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Review Wed Aug 04 2010
Who's Got the Beef?, Part III
On a cloudy evening last week at US Cellular Field, the beefs were beckoning like a White Sox call to victory. Just as the Sox had been nearly perfect at home of late, the beefs that call US Cellular Field home as well are nearly impossible to beat. As with most foodstuffs ordered at ballgames, beefs are best ordered earlier in the game than later, and by doing so, one can brace themselves for moments of beefed-out bliss in between Alexei Ramirez and Omar Vizquel web gems.
With beef in hand, it is impossible not to note how the softness of the roll, which cradles the perfectly sauced and sliced piles of Vienna Beef, sets the sandwich apart as beyond standard. A healthy heaping of hot giardiniera slathered over the sandwich lends an interesting texture to the interplay between the juiciness of the beef to the spiciness of the peppers to the moistness of the roll. The entire affair is an well-balanced mix of beef-to-juice-to-spice-to roll, and the net effect is that the Italian Beef courtesy of the food stand in Section 544 becomes something of an Archetypal Beef: the beef of all beefs.
Of course, the classiest way to enjoy your Sox Beef is to pair it up with a glass of White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper's Coopernet red wine. A "10" out of "10".
