![]() Other groceries quickly followed.Īll these years later, the po’ boy possesses a mystique for outsiders, and an enduring association with fried shellfish and roast beef. ![]() And so they started making sandwiches so big the workers wouldn’t go hungry. “When the Martins heard about the strike, they said, ‘We’ll take care of you, our poor boys,'” explains Justin Kennedy, chef at the family-owned Parkway Bakery and Tavern. Invented during the Depression at Martin Brothers Restaurant in New Orleans, the po’ boy was created by two retired streetcar conductors in order to feed the city’s destitute streetcar workers who had gone on strike when their pay was cut. ![]() If you’re hungry-like, haven’t-eaten-a-square-meal-in-weeks hungry-you can’t do better than a po’ boy. ![]()
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