How The Po Boy Sandwich Was First Created

The Po Boy sandwich is iconic to New Orleans, but how did it first come about?

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– The Great Depression hit a lot of people. Streetcar drivers, when these guys weren’t getting paid, they went on strike. And former streetcar conductors, Benny and Clovis Martin, had said, “Look, you come down to the Martin Brothers’ Grocery Store, you show your badge, we’ll feed you. We’ll feed our poor boys.”

And they were baking French bread as well, but the bread was wide in the middle and skinny on the ends like a football. John Gendusa came up with a 36-inch loaf back in 1929, consistently the same size from beginning to end. And this is what they still bake today.

You see it this morning. By the end of the day, all this will be gone.