The #43 Mychal Thompson Sandwich

Norm Langer surprised 710 ESPN High Noon Showdown hosts Andrew Siciliano and Mychal Thompson today with a very special creation for Mychal – the #43 Mychal Thompson Sandwich. Created using a whole loaf of honey wheat bread and all the ingredients of our traditional #19 (only much bigger – 2.5 pounds of steaming hot pastrami, cole slaw, Russian dressing and Swiss cheese), the #43 was specially designed to address Mychal’s belief that Langer’s sandwiches are better tasting with honey wheat bread (yikes!) and not our delicious rye bread.

Show producer Drew Belzer kept Norm’s walk-in visit a complete surprise from Mychal and Andrew, who were genuinely shocked to see Norm walk in with a tinfoil-enshrouded mystery present for Mychal. Norm proceeded to describe how he had listened to last week’s Langer’s visit when we brought lunch in for the entire crew of 710 ESPN, and was shocked to learn that Mychal had (in anticipation of the free food) brought in his own honey wheat bread to re-make his sandwich more to his liking. Despite honey wheat being borderline heretical to a good Jewish deli sandwich, Norm felt it was his duty to bring something more to Mychal’s taste. We even brought Mychal a full bottle of mayonnaise (his favorite condiment), another heretical moment that nearly caused Andrew to walk out of the studio in protest.

In all, it was a great visit and Mychal was a terrific sport about it. In fact, he plans to take the huge, oversized sandwich with him on his flight to London accompanying the Los Angeles Lakers for their European exhibition trip beginning with an October 4th game against the Minnesota Timberwolves at London’s O2 Arena. It’s our guess the #43 will be long gone by then, though.

Enjoy, Mychal – and don’t forget the mayo!

Click here to listen to the show – scroll to 12:00 for Norm’s segment