I'm in Atlantic City for a high school reunion this weekend, catching up with friends not only from ACHS Class of '67, but from grade school and even earlier. To those of you who have visited the town, I've always advised skipping the casinos and heading straight to the only place on Absecon Island worth your while, the White House Sub shop. As a native, I should confess that I've already broken that rule on this visit. For starters, I'm staying at the Borgata -- comped as a guest not because I am a high roller, for I surely am not, but because a Class of '67 buddy of mine does Borgata's laundry. Regarding the White House, I passed up a cheese steak sub there, opting instead for the incomparable tuna/cheese sub from Dino's in Margate, a downbeach suburb of Atlantic City. In South Jersey, and particularly on Absecon Island, where Atlantic City is located, subs have reached their apotheosis, and sub shops do not win 'Best of' awards for 'subs' per se, but for such specialized categories of subs, such as 'Best Regular Sub,' or 'Best Cheese Steak Sub,' or 'Best Egg, Pepper & Cheese Sub' (my mother's favorite). Dino's Mayonnaise Secret So what makes Dino's tuna/cheese hoagie so great? In a word, the tuna. It is not just tuna salad on the incomparable Rando Italian roll, but tuna that has been whipped with mayonnaise almost to the consistency of a tuna mousse. Cheese-steak specialists have some secrets too, and one that has kept the White House's version at the top of the ratings is that they use a very high quality of rib-eye steak, as well as stake-grown Jersey tomatoes. A whole steak sub is about 16' long and feeds 2-3. A sub shop in Podunk would probably
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