Countries, regions and even cities have food specialties.   Port has their own sandwich called the Francesinha, which means Little Frenchie in Portuguese.  It’s made with bread, wet-cured ham, linguica (a smoked sausage), fresh sausage, steak or roast meat.  It’s  covered with melted cheese and a hot tomato and beer sauce.  Served with fries, and optionally with a fried egg on top,  it’s between 850 & 1100 calories without the fries.  We were told as bad as it is for you, we needed to try it – it’s that good.  When we ordered our obligitaory Francesinha, Dave asked for a glass of red wine.  Our waitress noted, ‘Oh no, you must drink beer with the Francesinha.”  Beer it was, I think his first of the trip. Though the sauce is tomato based, it struck me more like a gravy.    We split the order and had a salad as well, as if that would negate the calories.  Some places put the fries under the sandwich.    Glad we tried it – it was good – but wouldn’t (couldn’t!) make a habit of it. –   Laura