Comments on: Margon Makes Aziz Ansari’s Favorite Cuban Sandwich http://midtownlunch.com/2008/02/13/margon-makes-aziz-ansaris-favorite-cuban-sandwich/ Food Adventures for Your Urban Lunch Hour Fri, 25 May 2012 21:25:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: JST http://midtownlunch.com/2008/02/13/margon-makes-aziz-ansaris-favorite-cuban-sandwich/comment-page-1/#comment-148974 JST Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:33:51 +0000 http://midtownlunch.com/blog/2008/02/13/margon-makes-aziz-ansaris-favorite-cuban-sandwich/#comment-148974 Cuban sandwiches became famous in the United States. The sandwiches became popular during the bloom of the cigar capital of the world, in Tampa, Florida. The sandwich has had many a critic proclaim the true way to eat and or how the sandwich is made. The fact is, that the sandwich is made with cuban bread, ham, pork, salami, and swiss cheese. People argue about what condiments should be put on the sandwiches: mayo, must, pickles, lettuce, tomato, onions and who knows what else. Traditionally, the mayo, must, pickles where used. Nowadays, lettuce and tomatos has come into favor. The bottom line is the person eating the sandwich should decide. If the main ingredients are of quality, the condiments will not ruin your sandwich. Cuban sandwiches became famous in the United States. The sandwiches became popular during the bloom of the cigar capital of the world, in Tampa, Florida. The sandwich has had many a critic proclaim the true way to eat and or how the sandwich is made. The fact is, that the sandwich is made with cuban bread, ham, pork, salami, and swiss cheese. People argue about what condiments should be put on the sandwiches: mayo, must, pickles, lettuce, tomato, onions and who knows what else. Traditionally, the mayo, must, pickles where used. Nowadays, lettuce and tomatos has come into favor. The bottom line is the person eating the sandwich should decide. If the main ingredients are of quality, the condiments will not ruin your sandwich.

]]> By: s.m. koppelman http://midtownlunch.com/2008/02/13/margon-makes-aziz-ansaris-favorite-cuban-sandwich/comment-page-1/#comment-102419 s.m. koppelman Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:02:55 +0000 http://midtownlunch.com/blog/2008/02/13/margon-makes-aziz-ansaris-favorite-cuban-sandwich/#comment-102419 Salami on a Cuban sandwich is actually fairly common and accepted practice in the Tampa area, which is the likely origin of the Cuban sandwich as we know it. It's thought to be the result of Tampa's Cuban and Italian immigrants influencing one another. Mustard is also more common in Tampa than it is in Miami, the other major city in the Axis of Cuban Sandwiches. Margon's fairly chewy, Italian-ish-interiored Cuban bread and their use of mayo -- especially the rather generous amount of it -- are to my reckoning much more pronounced deviations from what you'd find in Florida. Salami on a Cuban sandwich is actually fairly common and accepted practice in the Tampa area, which is the likely origin of the Cuban sandwich as we know it. It’s thought to be the result of Tampa’s Cuban and Italian immigrants influencing one another.

Mustard is also more common in Tampa than it is in Miami, the other major city in the Axis of Cuban Sandwiches.

Margon’s fairly chewy, Italian-ish-interiored Cuban bread and their use of mayo — especially the rather generous amount of it — are to my reckoning much more pronounced deviations from what you’d find in Florida.

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