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NYC Food Truck Lunch: The "Abe" from Holy Rollers

Perry, the founder of New York Street Food, brings you his latest review on New York City street food.

A new food cart appeared a few weeks ago in midtown called Holy Rollers. They serve different types of sausages with loads of toppings, plus a few other dishes. They are also Glatt kosher, if that matters to you. If you're like us, all we care about is the taste.

Prices are a little higher, as most kosher food is, but the bun was more loaded with goodies than any other hot dog/sausage cart we've seen.

The concept is to start with one of 3 types of sausage (Polish, Cajun or Sweet Italian), add a meat topping (brisket, pastrami or chili) and some condiments (garlic mayo, bbq sauce, mustard, etc).

The menu seems to be more of a suggestion box, with them asking what you want on the sausage as they go along fixing it up. After adding the pastrami, it was "Do you want chili? Do you want lettuce and tomato? Do you want sauces?"

You end up with a custom-built sandwich, overflowing with toppings. In fact, the roll was so loaded with sausage, pastrami, chili and sauteed onions, we didn't have any sauces put on top. It would have just made things messier.

Holy Rollers Cart
(credit: Perry R.)

Having brisket or pastrami on a Polish sausage is delicious, and the addition of chili and sauteed onions made it even better.

Luckily, the roll was hardier than a regular hot dog bun. It was larger and thicker, like what they use to serve wurst on in German restaurants. The bread had no problem standing up to this onslaught.

Holy Rollers does not seem to have a website or Twitter account. They post their locations daily on Facebook here, and seem to move around a few different spots in midtown. Here's the menu, but like we said, it's more of a suggestion than a way of life, with the servers making sure you get what you want for lunch.

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