On Dec 2, 3:45�pm, Terry > wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:52:29 GMT, notbob > wrote:
> >On 2008-12-01, Sheldon > wrote:
>
> >> Can't tell how it tastes from a picture but if you say it's good for
> >> you then it is. �To me it looks too rare/too red, and dry too, looks
> >> like it would be tough to chew. �Pastrami needs fat, well marbled, and
> >> should be melt in the mouth tender.
>
> >>http://melissamccart.files.wordpress...2/pastrami.jpg
>
> >Looks moist and marbled to me, but as you say, the proof is in the eating.
> >BTW, your pic of a pastrami on rye is just plain silly. �No one could even
> >handle such a pile, let alone get it in their mouth. �Give me a few more
> >slices of rye and some mustard and horseradish and I'd make short work of
> >it. �
>
> >nb
>
> Looks like the sandwich I had many years ago at the Carnegie Deli in
> Atlantic City. �12 oz of pastrami between slices of bread. �I ordered
> two more slices of bread, the wife and I split the meat between the
> two sandwiches. �STILL too much! �But it was awesome. �Moist and
> tender.

Many here have never been to Noo Yawk Cidy, never tasted real
pastrami. There were once many NYC delis that built exactly
sandwiches like the one pictured... there really isn't all that much
meat in it, it's all piled in the very center with little at the edges
and each slice i sfloded to poof it up before it's cut in half, that's
why the toothpics, were the slices laid flat and distributed evenly it
would look normal. And deli rye breads are purposely baked long and
narrow so the slices are about 1/3 smaller than normal. There's
definitely an art to building a NYC deli sammiche to make it appear to
be much more than is there... normally a deli sandwich contains 6
ouces of meat, perhaps 8 ounces if it's a Club. For corned beef and
pastrami fressers 6 ounces of meat is considered a lech and a schmeck
(skimpy), that's why they'll accompany it with at least fries, a dawg,
and a k'nish.. not to mention a bowlful of half sours, a mountain of
slaw, and a couple Cel-Ray tonics. Years ago I'd eat at kosher delis
often with my father, we'd usually order three sandwiches, corned
beef, pastrami, tongue... we'd each eat a half of each. At one time
you couldn't walk 1,000 feet in NYC without bumping into another
kosher deli. There are very few kosher delis anymore, mostly of the
few remaining they are kosher style, a big difference. Very few
people alive today have ever eaten kosher deli.