back on topic (i love food!) - a french dip au jus is a large sandwich made with crusty french bread, thinly sliced roast beef (preferably rare), optional cheese (or horseradish, or mushrooms or sauteed onions), toasted and served with a small bowl of thick beef broth (jus) to dip it in just for the record - it's not even called "au jus" as someone here has stated - "au" simply means "with" man, do i love a french dip! lol
french dip subs are sandwiches usually with shaved roast beef, onions, a cheese (swiss or provo, or whatever) on bread, hoagies work really good..... and the meat is doused with aujus, and it comes with aujus on the side which you can dip the sandwich in......
some people don't eat meat. and that's cool. someday we may have to eat less of it. that's cool too. but i do and i love it. if only the fau "auju" really were "its own juce", which is how i cook at home, with a little lemon and bullion added, just a scosh! (the auju you usualy get in resteraunts in the u.s. is really pretty much just a kind of bullion) aujus + roux = gravey grease (preverably meat drippings grease) + flour = roux working in at least some restaraunts is great. i've worked in several. (dw/salad/prep mostly) =^^= .../\...
I do not like french dips, normally. Only under the right circumstances. Circumstances: when I Drive by arby's I get a extreme craving for a french dip... but the craving only last for about 5 minutes after I have passed the arby's. ... so I have to own one before the craving goes away...... otherwise... I hate them.