OT : We are everywhere

[uconnfan68]

Dropped a hundo in a year ( and an exwife). No cheating. Gotta be a total lifestyle change.

Was the ex part of the 100?

 

[JMick]

Gotta be a total lifestyle change.

If you can't gorge yourself once in a blue moon, what kind of lifestyle is that?

 

[Mano]

If you can't gorge yourself once in a blue moon, what kind of lifestyle is that?

I can’t gorge myself on Blue Moon, too many wheat beer farts.

 

[August_West]

If you can't gorge yourself once in a blue moon, what kind of lifestyle is that?

That’s a great point. I wanna live a while for sure, but if I can’t have arbys 3-4 times a year am I living?

Not in my world

 

[superjohn]

Yes. And I’ve been to all of the top 10 Chicago Ibeef places. It’s not the same business space

Top 10 beef joints. Name them.

 

[superjohn]

Have you ever been to one of the Roast Beef places on the North Shore of the Boston metro area?

I remember Harrison's Beef in North Andover being very good.

 

[storrsroars]

Top 10 beef joints. Name them.

I'm waiting for @ to announce that the Buffalo Arby's has mastered a beef on weck.

(which, btw, may be the world's worst sandwich concept).

 

[August_West]

Top 10 beef joints. Name them.

No particular order:
( top of my head because some have been a while , may not remember ten)

Als
Portillos
Johnnies
Mr beef
Novis ( Berwyn . Outlier but so great because I know more about Chicago than you)
Tony’s

 

[intlzncster]

I'm waiting for @ to announce that the Buffalo Arby's has mastered a beef on weck.

(which, btw, may be the world's worst sandwich concept).

What is beef on weck? Took a close look and they appear to be standard roast beef sandwiches?

 

[August_West]

What is beef on weck? Took a close look and they appear to be standard roast beef sandwiches?

Weck is a great herbed bread , beef on weck is roast beef on herbed, salted bread with horseradish and Au jus. It’s really good actually for a bunch of pikers.

 

[intlzncster]

Weck is a great herbed bread , beef on weck is roast beef on herbed, salted bread with horseradish and Au jus. It’s really good actually for a bunch of pikers.

Ahhh I see. Cheers. I don't do horseradish, so I think that's where it would fail for me. And probably why It's never entered my awareness.

 

[August_West]

Ahhh I see. Cheers. I don't do horseradish, so I think that's where it would fail for me. And probably why It's never entered my awareness.

I actually just went back to Arby’s for a gyro and am currently dumping horsey on it as I type. Do you believe me?

 

[jleves]

My gawd - I can't wait for the season to start.

 

[8893]

I actually just went back to Arby’s for a gyro and am currently dumping

 

[August_West]

My gawd - I can't wait for the season to start.

It’s always arbys season.

 

[Fishy]

Weck is a great herbed bread , beef on weck is roast beef on herbed, salted bread with horseradish and Au jus. It’s really good actually for a bunch of pikers.

Kummelweck rolls - not herbed, just caraway seeds and salt on top.

The only places I’ve seen them regularly are in western NY and the (now closed) Karl Ehmer German delis back in the day.

Ridiculously good.

 

[superjohn]

No particular order:
( top of my head because some have been a while , may not remember ten)

Als
Portillos
Johnnies
Mr beef
Novis ( Berwyn . Outlier but so great because I know more about Chicago than you)
Tony’s

Joe Boston's just closed, that might have been the best, right there with Johnnie's.

Johnnie's 2 beefs hot and sweet dipped on both ends with a lemon ice.

I like the Italian Beef but overall I think it's a bit overrated like Chicago's other regional foods, deep dish and the Chicago dog. Chicago might be the best food city in the country but I would rather eat across New Orleans and Philly.

 

[August_West]

Kummelweck rolls - not herbed, just caraway seeds and salt on top.

The only places I’ve seen them regularly are in western NY and the (now closed) Karl Ehmer German delis back in the day.

Ridiculously good.

It’s a great tasty roll. Believe it or not there was a place in Essex Ct ( Oliver’s Tavern ) who made a halfway decent beef on weck ( I have no idea where they got the roll approximation) before they closed a few years back

 

[Mano]

So who was the Yarder you met up with Dayooper?

 

[August_West]

Joe Boston's just closed, that might have been the best, right there with Johnnie's.

Johnnie's 2 beefs hot and sweet dipped on both ends with a lemon ice.

I like the Italian Beef but overall I think it's a bit overrated like Chicago's other regional foods, deep dish and the Chicago dog. Chicago might be the best food city in the country but I would rather eat across New Orleans and Philly.

Philly roast pork> ibeef> cheesesteak

 

[Fishy]

It’s a great tasty roll. Believe it or not there was a place in Essex Ct ( Oliver’s Tavern ) who made a halfway decent beef on weck ( I have no idea where they got the roll approximation) before they closed a few years back

They really shouldn't be hard to make - they're really just kaiser rolls egg-washed and topped with caraway and salt. (My German is rusty, but I think the direct translation here is "caraway roll.")

We just need to convince people to do it.

 

[storrsroars]

What is beef on weck? Took a close look and they appear to be standard roast beef sandwiches?

Kummelweck rolls - not herbed, just caraway seeds and salt on top.

The only places I’ve seen them regularly are in western NY and the (now closed) Karl Ehmer German delis back in the day.

Ridiculously good.

Weck is a great herbed bread , beef on weck is roast beef on herbed, salted bread with horseradish and Au jus. It’s really good actually for a bunch of pikers.

Weck is the most overrated sandwich roll in existence.

If one liked Aqavit but couldn't afford it, then I suppose you could buy cheap vodka and filter it through a weck bun and voila! Beyond that, the rolls are quite useless.

And horseradish is quite optional. As is au jus (which would be a weck French dip). The classic beef on weck is just a pile of otherwise unremarkable roast beef on a really unremarkable salted bun that reeks of caraway seed.

And somehow this is a dish that defines a once-great American city. It almost makes me proud to live in Primantistan.

 

[intlzncster]

I actually just went back to Arby’s for a gyro and am currently dumping horsey on it as I type. Do you believe me?

Never made the connection between Horsey sauce and horseradish. That's disappointing. If you told Horsey sauce was made from leavings at the glue factory, I would have been more into it.

 

[superjohn]

Philly roast pork> ibeef> cheesesteak

Philly roast pork is king but I'm also partial to a great cheesesteak over a great Italian beef. The Chicago breaded steak sandwich is pretty damn good.

 

[Guapo]

Philly roast pork> ibeef> cheesesteak

Amazing.