Philly Love: Spilled Milk #67
The city of sandwiches (and sports)
The Eagles are in the Super Bowl. The Phillies made it to last year’s World Series. The Sixers are a few games back of the Celtics in the Eastern Conference of the NBA.
Philly sports fans have a lot to celebrate these days. One constant over the years is the breadth and depth of the Philadelphia food scene, especially as a sandwich town. I’ve said this before: Philly is probably the best sandwich town in America for f!$* sake. Sure, NYC probably has more, but Philadelphia’s official city mascot is the cheesesteak. The whole city has a tough working-class vibe that screams SANDWICH. And yes, anytime I use my beloved NYC and Philly in the same sentence I have to use an F-bomb.
I have a lot of great sandwich recipes on my site, too, if you can’t make it to Philly.
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