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a sandwich so heavy it doubles as a workout, invented by Sicilians who refused to skip lunch.
means A large round Sicilian-style sandwich layered with cured meats, cheeses, and a tangy olive salad on a sturdy sesame loaf, famously associated with New Orleans.
from From Sicilian Italian 'muffuletta,' originally the name of the soft, round sesame bread itself — the word is a diminutive form suggesting something small and rounded, like a little muffin or roll. Sicilian immigrants brought both the loaf and the name to New Orleans, where the term migrated from the bread to the whole stuffed sandwich built on it. The popular tale credits a specific Italian grocery in the French Quarter with assembling the first one for hungry dockworkers; the sandwich's New Orleans birth is well attested, though the exact 'who invented it first' details are the kind of local lore that's hard to pin down precisely.
- Birthplace
- Central Grocery, New Orleans, born 1906
- Olive salad
- The marinated relish is the actual star
- Round bread
- Built on sesame-crusted Sicilian loaf, not sub roll
- Better aged
- Tastes superior hours later as oils soak in
- Quarter portions
- One sandwich feeds four hungry people easily
central grocery store — new orleans sandwich shop that invented the muffuletta in 1906
nola sandwich — traditional new orleans muffuletta with italian meats, cheese, and olive salad on round sicilian bread