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Primanti Bros
Primanti Bros began in 1933 as a cart serving truckers in Pittsburgh's Strip District wholesale produce market, and its signature sandwich — piling french fries and coleslaw directly inside the sandwich alongside the meat — became one of the most distinctive regional sandwich inventions in the country. The sandwich's origin is widely tied to Pittsburgh's working-class trucking and rail-yard culture, with the fries-and-slaw-inside format reportedly designed so laborers could eat a complete meal one-handed without needing a plate or side dishes during short breaks. The original Strip District location remained open essentially around the clock for decades to serve overnight shift workers, and the chain has since expanded regionally while keeping the same distinctive sandwich format that made it a defining piece of Pittsburgh food identity. Primanti Bros's combination of its working-class Strip District origin story and its genuinely unique fries-inside sandwich format has made it one of the most regionally iconic sandwiches in the country.
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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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