{"id":1988,"date":"2010-01-06T15:50:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T23:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2010-01-06T15:50:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T23:50:25","slug":"portland-or-big-a-sandwiches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR – Big A@#$#$#$ Sandwiches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Headed out to this new cart, offering a bevy of Big A@(#$#@)$ Sandwiches. Spoiler alert for this post: TASTY TASTY TASTY.<\/p>\n

If I were at the Billy Goat in Chicago, they’d say “no coke, pepsi”, and today at B.A. it was “no ham, roast beef”, and “no bechamel, cheddar cheese.” I was there post their (apparently) very big lunch rush.<\/p>\n

No sweat, they’re new, it’s gonna take them awhile to work out how much they need of everything on a daily basis, and tho I would have loved bechamel on my (roast beef) sandwich, I’m not sure I didn’t end up with the better deal (since I wanted roast beef anyway), and with the nice sandwich lady offering me a slab o’ melted cheddar on the house. (And just check out that gooey deliciousness in the photo!)<\/p>\n

B.A. takes nicely portioned controlled baggies of meat, plops them on the grill, dutifully covers them with a sauce pan lid after a little mist of water, so the grill and the steam are gently heating the meat at the same time. In my case, I went with the double portion, they threw on the cheddar, and plop a dandy-sized scoop of hand-cut hot fries between the lightly toasted ciabatta (damn, that is some fine bread, folks).<\/p>\n

The result is a sandwich worth waiting for (tho even with five guys ahead of me, I didn’t have to wait long).<\/p>\n

It would do the Earl proud. In a town where folks are used to getting something that is called “roast beef”, from someplace named “A***’s”, this is a good, nay, great, offering.<\/p>\n

In my salad days, I would have taken the sandwich and definitely an order of bacon\/cheese fries, but not today. In retrospect, I should have. (Because I ended up splitting the sandwich with Mrs. BDB, and came away wanting more!)<\/p>\n

So what’s with the asterisks? Seems even tho the “real name” of the wagon is cleverly disguised behind punctuation (are asterisks punctuation?)*, even something that lame offended someone, (probably a Portland bike rider), and now the two *’s are taped over on the sign.<\/p>\n

I supposed they will have to come up with a new name. I’d like to suggest a few, but I am sure other would find them offensive as well. How about Big D*cks Sandwiches?<\/p>\n

Or why don’t they go with a whole “truth in advertising thing”, and just call the place “The Best Damned Sandwich in Portland?” Works for me!<\/p>\n

B.A. Sandwiches is at 3rd and Ash.\u00a0<\/strong> Menu online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*Postscript. Checked with friends in the news business, and they were divided, some calling an * punctuation, another calling it “a character, like you.” Oh ha ha friend.
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