The Replicator Can't Replicate This
May 21, 2016 2:17 PM   Subscribe

Just about three years ago, Sir Patrick Stewart, hung over one morning, had his first true New York slice of pizza. Today, on Twitter: "OK - forget the pizza slice. I just ate and LOVED my very first PO' Boy. Ate it here - in LOUISIANA, what's more."
posted by Guy Smiley (53 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
No word yet whether it was made by a great-great-great-great-great (etc) grand-Sisko.
posted by Guy Smiley at 2:20 PM on May 21, 2016 [8 favorites]


I assume he still hasn't tried the century eggs if a po' boy is making the news.
posted by town of cats at 2:23 PM on May 21, 2016


wait. so it was his first pizza slice. not pizza, but pizza slice. this is so different?!
posted by andrewcooke at 2:23 PM on May 21, 2016


i had my first ny slice when i was 22 and it really was a huge difference from even the fancy pizza places back home.
posted by nadawi at 2:32 PM on May 21, 2016 [5 favorites]


Could there be a media summit where all the networks solemnly agree to boycott covering the U.S. election and replace all of it with Patrick Stewart trying a new food every day for the next 6 months?
posted by Beardman at 2:37 PM on May 21, 2016 [56 favorites]


British people order and eat whole pizzas. The pizzas vary in size from dinner-plate-sized to multi-person rectangles to the larger pizza discs common in the US.

You still can't get decent deep dish pizzas here though; it's all thin-crust Italian style. Wood-fired and delicious to be sure, but still, I miss Chicago style pizzas like hell.
posted by Pallas Athena at 2:39 PM on May 21, 2016 [6 favorites]


Pallas Athena, I think you mean Chicago-style casserole.
posted by Guy Smiley at 2:43 PM on May 21, 2016 [32 favorites]


"Mr. Crusher, make it PO'"
posted by clavdivs at 2:45 PM on May 21, 2016 [7 favorites]


Boy, Po', hot
posted by BungaDunga at 2:52 PM on May 21, 2016 [19 favorites]


Deep dish "pizzas" aren't really relevant in this context, since they are not pizza.

As a European, I still feel uncomfortable eating food without a knife and fork, and though I understand the ridicule here, and I know the Brits were the master-colonizers, in this particular case it might be fair to acknowledge the insecurity and sense of alienation some of us might feel when confronted with American slices. (Roman slices are an entirely different issue)
posted by mumimor at 2:53 PM on May 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Not to further the derail, but a great man once said "there will come a time in your life when you learn to accept all pizza"

Also, muffuletta over po' boys, but don't make me choose.
posted by Eddie Mars at 3:09 PM on May 21, 2016 [6 favorites]


Greg Universe is a great man, but in that particular case, he is wrong. But I forgive him.
posted by ursus_comiter at 3:14 PM on May 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


I think you mean Chicago-style casserole
HOW DARE YOU
posted by erst at 3:18 PM on May 21, 2016 [11 favorites]


wait. so it was his first pizza slice. not pizza, but pizza slice. this is so different?!

New York pizza slice. And yes.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 3:19 PM on May 21, 2016 [4 favorites]


i'm gonna have to go to cajun bbq place across the street next week and get a po boy
posted by nadawi at 3:26 PM on May 21, 2016


Re pizza: Not rays pizza in Brooklyn was a divine happening for me okay and I love pizza and considered myself a hardcore pizza nerd before then and yet still a slice of New York pizza is something heavenly IMO.

Now I wanna po boy from Louisiana.
posted by Annika Cicada at 3:29 PM on May 21, 2016


The best po'boy is the softshell crab po'boy. I know there are people here who will back me up on this.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 3:32 PM on May 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


At this point I just pity people who don't understand the majesty and beauty of the Chicago Deep Dish genus of the pizza family. After all, I understand and love the imported flatbread kind as well. Surely America is big enough for both.
posted by ArmandoAkimbo at 3:45 PM on May 21, 2016 [12 favorites]


Lou Malnatie's in Chicago was a goddamn pizza revelation to me, I got plenty of room in my pizza religion for regional expressions of our shared love for pizza God.
posted by Annika Cicada at 3:48 PM on May 21, 2016 [12 favorites]


Patrick and Jalad at Baton Rouge.
posted by lharmon at 3:49 PM on May 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


Does Sir Patrick ever reveal what style of POboy he blew his sandwich viriginity on?

