Poor boy shops are like are like makes of cars. A few are considered the very best, but most people buy the ones whose appeal is not only about taste but also style, value and convenience. And then there are the models that are so unusual that they engender either love or disdain. If you must have sliced roast beef on a sandwich, know that Shortstop's beef is halfway to becoming part of the gravy, instead of the other way around. The flavor is hard not to like, though.
The oldest continuously-operating poor boy specialist in Metairie not only makes great sandwiches, but does so in a unique style. The roast beef is cooked so long that it falls apart from its own tenderness. It would not be exaggerating to call this a beef debris poor boy. In a time when many poor boys have passed the $10 mark, you can still get a regular-size roast beef here for six bucks.
The Short Stop opened in 1966 as a convenience store--hence the name. It made sandwiches of such goodness that it ditched the rest of the business and specialized in poor boys. It opened satellite locations in the past, but the original location is now the one and only.
The dining room, with its many windows, has the feel of a fast food restaurant of the 1970s.
Unless you are hugely hungry, a male in his teens or twenties, or are splitting a sandwich, the large poor boy will be too much.
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