Having just returned from a trip to Texas, I hoped to have a few awesome barbecue sandwiches to write about. A classic chopped beef brisket, a smoked sausage – these are the things I crave when I return to my homeland. But this trip involved attending a wedding, which involved lots of scheduled meals, none [...]
Everyone loves to sit in Madison Square Park and grin at the city spinning around them. It’s an old fact. Everyone loves Shake Shack. Another aging fact. Everyone grumbles about the line. Also a fact. The hamburgers are delicious. Fact again. The towering mountain of meat, cheese and deep fried mushrooms known as the “Shack [...]
Dotting the canals and beltways of Amsterdam are these “haringhuis”, or herring stands. In these little stands ladies gut and clean fresh herrings to make herring sandwiches, the so-called national dish of the Netherlands. Let me repeat that: The NATIONAL DISH of the Netherlands is a raw herring sandwich. I will happily become a single-issue [...]
Sunday, September 23, 2007
One sunny summer day I was beveraging at the Habana Outpost in Brooklyn (757 Fulton Street, Brooklyn) and realized that while I was having a nice time, it would be about three times as good with a tasty sandwich. Thankfully, they have plenty. This fine specimen is the ‘devil chicken’, but should probably be renamed [...]
Saturday, September 1, 2007
I was walking the halls at work the other day and spied one of those amazing futuristic ice cream machines with the little freezer inside and the magic suction tentacle. Then I spied the biggest pre-packaged ice cream sandwich I’ve ever seen: the blue bunny. This puppy is mammoth. So, I got one for $1.25 [...]
Next on my journey for ice cream sandwich omnipotence is this sorry excuse for the real thing. No mater what those hippy vegans say, soy “ice cream” still tastes like cardboard (just like those soy dogs — disgusting). It continues to amaze me that we can send people to the moon and launch robots to [...]