WE TRIED THE MOST FAMOUS SANDWICH IN THE WORLD! (with Man vs Food)

We're in New York City trying the most famous sandwich on planet Earth and I have bought my biggest inspirations Welcome to New York City now Adam Richman is back But this time we're in his hometown trying the food to put him on the radar for me Katz's Deli right here on New York's Lower East Side. If you don't like it, there's something wrong with your mouth Experiencing Katz's Deli with him for me is like playing football with Cristiano Ronaldo This is right to the very top. I've just discovered the best Katz's Deli order ever Hearing about the world's most famous sandwich through Adam's stories. This is gonna be a Spiritual experience. All the people that I used to come here with that took me here are gone. To be here with you right now I've got goosebumps. I love you. I love you guys. Let's eat some Katz's Deli, shall we? What's up brother? Thank you brother, you good? Do not lose these Under any circumstances, a little tip from your uncle Adam, better to have died a small child than lose your Katz's ticket And bring cash for your cutter. You pay a lot more for unnecessary reasons and bring cash for your cutter I'll explain. Whatever you do, do not lose this ticket. If you lose the ticket, you get a fine You literally do and it's also for them to help keep track of inventory Now you heard when I said keep cash for your cutter Now this is what I'm saying each of these stations one through eight now What happens is your cutters you see they have tip jars in front of them Walk up have your cash in hand so they know you know, what's up and then you can choose Do you want lean or juicy? Juicy is a euphemism for fatty I mean just standing here and watching these guys cut Yeah, literally like they've got a whole army of cutters at the front when they slice that meat I have never seen people slice meat so quick. Katz goes through 1,650 tons of meat each year and to put that into perspective That's roughly the weight of 11 jumbo jets just in meat alone No machines and the thing is one of the other reasons is this when you use a deli slicer It generates too much heat. It renders out the fat Everything is cut by hand will even give you a little sample on those little plates. They have in front of them I'm not kidding. You New Yorkers will develop a friendship or like an affinity for a certain cutter Do you have a favorite sandwich from when you come here? I always go pastrami on rye Russian dressing cheese and sauerkraut cheese Always cheese the pro move with bar none. It's pastrami and corned beef Russian dressing and coleslaw on rye and I will say this ten toes down with my whole Chest with some of the best French fries ever. You can call them chips. You're gonna pull free. Don't give a ---- They're really good here. They're so good. We're gonna get some meat. Let's go. Yeah, let's go. How's it going, brother? Pastrami and corned beef on rye Russian and slaw. Can we go more lean and juicy? How long you've been cutting here? 30 30. Yeah, 30 years. Yeah, look how like through butter Oh my god, literally one slice. It just goes straight through the meat. There's a cameraman here It's probably very hungry. Come here ash. Come here, baby. Come near the good boy Nothing tastes like Katz's pastrami This is I just love this place It feels like you've just stepped back into history Right The number of ways to change is limited the number of ways to stay the same as infinite Katz's deli will infinitely please you because they are infinitely staying the same They are staying the course with what has kept them in business since 1914. It actually since 1888 time Can I get a Pastrami on rye with Russian dressing sauerkraut and cheese, please. If you listen very carefully, you can hear my grandpa turning in his grave Look how quick he's chopping it. So do you go juicy or do you go lean? I prefer lean. I went juicy Wow Oh, well, I only have 502,000 followers At $35 a sandwich with a tip included these sandwiches are not cheap But you get an incredible portion size and reputational costs almost about 50% of that. Is it worth it? I'll let you decide in the comments. This is like a gym workout alone. I've got so much meat so much sandwiches Thought that you're bragging about your physique. I got so much meat So you get your soda here and you get your french fries down that away I'm excellent, brother Thank you so much, I'm trying it's all pastrami. Most of mother's milk was probably like part corned beef part pastrami can we do a Celery, please. Yeah, and a diet cream. I've ordered best mate You win. I got my fries. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good I mean, this is just iconic alone walking past the sign where Harry met Sally So back and back to like the very very beginning of cats Like how did that sort of like journey begin? We had hundreds if not thousands of delis in the neighborhood And it was just a way to survive right? It's feeding your family. It's feeding the neighborhood Yeah, this is taking old world cooking techniques and applying it to you know, cuts of meat that were available here Well, it's this pre refrigeration. It's how do you make it last? How do you make it taste good? And now you don't see that many delis doing it the way it used to be done, right? We we do it the old-fashioned way We cure it we smoke it the old-fashioned way do the pickles the old-fashioned way the mustard the old-fashioned way So we we you know try to maintain that tradition How do you stay on top of that because there's we're in