#27 Pizza Steak

Pizza Steak. It's not a pizza, and it's not a steak. It's the third of four Philly Steaks on the Tat's menu, and I'm about to write on the internet about eating that shit.

The menu says "Broiled with Tat's Marinara sauce & Mozzarella." I'd had a really bad week and needed a serious Tat's pick-me-up. I knew I couldn't do the BLT or Roast Veggie this week, and I was thankful I'd saved a few sandwiches that I was excited about. The Pizza Steak is pretty classic, and I've had them other places in abundance in years gone past. Never had Tat's take on it, though, so this has been one of the 52 I've really wanted to get around to.

I hit Tat's late in the afternoon after a bunch of work meetings. More of The Man trying to keep the white middle class man down in his office dungeon. I escaped briefly and rescued a brown bag full of sandwich to bring back to my cubicle wonderland.

Looks like Pizza and Steak have gotten all Gaza strip on each other in this butcher paper. All cheese and sauce and dripping all over the place. But goddamn does it smell good.

That motherfucker is ugly. Just a wreck. Not like Rachael Leigh Cook in She's All That wearing ugly clothes and glasses and staring at the floor pretending she's not super hot but Freddie Prinze Jr is going to come along and turn her into a beautiful swan ugly, like UGLY. War atrocity ugly. DNR ugly. Community fund for plastic surgery ugly.

I closed my eyes and started digging into it, and before I knew what was going on half of it was gone. Just demolished. Unhealthy fast sandwich consumption. This was the vibe I was hoping for with the sausage sandwich. Sweet marinara, super juicy and soft steak, the whole roll warmed through and soaking in the juices.

Gaze into the maw of deliciousness.

I got onions and peppers, and that was a really good call. It ends up like the sandwich equivalent of a SPO pizza. The only thing I'd recommend is not getting it to go. I think less time to stew in its own juices would do better justice to the inner beauty of this monster.

I have intentionally not rated sandwiches on E.A.T. and I am glad I chose that route. That said, this is a top-5 sandwich so far. It's ain't much to look at, but I'll be damned if it doesn't have a great personality.