I bought a Sports Illustrated yesterday for the first time in quite awhile. Many good stories but it's quite thin, no? Is that the paper quality or the fact that it's 70 pages? SI in my memory is more substantial. Anyway, my favorite part of the issue is on the Dan Patrick page. "Caption You'll Never See"
At Spring Training Tommy Lasorda was overheard telling Joe Torre about his frustration at a lunch counter: "So I order a six-foot hero, and the guy says, 'What's that?' I say, 'It's like a regular hero, but it's six feet long.'"
I don't know if the picture with the quote was taken at the moment of the quote, but it's a good match - Tommy Lasorda's arms outstretched, possibly illustrating the length of six-feet.
I have to guess the real issue is that people in LA don't call heroes heroes.
Sandwich 101 from the Food Network: the sandwich is named for the Earl of Sandwich, who is said to have "invented" one while playing cards. A sandwich is two or more slices of bread with a filling, meat, cheese, or vegetables placed between them.
Sandwiches are also called bombers, grinders, heroes, hoagies, Cubans, poor boys, submarines, torpedoes, wedges, and zeps in different parts of the United States.
So what do they call heroes in LA?
more: TFMJ and I got a six-foot hero for our Halloween party two years ago (when I was Barry Bonds Rookie Year and he was Barry Bonds Present Day). We got the sandwich from Defonte's in Red Hook but TFMJ's office is near Manganaro’s Hero Boy and Manganaro Grosseria, where brothers have some sort of feud and they each think they are the originator of the six-foot hero. Hmm.
I wonder what year that was because my parents got six-foot heroes for just about every party I can remember as a kid. I'm going to investigate. Stay tuned or help me out by Commenting below.
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