[UA] UAish New Orleans

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 06:34 AM 12/02/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>So, if a UA fan was in New Orleans for a week, what should he go see
>besides the obvious stuff (the graveyards)?  And how transparent is
>this attempt to get travel advice from the list? ;)

Sorry, my only trip to N'awlins was with my family when I was quite young.
I do remember some restaurant called "The Two Sisters" or "The Four
Sisters" or "The Eight Hundred and Seven Sisters" having superb soup.  I
also have another New Orleans restaurant story, that's a little odd.  (Not
very odd, but a little.)

My family was getting sandwiches in some restaurant, and a fellow patron,
apropos of nothing, said "Well, these sandwiches are GOOD, but if you want
the BEST SANDWICH EVER, you have to go to [some restaurant] and order the
seafood po'boy."  I can't remember the name of the restaurant, but we wound
up going there, and it was a scary, grungy hole-in-the wall.  I distinctly
remember the deformed arms of the busboy.  But damn if it WASN'T the best
sandwich I'd ever had in my life*.

Unfortunately, this does you no good at all.  I don't think you'll get far
asking people "Can you direct me to a restaurant that serves seafood
po'boys, and that had a busboy with deformed arms working there some time
in the early 1980s?"

-G.

*Later in life, I had a sandwich that surpassed it, if the definition of
"sandwich" can stretch to cover foods served in a hot-dog bun.  But that's
another story.


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