Weather was good today. I decided to call up smith.dudevice.com, seeing as we work about 2 blocks apart, to ask if he wanted to meet me for lunch. My office had already been abuzz about the delicious peameal bacon on a kaiser from the St. Lawrence market, so we agreed to meet and head in that direction in lieu of the sunny skies. Both smith.dudevice.com and I have been to the Market many times in the past, however, neither of us has sampled this almost mythical sandwich, so we figured it wouldn’t be too hard to spot the place to get them. We walk in the door and are greeted by a generous line for a place that has a sign that reads, “…Home of the Original Peameal Bacon on a Kaiser”. We look at each other as if we have stumbled across weapons grade plutonium just sitting on the floor in front of us. Cloud nine we were on. We place our orders at the end of the line and salivate at the thought of what was to come next. 40 minutes pass and our opinions have drastically been altered. We realize that this is the slowest moving production possible when it comes to putting peameal bacon on a kaiser. After looking around, I realize we had been had. First off, there are multiple stands in the market all claiming to be “Home of the Original Peameal Bacon on a Kaiser”. We fell victim to a clever location. This one stall is located right at the front door, so everyone quickly assumes it is the place to be because of the line. WRONG. Secondly, the shifty servers immediately take your order at the back of the line and make you pay there, essentially trapping you in there twisted web of waiting, preventing you from breaking free of the shackles and running off to one of the other stalls. It took us 40 minutes to get a peameal bacon on a kaiser. We didn’t have time to even sit and eat it. I ate mine while running back to the office in order to make a meeting on time. Bottom line is, there are many options for getting this sandwich, don’t be fooled by lines or signs. Look deeper and you will find hidden treasures and less aggrivation.
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how was the sandwich? AMAZING! Would I go through the whole process again to get another one? HELL YES!
