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Katz's Delicatessen
Katz's Delicatessen has been serving hand-carved pastrami sandwiches from the same corner of Manhattan's Lower East Side since 1888, making it one of the oldest continuously operating delicatessens in the United States and a direct link to New York's Jewish immigrant food culture. Its pastrami sandwich, still hand-cut to order by countermen slicing from whole steamed briskets rather than pre-sliced deli meat, has become the reference standard against which nearly every other pastrami sandwich in the country is measured, piled high enough that eating one with both hands is genuinely difficult. The deli became internationally famous beyond the food world after serving as the setting for the fake-orgasm scene in "When Harry Met Sally..." (1989), with a sign still marking the exact table where the scene was filmed, giving it a rare crossover between culinary and cinematic landmark status. Katz's combination of its century-plus unbroken operating history and its defining role in American pastrami sandwich culture has made it one of the most iconic single sandwiches in the country's culinary history.
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Publix Pub Sub
The Publix Sub, universally known across Florida and the broader Southeast as the "Pub Sub," is a made-to-order deli sandwich sold at the supermarket chain Publix's deli counters, and it has developed a genuinely unusual cult following for a sandwich sold inside a grocery store rather than a dedicated sandwich shop. The sandwich's specific preparation — meat and cheese warmed together before the vegetables and dressing are added — combined with Publix's consistent quality control across its hundreds of Southeastern locations, gave it a reputation for reliability that regular customers came to associate specifically with hurricane-prep grocery runs and everyday lunch routines alike. The Pub Sub became enough of a regional cultural touchstone that it developed an association with hurricane season specifically, since stocking up on Pub Subs before a storm became a widely shared, half-joking Florida tradition documented extensively on social media during major storm events. The Pub Sub's combination of its unusual origin inside a supermarket deli counter and its genuine cultural status as a Florida and Southeast regional icon has made it one of the most distinctive sandwiches in the country.
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