Sausage & Pepper Sub

My favourite establishment in the Newark neighbourhood where I grew up was Blasi’s Great Big Hole in the Wall, a hot dog joint a couple of blocks from where we lived. The name wasn’t a fantasy: There was a bar next door and the owners of Blasi’s and of Campesi’s bar broke a rough opening in the common wall of the two businesses so the food could be passed directly into the bar. An ‘Italian’ hot dog smothered with fried onions and peppers, served on a roll that was shaped like a hunk of bagu