Reply to "It's All Pag's Fault - Mike's Pastrami"

Yeah Pags, I watch and rematch those videos, you realize these fellas are really very serious about what they're doing when they do it the old way - the way their great grandparents did it when they brought the method over from the old country... Kudos.

I spend a lotta years in Chicago as a teen and learned to really love a lot of the good deli stuff they had. So my bride (this is 5 years ago) couldn't wait to take me to Katz's on our honeymoon. We sat near Harry & Sally's table and I got up and ordered my corned beef sandwich.I had to wait while the cutter was working on a guy ahead of me who ordered pastrami. The cutter could tell I was really into it and trimmed up about a 1/4 lb. of pastrami and put it on a small plate for all of us to sample. WOW !!
When he got around to doing my corned beef sandwich (think about it ONE POUND OF TRIMMED MEAT) he cut away so much gorgeous corned beef to get down to what he thought was sandwich worthy. Everything he cut away went into a bin. I wanna buy one of those bins full of meat and make corned beef hash or hand pies !!