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 dishโs defining technology.
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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