Behind every Mike's Deli sandwich is a cold pasta salad. It's never much to look at. Behind this two-fisted lunch was an odd lot of at least three different pasta shapes, tinged green with pesto, that didn't even make it into the picture. The salad may seem like a plate-filler, but it also serves a vital supporting role: A buttress of pasta helps shore up a behemoth like this Yankee Stadium Big Boy — which sports mortadella, ham, salami, and capicola; heavy slices of mozzarella; lettuce, sweet peppers (or, if you prefer, hot peppers) and balsamic vinegar — and prevents the sandwich from toppling over in untimely fashion. Ultimately, however, the Big Boy fell to my appetite; so did the pasta salad.

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