We love our Schmitters at Mcnallys! 30 years ago I was a vegan, then became pregnant with our first and I wanted some MEAT! In Philly’s Sunday paper “The Inquirer” was a magazine section that we’d pull out and read first. The very last page always had restaurant reviews and one Sunday morning, whilst feeling quite big and peckish, I read Mcnallys review and the rest is history. We still eat them, though now only a few times a year. Mostly, so we can live to meet our grandchildren!
"Mess"? you were swimming in that. Definitely a "rubber glove sandwich" and it would go well with a quart or two of straight forward American beer. You ate it and I need the nap, Bravo.
When Citizens Bank Park first opened they sold a Schmidter (named after the Phillies’ Hall of Fame third baseman) that used steak sandwich in place of the roast beef. It hasn’t been around for a long time now and I miss it!
That was actually the Schmitter from McNally's. They had a McNally's employee overseeing the Aramark employees, which is why it went away. The union Aramark employees filed a grievance.
Holy moly, I am So glad I found your channel. That looks amazing. It's just my son and I now and sandwiches are so easy but also can be boring. I'm making these for lunch tomorrow!
As a Philly local, I just would like everyone from the rest of the world to know how good a sandwich has to be here to become iconic. This is a city built on sandwiches. If you cut us, we bleed cheez whiz. For a local bar to create something so well known is a feat and a testament to Mcnally's. Also, the sandwich got the name "Scmitter" over "Krenich" because we love a good nickname here. While not creative, drinking Schmidt's would certainly be enough to garner the name "Scmitter"
Twenty or so years ago, I took a different route home from my Aunt's house and ended up in Chestnut Hill. I wasn't from Philly and had no clue about McNally's or the Schmitter but that's where I decided to eat. It's a great sandwich.
Any jalapeno plus-up is fine by me, especially pickled, but I was hoping for salt & vinegar potato chips... mainly because I keep forgetting to add them myself! Schmitter rules!
After enjoying your video I had to go look into this more. Found a video done at NcNally's. They were talking about the history and showed how they made it. Her version of the history involved a worker from the local hospital (might be the cleaned-up version). The sauce on the sandwich only put in the middle. When it's shown cut it looks like a lot of sauce but is not. Also, their salami was large like bologna size. The short of it is - you need to revisit this one. Yum!
It’s called the “Schmitter” because it’s so big, it contains so much protein and fat and they were just trying to be polite when they added the C and the M to the name.
All right, so I think the one place you went wrong on was using ALL of the sauce at once. I believe (and I'm mostly flying on bullshit and by golly), that the idea was to save some of that sauce for another sandwich, either for your table-mate, or yourself at another meal. I'm going to try it with just a spoonful or so of the sauce.
It's been a long time since I've had a Schmidt's - but that sammich would be a great addition to a long afternoon at the bar. Was there a *sound* edit from bologna to salami?
