"l not -l" > wrote in message
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> On 31-Aug-2014, Janet Wilder > wrote:
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>> On 8/31/2014 3:13 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> >
>> > "Ophelia" > wrote in message
>> > ...
>> >> Please would someone be so kind as to define this for me? What kind
>> >> of food is it?
>> >
>> > It's a sandwich but what is in it depends on where you get it. We got
>> > frozen ones when I was a kid. They came on a submarine roll and I'm
>> > pretty sure that the fillings were cheap bologna and American cheese.
>> > You baked them in the oven to heat through. I didn't particularly like
>> > them but they were cheap and easy to fix. My friend and I often chose
>> > those for dinner when we had sleepovers and had to get our own meals.
>> > We would also get frozen turnovers which weren't really cheap. But the
>> > Po Boys were cheap enough that it allowed us enough money left over to
>> > get the turnovers.
>>
>> Not only is that NOT a po' boy sandwich, it's not even real food.
>
> It serves to remind us that, no matter what the food, someone will co-opt
> the name and apply it to something awful and far removed from the
> original.
> Restaurants and supermarkets are filled with examples. Caveat emptor.

Those were available for many years. Don't know if you can still get them.
Haven't looked for them. But I do remember buying them for my husband.