April 07, 2005
laid back good times people
Yesterday I received this email:
To: Marc
From: John G.
Subj: Pressed SandwichesMarc,
Hey my name is John and I saw your blog online. Funny stuff -even funnier pictures! You have a cool group of friends.
Anyways I am starting a fast-casual chain of Pressed Sandwich lunch places in Manhattan in September, and saw that you guys were enjoying some at
one of your get togethers. I'm curious for your opinions on them. Where do you get them? Do you think if there was actually a cool lunch place serving them
you would go? What do you like in them? I know this is random but it's worth a try, especially as you guys are exactly the type of laid-back good times people I
want to come into my place.Sincerely, John
(you like that? Laid Back Good Times People (LBGTP). You can have that one I don't mind)
In regards to seeing talk of pressed sandwiches, he's referring to photos from happy hours in spring 2003.
Needless to say, I have already adopted Laid Back Good Times People as the name of one of my fantasy baseball teams (yes, there are multiple teams this year).
I'll admit that I am not the best demographic for a pressed sandwich. As has been well documented, I only like beef & bread (with maybe a dash of black pepper). That is my preferred sandwich - on some kind of not good for you bread. Making it hot is good. Making it flat and a little crispy is also good.
Because I like providing free market research services, I've posted John's letter here. I also sent out a preview to a few friends who are contributing some great ideas.
Slightly snark Jim chimes in:
"Tell him we'll go there if they have a sandwich called The Pressed Ham. And another one called Freedom of the Press. Lame puns are what it's all about in the casual good times fun lunch business."
Handwashings then suggests:
"How about a sandwich featuring all possible ingredients on the menu called Press Your Luck?"
And Apes realizes a good idea when he hears one. Upon reading The Wash's email he adds:
"that might be the best idea of all time. certain to get a blurb in Time Out
New York at the least."
Anyone have anything to add?
Posted by marc@balgavy.com at April 7, 2005 11:39 AMWhat you dont need my help???????? I say he needs to host a tasting session/focus group for the Coffe Flats Bloggers Guild before we can endorse or advise anything!!!!!!!!!!
Hard Eating Larry
Posted by: chris at April 7, 2005 02:47 PMActually Larry, Jamie proposed the name of Laid Back Good Times People Bloggers Guild.
I guess I'm not eligible for that though, as I have renounced blogging. (Too lazy for it.)
i have a lot of add, only i will not because i really feel slighted at not being asked to "preview." seriously, you ask a guy who gets his burgers well-done but not the park slope gastronome? i bet handwashings shudders at the thought of mayonaise and apes, well i guess he'll eat anything...though didn't he just have a cubano for the first time like two weeks ago? seriously balgavy, i thought we were friends?
Posted by: shr at April 7, 2005 06:24 PMdamn, i meant to say LOT TO ADD in that first line.
Posted by: shr at April 7, 2005 06:25 PMI think you meant LOT OF ADD...ITUDE. I won't take criticism from someone who likes her bacon soggy. (Or chewy, or limp, or however it is you like bacon that is not the right way for it to be.)
Posted by: jim at April 7, 2005 09:58 PMlol. i do not lot my bacon soggy, i like it pliable. why bother eating deilcious meat if you're just going to burn the thing to a crisp?
Posted by: shr at April 7, 2005 11:21 PMThe only meat I will eat medium rare is chihuahua.
Posted by: jim at April 8, 2005 12:50 AMi didn't email everyone because i was having trouble remembering email addresses wednesday. really. not cool of me at all.
Posted by: marc b. at April 8, 2005 02:13 AMi love the fact that mr.internet doesn't even have an address book for his e-mails.
Posted by: dan at April 8, 2005 10:34 AMi also love that you can never win: send something to everyone and people ignore it or complain about their inboxes being cluttered. don't send it and people compain about getting snubbed.
in that vein and just so this is out there: some of use are going to a crawfish boil tomorrow from 3:30 to 8. $40 or so gets you all you can eat and drink during that time. consider yourselves invited.
Posted by: jamie at April 8, 2005 12:40 PMi love that people think that someone would really be upset about this.
Posted by: shr at April 8, 2005 01:07 PMshr, crawfish is upsetting,
Posted by: dan at April 8, 2005 05:51 PMand so is my grammar.
Posted by: dan at April 8, 2005 05:52 PMwhat's the plural of crawfish? crawfishes? or is it one of those words that can be plural and singular interchangeably?
Posted by: shr at April 8, 2005 05:56 PMPlural of crawfish is either crawfish or crawfishes, according to Webster's.
Posted by: matt at April 8, 2005 10:33 PMHey this is the guy who's starting the Pressed Sandwich lunch spot. I DO want to know what the Park Slope Gastronome thinks!
Posted by: John G at April 10, 2005 10:29 AMfirst, i would make sure you are not limiting yourself to just pressed sandwiches. there are tons of delis (at least in my work neighborhood of b'way and houston) that already serve paninis which are tasty. then again they are all non-customizable and pre-made, so make sure you give the customer ther power to choose!
Posted by: shr at April 12, 2005 11:12 AMI want to see a panino/pressed sandwich with no cheese, because I'm lactose intolerant and can't get in on the craze. I realize that the melted cheese holds the other contents in the sandwich but can't someone be creative? Also, don't be like one place I went to where they wrap the cubano in wax paper and then put it in a hot press. The wax paper melts onto the roll and sticks there, which is uncool.
Posted by: Kathy at April 22, 2005 03:28 PM
my fotolog