USA Mega Trip - July & August 2022
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My Dad took me to the Carnegie on my first trip to the City in 1988. He got a corned beef sandwich, and I got matzoh ball soup, and we shared. This old man was sitting at one of the little tables that was near to ours in the middle of the floor. He heard me whining to my dad that I didn’t really think I would like corned beef, and my Dad got me to try it. I reluctantly admitted it was “all right” but i didn’t really want any more. The guy calls over to us, and says “Have you ever tried pastrami? You’ll love it.” I said I hadn’t, and the guy calls somebody over to the table and sends them off for a plate heaped with hot pastrami, then sat there grinning like a cat until I tried a little bite. Even as a picky eight-year-old I could tell from the way my Dad acted that something was going down and I better like the pastrami, so I thanked the man, ate some, and said it was good! Better than the corned beef.
The man goes back to his newspaper or whatever, and my Dad says, “That guy is one of the owners of the Carnegie Deli”. He laughed at me for days because I was picking at the food and whining the whole time we were in there. [emoji23]
My Dad cannot to this day talk about that NY trip or delis without relating that story.
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Pastrami is so much better than corned beef IMO. It is a good smoker project too that I will eventually get to.
I do sometimes mix corned beef and pastrami with swiss cheese, brown mustard on marble rye.
I like the texture you get from panini pressing or otherwise involving heat somehow. My current favorite is to crisp up some pastrami in the broiler in a cast iron skillet before making the above sandwich and treating it like a grilled cheese from there–crisping up the bread in pastrami tallow while melting the cheese
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@sabergirl awesome story!
@Jett129 ill let you decide where the
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@sabergirl Do you now/currently like Pastrami? @Matt Probably need two commas…Before and after ass.
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Great story @sabergirl
I used to work for a moving company in Brooklyn staffed by comics,. musicians, actors, and painters and we would sometimes get lunch there… but more often pizza or dumplings -
I decided at some point that combining things with "ass" requires a hyphen, an MLA handbook rule of my own making. Big-ass pickle. Otherwise you end up with ass pickles, and nobody wants those.Also fwiw Katz pastrami sandwiches have always been exorbitantly expensive, and I in my own personal experience, eating a whole one could cause injury. I usually get half a sandwich and a bowl of split pea soup, after which I want a nap. I think when I lived there 15 years ago, that combo was like $28. Tip your slicers well, and they'll hook you up.
One time some coworkers of mine had a morbid contest in which they tried to see who could eat the most Katz sandwiches. It was so hard to watch — the competitors started sweating and turning grey at a point. I think the winner had to go home sick for the day, and captured the prize with 2.5 sandwiches.
I think I went to Carnegie once. It was generally hard to get me to venture to the hellhole of Midtown.
