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Gatsby is a signature dish of South Africa; we have verified places to eat it in Cape Town. A full Portuguese roll split lengthwise and packed with slap chips, a hot filling and achar, then cut into wedges for a table to share. Start with where to eat Gatsby in Cape Town.
A full Portuguese roll split lengthwise and packed with slap chips, a hot filling and achar, then cut into wedges for a table to share. Cape Town's own sandwich, and still cheapest where it started.
Rashaad Pandy, who ran a food shop in Athlone on the Cape Flats, fed a crew of workers in 1976 by filling a large loaf with slap chips, polony and achar and cutting it into wedges. One of the workers, nicknamed Froggy, called it a Gatsby smash after The Great Gatsby, which had been screening at a cinema nearby, and Pandy put the name on the counter. The sandwich spread across Athlone, Mitchells Plain and Gatesville, where the standard grew to a footlong measured in quarters, and the fillings widened to masala steak, fried calamari, polony and Vienna sausage.
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