The worst Philly Cheese Steak EVAH!

[Goathead]

I was driving across country a couple of months ago and stopped in St. Charles, MO to check it out. It has an "old town" and there is a lot of history. Lewis & Clark, yadda, yadda,. I stop at this sub shop that looks pretty decent from the outside. I go in and order a "Philly" Cheese Steak. My internal alarm starts going off when I see the guy behind the counter grab a big chunk of roast beef and carve off slices with the slicer. Roast beef does not a Philly Cheese Steak make. so then he proceeds to put raw mushroom, green pepper and onion on. Wait a second here, hold the phone, even I know that shit has got to be grilled. He puts the whole thing on a roll, not on sub bread, slaps a piece of unmelted cheese on it and then peppers it with what I can only assume he referred to as "I"-talian seasoning. The whole thing was a disaster and I was completely disappointed by the experience. Can you tell? I'm still talking about the fucking thing two months after it happened. Oh the humanity.

[lateo]

1. Unfortunately...

This is the case with most places that try to reproduce a proper "Philly" Cheese Steak sammich. NONE of them get it right...seems like there would be a market for a place that could reproduce them correctly.

[RagingInMiami]

3. I think Subway microwaves their cheese steaks

[madrchsod]

2. philly cheese steak in missouri?

you know you should have known better,now don`t you. i`ve done the same thing after i ordered something that looked good in "print" then --"oh my god what is this?"

[mcscajun]

4. You were too far away from the regional center of authenticity.

It's basic roadfood science: the further you are from the source of any regional food, the lower the authenticity percentage.

I'm not going to eat Pizza in Ireland, or Boudin in Oregon. If I want Cajun food, I'm going to be south of I-10 or I'm making it myself at home. Likewise, if I'm outside a 100 mile radius of Philadelphia, I won't order a Philly Cheesesteak; I'll be looking for other regional food. Hell, even some of the Philly Cheesesteaks here in NJ are 'suspect'.

I can see where you'd still be upset about this even after all this time. My sympathies. :)

[Goathead]

7. That is brilliant, never thought about it like that

and I consider myself to be a Road Scholar.:spray:

[mcscajun]

8. Why thank you.

:)

Here's another one just 'cause you were so nice:

Never eat in an empty restaurant. There's a Reason it's Empty.

[windlight]

9. Subs 'n' Suds

In Indiana, PA makes quite a MEAN Philly... and well it is outside the 100 mile mark...

[mcscajun]

10. Lucky you!

:) I mean that.

There's always an exception. The Food Network sometimes highlights shops like that, especially the ones where some native of one city moves across the country and sells his hometown product.

[Dees]

5. Here where I live on the East Coast they

wouldn't know a good sausage gravy and biscuits if they fell over it. You can't find Cashew Chicken anywhere. I ordered it once and it was some goo-slime not worth talking about. And, who cares if Midwesteners don't know jack about cheese steaks or scrapple or that God awful over priced fried crab mush known as a "crab cake".

Or...try to get Canadian bacon on a pizza around here or get an order of St. Louis toasted ravioli....

BTW..I've had chopped roast beef on a cheese steak here in the East.

[rinsd]

6. That's nothing......

At most places outside the NorthEast, you get a 1/4" steak(not sliced up) that you really have to tear through to get bites out of.

I only eat cheese steaks when I;m home in Jersey. The only cheese steaks I've had in CA are ones I made myself(via Minute TSeak or Steak-ummm) that sadly blow away the local competition.