I recently saw one of those social-media sites that aggregate (read, “rip off”) from Reddit. It was posting all the nastiest-LOOKING foods from around the world, including the most exotic, bizarre, medieval items like maggot cheese from Italy. Hands down the winner was the Philly cheesesteak.
If you know what you’re looking at, there was nothing gross.
The foil wrapper made the bread steamy, and therefore wrinkled. The provolone cheese was melted so it was semi-transparent and looked like slime and invited the most nasty comments. People guessed sincerely whether the carmelized onions and peppers were [on second thought, I’ll edit this so people won’t think of it when they eat cheesesteaks... let’s just say various lower forms of life]. Even the shaved steak is hard to recognize as beef.
I decided I’d better state the purpose of that post: It seemed amazing how something that tastes great and is so iconic IF YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS could be so badly misinterpreted visually by so much of what it is. The cheesesteak is our own little secret.
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