Roast Beef
A roast beef sandwich is a sandwich that is made out of sliced roast beef or sometimes beef loaf. It is sold at many diners in the U.S., as well as fast food chains, such as Arby's and Roy Rogers Restaurants. This style of sandwich often comes on a hamburger bun and may be topped with barbecue sauce and/or melted American cheese.
Roast beef sandwiches have been a specialty of the Boston area since the early 1950s, typically served on an onion roll with optional barbecue sauce and horseradish. Restaurants specializing it include Kelly's Roast Beef (which claims to be the original, having opened in 1951), Nick's, Harrison's, and Bill and Bob's. In Brooklyn a small handful of establishments, beginning with Brennan & Carr in 1938, have served a variant of the sandwich, and two more directly Boston-derived roast beef restaurants opened in the early 2010s.
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Famous quotes related to roast beef:
“Oh the roast beef of England,
And old England’s roast beef!”
—Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
“Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life’s Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrées, the hors d’oeuvres, and the things à la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.”
—Edna Ferber (1887–1968)
“I [Boswell] ... insisted that admiration was more pleasing than judgment, as love is more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love like being enlivened with champagne. JOHNSON. ‘No, Sir; admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship like being enlivened.’”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“You are a roast beef I have purchased
and I stuff you with my very own onion.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“she in the kitchen
aproned young and lovely wanting my baby
and so happy about me she burns the roast beef
and comes crying to me and I get up from my big papa chair
saying Christmas teeth! Radiant brains! Apple deaf!”
—Gregory Corso (b. 1930)