Vices

Legal Sea Foods CEO Hit Rock Bottom at the Carnegie Deli

A hulking sandwich at the Carnegie Deli.
A hulking sandwich at the Carnegie Deli.

Last week, Legal Sea Foods maven Roger Berkowitz took to the blogosphere to document his addiction to Chinese food. This week, he confesses to an even stronger vice: deli meats. We understand his passion (who doesn’t love pastrami?), yet we also hope he perseveres where his colleagues Hemingway, Cheever, Capote, and Kerouac have failed. “I’m shaking as I write this!” he reveals in his latest missive, suggestively titled “My Substance of Choice,” which recalls his rock-bottom moment at New York’s iconic Carnegie Deli.

A hulking sandwich at the Carnegie Deli.

While we chuckle at his wry look at deli addiction, we also hope he gets help. Surely there’s a twelve-step program for this kind of problem. Or he could just go to Katz’s, where the sandwiches are (a little) smaller.

My Substance of Choice [Boston Herald]
Earlier: Is Roger Berkowitz Heinz’s Newest Spokesman?

Once seated the plate of sour and half sour pickles came and I felt myself losing control. When it came time to order, I had completely forgotten my turkey club vow, and went instead for the “Fresser’s Delight:” two pounds of deli including corned beef, rolled beef and tongue with swiss and coleslaw, piled six inches high on white rye … My family watched in horror as I just kept eating. When finished, I sat there dazed and bloated and gastronomically distressed.

While we chuckle at his wry look at deli addiction, we also hope he gets help. Surely there’s a twelve-step program for this kind of problem. Or he could just go to Katz’s, where the sandwiches are (a little) smaller.

My Substance of Choice [Boston Herald]
Earlier: Is Roger Berkowitz Heinz’s Newest Spokesman?

Legal Sea Foods CEO Hit Rock Bottom at the Carnegie Deli