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[hodayathink]

Lebanon Bologna.

It tastes like a summer sausage, comes in full sandwich sized cuts, its beef and has very little fats so is actually fairly healthy as a lunchmeat, and its not oily.

I was so pissed when the deli I work at stopped carrying this. Like, asking my manager repeatedly to get it back pissed.

Never been a pastrami guy. Just too much pepper there. I'll always prefer a good smoked ham to anything else if I'm having a sandwich with just one thing. My go-to sandwich right now is ham, prosciutto, capicola, and salami (hard or genoa depending on my mood).

 

[mmazurkiewicz]

i'm sorry but most of the italian deli meats are shit.
pastrami is good, yes, but prosciutto, cappacola, salami, etc... all that dried bullshit is far from great deli meat.

not much international variety to try in america besides the italian stuff.
take a trip through europe and try some meats from other countries and you'll see whats up.

 

[iamblades]

Everytime I have it it's just so damn tasty compared to other sandwich meats.

I never understood the difference between this and corned beef, though. The latter is used in my favorite sandwich--The Reuben.

But I do love the peppery character of pastrami.

What's your favorite cold cut?

Pastrami is smoked, while corned beef is boiled.

Pastrami also usually means it is more aggressively seasoned, though this varies.

Those are the two big differences, though there can be some small variations on the exact cut of meat used(anything from shoulder to brisket to navel can be used for pastrami, basically the whole bottom of the cow, while corned beef is almost always brisket).

 

[Warnen]

Capicola or Mortadella best Sammy has them both on it.

 

[badb0y]

I just prefer pork as a cold cut,

My favourite online butcher does this:

As an every day meat it's melt in the mouth scrumptious

Trichinella spiralis

 

[iamblades]

I'm a big fan of American corned beef/pastrami/brisket. It's difficult to get decent brisket in the UK, and our corned beef and pastrami have a different style and taste to them, at least to me:

In the UK, 'corned beef' refers solely to the canned form and 'salt beef' is the fresh sliced form that is being referred to here.

In north america, corned beef refers to both, but usually to the sliced form.

The UK variations are probably less aggressively seasoned than some of the US versions, but again that varies widely depending on where you get it even within the US.

 

[Courage]

Mortadella.

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[Regiruler]

From the times I've had it, I'm inclined to agree with the OP

Pastrami is great, but my favorite is a thing I can only get relatively locally, Cloverdale Tangy Summer Sausage:

Shredded cheese on a sandwich?

 

[GenericBadGuy]

Maaan I really, really want pastrami now. There is nowhere around here with a hot pastrami sandwich. God damnit, OP.