When people ask me "what's your favorite sandwich?" I usually toss out a few answers; it all depends on the occasion. But two of my perennial favorites are the New Orleans classics the fried oyster po'boy and the muffuletta. The fried oyster po'boy harks back to my Gulf Coast roots, while the muffuletta appeals to my Sicilian palette.
They are so different it would be hard to choose: I usually prefer hot sandwiches, but the muffuletta is my favorite cold sandwich of all time. However, if I had to pick one sandwich to eat once a year for the rest of my life, I have to say, it would be the oyster po'boy. So in honor of Mardi Gras, I present to you the same dilemma.
Mardi Gras Sandwich Showdown: Muffuletta vs. Po'boy
March 8, 2011 7:33 am · Posted by Nancy Einhart
Happy Mardi Gras! Love, Sandwiches
February 16, 2010 7:26 am · Posted by nancyeinhart
New Orleans is one of the great sandwich cities, rivaled perhaps only by Philadelphia. Though it lays claim to just two iconic sammies — the po'boy and the muffuletta — both are transcendent, and the po'boy comes in so many varieties that it's pretty much a category of its own. In honor of Mardi Gras, take a 'wich trip through New Orleans's sandwich history.
 The Great Heated Muffuletta Debate |
 Central Grocery: A Whole Lotta 'Letta |
 The Fight to Preserve the Po'Boy |
 'Wich Trip: Legendary Po'Boys at Domilise's |
Meanwhile, I'm going to New Orleans again in April, so if anyone has any recommendations, please share. I haven't been to Parkway, so that might be on my list.
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