Posted on 01/11/2023 11:29:13 AM PST by DallasBiff
Oh my... I went to a school at the Philadelphia Naval Base in the 80s. It had the worse galley ever! And I’m not picky about food, but it was terrible.
“Well,” said Primanti Brothers’ Ryan Wilkinson when I asked him about the sandwich’s origins, “it was actually for the guys working the produce terminals and the docks down in the strip when it was a bustling area back in the early part of the last century.”
That is the story I have ALWAYS heard.
Love Primanti’s; my favorite is with capicola.
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