Dining at B&B Grocery, Meat & Deli is not for the faint of heart.
If the excessive colors, exclamation points and blown-up photos on B&B's "Killer Menu" don't intimidate you enough, the list of 50-plus sandwiches and burgers and 21 sides should do the trick. To make matters more daunting for first-timers like me, nearly all the sandwiches cost less than $5.
Since I'm indecisive, and did not want to stand wide-eyed at the counter for 10 minutes, I stuck with a classic, B&B's Real Pork Tenderloin Sandwich, for $4.99. And I could not have been more pleased.
I feasted on a piping-hot fried pork tenderloin, far exceeding the perimeter of a large white bun. The young gentleman behind the counter spiced mine up with jalapeños on request, in addition to the pickles, onions, mustard and ketchup.
The $4.99 menu options range from polish sausage on hoagies to classic Reubens to liver cheese in the deli. Sides includes tacos, corn dogs, deviled eggs, wings and, for $2, you can make any sandwich a basket - adding french fries and potato salad, macaroni salad or coleslaw.
If you drop a Hamilton ($10): I probably would have "manned-up" - as a homemade sign taped to the counter challenged me to do - by ordering the Quadzilla. That's four beef patties, American cheese, mustard, ketchup, pickles, onions, lettuce and tomato on a grilled bun. But you have to drop $6.99 for the Quadzilla, and maybe a few more bucks for a bottle of Tums.
A five-spot well spent
What to eat: $4.99 pork tenderloin
Where: B&B Grocery, Meat & Deli, 2001 S.E. Sixth St.
Hours: 8:30 a.m.- 6 p.m. Monday through Friday; 8:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. Saturday
Info: 243-7607 or bbgrocerymeatdeli.com
