Posted on 01/11/2023 11:29:13 AM PST by DallasBiff
If you ask anyone from Pittsburgh about the history of the city's beloved "Pittsburgh sandwich," they all tell you the same things: It dates back to the 1930s. It was originally a lunch for rushed steelworkers on a quick break from the mill. Its most recognizable feature—french fries and coleslaw piled inside the sandwich—came about so that workers could have their whole lunch at once, sides and all. Lauded food historian Donna Garbaccia wrote that the sandwich was likely made this way for the men who "carried their lunch to the mill." It's a mythology near and dear to Pittsburghers' hearts—modern blue collar workers feel pride in their city's most nationally known food, and both current and former residents can recall the glory days of their great American city with a great American sandwich.
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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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