Cheesesteak public service announcement
 

Sonic restaurants are running an ad for their new food product, the "extra long Philly Cheesesteak".

In the ad, two gentlemen are seen eating their cheesesteaks by using plastic forks to scoop out the meat in the middle of the sandwich.

This is an abomination. A sin, actually. Cheesesteaks are eaten hot dog-style. Eating one with a plastic fork would be like picking up your filet mignon with your fingers.

Also, the actual standard Philly steak is longer than the Sonic "extra long".

That is all

I said the same thing when I saw that ad. What jerk-offs! I always eat my cheesesteak doggie-style, I mean hot dog-style. And it looks like there are green peppers in it! Green peppers! Ugh!

Wow - even I know that is wrong and I have never even had a real cheesesteak. It wouldn't even enter my mind to eat it with a FORK!!

Hey, I like green peppers!! But yeah, the whole fork business is an abomination.

:redface: I had to eat my last cheesesteak with a fork. (I'm not allowed to eat bread.)
I'm very, very sorry.

i feel your pain.

I have actualy Had one of these , not bad , never had the REAL thing but still not bad , no fork , no way no how !!!

It actually wasn't too bad. I was thinking about getting a couple'o steaks worth of the meat, cheese and onions in a "to-go" container and using a low-carb wrap delivery method at home. :yum: I miss cheesesteaks. I miss potatoes. :mecry:

I would also like to add, for the good of the public, that what Sonic is selling is about as much like a real cheesesteak as the Royals are like a real baseball team. They seem plausible until you've actually had them in front of you.

What a bunch of cheesesteak snobs! Hey, a cheesesteak is whatever I say it is, ya Philly's, ya!

"Cheesesteak snob" - in all history, nobody has ever put those two words together before. :D

Google returns 62 hits for "cheesesteak snob", in quotes.

Come to Philly, and you'll learn what you *should* say it is.

When I was in high school, the family took a trip to Virginia. We had lunch at a diner-type family restaurant. On the menu was a steak sandwich, so that's what I ordered. Imagine my surprise when I got a slab of meat, like a sirloin, on a hamburger bun.

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There's only one place in my hometown where I'll get a cheesesteak.
Every other place I've ever ordered one (bar none) screwed it up something awful.

In Tejas? Really?

What the hell is cheesesteak?

right, so it's a steak sandwich on a hot dog roll with cheese on it.

Almost as strangely named as chicken steak.

Bit of an oxymoron, certainly.

Not even close. It's making those mistakes that turns out so many lousy imitations.

Just as bad as confusing what Subway sells with an actual hoagie.

No wonder Sonic hasn't penetrated into the Philadelphia market.

Actually, that's what a steak sandwich is, isn't it? Like, an actual cut of steak on a roll? French dip?

To my knowledge, only around Philly does "steak sandwich" refer to that dripping, gooey goodness. Even then I just call it a 'steak, as in "steak whiz shrooms wit." No need to add sandwich.

Come to Philadelphia... after we feed you a couple of them, you'll never accept imitations!

Is it possible to mail a cheesesteaK?

Best of Philly Cheesesteaks in Phoenix, Arizona has converted this obvious Taco Bell signage:

Some people think so. FedEx, if not mail.

I have my doubts, though.

This thread is making me hungry......

for something ...c..h..e.e..s..y....

Not even close.

The proper steak roll is longer (a little over twice as long, about 12 inches) and denser than a hot dog roll. A hot dog roll would disintigrate within seconds of being touched by the juicy goodness of the steak meat. The best steak roll is made by a company called Amoroso's.

In the fruitless quest for a "healthier" cheesesteak, most restaurants now have a version involving chicken. In some cases this is finely minced chicken that attempts to mimic the texture of a true cheesesteak, others give you big chunks of chicken meat. A particularly favored variety is the Buffalo Chicken Cheesesteak, which is made with wing sauce and bleu cheese dressing is provided for either slathering or dipping.

:yum: Have you tried a buffalo chicken pizza, or a cheese steak pizza? :yum:X2

Oh, yes.

Main Street Pizza and Kosmos Pizza in Norristown both do these varieties justice. Boston Style Pizza (I have no idea what makes a pizza Boston Style) in Lansdale does a great Cheese Steak 'za.

Main Street also has the delightful Chicken Cordon Bleu pizza.

I may have to order this when I get back to work, which will probably be some time next week.

Kosmos isn't in Norristown, it's in Jeffersonville, West by-god Norriton township on Egypt Road.

Neener, neener, neener.

Amadeos Too is in Jeffersonville also (although their cheesesteaks are perhaps not as good)...and the place formerly known as Patriot Pizza (I'll get the name if anybody cares) makes a very good pizza; I assume their steaks are good as well.

But Tony's Pizza and Pasta on Germantown Pike is to die for.

Swear to God: that's the name of the one place around here that I'll bother to order a cheesesteak.

The Tony's on Egypt Road isn't all that good for steaks. I hear the Tony's on Frankford in the Northeast is pretty good.

Tony's Pizza & Pasta in Arlington, Texas is as close as I've been to either one of those.

Do you have Texadelphia up there in Dallas, Flint? They're damn tasty.

Dallas...traffic...I tend to avoid. If there's one in Austin I'm likely to go, eventually.

Here's a video of Sam the Cooking Guy putting green peppers on his cheese steak. http://www.thecookingguy.com/cookbook/recipe.php?id=143
Don't let that stop you from trying his baked risotto though. :yum:

There are several. Hey, looks like some in Fort Worth, too.

Ventura County, California, too. My former manager, rest his soul, was from Allentown, Pennsylvania, and was very picky about his Philly cheese-steaks. The only place he'd get them would be The Great Central Steak And Hoagie Company. There are several of them scattered around Ventura County. Of the lot, he preferred the cheese-steaks made by the one in Santa Paula. The one in Port Hueneme is the one handiest to me. It used to be the worst, but they cleaned up their act and now their sandwiches are good.

That's more like it. But... probably what will happen is it won't be "the way Tony's does it" and I won't like it...

Texadelphia: The Original Texas Cheesesteak . . . "Texas Cheesesteak" ??? What does that even mean ???

"Everything's bigger in Texas!"

Amadeos Too has very good cheese steaks, but is weak on Pizza.

Via Venito, great pizza, moderate steaks, awesome water ice all year round.

The folks at Patriot were fantastic when they opened, but things tailed off quickly. They also had good coupons.

Greco-Roman in Jeffersonville has outstanding Baklava, really good pizza and stromboli and reasonable steaks. Check them out if you haven't given them a try yet. Avoid the Baklava at Kosmos, it's typically dry and stale.

Does Tony's Pizza and Pasta deliver?

The Tony's here in TX delivers, for whatever that's worth.

Are these the same two guys whose seatbelts are not attached to the car? Seriously, look at it the next time. Seatbelts go over their shoulders and... just over their shoulders and behind them. It's so weird.

How the hell did you notice that? ha ha ha

I don't know, one day I just saw it and thought.. wtf?

Are they "Part II" to the Amadeo's (Amedeo's?) in Lafayette Hill? They have incredible cheesesteaks.

I don't actually know where the "One" restaurant for the Jeffersonville Amadeo's Too is. I don't even know if there is a "One."

My understanding is that Amadeos Too is "too" to the Amadeo's Restauraunt and Catering in King of Prussia.