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Post by whollygoats on Aug 15, 2017 2:21:36 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 15, 2017 2:38:16 GMT
Picking a favorite is difficult.
Of course, it seems to ignore the hamburger and sausage on a bun (aka 'hot dog') entirely.
#24 probably represents the sammich which I have had most often in my life...but it dominated the first fifteen years of my life. I still have one on occasion, but it no longer comes anywhere near being my 'favorite'. Overlapping that is #2, which edged out the PB&J during my adolescence, also not my favorite.
I'd have to say that my mature tastes tend to rotate amongst the grouping of #5, #6, #9, #22, #30, #32, #33, & #35. The last represents my current most frequent sammich.
That brings us down to the three sammiches I tend to order when I'm in a sammich specialty shop....#17, #18, & #23.
The Reuben, the Gyro, and the French Dip. All served hot here in the US. (Those in Urp may recognize the Gyro as the Doner Kebab.)
These days, I'd say that my favorite cold sammich is a #6, in its 'spicy Italian' guise, with pepperoni and dry salami.
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Post by Elis on Aug 15, 2017 6:58:35 GMT
I wish we had sandwich places like that. All we have is Subways.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 15, 2017 14:48:19 GMT
I wish we had sandwich places like that. All we have is Subways. You don't have the ubiquitous 'family restaurant'? Here, we have two within walking distance...Tom's and Scavone's. Tom's is run by a Greek family and does 'American cuisine' with a Greek tint to it, like the cheese on the salads tends to be feta, gyros can be had, and the pastries by the register are honey-laden. They serve a selection of 'White bread' hot dishes, breakfasts, and lunches, with the latter offering up the set of typical American sammich selections. Scavone's is where I go for my fish & chips; it is a 'neighborhood family restaurant'. They have typical eclectic collections of meals, including hot and cold sammiches. A bit further afield is Eidelweiss, a German deli, or Otto's, another German deli...braised sausages on kaisers, or cold cuts piled high. I have to go even further for specialty Greek food...to The Mad Greek, where they cater to the soccer fans as a 'sports bar', but they field a good dozen variations on gyros, plus many of the other trimmings of Greek snack food....the 'popcorn squid' is great stuff.
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Post by Moose on Aug 15, 2017 15:26:41 GMT
I'd go for the cheesesteak or the smoked salmon bagel
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Post by Mari on Aug 16, 2017 6:22:34 GMT
I don't particularly like any of them. Too much emphasis on sauces and meats, not enough good veggies.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 16, 2017 8:49:26 GMT
Delicious Bahn Mi place near my house has a really good ratio of lots of veggies to a good but not overly much amount of meat. Love that. Pulled Pork also delicious, as is a Rueben.
I've never heard of the French dip. Looks like it could be tasty but I'm unsure. The Thanksgiving one sounds yummy.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 16, 2017 13:40:24 GMT
I don't particularly like any of them. Too much emphasis on sauces and meats, not enough good veggies. Hmmm...even when numbers 32, 34, and 40 have NO MEAT? Perhaps it is because they do not have 'good' veggies? How do you determine 'good' veggies from 'mediocre', or even 'bad', veggies? Are chickpeas dastardly? Or cucumbers innately evil? And, why is it you think ill of hummus?
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Post by Moose on Aug 16, 2017 18:10:44 GMT
hummus is an abomination.
Subway do lots of salad on their sandwiches. I always have everything except olives
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Post by tangent on Aug 16, 2017 21:03:54 GMT
I've only ever had five of the above sandwiches: 5. BLT 10. Tuna melt - for the first time, only last year 22. Egg salad - with cress instead of lettuce 27. Jambon beurre - with English ham, not French ham 40. Cucumber tea plus three others without their sauces: 7. Turkey, stuffing - without cranberry sauce 26. Roast beef - without BBQ sauce and horseradish 30. Ham & cheese - without mustard In my youth, my favourite sandwiches were as follows: - Cheese and tomato
- Ham - on its own
- Corned beef - on its own
- Egg and cress - no lettuce
- Tuna and cucumber
- Meat paste (beef, ham or salmon)
- Jam (strawberry, blackcurrant, plum, apricot, marmalade)
They are still my favourites today, although I would prefer adding tomato or salad to the ham and corned beef. I never ate sandwiches containing both ham and cheese until I met them at a railway station a few years ago. And of course at Subway. In the above picture, it would appear that 'salad' means 'lettuce'. Is that true? It would never do in the UK, salad has to include lettuce, tomato and cucumber, and sometimes includes onions and peppers. The chip butty is a favourite in some quarters, although I've only had one once. I doubt you could buy any of those in a sandwich shop in the UK.
