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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
As a handy guide for visitors to our fair city, I once again present a handy guide to speaking Chicagoese. Warning -- while some of these phrases are quintessentially Chicago, overuse of them will peg you as uneducated.
3. Sammich: Chicagoese for sandwich. When made with sausage, it's a sahsage sammich; when made with shredded beef, it's an Italian Beef sammich, a local delicacy consisting of piles of spicy meat in a perilously soggy bun.
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An alternative to Sammich, especially if you're a Nort-Sider (anybody who refuses to go south of Harrison Street without a weapon of some sort), is "sang-wich." Hey, Bobby, gimme a beef sangwich wit hot an' sweet*."
*Hot and sweet refer to green peppers, hot being gardiniera, a mix of small hot peppers, carrots, celelry, and olives, packed in olive oil, and sweet bell peppers, either fried in olive oil or braised in vinegar.
