
IF CHICAGO FOOD IS THE APOLLO 11 MISSION, the Italian beef sandwich is Michael Collins, far less famous than deep-dish pizza and the Chicago hot dog. It's not typically what out-of-towners order if they have only 24 hours in the city; it's more of a third-day-in-Chicago kind of thing. It ruins shirts and leaves you with pungent breath. It employs the most flavorless cut of beef.
The Italian beef is a messy, texturally one-note, woefully unphotogenic wet mound of a sandwich. And what a beautiful wet mound it is.
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