Murray’s Salami Challenge: Take 2
Following in Blondie and Brownie’s footsteps, another lunch’er has taken up the challenge to create a great sandwich, for under $10 at the newly opened Murray’s Salami in the Grand Central Terminal Market (enter on Lexington and 43rd). Lunch’er Dave has ratcheted it up a notch, with two meats, and one cheese. Here’s everything he bought:
“A few co-workers and myself hit up [Murray’s Salami] for the $10 Sandwich Challenge. For two sandwiches we came in at $20.35 no tax but thats only due to the Murrays cheese lady squeezing us with .3 instead of the requested 1/4 pound. Corrado bakery Loaf of Ciabatta for $4. 1/2 Lb of Murrays Hot Calabrese $7.99. 1/4 Lb of Murrays Salami $3.50. 1/4 Lb of Murrays Gorgonzola Cremificato $4.00.”
And the finished product is after the jump…
Clearly the gauntlet has been lowered. I will need to hit this place up very very soon (maybe I’ll scope things out this afternoon, when I’m getting my free sample of Jamón Ibérico de Bellota.)
You can see more photos of the sandwich here.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 10:30 am, November 13th, 2008 under Murray's Salami.
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Zach, why do you let DocChuck post here? He’s been banned from most of the other sites I’ve had the misfortune to read his comments on. He is the veritable herpes sore on the face of humanity that he’s so fond of opining about. Plus he’s factually incorrect on any given subject, such as gorgonzola having a stench. Unless it’s extremely rotten you couldn’t even smell it until it’s inches away from your face. He doesn’t live in or near New York, wouldn’t eat a Midtown lunch if his life depended in it and is just a weird, compulsive-liar douche.
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And Butter…lotsa lotsa Butter…..maybe some English grain mustard too to cut the fat……could do that with a cider vinegar dressing on the roasted peppers….bugger it, do both.
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Wow, I barely finished my baguette ($2.50) + 1/4lb Calabrese ($3.50) + .32lb Gorgonzola ($5.12). Honestly, it was probably too much for me. I still would have been if the bread and cheese were cut in half.
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^ I still would have been full …
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Seems everyone is getting squeezed on the 1/4 lb of gorg!
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My dearest Ben
It’s clear that Zach is as erudite as you are inconsequential.
Cheers,
Chuck
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This reminds me of when I backpacked thru Europe with a friend one summer. We’d pick up some bread, meat and cheese from wherever we were and make the tastiest sandwiches. Lots of options with this one.
To go one step further, are there any real supermarkets in midtown to pick up sandwich ingredients from? I think there’s a Food Emporium around 50th and 8th. Lots of sandwich-making options there. Much better/bigger/tastier than many of the pricey pre-made ‘gourmet’ sandwiches at the upscale sandwich shops, I’ll bet.
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Big apple meats is on 42nd and 9th. They even sell bulk condiments. The place is a dump, but I can even get briskets cut by them. I cant find them anywhere else.
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I still think that’s a paltry lunch! I think I can scarf that down no problem. I can meet you guys there next Friday for lunch. Except I don’t want gorgonzola. =P
Yes, I can be very gross in how much food I can consume. You’ll see when I post my birthday-week-of-eating – it’s pretty horrifying how much food I put away. -
I think it is great that Zach allows DocChuck the freedom to launch repeated verbal assaults on the readers here. Even though it comes at the expense of the reputation of his blog (among readers who dislike having to deal with my landlord, as well as among other blog owners, who have all long since banned DocChuck for his antics and laugh at Zach for letting him continue he does) Zach bravely carries on. I mean, it’s almost like DocChuck takes a dump in Zach’s room and then puts a cigarrette out on Zach’s face half a dozen or so times a day — every single day — and yet Zach takes it all without a word. Long live freedom, and long live Zach! Very damn few folks turn the other cheek like Zach does!
To the rest of ya….*TWITCH*…..I will happily bite your nuts off!
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@stevenp,
I think the point is to go to these gourmet places. The idea being that if you go to a gourmet shop to get a sandwich, the premium meats are worth it. If we just go to Food Emporium, this might as well be Midtown Pack-your-own Lunch. I think all of us can pack lunch with deli meats that don’t come close to $10 dollars.
If we get away from the premium providers, we need to make the price limits more crazy… say… $5. Get good bread somewhere, then get some deli meat from a grocery store in midtown and… boom!
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What, NO ONE wants to take my throwing down of the hockey gloves?! Come on. I don’t even actually WORK in Midtown!
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Fair enough Danny. Although I would point out that even regular markets have tasty ‘gourmet’ meats and cheeses that aren’t simply mundane ‘deli meat’ (and which aren’t as overpriced as they tend to be at ‘gourmet delis’!). Besides, this is Midtown LUNCH, where it’s all about getting good food at reasonable/affordable prices. It’s not “Midtown Gourmet”! How else to explain the (great) street vary and hole-in-the-wall reviews? It’s not about the experience of visiting an ethnic deli, is it? You can generally enjoy a much better, bigger ML sandwich lunch if you assemble it yourself, regardless of the source.
I have salad dressing, mustard and mayo at my desk. I can make this happen properly. I do like some greenery though.