Talk:St. Paul sandwich

I was going to write this page. But someone else did it for me. Damn. --Blue387 19:52, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Someone left the anecdote "I've lived half my life in St. Louis and never had a St. Paul with lettuce and tomato." on the article, so I moved it here. Whitebox 06:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Picture of a St Paul Sandwich
Can some one snap a picture of a St. Paul on their camera phone or something like that the next time they eat one, and post it here... That would greatly improve the article. Whitebox 12:35, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * We do have a picture now, but it is still a lot less good-looking compared to what you get on Google images. Part of that is a lack of colors (lettuce and tomato), but most importantly the lighting is not good. Oh actually the better-lighted version File:STP Sandwich 005.jpg still looks bad... maybe it really is the ingredients. Artoria2e5 🌉 02:10, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Chinese name
Can someone who has access to a Chinese restaurant that serves this check the menu to find the Chinese characters for this dish? Badagnani 00:27, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Sighting
On the menu at Chinese Wok Express in Columbia, MO. Grateful to find it on Wikipedia. Would have been futile to ask the Vietnamese owners what it was. Might just have to try it.--Thistledowne 18:32, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Chinese or Vietnamese
While egg foo young is a staple of American Chinese restaurants throughout the USA, it seems that the St. Paul sandwich is primarily served in Vietnamese-owned 'Chinese' restaurants in St. Louis. Can anyone confirm whether this sandwich was created by Chinese-Americans or Vietnamese-Americans? I've asked the owners of several local Vietnamese restaurants in the St. Paul, MN area and thus far none of them have even heard of the sandwich. Plenty of delicious Banh Mi to be had, though! Drlegendre (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 13:45, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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1940s
The sentence
 * One source has the origin of the St. Paul sandwich dating as far back as the early 1940s, when Chinese restaurants, desperate to attract the American public to try their cuisine, invented the sandwich to appeal to their palates.

makes for some amusing mental imagery ... I'm picturing an impoverished Chinese family standing on the sidewalk outside their crumbling, empty restaurant holding egg foo young sandwiches saying "Please!! Just try it! It's almost a hamburger!!" as hundreds of people rush on by them headed to the nearest steakhouse. But as much as I want to trust the person who originally wrote it (Ryanmartinez), it's been in the article for six years now without a real explanation of where it came from. Presumably someone named Mercuri wrote a book and on page 71 there is an anecdote from which the above sentence was taken, but this was never clarified even in the original edit from 2008. Does anyone have any information beyond what he wrote? — Soap — 03:50, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you, 107.216.165.224. — Soap — 01:30, 18 August 2015 (UTC)