I'd say that a muffaletta without the olives is still a muffaletta. The bread really defines it more than the olives do -- the olives are just customary. (Hmm. The bread is both neccesary and sufficient. The olives are not neccesary; are they sufficient? The meat is neither neccesary nor sufficient.)
F2F 2: Is there anybody here that hasn't slept together?
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: New Orleans! May 20-22, 2005!
Is anyone else hungry?
I would now actually sell a kidney for a Central Grocery muffaletta.
I mean, I don't even like olives!
(...and we've gone full circle.)
Ewww. Kidneys.
I don't like kidneys on my muffaletta.
If you have kidneys on your muffaletta, I don't think you actually have a muffaletta.
Going to eat dinner.
I don't know, Hil, I think olive salad is part of the definition of muffaletta.
Though the bread is definitely necessary.
And if someone handed me a quarter muffaletta, I would not check it for olive salad before eating it.
Well, now I might.
Dude, if I ask for a freakin' muffaletta and they make me one and I scrape off the shit in it that I can't eat without getting sick?
I am eating the sandwich I asked for. Which is a muffaletta. Which is also the sandwich I paid for.
Pfffffft.
See? Deb knows what I'm talking about....
Check the receipt. If it says "muffaletta" on it, you just ate a muffaletta, regardless of which parts fail to actually pass through your digestive tract.