Wheres the Chicago-Style Italian Beef Sandwiches?
July 9th 2011 Posted at Senior Living
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I never realized growing up in Chicago was such a privilege until I began surfing the net and found out that a good portion of the rest of the country had been deprived of tasting a Chicago-Style Italian Beef Sandwich. I assumed every State and every city in America had a favorite beef stand lurking somewhere in their neighborhoods. There is a tremendous amount of people out there who never experienced the wonderful taste of thin sliced beef packed on top of a fresh piece of Gonnella bread soaked with gravy and topped with sweet peppers or hot giardiniera. Outside of a handful of displaced Chicagoans who moved out of the city to open a Chicago-Style Italian Beef joint, there really isnt anywhere for anybody to truly enjoy a beef sandwich except in Chicago. One time I even had to ship Serrelli Street beef to Arizona when I found out my A Cheap Wedding Invitations unt and Uncle havent eaten a beef sandwich in five years. Nobody should go that long without eating a beef sandwich. Luckily, a few of our favorite Chicago-Style Italian Beef purveyors are franchising throughout the country. Portillos has opened 2 locations in Southern California and Als Beef already has 20 stores throughout the Chicago area and hopes to have 100 to 150 stores within the next five years. Eventually everybody throughout the country will be able to enjoy this sandwich that Ive taken for granted for so many years. Now lets discuss Chicago. Like the pizza war between Chicago and New York, Chicago is suffering a long embattled a civil war regarding who has the best Chicago-Style Italian Beef and who originated the sandwich. Scala Packing Company maintains that its founder Pasquale Scala created the sandwich back around 1925.