Palmer House?  The fuck?  No, this post aint about the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse or that time your boss told you she’d pick up a couple AWDs (after work dranks) at the Lobby Bar, then cut out early, leaving you with a healthy tab.  Nah, fam, this post is about a gotdamn sandwich and the food scientry going on at Lockwood.  Not familiar with Philip Foss?  Wrong Answer.

Skip that $5 footlong college bullshit and head straight for the pros.

Pictured above, we have the Shortrib sandwich served along truffled potato chips, courtesy of KidItamae and the CG Flickr Group.  This flick honestly had us on some L.L. Cool J shit, licking lips every 20-30 seconds.  Be sure to peep Foss’ blog, The Pickled Tongue to see dood fulfilling his slave master duties, steadily cracking whip on the backs of the downtown culinary scene.

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When I moved here, I stayed with my Aunt Lucinda who has a spot in La Grange Park.  On Sunday afternoons, after 6 hours of sweaty Baptist church service, we’d hop on the 20 north bound, up in the Cut, with a propensity for consumption (Aunt Lucinda puts food DOWN, yall) headed straight for Priscilla’s Ultimate Soul Food.

Someone cue my fucking soul claps and high hat.  Grab a tray and some orange drink.  Its time to revive the cafeteria dining experience.

Even though Ive moved into the grid, with food at my fingertips, I can honestly say that I miss these Sunday road trips.  The clientele was old and it smelled like moth balls, but if you’re eating soul food, these should be prerequisites. 

Appreciation to Defiant Conviction for bringing southern style gluttony back to the front page.

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Back on Top Chef Masters, Rick Bayless was hurdling chefs like Carl Lewis at the Pan American Games.  Riding his personal fame train, Ricky B launched Xoco a few weeks back, serving up tortas and caldos, barrio-styles.  Hows the food?  How the fuck yall think?  Our boy efisher over at the CG flickr pool reminds us that it is actually possible to be a white man jammed up in anudda brown skinned, minority’s body.

Straight from the horse’s mouf:  Very tasty torta, with moist meat, a nice habanero-based salsa (ordered ‘hot’), pickled onions, and black beans. Pretty much exactly what you would expect if someone said “cochinita pibil” to you. What made it stand out was the bread, which was fantastic. That said, when this sandwich is $12 and a platter of nearly as good cochinita can be had at xni pec for $11 or Chuck’s for $12… I find it hard to say “go get this sandwich”.

If the picture has you on fiend, CG’s suggest you stick up a Walgreen’s, Golden Nugget or something and eat these goodies on comp.  Grab us some White Owls while you at it.

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One huge ass onion ring, two slices of ham, a breaded pork cutlet, two strips of bacon, two fried eggs, covered in gruyere, all on a brioche bun….yowza!

Human beings shouldn’t be able to open their mouths this wide.  Its just unorthodox.  If left up to Congress, this sandwich would be considered illegal in at least 12 states.

Just a short piece of advice to all you bulimics out there:  Fuck all those long hours in Isle 7, stocking up on Sour Patch Kids, Cheetos and Zebra Cakes…this joint has got you covered.  But itll probably take multiple bathroom sessions to force all this out.  SHIT GOES DEEP.

Classic photography Heyrocc.  Once again, you’ve captured culinary blasphemy.

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Now girls step up to this

One simple lick, and its ova Miss

Sold to nice dreamers, high as the price seem

Girlfriend, youve been scooped like ice cream

Competition, Ima get rid of

You cant get a bit of, so just consider

a break rest vacation hibernation

And make way for my smooth operation.

Im the smooth operator.

-BDK

Yall need to fuck with this.  Nice grab, Heyrocc.

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A CG flickr “cemitas” description from bindifry:

Spit roasted pork sandwich with queso fresco, avocado spread & chipotle mole sauce. It’s served on a sesame style torta bun. Unique regional hole-in-the-wall on west North Ave.  All puebla all the time.

I will do some Flowers In The Attic type shit to my kids for some of this.  I need this in my life like a 4% APR credit card at a Nordstrom pump sale.

Want to further jerk your mouth off?  Video always proves more effective for climax.

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