Good-Ass Sandwich

[jay-ell]

Maybe things have changed since I waited tables (in 1998-99), or maybe it's regional, but I wouldn't have counted on my table-waiting buddies for coke. Weed, X, or acid, sure, but either I was too sheltered to know what was really going on or coke is (was?) too expensive for the average wait staff in my town. 

[theinevitable]

I have always heard that waiters do coke, but my friends who are waiters do not seem to do coke.

[Asherdan]

So "Friendship with Inev" is apparently an anti-coke.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Back to the topic of good-ass sandwiches, yesterday I got lunch from the "Rolling Ficelle" truck in DC.  A ficelle is like a baguette, only skinnier. I got one with roast beef, some kinda cheese, lettuce and tomato, and a hossyradish sauce.  That was a good-ass sandwich.

[side_show]

I'm sure it's not pronounced that way, but when I read "ficelle"  I thought fecal-y, which was a turn off for me.  Same as Quizno's which is a sub chain, I always thought queasy-no's and didn't eat there for years.  Turned out they are actually alright for a chain restaurant. 

In other news: this thread always makes me hungry for a quality sandwich, and in my local, there just aren't any good deli's in the immediate vacinity.

[theinevitable]

When I was in Chicago recently, I had my previous Best Sandwich Of All Time for the second time.

This time... egh. Not that impressive. I don't know what changed. They moved locations and now it is all this really douchey Trendy Organic Techno feel that I hate.

But something was definitely way off about the sandwich. Last time the elements were in perfect harmony:

Serrano ham
Manchego Cheese
some kind of sweet fruit spread
fennel
pretzel bread

[miles]

Back to the topic of drugs and the food service industry, I bet waiters do a lot more meth than coke these days?

[jay-ell]

That's probably true. When I was waiting tables, LSD was more popular around here, but I think it's been replaced by meth.

Pot is still a perennial favorite, but that's barely even a drug.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I'm sure it's not pronounced that way, but when I read "ficelle"  I thought fecal-y, which was a turn off for me.

I don't think you're the only one. At the bottom of the menu on the truck, it says "It's pronounced 'fi-SELL.'"

[theinevitable]

Pot is still a perennial favorite, but that's barely even a drug.

I want them to do anti-drug campaigns with this message.

"hey guys, you're teenagers. Use pot and drink alcohol in moderation, OK? None of that other stuff."

[side_show]

I don't think you're the only one. At the bottom of the menu on the truck, it says "It's pronounced 'fi-SELL.'"

That's pretty funny.  There's only so many times a day one could tolerate having someone ask for "a fecal," and I like imagining the person who put that little note up had reach said limit several times.

In the realm of over asked questions that make one feel icky: back in the day, when working at the sculpture garden of eroticized pre-teen adolescents there was only so many times I could diplomatically answer questions about why there are so many sculptures of erotocized pre-teen girls without basically wanting to shrivel up inside.  

[smick]

There seems to be a interconnection between ex-cons and bakers for some reason.  That is a thing here too.  I always figured that it was because most of the larger bakeries in the city are nestled right in the same area as the missions, shelters and sex trade areas of the city.

It's because a dude who can walk into any kitchen in the world and make his own damn staff of life is COMPLETELY RAW.

(In Dave's instance, it was a family business.   Also, I cannot eat any other bullshit sandwich slice bread.   Dave has ruined me.)

[KeithHernandez]

I don't have Dave's, but is Rudi's everywhere?  It is pretty boss.

[Asherdan]

It is pretty boss.

Seeing that phrase still in use is pretty frickin' boss.

We don't have Dave's or Rudi's around here and I'm feeling kinda ripped off about it now.

[Nabubrush]

That's probably true. When I was waiting tables, LSD was more popular around here, but I think it's been replaced by meth.

Pot is still a perennial favorite, but that's barely even a drug.

I think coke lends itself to waiting tables a little more than some of that other stuff - at least it would for me. The few times I tried to work on acid, shit got complicated, and even the last few times I tried to work after getting stoned it was kind of a bitch (but then again, I was doing very number-intensive shit).