Comments on: Po-boys and the President http://looka.gumbopages.com/2009/11/17/po-boys-and-the-president/ Bia agus deoch, ceol agus craic Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:37:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Eating The Road http://looka.gumbopages.com/2009/11/17/po-boys-and-the-president/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Eating The Road Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:59:11 +0000 http://looka.gumbopages.com/?p=292#comment-337 I had my first Po' Boy at Domilise's: http://eatingtheroad.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/domilise-sandwich-shop/ I had my first Po’ Boy at Domilise’s:
http://eatingtheroad.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/domilise-sandwich-shop/

]]> By: Chuck http://looka.gumbopages.com/2009/11/17/po-boys-and-the-president/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Chuck Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:51:22 +0000 http://looka.gumbopages.com/?p=292#comment-232 Passed along from Steve in email this morning, this was posted on the JazzFest forum today by a guy who lives in New Orleans: <i>My favorites from today's Po-boy Fest (at least so far....I've got about a half dozen things in my fridge for later consumption.) Vincent's: Corn & crab bisque in a bread bowl. Nice start to the day. Delish. Emeril's: Bacon, lettuce, and fried green tomato shrimp remoulade po-boy. Served cold. Nice little spice in the remoulade. "BAM!" Palace Cafe: The ESP - "Extra Special Peacemaker." A po-boy with fried oysters, brie fondue, spinach salad, onion, and tasso cream sauce. WOW!!! I hope this wins the contest and The Palace adds it to its menu. Locals are now voting this as their 3rd favorite fest with Jazzfest as #1 & French Quarter Fest as #2. Good turnout today even competing against the Saints going 10-0. I got back in time to enjoy the second half and then promptly hibernated for a while. So much food, so little time. As Skip Carey once said: "A waist is a terrible thing to mind."</i> Yeah you rite. (I want me one of those ESPs ... NOW!) Passed along from Steve in email this morning, this was posted on the JazzFest forum today by a guy who lives in New Orleans:

My favorites from today’s Po-boy Fest (at least so far….I’ve got about a half dozen things in my fridge for later consumption.)

Vincent’s: Corn & crab bisque in a bread bowl. Nice start to the day. Delish.

Emeril’s: Bacon, lettuce, and fried green tomato shrimp remoulade po-boy. Served cold. Nice little spice in the remoulade. “BAM!”

Palace Cafe: The ESP – “Extra Special Peacemaker.” A po-boy with fried oysters, brie fondue, spinach salad, onion, and tasso cream sauce. WOW!!! I hope this wins the contest and The Palace adds it to its menu.

Locals are now voting this as their 3rd favorite fest with Jazzfest as #1 & French Quarter Fest as #2. Good turnout today even competing against the Saints going 10-0. I got back in time to enjoy the second half and then promptly hibernated for a while. So much food, so little time. As Skip Carey once said: “A waist is a terrible thing to mind.”

Yeah you rite.

(I want me one of those ESPs … NOW!)

]]> By: Chuck http://looka.gumbopages.com/2009/11/17/po-boys-and-the-president/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Chuck Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:54:41 +0000 http://looka.gumbopages.com/?p=292#comment-191 Parkway is outstanding on every level. I love their fried seafood, and their hot sausage is second only to Gene's. Parkway is outstanding on every level. I love their fried seafood, and their hot sausage is second only to Gene’s.

]]> By: Mike S. http://looka.gumbopages.com/2009/11/17/po-boys-and-the-president/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Mike S. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:03:30 +0000 http://looka.gumbopages.com/?p=292#comment-187 Well, dang it. Where am I supposed to get a fried shrimp and oyster po-boy now if not at Domilise's? That used to be a standard for me, with a painted-bottle Barq's, but it's been nearly 3 years since I've been back to town. Does Parkway do good fried seafood po-boys? I love that place and it feels like family (my wife's uncle owns the the auto repair shop called R&S just around the corner from Parkway), I've never actually ordered anything but the roast beef there. Louisiana Seafood Exchange (I think that's the name, out on Jeff Highway?) had a good fried shrimp as I recall, but it's been 15 years at least since I've been there. Well, dang it. Where am I supposed to get a fried shrimp and oyster po-boy now if not at Domilise’s? That used to be a standard for me, with a painted-bottle Barq’s, but it’s been nearly 3 years since I’ve been back to town. Does Parkway do good fried seafood po-boys? I love that place and it feels like family (my wife’s uncle owns the the auto repair shop called R&S just around the corner from Parkway), I’ve never actually ordered anything but the roast beef there. Louisiana Seafood Exchange (I think that’s the name, out on Jeff Highway?) had a good fried shrimp as I recall, but it’s been 15 years at least since I’ve been there.

