Jersey Mike’s Last Chance
And what really matters in a sandwich (it may be more than taste)
23 min readMay 2, 2022
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A friend texted me saying he was craving the “Cancro” sandwich. Up until a few months ago I’d have had no idea what that meant, but it was a few months ago that I set out to beshame (or redeem, should they seize the opportunity) the sandwich chain Jersey Mike’s, and now ‘Cancro’ — a signature sandwich named after the chain’s founder and CEO — is a word that takes up as much space in my brain as any other word, including all words I know with any significance at all. Whereas I…