Origin of the Po-Boy Sandwich
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August is national sandwich month. When I traveled to New Orleans for the first time, my first meal was a catfish po-boy sandwich. The history of the term po-boy is controversial with many interpretations in New Orleans folklore. Most date the origins of the term po-boy to a 1929 street car workers strike and the sandwich that the Martin Brothers Restaurant (former street car workers) created to feed and support the members of their former union as they struggled for collective bargaining rights from city officials.
