfect Patty Melt
The classic patty melt, “the epitome of diner fare” according to HuffPo, has never been something I’ve paid much attention to. One time when I was a child I remember my stepfather suggesting I...
National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
I’m feeling a little deja vu today. As it turns out, I’ve written this post before. I will likely write it again. There are 365 days in a year, and every one of them...
Smoked Meat in Montreal
A Montreal-style smoked meat sandwich is… Well, it’s a pastrami on rye. That’s minimizing of course. It’s a cured smoked piece of beef similar to pastrami, though the spice rub used is different (they...
Limburger Sandwich. People Eat This.
Limburger is a cheese famous for one thing: it stinks. Ripened with Brevibacterium linens, a bacteria more commonly associated with human foot odor, Limburger, when consumed, has a soft interior with a somewhat more...
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...
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