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- rareuncountableRare spelling of pastrami.
Knockwurst and Pastrame on toasted rye bread, potato salad, hard boiled egg, pickle _ $.85
1953 February 27, “Danziger’s”, in The Daily Tar Heel, volume LXI, number 104, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 45 more examples
12 to 16 varieties of lunch meats, 4 types of salads, 7 kinds of sausages, ham salads, baked hams, pastrame, corned beef cured or cooked, olive salad, […]
1964 May 27, “Purity Market”, in Daily Times-Advocate, volume LI, number 237, Escondido, Calif., →OCLC, page 8, column 2FOR YOUR holiday season, KUNTZ’S FOOD MART, 625 South Street Steubenville, Offers you daily fresh cooked corn beef, pastrame, all kinds of delicatessen, as well as smoked fish and a variety of herrings and appetizers.
1964 December 28, “Special Notices”, in The Weirton Daily Times, volume 37, number 161, Weirton, W.Va., →OCLC, page 17, column 7Enjoy your favorite cocktail with one of our delicious, jumbo pastrame, corn beef or roast beef sandwiches.
1974 January 6, “Poppinjays”, in The Monitor, 45th year, number 158, McAllen, Tex.: Freedom Newspapers, →OCLC, page 14A, column 9Courtyard and gallery tables make for a lively atmosphere and the “pastrame” ham and sweet pastries are good bets.
1989, Eugene Fodor, Sean Connolly, “Romania”, in Fodor’s 89: Europe: A Guide to the Best of 33 Countries, New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, →ISBN, page 912THE FFF (February Florida Fund) is growing steadily. We now have the price of one round of pastrame on rye (hold the mayo) and a pistachio ice-cream.
1991 March 9, Alan Cookman, “One man’s week: A weekly look at the wry side of life”, in Evening Sentinel, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15
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