]]> By: Chuck http://looka.gumbopages.com/2009/11/17/po-boys-and-the-president/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Chuck Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:25:54 +0000 http://looka.gumbopages.com/?p=292#comment-182 It may well be unfair to compare Subway to a po-boy shop, but Subway operates in New Orleans in direct competition with local po-boy shops. I know people working in the Quarter who weren't given much time for lunch, didn't have time to wait at Johnny's and ended up eating at Subway because it was fast. That makes me sad, and that's one of the reasons why we have a po-boy preservation festival -- the insidious creep of bland corporate mass-food. Subway's gonna have to take their lumps from me. While I'm ranting (heh), their highly self-lauded fresh-baked bread is truly awful. I despise how they cut their bread, with that little V-shaped plug they carve out of the top (who the frak does that but Subway anyway?) and I have had sandwich fillings there that quite literally tasted as if they had gone through a deflavorizing machine. That said, it's probably better for your kids than McWhatever's, but for me it doesn't register on the "tasty food" scale. I loved Domilise's for many years, but I'm sad to say that after my last visit I'll never go back. Email me privately if you want to know why. It's too bad ... I'll miss their hot smoked sausage in chili gravy po-boy, which was always my favorite. These days I'm a Parkway loyalist, and if I'm in the Quarter I love me some Johnny's. Hot sausage from Gene's on Elysian Fields and St. Claude. Where else do y'all like to get po-boys? It may well be unfair to compare Subway to a po-boy shop, but Subway operates in New Orleans in direct competition with local po-boy shops. I know people working in the Quarter who weren’t given much time for lunch, didn’t have time to wait at Johnny’s and ended up eating at Subway because it was fast. That makes me sad, and that’s one of the reasons why we have a po-boy preservation festival — the insidious creep of bland corporate mass-food. Subway’s gonna have to take their lumps from me.

While I’m ranting (heh), their highly self-lauded fresh-baked bread is truly awful. I despise how they cut their bread, with that little V-shaped plug they carve out of the top (who the frak does that but Subway anyway?) and I have had sandwich fillings there that quite literally tasted as if they had gone through a deflavorizing machine. That said, it’s probably better for your kids than McWhatever’s, but for me it doesn’t register on the “tasty food” scale.

I loved Domilise’s for many years, but I’m sad to say that after my last visit I’ll never go back. Email me privately if you want to know why.

It’s too bad … I’ll miss their hot smoked sausage in chili gravy po-boy, which was always my favorite.

These days I’m a Parkway loyalist, and if I’m in the Quarter I love me some Johnny’s. Hot sausage from Gene’s on Elysian Fields and St. Claude.

Where else do y’all like to get po-boys?

]]> By: Edward http://looka.gumbopages.com/2009/11/17/po-boys-and-the-president/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Edward Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:56:34 +0000 http://looka.gumbopages.com/?p=292#comment-181 Mike, I am here to disabuse you of the notion that Domilise's makes an acceptable poor boy. They might have at one time but it was before I came along. I got dragged in there five or six years ago and watched them break every rule of frying. First they battered the shrimp then let them sit in the batter for extended periods before frying. When they dumped a batch of shrimp from the fryer, they would put them under what appeared to be heating lamp, where they would sit until someone ordered a shrimp poor boy. If the shrimp had cooled off too much before this happened, they would take the fried shrimp and put them back in the fryer to heat them up. Then they put ketchup on the poor boy. Completely unacceptable. Nice people, but they should know better. Mike, I am here to disabuse you of the notion that Domilise’s makes an acceptable poor boy. They might have at one time but it was before I came along. I got dragged in there five or six years ago and watched them break every rule of frying. First they battered the shrimp then let them sit in the batter for extended periods before frying. When they dumped a batch of shrimp from the fryer, they would put them under what appeared to be heating lamp, where they would sit until someone ordered a shrimp poor boy. If the shrimp had cooled off too much before this happened, they would take the fried shrimp and put them back in the fryer to heat them up. Then they put ketchup on the poor boy. Completely unacceptable. Nice people, but they should know better.

