Francesinha poveira
Fast food dish from Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
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Francesinha poveira, or simply francesinha regionally, is a fast food dish from Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal. It resembles a hot dog only in shape, but the sandwich is made of linguiça (somewhat similar to a sausage), fiambre (a kind of ham), cheese and mustard in pão cacete or pão de francesinha, a type of bread that could be described as midway between a baguette and a hot dog bun.[1]
History
Francesinha poveira is the fast food variety of the francesinha dish that appeared in 1962 in café Guarda-Sol in Passeio Alegre beach square in Póvoa de Varzim. Opened since June 1922, Guarda-Sol is the oldest café-bar of Póvoa, and also the first beach bar in Portugal.[2]
Francesinha poveira is based on the recipe from the original from Porto. The Portuan variety was created by Povoan Daniel David de Silva.[3] The Povoan variety was made by manager Alberto Moreira, wanting to develop and promote a distinctive product. To achieve that, he went to Lisbon to find a cook and hired António Carriço, originally from Fundão. António asked the baker that supplied Guarda-Sol to create a kind of bread that should be like a small baguette, soft and tasty. With this idea the "francesinha bread" (pão de francesinha) appeared.[4]