Surf and Turf Philly Style

[philadining]

"sammies" ???

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Holy crap! Rich has been Rachel Ray-ed!!! It's time for an intervention!! Who's got a van and some duct tape?

[Rich Pawlak]

Funny, I've been saying "sammies" since high school, I think it's a Scranton thing; everybody says "sammiches" up there. And who is this Rachel Raygun of whom you speak?

[mrbigjas]

That's about right.  With the fishcake sandwich, you pretty much have to be in the mood for some hot starch-on-starch action. 

Anyway, this thread + a day off = a trip to Johnny's for me today.  While I was there, I noticed a sign saying that they had won a Best Of prize from Philadelphia magazine for their cheesesteak.  Anybody tried it?

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The cheesesteak, roast beef and roast pork sammies are all first class, easily some of the best in the city. The cheesesteak earned the BOP. It's that good.

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i had one last summer and was unimpressed. it was dry and chewy and generally not so good.

which caught me off guard because everything else i've had there has rocked the house. because of that, i'm assuming i caught them at a rare off moment.

[mrbigjas]

i had a roast pork at johnnie's hots last week. ok this is a weird complaint, but it was too herby.

i'm sticking with the dogs and sausages and fish cakes there from now on. other things are good enough, but i don't agree with you that they're the best in town, rich. i mean, obviously the folks at johnnie's hots care about what they do -- it's a great place and i go there often enough. but sometimes i don't like the end result as much as i do at other places. and it's not even that they do it badly for the most part; it's just that i'd do it differently.

[Rich Pawlak]

I realkly dont think that they serve the best in town, but some of the best grub in town. I prefer their beef sammie to their pork myself, and still love the hot dog-fish cake combo. And the pepper hash!

[mrbigjas]

all right, next time i'm down there i'll check out the roast beef, if i can stay away from the combo.

and yeah, the pepper hash is good stuff. the weird thing about pepper hash is that i always think it's going to be spicy and it never is. and i know it's not -- i know how to make it and recipes for pepper hash don't call for hot peppers, but green or red bell peppers. and yet every time i'm like, pepper hash.. mmmm hot.

[cinghiale]

Stopped by this afternoon for a sausage, and proudly pasted at the pick-up window was a clipping of an Inky article about The Sausage That Saved I-95. Encased meats truly are a noble food.

[Andrew Fenton]

Ha! The next time somebody tries to tell you that fatty, salty, nitrite-laden foods are bad for your health, show them this article. Sausage saves lives, people!

My only complaint is that they didn't say where they were going to eat. Somewhere in Port Richmond, so maybe they were looking for kielbasa?

[Holly Moore]

Hazarding a guess, Johnny's Hot's. Their hot sausage sandwich is one of their mainstays.

[mrbigjas]

i just had a hot dog/fishcake combo AGAIN yesterday. that's some good stuff there.

a couple weeks we went down and i got a roast pork. it was very enjoyable, although really not quite in the league of dinic's or john's....

[Andrew Fenton]

Hazarding a guess, Johnny's Hot's.  Their hot sausage sandwich is one of their mainstays.

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That was my first thought too. But they're not really in Port Richmond, are they?

[mrbigjas]

Hazarding a guess, Johnny's Hot's.  Their hot sausage sandwich is one of their mainstays.

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That was my first thought too. But they're not really in Port Richmond, are they?

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that's fishtown yo.