Daily News | Is Philly’s messiest breakfast sandwich also its most delicious?
I’m not feeling my most adventurous at breakfast, so when I spied eyebrow-raising offering on the menu — peanut butter and jelly“Peanut butter and bacon are always a good combo,” the plucky clerk countered when I expressed my skepticism., a breakfast spot that operates four days a week inside the Lucky’s Trading Co. on Ridge Avenue in Wissahickon.
The sandwich arrived on red-checkered wax paper, and I instantly knew I was going to be as sticky as my toddler after eating it. The freshly fried over-medium egg topped with bacon and American cheese warm up the Jif peanut butter and strawberry jelly, creating a melty-gooey sauce situation that simply cannot be contained by a fluffy buttermilk biscuit. I readied some napkins and took a bite.
Everything I had been afraid of — the jelly and the peanut butter throwing off the savory purity of my beloved bacon, egg, and cheese — was valid, but totally delicious. The peanut butter-jelly plays wonderfully off bacon, and ratchets up the flavor and substance of the sandwich. I ended up swiping the tender biscuit halves through the salty-sweet ooze, mess be damned.
Afterward, I asked Tara Torrence, the Biscuit Lady herself, about the Uptown Girl’s backstory. She launched the business last August, selling plain biscuits, sandwiches, jams, and specialty biscuits laced with seasonal fruit and spices out of her Plymouth Meeting home. Torrence has been making biscuits for years; they’re a favorite of her North Carolina-born husband..
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