Louisiana POboys are different partly because of the thick-crust French bread, which is not at all like the Italian style bread used by places like Quiznos and Subway, and because ingredients like crawfish and shrimp are fresh and reasonably priced here. Roast beef also has its fans, although that style tends to turn the bread to mush with drippings, which I don't like.

May I say a word in passing here for Nobody Waits, the divine little sandwich shop which existed on Louisa street in a converted residential house across from the Desire Housing Projects. My work buds used to drive far out of their way to take lunch there, but they never came back after Katrina, RIP.
posted by Bringer Tom at 4:02 PM on May 21, 2016 [6 favorites]


Last time I was in NO, a friend of mine who used to drive a cab there took me to her favorite po'boy place, then we drove around and looked at post-Katrina civil engineering, of which she was moderately dubious, having stories of Byzantine political corruption to attach to each one. It made the conference afterwards pretty anticlimactic, I can tell you.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:02 PM on May 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


I want to be Patrick Stewart when I grow up.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 4:08 PM on May 21, 2016 [4 favorites]


I wouldn't be the man-and-three-quarters I am today without deep dish.
posted by Chitownfats at 4:11 PM on May 21, 2016 [6 favorites]


The best po'boy is the softshell crab po'boy.
Oyster has to be a close second though.
posted by 445supermag at 4:24 PM on May 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


At this point I just pity people who don't understand the majesty and beauty of the Chicago Deep Dish genus of the pizza family.

It's genus Casserole. Convergent evolution can be confusing.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 4:35 PM on May 21, 2016 [7 favorites]


The best po'boy is the softshell crab po'boy.
Oyster has to be a close second though.

But Chicago style deep-dish Po'boy...oh, man!
posted by Guy Smiley at 4:41 PM on May 21, 2016


The best po'boy is the softshell crab o'boy.
Oyster has to be a close second though.
A good fried shrimp po'boy also deserves mention. I hate to choose, and happiest when the place will do a half and half. Dressed.
posted by Davenhill at 4:43 PM on May 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


Any word on where this po'boy was had, or what was on it?

Because I've got some recommendations. Crawfish season isn't over just yet.
posted by rlk at 5:11 PM on May 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Seriously Chicago pizza destroys everything. I understand the NY jealousy has to pretend it's a casserole so feel better but your embarrassing yourself by fighting against the truth.
posted by Carillon at 5:15 PM on May 21, 2016 [4 favorites]


I live in Chicago but from LA and would take an honest to god po'boy hands down over my fav. Pizza place here.
posted by AlexiaSky at 5:22 PM on May 21, 2016


You better find me a place to get a po' boy in Tokyo, Guy Smiley. You need to take responsibility for what you did to me this morning.
posted by No-sword at 5:34 PM on May 21, 2016


The best po boy is whatever one you get at your neighborhood grocers, made fresh at a tiny deli counter in the back, fully dressed and splashed with hot sauce. For me, it was Mattasa's in the Quarter, a miniscule store owned by the children of the man who recorded many of the early greats of New Orleans R&B.

The po boy isn't foody food, to be precious about. It's an expression of neighborhood, family, convenience, and home, and I'll eat whatever po boy people love (within my dietary restrictions), because each and every one is the best.
posted by maxsparber at 5:36 PM on May 21, 2016 [9 favorites]


You better find me a place to get a po' boy in Tokyo, Guy Smiley. You need to take responsibility for what you did to me this morning.

