A Primanti Bros. sandwich shipped to your door?
Posted: October 24, 2014 - 1:15pm
PITTSBURGH -- Primanti Bros., the Pittsburgh restaurant famous for sandwiches stacked high with French fries and cole slaw, is offering out-of-towners the chance to have its iconic pastrami and capicola delivered by mail for about $25 a sandwich.
But don't expect your food to arrive ready to eat. In fact, you'll even have to fry your own fries.
Primanti Bros. is teaming up with Goldbely.com, an online food-delivery company, to make the $109 sandwich packs available anywhere in the United States. But because its famous sandwiches aren't exactly the kind of fare that would survive a trip -- how would fries not turn to mush? -- it's sending out each of the ingredients in separate, vacuum-sealed plastic pouches, so diners can assemble them on their own.
Primanti's, which now has several Pittsburgh-area locations, started in the city's Strip District in the 1930s, when food wholesalers there once took delivery of most of the produce sold in western Pennsylvania, according to the Associated Press. The sandwiches, wrapped in wax paper, were meant to be a complete one-handed meal that truckers could eat while they worked.
Each kit contains either pastrami or capicola, cheese, cut potatoes, cole slaw ingredients, and a loaf of Italian bread to make four sandwiches. The kits also come with a T-shirt.