#19 Hot Turkey

I watched the Tat's linecam until things slowed down and then walked over. I can tell already that as soon as the weather warms up it'll be a bit less prohibitive to get there multiple times in a week. The sun was out and the walk through Occidental Mall was beautiful. One of my favorite places in the city.

Tat's was a bit more crowded than I expected from the linecam, but I ordered and squeezed into a bar seat next to a guy with some sweet hand/face/head tattoos whose phone rang 5 times over 15 minutes. Important dude.

Hit my 10 punches and got a free sandwich. Couldn't imagine the day getting much better. Got the Hot Turkey, which the menu describes as "In-House Smoked Turkey dipped in turkey jus w/ Swiss LTOM." I got it club style with bacon, for $1 it's worth it and the nice lady comp'ed it rather than charging me the $1. Not sure what happened to the young lady who used to work every lunch day, she was awesome and talked to me about Napalm Death briefly once. The young lady who has been there the last few times is totally on top of shit, too, not sure how they luck out with such good front of house people.

My sandwich came up and smelled fucking delicious. The roll was toasted just right and had a great flaky on the outside soft on the inside thing going on. There was a lot of lettuce, tomatoes, and onions, and they were fresh. I bit in and almost started cussing out loud. This sandwich was fucking delicious.

I mauled the first half like it had said bad things about my mother. Absolutely demolished it. I ate it so fast I had to stop and make myself take a picture before the second half met the same fate. I thought about getting up and ordering another so I could just keep going to town on hot turkey club after hot turkey club.

Yep, I'm white - like you couldn't have guessed by my terrible first world complaining about really good sandwiches not being perfect. This shot shows the second half kind of crushed under my overanxious grasp. It's a really nice serving of turkey that, when warm and dipped in the jus, just came to life. The seasoning actually fit in really well on this one and the mayo gave it a bit of that post-thanksgiving fresh turkey sandwich vibe. But this is better than that. For fucking serious.

This sandwich is the reason I started this blog, this experiment, in the first place. This is one of the hidden gems that I would NEVER have ordered in a thousand fucking years. Remind me about this sandwich when I'm slogging through the Roast Veggie and the House Salad.