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Old 03-22-2022, 08:09 AM
 
Location: Paradise
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Not that I'm the ultimate foodie or anything close...but the sandwich I crave most is Mr. Hero Romanburger.

It's the one thing I must have when I come to Cleveland.

Well, that and Malley's (but that's another thread!)
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Old 03-22-2022, 02:10 PM
 
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Not that I'm the ultimate foodie or anything close...but the sandwich I crave most is Mr. Hero Romanburger.

It's the one thing I must have when I come to Cleveland.

Well, that and Malley's (but that's another thread!)

I never considered that Mr. Hero has locations only in northern Ohio, and as far south as Columbus.


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The Romanburger is very, very good. I suddenly want one!


Malley's -- Bourdeaux??? I gift boxes because I believe it's the best, most unique food product made in Greater Cleveland. Great subject for a thread!
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Old 03-23-2022, 07:57 AM
 
Location: Paradise
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I never considered that Mr. Hero has locations only in northern Ohio, and as far south as Columbus.


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The Romanburger is very, very good. I suddenly want one!


Malley's -- Bourdeaux??? I gift boxes because I believe it's the best, most unique food product made in Greater Cleveland. Great subject for a thread!
OMG Bourdeaux are my absolute favorites!

Yeah, Mr. Hero is only in Ohio. I have tried to make them myself but they always fall short...
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Old 04-01-2022, 02:28 AM
 
Location: The New England part of Ohio
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Lake perch or Walleye sandwiches. I never had one until I moved to Ohio.

Best Italian hero sandwiches I have had are served at Jimmy's in Liberty.
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Old 04-05-2022, 07:20 PM
 
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This article says a "Polish Boy" kielbasa sandwich, occasionally found in Greater Cleveland, is Ohio's best sandwich.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/...dgntp#image=36

The only excellent Polish Boy that I've ever had was from Banter in the Van Aken Food Hall in Shaker Heights.

Menu — Banter Cleveland

Many Clevelanders would pick as the city's best a corned beef sandwich or Reuben, perhaps from Slymans. Of course, corned beef sandwiches aren't unique to Cleveland or Ohio.

So I might pick a fried yellow perch sandwich as Ohio's best, much more a regional specialty than corned beef.
We know corned beef sandwiches aren't unique to Ohio but we are the largest consumers of corned beef in the nation. And a fried yellow perch sandwich is definitely is not our trademark sandwich. Not sure where you are from but please go back and you can keep those perch sandwiches. Corned beef and Polish Boys is Ohio's sandwich.
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Old 04-06-2022, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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Did anyone grow up eating Polish Boys? I just kinda feel like it's a sorta manufactured phenomenon, at least personally, I had never had a Polish Boy until I finished college. I am not sure that anyone's moms ever made them Polish Boys for holidays or whatever.
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Old 04-06-2022, 10:50 AM
 
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Did anyone grow up eating Polish Boys? I just kinda feel like it's a sorta manufactured phenomenon, at least personally, I had never had a Polish Boy until I finished college. I am not sure that anyone's moms ever made them Polish Boys for holidays or whatever.

Great point! Growing up near Lake Erie in the 1950s and 1960s, the perch were very plentiful. I grew up eating large amounts of fried perch in fishing season.



Never heard of Polish Boys until sometime in the past decade, not even when working downtown for many years in the 1970s and 1980s and eating regularly at the old Otto Moser's on East 4th St. When I first heard of Polish Boys, I had a hard time figuring out where to buy one!



I've always sought out restaurants that served fried perch. In that regard, I greatly miss the perch specials at Sokolowski's University Inn on Fridays.


I confess that I rarely wreck fried perch by ordering a sandwich, only when ordering takeout to eat in a car.


My dad loved fried sausage sandwiches. He used ring sausage purchased from a Central Ohio butcher of whom he had long familiarity. He would slice the sausages in half before frying, and serve them in sandwiches with caramelized onions and mustard. Much better than Polish Boys with coleslaw.


Nobody with any knowledge of American cuisine would classify corned beef sandwiches as special to Cleveland in any way.
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Old 04-06-2022, 11:00 AM
 
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We know corned beef sandwiches aren't unique to Ohio but we are the largest consumers of corned beef in the nation. And a fried yellow perch sandwich is definitely is not our trademark sandwich. Not sure where you are from but please go back and you can keep those perch sandwiches. Corned beef and Polish Boys is Ohio's sandwich.

Please document that "we" are the largest consumers of corned beef in the nation. Fascinating, if true, but it's a claim that sounds ridiculously made up, especially given our relatively small Irish and Jewish populations compared to NYC.



If you weren't a one-post wonder and had read this forum for years, you wouldn't have any doubts about where I was from, so no other place to "go back" to, especially when requested to do so by some obnoxious poster. And many Greater Clevelanders, including several posters in this thread if you had bothered to read it, will gladly keep our perch sandwiches!
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Old 04-09-2022, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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We know corned beef sandwiches aren't unique to Ohio but we are the largest consumers of corned beef in the nation. And a fried yellow perch sandwich is definitely is not our trademark sandwich. Not sure where you are from but please go back and you can keep those perch sandwiches. Corned beef and Polish Boys is Ohio's sandwich.
No need to be rude. And the question is Ohio's best sandwich, not Ohio's trademark sandwich. Reading is fundamental.
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Old 04-10-2022, 03:38 AM
 
Location: Sandusky, Ohio
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We know corned beef sandwiches aren't unique to Ohio but we are the largest consumers of corned beef in the nation. And a fried yellow perch sandwich is definitely is not our trademark sandwich. Not sure where you are from but please go back and you can keep those perch sandwiches. Corned beef and Polish Boys is Ohio's sandwich.
I can assure you in my part of Ohio (North Central), Fried Yellow Perch Sandwiches ARE the trademark sandwich. The Sandusky Fish Company and DeMore's Fish Den both see plenty of my business from May through October.
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