Word: sandwiched
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...next day a young man wearing a business suit and carrying a briefcase strode past the gate guard, waved and heaved a silent sigh. He had made it! "It was my father's briefcase," Spielberg says. "There was nothing in it but a sandwich and two candy bars. So every day that summer I went in my suit and hung out with directors and writers and editors and dubbers. I found an office that wasn't being used, and became a squatter. I went to a camera store, bought some plastic name titles and put my name in the building...
Despite crime, crowds, expensive real estate, and awful swings in temperature, native New Yorkers say they'll never leave the Big Apple, often claiming that there's no other city where you can get a pastrami sandwich...
...Boston, they spell it pastromi, and pronounce it a little differently, but increasingly, it is becoming easier to locate a sandwich of it on a bulkie roll, no less, in the wee hours of the morning...
Even as they learn about new cuisines, Americans are busy naturalizing foreign ingredients into native dishes: tofu, the cheeselike soybean curd, as the base for burgers and ice cream; tacos and pita as sandwich holders; chili oils and fruit sauces for barbecues. Surimi, a preserved-fish product developed in Japan a thousand years ago, has been reshaped for the American market to look like shrimp and crab legs. Tempeh, the Oriental fermented soybean cake, is here formed and flavored to simulate bacon and pastrami...
...Green Chicken, as the faithful call it--stocks more than twice as much as most late-night stores, and it's usually fresher. While you're there, don't miss out on the open deli, where you can get a relatively good and large sandwich for relatively little money. There are also tables at which you can sit around with friends while pounding your coffee, smoking your cigarettes, and reading tomorrow's Globe...