Poor Boys

[Bob Haas]

Ooh, the muffaletta.  It's no po' boy, for sure.  I shared one at Mardi Gras
last year, and I'm pretty certain I might have seen God afterwards.  Or it
might have been Bacchus.  Or maybe it was just a fat guy in a toga.  Anyhow,
the muffaletta was indeed unlike any sandwich I'd ever had before.  It's the
olive relish/salad/spread that makes it, although the round bread is
certainly an important esthetic consideration.  Ummm, now I'm hungry, and
there's no muffaletta cure atall in Greensboro.  D'oh!

> From: Kathleen Miller <millerk at NYTIMES.COM>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:55:13 -0500
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Poor Boys
>
> If you're ever in N'Awlins stop at Central Grocery  (website below) and get
> yourself one.
>
> A  muffaletta is on round bread, thick and fluffy- one is almost enough to
> feed four - with a collection of Italian meats and a black and green olive
> spread that's just to wonderful, in my opinion, to explain. A Po'Boy's just
> a sub roll stuffed with anything that used to move.