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Post by Moose on Aug 16, 2017 21:25:19 GMT
I thought that gyros were actually donor kebabs but might be wrong
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 16, 2017 21:32:55 GMT
I thought that gyros were actually donor kebabs but might be wrong Yes, they are functionally the same thing. And, to me a ham sammich is a ham sammich, no matter the cheese, the condiment, nor the veggie added. They are all ham sammiches. Jambon. Is a Cubano (#13) not just a jambon sandwich? What makes a ham sammich a Cubano? Egg salad is the same as egg mayo. Again, the greenery is unimportant. Chicken salad is just chicken mayo, but I never saw such in the UK. Maybe they call it something else. Tuna salad is the third in the American salad sammiches. It just a tuna mayo spread on bread, often with pickle relish stirred in...the tuna melt is the hot, grilled version. I didn't really see a cheese and mayo san on the list. I rather liked the Red Leister sammich I had. You Brits do cheese sammiches by grating the cheese and stirring that in mayo, which is then spread on bread. Here, we slice the cheese and slather the mayo and other condiments on the bread. A French dip sammich is merely a roast beef sammich with a side bowl of au jus, hot clear roast beef gravy. Some come with a slice of melted Swiss cheese.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 16, 2017 21:50:46 GMT
I've only ever had five of the above sandwiches: 5. BLT 10. Tuna melt - for the first time, only last year 22. Egg salad - with cress instead of lettuce 27. Jambon beurre - with English ham, not French ham 40. Cucumber tea plus three others without their sauces: 7. Turkey, stuffing - without cranberry sauce 26. Roast beef - without BBQ sauce and horseradish 30. Ham & cheese - without mustard In my youth, my favourite sandwiches were as follows: - Cheese and tomato
- Ham - on its own
- Corned beef - on its own
- Egg and cress - no lettuce
- Tuna and cucumber
- Meat paste (beef, ham or salmon)
- Jam (strawberry, blackcurrant, plum, apricot, marmalade)
They are still my favourites today, although I would prefer adding tomato or salad to the ham and corned beef. I never ate sandwiches containing both ham and cheese until I met them at a railway station a few years ago. And of course at Subway. In the above picture, it would appear that 'salad' means 'lettuce'. Is that true? It would never do in the UK, salad has to include lettuce, tomato and cucumber, and sometimes includes onions and peppers. The chip butty is a favourite in some quarters, although I've only had one once. I doubt you could buy any of those in a sandwich shop in the UK. Cheese and tomato on bread has morphed in the US in to pizza. Corned beef on rye is a deli specialty here. A Reuben is a self-important specialty corned beef sandwich. Egg and cress is the same as US egg salad. Tuna and cucumber is basically the same as US tuna salad. Meat paste....now there's one you don't see here in the US. Not that meat paste cannot be obtained in the US; it can. It's called potted meat, or devilled meat. Nobody serves in in restaurants or sandwich outlets, though. Jam is like condiment. If you have toast, you'll get jam, usually berry, grape, or apricot. Sandwiches with jam usually come with a nut butter of some kind.
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Post by Mari on Aug 19, 2017 8:05:43 GMT
I don't particularly like any of them. Too much emphasis on sauces and meats, not enough good veggies. Hmmm...even when numbers 32, 34, and 40 have NO MEAT? Perhaps it is because they do not have 'good' veggies? How do you determine 'good' veggies from 'mediocre', or even 'bad', veggies? Are chickpeas dastardly? Or cucumbers innately evil? And, why is it you think ill of hummus? By good veggies I mean those that actually are somewhat substantial. Lettuce I like, but isn't really a substantial veggie, cucumber and tomato are lots of water, not so much veggie. I do like a good hamburger once in a while, but I consider that junkfood, no matter how much lettuce or tomatoes are on it.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 19, 2017 13:50:00 GMT
Hmmm...even when numbers 32, 34, and 40 have NO MEAT? Perhaps it is because they do not have 'good' veggies? How do you determine 'good' veggies from 'mediocre', or even 'bad', veggies? Are chickpeas dastardly? Or cucumbers innately evil? And, why is it you think ill of hummus? By good veggies I mean those that actually are somewhat substantial. Lettuce I like, but isn't really a substantial veggie, cucumber and tomato are lots of water, not so much veggie. I do like a good hamburger once in a while, but I consider that junkfood, no matter how much lettuce or tomatoes are on it. Now you've piqued my curiosity. Please...list some 'good' vegetables you have on sammiches.
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Post by Elis on Aug 21, 2017 10:02:19 GMT
I would consider cucumber and tomatoes to be good vegetables. And carrots and peppers. But it's easier to get a larger amount of that in a salad.
