Saying I saw God in a sandwich would be understating it. I’ve never been more exhausted and drained in my life, and I inhaled this thing in three bites, standing on the sidewalk, still wearing my medal and wrapped in the aluminum foil that they put on your shoulders at the finish line to keep your body temperature from plummeting. The roast beef-horseradish-Swiss-and-everything-bagel sandwich I had at some unknown Manhattan bodega after finishing the New York Marathon. It’s a war crime to put it on a sandwich and I will also fight you on this.) (Lettuce, my mortal enemy, still persists. The building has been demolished and remodeled twice now, so the Hot Express exists only in memory. The Hot Express, No Lettuce - ham, pepperoni, salami, melted provolone and red pepper - that I used to have at a place in Williamsburg, Virginia whose name I can’t even remember. The first hot dog off the grill on the Fourth of July. The first pimento cheese sandwich of the first full week in April at Augusta National Golf Club. It’s the perfect kickoff to the holiday season. The Friday-of-Thanksgiving leftover sandwich: toasted white bread, turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and a thin scrim of cranberry sauce. I could (and probably should) start an entire newsletter just on sandwiches, but to start, here’s a non-exhaustive list of the best sandwiches I’ve ever had: *- shoutout to my man Kevin Kaduk of Midway Minute for introducing me to this one. (See if you can make it through three photos of this list of the 99 best sandwiches in America without drooling all over your phone.) I’ll start with the tourist-level joints - Portillo’s in Chicago*, Primanti’s in Pittsburgh, Biscuit Love in Nashville - and then try to ferret out the local secrets. One of my first moves any time I arrive in a new locale - back when, you know, that was a possibility - is to locate the best sandwich joint in town and see if they deliver on their promise. Thanks for reading, and if you’re new around here, why not subscribe? It’s free and all. Welcome to Flashlight & A Biscuit, my Southern storytelling/sports/culture/food offshoot of my work at Yahoo Sports.
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