Here are New Orleans’s Best Po-Boy Spots — EATER 🔗 🍽 ⚜️ 🥪 🍤 🦐 🥩 💯

Few things are more New Orleans than a gut-filling, over-stuffed po-boy. Like the city itself, these sandwiches aren’t about restraint or reason. Rather they hold a sacred, perhaps even fanatical, place among the city’s food iconography – and eating one amounts to an act of civic pride. First invented and sold to striking streetcar workers in the 1920s, these tasty and cheap “poor boy” sandwiches soon found popularity in the city’s working class: dock workers, tradesmen, and laborers. Eventually locals of every stripe took up the habit.