The sandwich in front of Robert Pierson -- nearly a foot long and filled with meatballs, peppers and cheese -- would be more at home in a deli on the East coast.
"It's fantastic," Pierson, a paramedic at Station 51 in Silverdale, said as he took a bite. "It floods the senses. It's really, really good." Pierson and the rest of the B shift crew at Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue's Station 51 are the latest Kitsap firefighters to experience John Duefrane's culinary chops.
For the past two years, Duefrane -- aka "Meatball John" or "Johnny Meatball" -- has been making his way to each fire station in Kitsap, serving up his meatball subs to the firefighters.