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Post by tangent on Aug 21, 2017 11:11:13 GMT
Sandwiches in the UK that include salad tend to have a lot more than just the token lettuce leaf suggested by some of WG's pictures. I would consider the following to be a healthy portion of salad.
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Post by Moose on Aug 21, 2017 19:12:56 GMT
I like onions, tomatoes and peppers on sandwiches. I find lettuce a bit bland, tend to eat that only in salads.
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Post by tangent on Aug 21, 2017 22:48:18 GMT
Excellent food value, though.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 22, 2017 0:36:23 GMT
I would consider cucumber and tomatoes to be good vegetables. And carrots and peppers. But it's easier to get a larger amount of that in a salad. Well, technically, neither tomatoes nor cucumbers are 'vegetables'. They're fruit. My personal opinion of cucumbers is quite low. I think them vile. I think fresh cucumbers taste like mildew and the give me gas and discomfort. Here you often get pickled cucumbers as sides with your sammich. Dill spears, most often. Sweet pickle relish (sweet pickled cucumbers diced tiny) is a possible condiment choice many places. Carrots? On sammiches? That is rare here. Are they diced, grated, chunked, julienned, or whole?. And peppers? I assume we're talking sweet bell peppers. Although jalapenos have been known to make it on to sammiches, fresh sweet bell peppers are very common. Here it is usually lettuce, tomato, maybe onion, and, if very lucky, avocado (which is also a fruit, rather than a vegetable).
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Post by tangent on Aug 22, 2017 12:32:53 GMT
Carrots? On sammiches? That is rare here. Are they diced, grated, chunked, julienned, or whole? Grated.
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Post by Elis on Aug 22, 2017 13:10:41 GMT
Admittedly, I usually have the carrots just in salad, grated. Or as a snack cut into edible bites.
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Post by Mari on Aug 22, 2017 18:53:09 GMT
I generally don't eat sandwiches if I can choose a salad, indeed with carrots, onions, beans, peas, etc.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 22, 2017 19:00:35 GMT
I generally don't eat sandwiches if I can choose a salad, indeed with carrots, onions, beans, peas, etc. I like the ones with itty bitty ears of corn (maize).
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 22, 2017 23:33:34 GMT
None of you mentioned beetroot - it does seem to be an Aussie thing. WG if you ever do visit here you should definitely have a sandwich with beetroot in it. You'll often find an "Aussie burger" which will have the meat pattie, bacon, fried egg, beetroot and the other salad stuff.
I used to love what I called an ABC sandwich - alfalfa, beetroot, carrot - with cheese on multigrain bread. Yummo.
I notice that mayo features a lot in all those "salad" sandwiches. You'll often get chicken here with avacado. Also yum! And tangent - tune with cucumber makes me want to gag, the worst combination! I love cucumber but despite it with tuna or other fish (except oddly in sushi rolls).
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 22, 2017 23:35:47 GMT
Here is what you'd normally find as a salad sandwich in Australia.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 22, 2017 23:38:33 GMT
And another one. This is making me hungry! Here the beetroot is grated which is more unusual.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 23, 2017 0:21:23 GMT
Here is what you'd normally find as a salad sandwich in Australia. That is a nice looking sammich. Particularly the bread. This is much like the breads I saw in Wales and Cumbria. Good stuff. As for the ingredients shown, yes...we have all those. The grated carrots thing is pretty sideline, but always available for those building 'veggie sammiches'. I'm not sure what the 'spread', at the bottom of the sammich guts, is supposed to be. Egg salad? Hummus? Potato salad? Pureed parsnip compote? Beetroot does happen. I, myself, am a big beetroot fan. Of pickled beetroot and not on sammiches. It usually occurs in trendy, upscale 'organic' outlets, and pretty sideline....or, at Subway, which also has chickpeas (aka garbanzo beans) and olives. It's good to see that alfalfa sprouts still occur somewhere. They've had trouble flourishing here after multiple E coli poisonings. Alfalfa sprouts were the most common source and subsequently tended to be discouraged by state and local health officials.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 23, 2017 0:28:52 GMT
Looks like egg mayo on the bottom to me.
Yeah, I love all the nice grainy breads. We have a wonderful bakery just down the street that makes some of the best pastries and sandwihes I've eaten - with lovely crunchy crust, soft dough, grainy breads. Mmmm I could get one for my lunch since I'm home today. Except I have leftover couscous salad from yesterday which I should eat.
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Post by Moose on Aug 23, 2017 21:20:57 GMT
I don't care for grainy bread alas . Well I don't mind white bread with a few grains on top but don't like bread with grain in the middle. I love cucumber in any form
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