I eat the Cazon BLT — and live to tell the tale!!!
Alright, I have finally tried the Cazon BLT. The same BLT that Gazette food writer Maureen Crockett found so peppery she had to send it back after one bite. And the verdict? It is very peppery. And crazy delicious! As far as I’m concerned, this is Charleston’s go-to bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.
Now, I wanted to take a couple bites of the Cazon BLT and declare Maureen Crockett a wimp whose idea of spicy likely falls somewhere between ketchup and communion wafers. That may be true. But indeed, this sandwich does have some kick. But it’s a slow black pepper burn that builds in the back of the mouth rather than a chili pepper scorcher that attacks your tongue and lips. You can probably take it.
And to be clear, it’s the mayonnaise, not the bacon, that is peppered (and this is clearly indicated on the menu). So you could, in theory, order it with regular ol’ mayo. But why would you want to do that? Nothing wakes up the flavor of bacon and tomato like black pepper. I anxiously await Cazon’s dinner hours.
September 21st, 2006 at 2:06 am
MAYONNAISE? AARGHH!
Mayonnaise is the food of the devil! No amount of pepper could drown out that most evil of condiments. Thank God Graziano’s is back open after their vacation. Mel and I went into Cazon last week for lunch, but the overabundance of mushrooms on the menu made me too nervous to eat there. I’m allergic and those things could kill me.
Mayo, I’m not allergic to. I simply hate it with all fury that a sane man can summon towards a food item.
Now I gotta get back to my spinach withdrawal.
September 21st, 2006 at 11:57 am
Try the muffaleto… muffaloofa…. muffumo… I don’t know how to spell the thing: the big freakin’ sandwich with the turkey, pastrami and olives…
Charleston’s best sandwich… period.
September 21st, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Cazon reviewer Maureen Crockett weighs into the spicy subject of this post with this review of the review of her review, via e-mail. She asked gazz to post it here:
As for the heat in my BLT sandwich? I love spicy mayo, the kind with wasabi, and buy that type a lot for sandwiches and potato salad created at Chez Crockett. But that extra and unnecessary heat [at Cazon] came from the bacon. How do I know? I asked the waitress.
September 25th, 2006 at 9:21 am
Maybe the waitress was clueless. That’s hardly unheard of. Anyhoo, Cazon is a southwestern, Tex-Mex joint, so if it weren’t spicey then it just wouldn’t be proper.
October 19th, 2006 at 11:15 am
No wonder Charleston is the most generic white bread middle American town in the country. People prefer prefer TGIFs over an actual restaurant.
This sort of bitching and moaning exactly why there are no unique or progressive businesses in this town. People freak out over pepper! What a bunch of total bores.
Where the hell is Cazon anyway? It would be nice if someone would include the location in these stories.