[Sca-cooks] (OP) Interesting spread of sandwiches

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Well, the one for Illinois is *mostly* right...a real Italian beef is not 
just "roasted beef", the beef is simmered with spices in broth to do it 
properly. And then you have cheese fries with it. ;-)

For Michigan, well, their copy is BS-- a real pasty does not contain 
cheese and the dough is totally different from a calzone, and the 
traditional one contains rutabaga as well as potato.

For Minnesota, there is a...minor disagreement...about who came up with 
the Juicy Lucy, one being the 5-8 Club and the other being Matt's Bar, 
which is just up the road from the 5-8 Club, which in turn is just up the 
road from my house. I am truly spoiled. ;-)

One of the few things I miss from my time in New York is beef on weck, but 
it's really a western NY and southern tier thing. I would be surprised if 
you could get beef on weck anywhere near NYC.

I would say that the iconic Wisconsin "sandwich" is more a grilled brat 
with mustard, sauerkraut optional.

Margaret, who is now also really hungry

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Billed as "50 States, 50 Sandwiches" by the Zagat Staff, it is interesting. I'm not sure if I could have come up with 50 different sandwiches off the top of my head. However, in some cases I think they stretched things to get a unique sandwich for each state. And their research seems lacking in some places, such as the cuban sandwich.
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> http://www.zagat.com/b/50-states-50-sandwiches?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=desktoptopperformers
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> Any comments about the sandwich for your state, or where you grew up?