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Italian beef

CTL-W-0084 · Work

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Combined Graph record U-00200 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0084. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Chicago sandwich

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Chicago sandwich

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University of Chicago Magazine (tier 3): the Italian beef sandwich is 'a powerful signifier of Chicago original food' and 'is nowhere to be seen in Italy'; Al's #1 Italian Beef was started by the Pacelli family in Little Italy in 1938, and the beef sandwich was originally offered at 'peanut weddings.' Establishes identity, Chicago, and the stored 'Chicago sandwich' note. No year is stored, and none is asserted beyond the source's 1938 date for Al's.

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