A Menu Letdown in the Burgh
by thetodaynews on Nov.06, 2009, under food, sports
A recent article on delish.com offered up their opinions on “Best Football Stadium Food”, listing a capicola & cheese sandwich from Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field right there at the top.
Although you’d think an über sandwich made-to-order stacked with hot cappy, provolone cheese, fresh-cut French fries, coleslaw, and tomatoes served on fresh Italian bread would be a guaranteed winner, it turns out a The Today News .com staffer ordered one of these sammiches from the same vendor during a recent Pirates/Cubs game at neighboring PNC Park. And he was very disappointed! Actually the quote was, “Amazingly tasteless, except for the gross aftertaste of the greasy fries.”
Surprised? I know! How can anybody make hot cappy taste bad??? But it happened!
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November 8th, 2009 on 12:39 pm
I am from Pittsburgh, and can honestly say this article is misleading but only because the author made such a bonehead move as to order a Primanti’s from a stadium counter.
Primanti’s sandwiches offered at the stadiums are disappointing. I know why they are so different here from the restaurants scattered around the city of Pittsburgh: the stadium sandwiches are smaller, made in MASS quantity to account for large droves of people coming for sandwiches all at once. Everyone knows that when you make huge ammounts of fried foods (like French fries) and then they sit while waiting to be purchased, its a recipe for disaster.
I suggest that the author of this artical take another stab at a Primanti’s sandwich from one of the actual restuarant locations – preferably the one in the Strip District – to get a real taste of Pittsburgh. Here, the sandwich filling options are far more plentiful than can be offered in the stadium setting. I prefer the Hot Salami and Cheese, but to each his own. Also, the critical point of doing this is that they will make your sandwich to order and they draw the ingredients from much smaller batches of freshly sliced meat, cheese and toppings and fresh batches of french fries.
Poo Poo, Author! I can undestand why you aren’t a food critic!
November 8th, 2009 on 11:38 pm
Obviously, your staffer has one of two problems. Either they has absolutely no taste or has an axe to grind against Pittsburgh, the City of Champions! Primanti Brothers are the greatest ever! I have been eating them since 1980 and they rule. There is no possible way you could call them either tasteless or greasy. What a loser!! My advise is to fire your staffer immediately before he reports any more bogus information.
November 9th, 2009 on 3:43 pm
We hear the point of the comments, and we agree that the stadium versions of many great franchises can be much different than their regular locations due to the fact they have to crank out 10,000 products over a 2-hour period.