a world now with loads and loads of new sort of sandwich shops Delis are all popping up, but you guys still remain the most famous the most iconic It's the still the busiest is it forget the rest of the bull just make sure it's the best you can make it the best Sandwich, can you tell him really quickly that story you told for nosh about the old lady cutting? I'm gonna cry I'm walking down. I'm talking to customers and I see this little baby. She's about 90 something years old And she's just crying. She's a sandwichable sandwich in front of her I grew up with three sisters and every week we would so spend all week sewing stuff And then we'd come to orchard on Sundays and sell what we had made and with what we had made we'd come here And we had enough money for one sandwich and we cut it into quarters. So every time I come back here Sights and sounds that smells are exactly the same and I brought it back To those Sundays, you know, my grandpa was a World War two veteran and you know, I've got a Holocaust survivors in my family I come here. Yeah, the pastrami is like a gift from heaven and Jake's a friend, but there is something for me When he told that story you can't Eat here and not feel the presence of the generations before you That ordered these things that created these trends before Norway's star striker was eating a pastrami sandwich out in front of here before Meg Ryan faked an orgasm at this table or Tom Lear said send a salami to your boy in the army All the people that I used to come here with that took me here are gone. Yes, you can forge new memories I love sharing the gospel of this place But you can't eat here if you have history here and not feel it with every bite Mm-hmm and I apologize for crying on your otherwise jovial food video But the bottom line is I couldn't give a ---- about places if I didn't feel this deeply I mean, he's got three of his pictures on the wall Probably I wrote them forward to the cats his book My grandma makes you rest in peace used to go never forget who took it at first modest By the way, he has never had a pickled as he says tomato. I want you to try your very first pickled tomato here The juice Amazing Yes, still very fragrant very vegetal very gardening, yeah, you get these small tight green tomatoes that are That allow for that punch when you take away cheers No, my dog that was charming that was charming like its own food group This is love this is what love is There's so many sort of iconic restaurants around the world a lot of them lose their way They get carried away with the hype. Absolutely about the tradition. They take shortcuts. They cut corners Cats is one of those places that has just stayed here Let's still use the best ingredients they can find and you can taste that within every single bite of your sandwich I love this because the pastrami is so good. I love the sauerkraut. I love the creaminess of the cheese the bread These are like very specific very pointed flavors remember Russian dressing has a pickled element to it So you need that sour you need that crunch? Over to you governor, okay chase might appreciate what you're doing. So we have corned beef pastrami Russian and coleslaw Hmm All this time I've been coming to cats and I've been sleeping on this beast No, seriously, look at me It was all good. So you call me daddy and then I really liked it. I just boner I've ever gotten Everything from salty to smoky the slaw as the creaminess but the most important thing That the slaw does is add this huge amount of cruncher adds crunch into the sandwich Now if we're talking about pairing, this is called Celery soda. I feel that this is a brilliant accompaniment to the smoked meat right With that with that cured meat and it immediately gets all that fattiness out of your mouth And it resets your taste buds for the next bite. I've just discovered the best cats deli order Here lies Adam Richman he gave Todd the best cats deli order ever It's like these people get hundreds if not thousands of people that come through this door the amount of lives. You've just changed It's an expensive sandwich, but it is meant to be shared You don't really see a lot of people eating here by themselves unless you're an absolute unit like me So these are the sour the ones that are more olive. These are half sour the green My mother would be so proud of me right now. You don't a pickle guy eat eating some salad in America Like that guy badass Finley a little healthiness Right, it's the crunch When they make them here, you know, they're not jerking around here. Hey, oh Joke, let's keep pushing Okay No, no, no, we're just gonna know each other they will get worse So super duper sour every single capsule that needs a salad why so you can eat more meat? But it is there is some truth to that right you have that acid. It's got a cut through all the fat That's the reason why the celery works I can't imagine just having a celery soda on a hot day But the way it resets your mouth after something so powerfully savory is the best What's wild is even though this is a destination? New Yorkers still come here and to me the fact that people put going to Katz's on the same level as I want to go To the top of the Empire State Building see the Statue of Liberty Go to Rockefeller Center and see a Nick game should let you know that this transcends food this this this This is New York. This is New York. It's the best of us 100% Welcome to New York City. No duck Guys, please like subscribe follow Adam follow him. We'll see you the next video probably Enjoy a date. Take a bite