Hoagie + Muffaletta= Sandwich Bliss

[mmc1369]

Andrew and Holly.

Thank you for the welcome as well as the tips. We are lucky to be in a great food and sandwich city. Having the ability to frequent Louisiana twice a year - I am fortunate to have two great cities to experience.

Mike

BTW - Of all the food in Louisiana and Philly my wife has experienced - the Veggie hoagie at Chickie Deli is by far her favorite food item -How about that!

[mrbigjas]

that veggie hoagie is one of the greatest sandwiches in the world, no doubt about it.

[Andrew Fenton]

True, true. Also the Italian tuna hoagie. Oh my, it's good.

[MarketStEl]

This is beginning to sound like Carman's all over again: I pass by it all the time and never step inside.

I usually don't eat while on my Saturday afternoon shopping expedition. Since I have a four-day work week during the summer, I now do part of that expedition on Friday to avoid the big crowds at the RTM. Maybe I should heed that advice about not shopping for groceries when you're hungry and stop at Ricci's on the way to the Ac-a-me.

Confidential to marinade: I don't think it was the nondescript hoagie shops per se that he found mind-boggling. It was an "Italian" hoagie shop where it looks like the only thing that remained Italian was the name over the door. I've commented in various places on this board that the term "Italian Market" is increasingly a misnomer--and I noticed last week that yet another Mexican bodega had opened on 9th Street, this one in the semi-dead zone between Washington Avenue and Cheesesteak Corner, where the (Chinese-run) Great Wall Seafood Market lasted all of about four months the previous year. Between Korean and Vietnamese produce vendors and Mexican grocers, the Market is getting less and less Italian by the week. I wouldn't worry about this, however, unless I read in the paper that DiBruno Bros. has been acquired by a Mexican cheesemaker.

[serpentine]

Confidential to marinade:  I don't think it was the nondescript hoagie shops per se that he found mind-boggling.  It was an "Italian" hoagie shop where it looks like the only thing that remained Italian was the name over the door. 

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Um, confidental to MarketStreetEl, Ricci's is very Italian inside. It's the customers who are an increasingly multicultural bunch.

Anyway. Stop in and get a darn hoagie, for pete's sake. They're awesome.

[Andrew Fenton]

I noticed last week that yet another Mexican bodega had opened on 9th Street, this one in the semi-dead zone between Washington Avenue and Cheesesteak Corner, where the (Chinese-run) Great Wall Seafood Market lasted all of about four months the previous year.

I managed to miss that seafood market. Maybe it's just as well: it strikes me that "Great Wall Seafood Market" is a little bit like "Arizona Seafood Market" or "Rocky Mountain Seafood Market". (Well, maybe not so much that one: at least they have oysters in the Rockies...)