The Famous Philly Cheese Steak

Everyone has heard of the Philly Cheese Steak. I for one had never had one and being that I love me some cheese steaks I had wanted to try these famous sandwiches for quite sometime!

Well, a little over a week ago, Ryan and I needed to truck into Philly to get a special someone a special cake and brought our buddy Josh along. After picking up the cakes, Josh directed us to the Redding Terminal Market (a place I had been before with the "special someone" the cake was for) for what he claimed were some of the best "hoagies" and cheese steaks in Philly. He and Ryan got into the hoagie (subs for us delawareians) line and I got into the super-long-but-apparently-well-worth-it cheese steak line. I got breifed on the proper ordering lingo and was left to fend for myself.

When I get to the front of the line (after 20+ minutes of waiting and fighting for my spot) I did my philly-friendly order and watched them prepare my sandwich. The place was packed, so I was excited that the food was coming out fresh to make for a guarenteed even better meal! As I watched them prepare it though I quickly began to lose interest. they took the un-chopped slabs of greasy nasty meat, tossed them on the roll and topped it with un-melted cheese. I told myself "it only LOOKS bad! Thousands of people CAN'T be wrong!"

I found my way over to our little bar-table thing and dug in. All in all, the meal was "ok". Ryan's opinion on the "hoagie" was about the same (he said that the fresh cheese was good, but that delaware's "bobbie" or deli sub could beat it out any day). I for one have had a much better cheese steak at cleavland sub shop and a number of other places around where I live. Not to mention, I paid almost 20 dollars for my sandwich, and some cheese fries - a 10, maybe 15 dollar meal around these parts.

Sorry to disappoint kids, but it's not all it's cracked up to be.