Hobo Sandwich?

Steve Freides

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Mar 24, 2013, 11:08:46 AM3/24/13

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A nearby bagel shop serves something called a Hobo, which I'd always
assumed was their own creation but it turns out that another bagel shop
in town serves the same thing, which is:

Ham

Egg

Cheese

Bacon

Potatoes (home fries or hash browns or similar)

on Bread/Bagel/Roll

The online recipes I found don't at all match what it's called here our
town in Northern New Jersey, so I figured I'd ask. Anyone have any
history or can otherwise shed light on this one?

-S-

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George Leppla

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Mar 24, 2013, 12:33:23 PM3/24/13

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On 3/24/2013 11:08 AM, l not -l wrote:

> On 24-Mar-2013, "Steve Freides"<st...@kbnj.com> wrote:
>
>> >A nearby bagel shop serves something called a Hobo, which I'd always
>> >assumed was their own creation but it turns out that another bagel
>> >shop
>> >in town serves the same thing, which is:
>> >
>> >Ham
>> >
>> >Egg
>> >
>> >Cheese
>> >
>> >Bacon
>> >
>> >Potatoes (home fries or hash browns or similar)
>> >
>> >on Bread/Bagel/Roll

There was a sandwich shop in PA that was open for breakfast and they
made a breakfast Hoagie.... scrambled eggs, bacon, home fries, grilled
onions, grilled peppers and cheese on a 12" roll. You could substitute
ham for the bacon if you wished.

It looked like a hot mess and it wasn't something you would eat every
day... but it was pretty tasty.

George L

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James Silverton

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Mar 24, 2013, 12:58:15 PM3/24/13

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I guess bagels have moved a long way from *kosher* cuisine! The best
bagel store I know is still relentlessly kosher; New York Bagels is
closed on Saturdays and the male help all wear yarmulkes.

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

Brooklyn1

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Mar 24, 2013, 2:06:02 PM3/24/13

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"Steve Freides" wrote:
>
>A nearby bagel shop serves something called a Hobo, which I'd always
>assumed was their own creation but it turns out that another bagel shop
>in town serves the same thing, which is:
>
>Ham
>Egg
>Cheese
>Bacon
>Potatoes (home fries or hash browns or similar)
>on Bread/Bagel/Roll
>

>Anyone have any history or can otherwise shed light on this one?

Obviously not made with real bagels... real bagels are only available
in NYC... and no NYC bagel shop would offer ham/bacon on a bagel, not
even egg unless egg salad... fried egg on a bagel is TIAD.

jmcquown

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Mar 24, 2013, 2:18:13 PM3/24/13

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Ham and bacon together is a bit of overkill. If you make something
similar at home on a toasted English muffin, be sure not to call it an
egg McMuffin ;)

Jill

Janet Wilder

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Mar 24, 2013, 2:54:59 PM3/24/13

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On 3/24/2013 11:53 AM, Susan wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes

>
> On 3/24/2013 11:08 AM, Steve Freides wrote:

> Sounds like a made up name.
>
> The only hobo eggs I know of as kind of traditional is a slice of bread
> with a hole cut from the middle, and fried with an egg broken into the
> whole. That's how I made hobo eggs for my kid.
>
> Susan
I thought they called that "toad in a hole"

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

Tara

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Mar 24, 2013, 3:33:02 PM3/24/13

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On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:54:59 -0500, Janet Wilder wrote:

> I thought they called that "toad in a hole"

Hole in the wall!

Tara

Steve Freides

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Mar 24, 2013, 3:48:21 PM3/24/13

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Susan wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> On 3/24/2013 11:08 AM, Steve Freides wrote:

> Sounds like a made up name.
>
> The only hobo eggs I know of as kind of traditional is a slice of
> bread with a hole cut from the middle, and fried with an egg broken
> into the whole. That's how I made hobo eggs for my kid.
>
> Susan

We call that an Egytian Eye here - wasn't a part of my growing up but my
wife's and that's what she calls it.

-S-

Steve Freides

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Mar 24, 2013, 3:49:19 PM3/24/13

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Steve Freides wrote:

> Susan wrote:

>> Sounds like a made up name.

That's what I thought until I saw it at two different places. I guess
one place could have made it up and the other copied ...

-S-

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Janet Wilder

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Mar 24, 2013, 6:32:33 PM3/24/13

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On 3/24/2013 3:54 PM, Susan wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
>

> On 3/24/2013 2:54 PM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>
>> I thought they called that "toad in a hole"
>>
>

> Never heard that!
>
> Can you specify which "they?" ;-)
>
> Susan

The ubiquitous "they"

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/toad-in-the-hole-bake-91363.aspx

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gtr

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Mar 25, 2013, 12:31:25 PM3/25/13

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We called that toad in the hobo!

tert in seattle

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Mar 25, 2013, 1:23:26 PM3/25/13

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not sure why but this post made me think of Andy

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gtr

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Mar 26, 2013, 12:20:10 PM3/26/13

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On 2013-03-25 19:41:10 +0000, Sqwertz said:

> On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:08:46 -0400, Steve Freides wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any history or can otherwise shed light on this one?
>

> A hobo sandwich is just that, and sandwich made out of dead hobo and
> eaten by other hobos/ They are cheap and easy to find just laying
> around in the slummier sections of town.

Like a lot of foods, once popular, they start "classing up" the
ingredients. It loses it's rustic qualities, of course, but is easier
to procure ingredients and produce consistently.

What every happened to rat-on-a-stick? My guess: Once they stop
batter-frying it, it was more healthy, but looking that rat right the
eye was just too off-putting for the squeamish.

ezra4s...@gmail.com

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Jun 25, 2020, 10:36:28 PM6/25/20

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my cousin got a certificate for a hobo sandwich I want to meet Andy.

Thomas

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Jun 28, 2020, 4:02:53 PM6/28/20

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Who has the authority to delete google posts? 5 or so deleted.

Bruce

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Jun 28, 2020, 4:08:10 PM6/28/20

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On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 13:02:49 -0700 (PDT), Thomas <cano...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Who has the authority to delete google posts? 5 or so deleted.

I believe you can delete your own posts if you log in under the same
account you posted them under.