Po-Boy Foodways

Specialised

Light crackling New Orleans French bread, dressed, filled with fried shrimp or oysters, roast beef and debris, or hot sausage. Named in the 1929 streetcar strike, when a sandwich shop fed the "poor boys" free. The bread is the dishโ€™s defining technology.

Atlas โ€” where and when

What is recorded

  • The po-boy name is documented to the 1929 New Orleans streetcar strike, when the Martin brothers fed striking "poor boys" free sandwiches. The sandwich form is older than the name. documented

Recipes

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