It's like White Guy clapping: clap the words!

I still hear echoes of the first episode when Howard Hesseman's character, being told that the format is changing and he'll have more freedom, blasts Cincinnati with some rock music and then leans into the microphone and says "bugger" (actually, I think it was "buggahhhhhhhhh")

I'm afraid this'll be a letdown, but it was "booger." His backstory was he'd been fired from a station in LA for saying "booger" on the air.

Italian Beef.

My favorite way to eat one is cheesy beef (mozzarella), sweet (peppers), and slightly wet (not sopping with dipped juice, just damp, otherwise the bread falls apart too soon).

I didn't know this:

Italian beef sandwiches are difficult to obtain outside the Chicago area

meara, it looks like you'll soon have a place to get Italian Beef in Chicago! (And hot dogs, Polish, cheese curds, and even Italian Ice.)

I don't know from Italian Beef. If I've even heard of it, it's only been here.

I don't know what an Italian beef is. Still want one, though.

Oh, Italian beef is not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting, you know, beef from Italy, which I have had, and which is aces, especially if it is Chiannese, roasted in rosemary.

Or possibly Chicago just doesn't know what to call a hot roast beef sandwich. A cheeseless cheesestake? Anyway, the name "Italian beef" is not getting across the humdrum sandwichy nature of the thing.

Italian beef sandwiches are difficult to obtain outside the Chicago area

There are a couple places you can get them in SF, but I can't vouch for their authenticity. I've never eaten one in Chicago.

Mostly out here in that genre you'll find the more Californian French Dip, a sandwich credited to Los Angeles.

Italian Beefs are more than just roast beef sandwiches. It's all about the spices in the jus--everyone makes their own spice mix, so beefs are different at just about every beef joint. Add the peppers or gardineira and vary the amount of dip, and you've got some good eatin' there!