I visited Havre de Grace’s 25th Annual Decoy & Wildlife Art Festival this weekend.
The Chesapeake Bay is a very awkward place. It’s a weird amalgamation of the privileged and the redneck. The beauty of the bay overcomes class…sorta… I guess it can’t decide whether you live in a shanty or a estate.
John Water’s Pecker introduced my friends and I to the pit beef sandwich. This weekend was my first taste. Simply put its a smoked beef sandwich maybe of lesser quality than a traditional roast beef sandwich. The brisket looking slap of beef is sliced and smoked (probably in a pit at one point, but now modern smokers abound) with a secret seasoning only know to the Chesapeakeans or maybe they’re Chesapeakers… I prefer the first because it rhymes with Puerto Rican. It was pricey at $5… but I think we were taken advantage of because of its convenience.
I tell my lady friends…”Give a man a pit beef sandwich… and he’ll be back for seconds”…. All Baltimore loves a pit beef sandwich! – Memama
Havre de Grace
Here are some pictures:
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Havre de Grace Decoy Museum
Here is what pit beef sandwich looks like:
Almost sexual isn’t?