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isn't the lobster roll like some sort of regional delicacy?? it's totally impossible to get one in socal, so all the foodies out here spent all last summer talking about them.

vahid (vahid), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

sourdough
gruyere
bit of lettuce
tomato
tuna fish
fancy pants mustard
sourdough

toasted til bread gets crusty and cheese melts some (oh and don't add the tomato and lettuce til after you've toasted)

metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago) link

they're the new england equivalent of... of... um... Hm..

Um...

Yeah.

Bad.

Don't eat it.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago) link

seriously?? vogue's food critic spent half a book signing ranting about them!

vahid (vahid), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link

any sandwich with roasted red peppers on it!

metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link

I'm in socal and I defy you to point out to me one person who wanted a lobster roll.

If you can, I'll punch them in the nose and serve them a shit sandwich as they clearly know nothing about food.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link

I'm going to modify the strongo thusly:

ciabatta bread
thai bbq sauce or chipotle sauce (something spicy and tomato based)
mayonaise
salad greens
grilled red peppers
provolone cheese
grilled chicken breast
cibatta bread

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link

isn't the lobster roll like some sort of regional delicacy?? it's totally impossible to get one in socal, so all the foodies out here spent all last summer talking about them.

Do they really? God. It's regional, I wouldn't call it a delicacy. It's like the cheapest form of lobster you can get, in an area where lobster's cheap to begin with, when it's in season.

Theoretically they could be done really well. You want to boil the lobster in water with actual seasoning in it, like lemons and celery and garlic and cayenne, and then serve it warm, not cold, with no mayo, on a decent roll dressed with Worcestershire and Tabasco and celery salt -- that would be good. The lobster roll in its native form? No damn good.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago) link

MY POINT, BINKY.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago) link

I wasn't disagreeing!

I think the Tep remix of the lobster roll is a Bloody Mary in disguise, though.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:22 (twenty years ago) link

Needs more vodka.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago) link

(Plus I'm now addicted to calling people 'Binky').

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago) link

Ed Levine wrote about it in New York Eats: "I have eaten in hundreds of seafood joints, from Maine to Connecticut, from California to Washington State in search of the perfect lobster roll. But the best lobster roll I have ever eaten is at Pearl." And yes, this is the selfsame roll that the New Yorker described as a "Ho-Jo version made sublime," that Time Out New York called "a hot dog from heaven," that the notoriously perfectionist Jeffrey Steingarten described in Vogue as "the most perfect lobster roll imaginable."

this is from the james beard foundation!!

vahid (vahid), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago) link

I'm shocked and yes, appalled.

Lobster rolls are the seafood equivalent of a two pieces of white bread, grease, american cheese. Bleah.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:24 (twenty years ago) link

grilled cheese?

vahid (vahid), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago) link

No, not even good enough to be grilled.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, that sounds good!

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, for heaven's sake. Seriously, the lobster roll is the perfect symbol for everything I could never stand about northofBoston cooking: lack of seasoning, fear of texture, bland flavors emphasized by virtually unflavored fats, and everything's boiled.

(I'm not denying it can be done well, like I said, and for all I know there's been some kind of lobster roll reclamation -- I haven't spent more than a couple days there in years.)

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago) link

Scrape around under your fridge, slap it on a bun and I guarantee you it would taste better than lobster rolls.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago) link

UPDATE oh good christ hot lime pickle and cold roast chicken jesus god my mouth is on fire don't make sandwiches when drunk for fuck's sake I implore you my children aaarrrrgggghh (it's jolly nice though, but argh)

Matt (Matt), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link

OK, this is my take on the strongo

ciabatta bread
mix of romaine, radicchio, and arugula (no generic "salad greens")
grilled red peppers
provolone cheese
marinated chicken breast
cibatta bread

Sprinkle some garlic oil on the bread and you're good to go

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link

I'm in pain.

Matt (Matt), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:50 (twenty years ago) link

Don't eat a lobster roll. Your mouth will beat you to death.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago) link

My strongo, since everyone else is doing one (I used to order this at Foodie's in New Orleans, no relation to the pizza chain in the northeast):

Ciabatta bread
Pesto aioli
Roasted red peppers (although roasted mushrooms sound good)
Fresh mozzarella
Rare roast beef
Sliced grilled chicken breast
Pesto aioli
Ciabatta bread

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago) link

You have made me hungry and I hate you.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

Why haven't you sent for help?

Matt (Matt), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:55 (twenty years ago) link

Think of the lobster roll.

Bits of lobster that manage to be both squishy and textureless, floating in Hellman's, pasting a hot dog bun together so that it makes that velcro-cunt sound if you pry it open.

Now you aren't hungry.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

roast beef and chicken breast? that's crazy!

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

See, that was cause the roast beef was only great half the time, and I wanted to hedge my bets.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

There's no one to help!

Also, Tep, I reallllllly hate you.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

I am the windshield AND the bug.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

Elvis OTM, but make my leafy stuff radicchio and spinach leaves. Chicken breast should have a slight marinade of red pesto -- enough to infuse it with flavor but not pummel it to death.

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago) link

Now get me a burrito and a barq's.

luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago) link

actually lose the radicchio; just gimme the spinach.

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

my mouth is still in a great deal of pain, I love lime pickle

Matt (Matt), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago) link

i like how a sandwich i bought at the grocery store has become "the strongo"

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago) link

you're not famous until you have your own sandwich

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

i was amazed to learn fat joe had his own sandwich at the stage!

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago) link

notate it pls

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago) link

white bread
grilled turkey
fried egg
american cheese
white bread

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago) link

yum!

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago) link

Fried eggs are way underused in sandwiches (and lots of other things).

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:15 (twenty years ago) link

FOOD things.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:16 (twenty years ago) link

wheat bread
crumbled amish gorgonzola
avocado
mayonnaisse
tuna
wheat bread

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:16 (twenty years ago) link

Fried eggs are way underused in sandwiches (and lots of other things).

http://www.quartzcity.net/albums/album06/IMG_1076.sized.jpg

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:17 (twenty years ago) link

top part of the roll
tomato sauce
scotch pie (aberdeen angus pref.)
bottom part of the roll

cozen (Cozen), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

There we go! Damn straight!

(xpost; I mean, it's a nice sounding sandwich, though, cozen. I'm not sure what Scotch pie is, though.)

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:19 (twenty years ago) link

scotch pie:

http://www.winarms.com/images/menuscotchmeatpie.jpg

(this is with moderate safesearch on, obv.)

recipe.

cozen (Cozen), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago) link

I was off-ILE while going through my sandwich experiment phase thing, wasn't I?

Well.

Cuban-type sandwich thing (which I think is all here:

Cuban, Italian, or French bread (not baguette)
Gulden's mustard
Citrus-y cucumber pickles (which I've been calling mojo pickles, cause it's kinda like mojo)
Sopressa salami
Mortadella
Brown sugar citrus pork loin
Thinly-sliced pepperoncini
Lime-serrano mayonnaise
Bread again

Grilled/pressed

*

New Orleans variation of the Cuban:

Same bread
Tomato gravy from a braised roast beef (like pot roast with lots of tomato and spice)
Shredded roast beef
Lots of Tabasco sauce
Hot French fries
Bread

Grilled/pressed

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:26 (twenty years ago) link

good lord i need to stop clicking on this

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:27 (twenty years ago) link


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