Forget all your preconceived notions about bread reigning supreme as king of the sandwich — plantains can miraculously succeed in replacing the conventional sandwich binder. That’s the case at Patacon Pisao, a Lower East Side shop whose name translates to “flattened plantain.”

Producer
Chas Truslow

Associate Producer
Reina Haddad

Camera
Daniel Cangelosi

Editor
Cole Chilton
Joe Orisino

Animator
Fredy Delgado

Production Manager
Jonathan Rinkerman

Production Coordinator
Sarah Barry

Senior Producer
Marco Shalma

Supervising Producer
Stasia Tomlinson

Head of Video
Justin Lundstrom

Music
Una Casa De Locos by Yves Abadi, Adrien Biehler, Manuel Dante Faivre, Miguel Saboga
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Caliente by Norbert Galouo, Jose Ortegon Tovar
0:41

Freeway by Albert Chamak, Jean-Pierre Kalmar
1:04

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