]]> By: Mike S. http://looka.gumbopages.com/2009/11/17/po-boys-and-the-president/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Mike S. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:25:35 +0000 http://looka.gumbopages.com/?p=292#comment-169 Ok, so -- for the first time, I read something here that I really think just ain't fair. Let me state for the record: I know and love real New Orleans Po-Boys. Roast beef at Parkway, the "Peace Maker" at Domilise's, even a plain old ham & cheese from the late-lamented Carrollton Ave. Streetcar Sandwiches of my college days, I'll take them all, any time, any day, and weep for the fact that I can't get 'em here in the Bay Area. Should they be "protected" in New Orleans? Sure, I'll fight for that. But back to my point. Clearly, you're no fan of Subway. Fair enough. Personally I think Subway has its place and is even quite good in its own context (not to mention my kids love the place and I'd rather that than Smack-In-The-Box), but whatever: To set up Subway as the foil to the Real New Orleans Po-Boy is just silly, honestly. They are not the same thing and never will be -- it's like saying that Port of Call makes a better burger than Subway. Of course Leidenheimer's bread is the best; if that product was readily available anywhere outside of New Orleans our nation would be a profoundly brighter place. Bread bakers, commercial and otherwise, *the world over* should be required to apprentice at Leidenheimer's shop. And the Mona Lisa is a better work of art, by any objective or subjective measure, than a swap-meet Velvet Elvis (which, truth be told, also has its place). I mean, duh. And BTW, you know as well as anybody that a "dressed" po-boy means it's got mayo on it (in addition to whatever else). Slather some mayo on that "gravy-dressed" (whatever that means) po-boy Ms. Whann tested and run those numbers again, please. Have I mentioned that Manhattans make me belligerent? :) And welcome back! Cheers, Mike Ok, so — for the first time, I read something here that I really think just ain’t fair.

Let me state for the record: I know and love real New Orleans Po-Boys. Roast beef at Parkway, the “Peace Maker” at Domilise’s, even a plain old ham & cheese from the late-lamented Carrollton Ave. Streetcar Sandwiches of my college days, I’ll take them all, any time, any day, and weep for the fact that I can’t get ‘em here in the Bay Area. Should they be “protected” in New Orleans? Sure, I’ll fight for that.

But back to my point. Clearly, you’re no fan of Subway. Fair enough. Personally I think Subway has its place and is even quite good in its own context (not to mention my kids love the place and I’d rather that than Smack-In-The-Box), but whatever: To set up Subway as the foil to the Real New Orleans Po-Boy is just silly, honestly. They are not the same thing and never will be — it’s like saying that Port of Call makes a better burger than Subway. Of course Leidenheimer’s bread is the best; if that product was readily available anywhere outside of New Orleans our nation would be a profoundly brighter place. Bread bakers, commercial and otherwise, *the world over* should be required to apprentice at Leidenheimer’s shop. And the Mona Lisa is a better work of art, by any objective or subjective measure, than a swap-meet Velvet Elvis (which, truth be told, also has its place). I mean, duh.

And BTW, you know as well as anybody that a “dressed” po-boy means it’s got mayo on it (in addition to whatever else). Slather some mayo on that “gravy-dressed” (whatever that means) po-boy Ms. Whann tested and run those numbers again, please.

Have I mentioned that Manhattans make me belligerent? :)

And welcome back!

Cheers,

Mike

]]> By: Chuck http://looka.gumbopages.com/2009/11/17/po-boys-and-the-president/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Chuck Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:24:54 +0000 http://looka.gumbopages.com/?p=292#comment-165 One more video, courtesy of Fred: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjK6wNIWzts One more video, courtesy of Fred:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjK6wNIWzts

]]> By: Greg in L.A. http://looka.gumbopages.com/2009/11/17/po-boys-and-the-president/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Greg in L.A. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:17:47 +0000 http://looka.gumbopages.com/?p=292#comment-151 Say bra, I have two favorite President memories, no make that three... no.... anyway, the oldest was going onboard with my folks for a steam calliope concert. Next was a Radiators concert when I was acting as a volunteer roadie (load in/out on that boat was a challenge) when the engine when out and we drifted out of control downriver until a tugboat caught up and returned us to the dock. But the best watching Jimmy Buffet at the riverfront amphitheatre during the World's Fair. The riverside doors were open and in the middle of the concert the President came along. At first it paddled in place, then the Captain used the paddle wheels to rotate in place so the crowd on both sides of the ship could watch the show. Amazing stuff. Say bra, I have two favorite President memories, no make that three… no…. anyway, the oldest was going onboard with my folks for a steam calliope concert. Next was a Radiators concert when I was acting as a volunteer roadie (load in/out on that boat was a challenge) when the engine when out and we drifted out of control downriver until a tugboat caught up and returned us to the dock. But the best watching Jimmy Buffet at the riverfront amphitheatre during the World’s Fair. The riverside doors were open and in the middle of the concert the President came along. At first it paddled in place, then the Captain used the paddle wheels to rotate in place so the crowd on both sides of the ship could watch the show. Amazing stuff.

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