My favourite sandwich has gotta be mayo chicken in a bagel with crunchy lettuce, satisfying in both taste and the crunchy texture of chopped iceberg lettuce from the shops.
Another one would be sausage and egg with some cheeky brown sauce (British lemmy users know what I mean)
What is YOUR favourite sandwich? Fillings or sauces to go with it, maybe your favourite type of bread?
I’m vegan now but a crazy sandwich I tried once was pimiento cheese and pickled watermelon rind.
It’s got to be ham and cheese. No matter where you go, usually two out the three will be excellent, so a good sandwich is easily available
France - Amazing bread, amazing cheese, good ham
Spain - Crap bread, reasonable cheese, world class ham
UK - crap bread, world class cheese, good ham
Germany - world class bread, good cheese, amazing ham
America - bread that has to be called cake in other countries because of the sugar content, homogenised dairy product, and chlorine-washed minced pork-amalgam
Ah shit it was going so well
I suspect this will be a controversial comment
If you’re paying for crap supplies, you get crap sandwiches
The great bakeries are going out of business because everyone shops at Walmart.
Doesn’t help that those low-quality ingredients are the ones that line the freedom section in foreign supermarkets fueling the stereotype… not that it isn’t a warranted stereotype since this is what they feed the folks in public schools
Ahem. That chlorine-washed minced amalgam has a name.
…and it comes in a can. Does your amalgam come in a can?
I did see spam once in 1987
But have you enjoyed the culinary delicacy that is TREET?
E: Albeit, I’d be lying if I didn’t suggest that you hold out for our true hero here in the states:
A nice stack of thinly sliced ham, provolone cheese melted within and on top, a nice warm sourdough or potato bread, some mayo and mustard.
I don’t know what switch flipped in my head as I got older, but a nice hot ham and cheese has become the occasional simple pleasure like no other.
Scrambled eggs with onion and chives on butter and rye bread
Deli-sliced turkey, muenster cheese, honey mustard, and my home-made pickles, on wheat.
Pastrami and swiss on rye. Mayo and spicy mustard.
Muffaletta is a very close runner up.
Gotta second the pastrami and swiss on rye. Especially with a good dark rye.
Ploughman’s, easily. Thick slices of sharp cheddar, a tangy onion chutney, thin slices of apple, and some greens. More properly a ploughman’s lunch that is not in sandwich form, but it comes with bread anyway so literally the only difference is how you arrange the components
Also if there’s banh mi on offer I might just about bite your hand off to get at it
Simple french baguette, roasted ham and provolone with home made mayo and Dijon mustard.
2 weeks ago I said this when someone else asked;
Baguette from our local bakery in Schinnen, they do the original French method. Tick sliced tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, home made mayo (whisked, no stickblender stuff), salt and pepper. Delicious.
Why does a whisk work better than a stick blender?
Better aeration, leading to a fluffier, though not overbeaten, final result.
Right now its the second sandwich in This video. I’ve made it at least a dozen times in the past month or two. Avocado and blk olives + humus + roasted red pepper/onion/zucchini + balsamic vinegar glaze(I do extra of this)
BLAT. Bacon, lettuce, avocado, and tomato. Best with a hearty or sweet bread type. My preferred is sweet rye. No condiments needed…just spread the avocado for the texture and added flavor. Husband prefers the bread toasted, but I like it pan fried in butter.
There’s a cafe near me that does a BLAT/americano combo lunch and it’s so good.
Shut up and take my upvote 🤣
Reuben panini
Hate every ingredient on the sandwich by itself. Divine together.
The best sandwich I ever had was a panini I randomly threw together for a snack at three in the morning. The next day I went to make it again since it was so delicious, but realized I’d forgotten some of the ingredients I used. I was in the middle of a sandwich-making phase at the time so I had like a dozen types of bread, meat, and cheese to pick from.
This was a decade ago and I’ve never been able to recreate that perfect sandwich despite several attempts. It’s my culinary white whale. The only ingredients I am sure of are the spread (light mayo in one side, applewood-smoked bacon mustard on the other) and the meat (honey-smoked turkey), and that it was only a simple meat-and-cheese. The bread and cheese continue to elude me.
Nothing beats an El Cubano on good sourdough with a dark cherry soda.
crispy eggplant semolina torta from Tortaria NYC
legit the best goddamn sandwich i’ve ever had
