Meatball Sub

Any local pizza joint here serves meatball subs. They’re mandatory. 😉

Subway…Penn Station, they have them. The sit-down Mediterranean cafe in town has them. Small rural town of 12,000…and there are three places I know of, and probably a couple I don’t know of, who have them.

Meatball subs are very, very popular in the Midwest.
'Course I haven't been out to eat in years...
 
'Course I haven't been out to eat in years...
That’s the beautiful thing about meatball subs…it’s hard to have a bad one.

You can go out to Vinnie’s Pizza Grotto and pay $10-$12 for one, or go to Walmart, buy a bag of frozen meatballs, some hoagie rolls, a jar marinara sauce, and a block of mozzarella for the same $10-$12, and have eight meatball subs, and they’ll taste about 95% as good as the restaurant one.
 
That’s the beautiful thing about meatball subs…it’s hard to have a bad one.

You can go out to Vinnie’s Pizza Grotto and pay $10-$12 for one, or go to Walmart, buy a bag of frozen meatballs, some hoagie rolls, a jar marinara sauce, and a block of mozzarella for the same $10-$12, and have eight meatball subs, and they’ll taste about 95% as good as the restaurant one.

Good idea. Sounds like a GG's menu item... 👍
 
You can pull a little out, but you can also just smash it down just a little.
Something you might do with a hamburger that is stacked too high (meat, cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, . . .)

The Italian sub can be really good. Quality of ingredients can make or break the sammy There is no middle ground.
 
When I make meatballs for Sunday gravy or pasta and meatballs I always make extra for subs, plus use whatever of the leftover sausage and braciole.

I prefer to pull out some of the bread in the sub rolls. Not only does it cut down on the amount of bread, but I throw the pieces in a bag in the freezer to make fresh bread crumbs when needed.
 
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