I'm pretty sure that Japanese po' boys are a whole lot like Japanese pizza. Nothing but corn kernels and banana slices, as far as the eye can see.
posted by Guy Smiley at 5:57 PM on May 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


RLK, it was tagged The Cabin on twitter. If that's what I think it is, it's a great seafood place near my house in Gonzales (next to BR, about an hour from NO).
posted by bolda at 6:43 PM on May 21, 2016


Eddie Mars beat me to it. A good po'boy is a wonderful thing, but a muffaletta is the King of Sandwiches in New Orleans.
posted by Nelson at 6:49 PM on May 21, 2016


Sir Patrick Stewart, hung over one morning

Hasn't synthehol been invented yet?
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:26 PM on May 21, 2016


Seriously Chicago pizza destroys everything.

It hurts when something that big hits you.
posted by Celsius1414 at 10:21 PM on May 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


That New York Magazine article proves again that it is impossible to read anything written by Patrick Stewart, or any quoted speech of his, and not hear it in his voice.


Also, why would I eat Chicago deep-dish when I can get an Italian Beef?
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 4:15 AM on May 22, 2016 [1 favorite]


Philly cheesesteak, for real winners.
posted by easily confused at 6:32 AM on May 22, 2016 [1 favorite]


Damn it Metafilter, you can't go talking about po'boys because my local Cajun restaurant is closed today AND tomorrow.
posted by Fleebnork at 6:57 AM on May 22, 2016


The Philly cheesesteak is a bastard sandwich.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 8:40 AM on May 22, 2016


While we're on cheesesteaks, this might be off topic, but soggy sauerkraut makes any Reuben teh sad...
posted by mikelieman at 8:52 AM on May 22, 2016 [1 favorite]


That interview cracked me up. My favorite part:
And by the way, the pizza establishment that I went into was a well-known, well-established Brooklyn pizza place called Smiling Pizza, and I'm told that Fox News interviewed the owner, and he said, "Oh my God, if I had known it was his first slice I would have given him a second slice."
I've always been a fan of Stewart's, but this stuff and the whole, "rare triple-take" video from a few years ago has elevated him for me.
posted by frecklefaerie at 9:01 AM on May 22, 2016 [1 favorite]


I've always been a fan of Stewart's, but this stuff and the whole, "rare triple-take" video from a few years ago has elevated him for me.

That and the unabashed affection he and Ian McKellen have for each other in public. :)
posted by Celsius1414 at 10:17 AM on May 22, 2016


Wait'll he has a banh mi. It'll blow his fucking mind.

(Hmm maybe we should start tweeting at him...)
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 10:18 AM on May 22, 2016 [2 favorites]


On the next episode of Royal Shakespeare Company Actors Try Foods, Sir Ian McKellen samples okonomiyaki, while Brian Blessed has a chivito.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:00 AM on May 22, 2016 [3 favorites]


You take that back, TheWhiteSkull! Them's fightin' words!
posted by easily confused at 11:19 AM on May 22, 2016


Roast Beef PoBoy

People will know you are not local when you use a knife and fork to eat it.
posted by bukvich at 11:27 AM on May 22, 2016


That's a bathtub sandwich.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 11:32 AM on May 22, 2016


I have been, and always will be, Team Po' Boy.
posted by BZArcher at 2:46 PM on May 22, 2016


I thought a po'boy was a prawn sandwich.

Also, pizza is basically my kryptonite, if I was the sort of Superman who like, read about kryptonite in a newspaper and was like "Man, I could really go for some god-damned kryptonite right about now!" And he then obsessed about kryptonite and started looking at Google Image searches for "kryptonite" and his mouth was watering and he actually began to hate the world more and more every second because it wasn't kryptonite time yet because he was still at work.
posted by turbid dahlia at 9:09 PM on May 22, 2016 [1 favorite]


Some folks may not be familiar with the origin of the po' boy sandwich during a streetcar strike.
posted by salix at 6:56 PM on May 24, 2016


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