He handed his phone to his 78-year-old mother. “I said ‘Ma, look, this thing is coming in hot. Just stand in the doorway, you’ll be all right.’” How a flag-flying Eagles fan’s Hurricane Ian viral moment came to be
, sells more than 175 sandwiches per day. After the first day of Hurricane Ian, he inspected his food stockpile and, after confirming it was still edible, drove into town and posted up in a parking space. He sold 200 sandwiches in three hours.
“Everybody that was coming was ordering five or more,” Ferraro says. “I had a woman from Philly who works in the hospitals down here who ordered 22 of them. People look at [Pat’s King of Steaks] or Geno’s [the two cheesesteak institutions in Philadelphia with claims to the invention of the sandwich] and they have 12 guys in there. It’s just me, if you look at what I’m doing in 2½ hours, that’s more than people can do in a whole day.
“I can’t get my shipment of Whiz down here right now,” Ferraro says, referring to the golden-colored cheese-adjacent sauce that can also don an authentic steak. “They tried, the closest they can get is the East Coast, which is three hours away. And you gotta have the Whiz.” From his food truck on Tuesday, as he waited for some food shipments to come in, Ferraro talked about global warming, the incredible Floridian spirit and the troubling idea that only cataclysmic events like natural disasters or acts of terrorism seem to bring us together. He referenced 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, and wishes that kind of togetherness could remain in the moments between.“Carson Wentz ran a little too much, and he got hurt.
It would be hypocritical if it wasn’t an expectation that Ferraro has for himself. Selling cheesesteaks is how he makes a living. After the pandemic shut down his beer garden back in 2020, he couldn’t allow a hurricane to derail another business. In the Philadelphian spirit, he had to tell Ian to G-F-Y-S.
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