The sandwich

Posted on March 2nd, 2012 by James Higham

Twilight has a piece on sandwiches [H/T Rossa]:

The two girls, Maura and Aileen would make sandwiches of whatever we were presented with as breakfast, lunch or evening meal. I’d watch with fascination as they’d take two slices of regular white sliced bread and create a thing of mouth-watering deliciousness from it all. I’m sure their version must have tasted much better than mine, eaten knife-and-forkly, but I never dared to copy their style.

Here’s a list of the best sandwiches in America- couldn’t find one for the UK.

I like naan or other flat bread best, lightly heated, minus butter these days.  Then I take, as those girls did, a perfectly ordinary meal – say, mince and chili, shredded cabbage, with one or two other embellishments and turn them into a sandwich.  Maybe throw in some mushies and slice of tomato.

Of the bought type, tuna mayonnaise, egg mayonnaise [preferably with lettuce] or the plain old ploughmans do the trick for me.  What floats your boat?

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16 Responses to “The sandwich”

  1. JD, on March 2nd, 2012 at 15:22 Said:

    chip butties for me!!!!
    :)


  2. James Higham, on March 2nd, 2012 at 16:02 Said:

    Chip butties? Welcome to your beckoning grave.


  3. lordsomber, on March 2nd, 2012 at 16:40 Said:

    An Al’s Italian Beef just opened around here. Pretty good — like a Chicago version of a Philly. The giardiniera is a must.

    Chick-Fil-A is a mainstay here. Simple and very good.

    Pork roll I remember as a kid up north, but it’s been a couple decades..


  4. dearieme, on March 2nd, 2012 at 16:48 Said:

    I like BLT, or a brie-and-tomato baguette, or smoked salmon on brown, or watercress, or salami-and-salad, or a cheddar sandwich with a smear of a wonderful tomato-and-onion chutney we’ve discovered that seems to contain the perfect proportion of fennel seed and onion seed.

    Mind you, they have to be good to beat the 99p pork pie from M & S.


  5. dearieme, on March 2nd, 2012 at 16:49 Said:

    P.S. What’s this “minus butter these days” malarky?


  6. BobG, on March 2nd, 2012 at 17:50 Said:

    I tend to lean toward the Italian type sandwiches, as I grew up around a lot of them in south Salt Lake.
    Prosciutto, mortadella, salami, capicola, and others are good in different combinations and condiments, such as giardiniera, olives, peppers, etc. They also use roast beef, ham, and vegetables, such as deep-fried eggplant, grilled portabella mushrooms, and sun-dried tomatoes. The bread varies, anywhere from a baguette, to ciabatta (one of my favorites) and focaccia.


  7. James Higham, on March 2nd, 2012 at 17:53 Said:

    Sound good, lads.

    What’s this “minus butter these days” malarky?

    Pretending to be healthy.


  8. Chuckles, on March 2nd, 2012 at 18:49 Said:

    Turkey, bacon and avocado;
    mozzarella, tomato and basil on toasted brioche;
    many of the variations of the club sandwich;
    steak sandwich;
    egg, spinach and smoked salmon;
    Arbees type roast beef roll;
    hot pastrami on rye;
    good old chicken mayo;
    BLT;
    bacon and egg;
    bacon and banana;
    bacon and bacon.


  9. Twilight, on March 2nd, 2012 at 19:03 Said:

    Thanks for the link, James.
    For me, these days, the key is finding decent bread and proper butter – and proper cheese too if appropriate….all of this is quite a trick in our neck of the woods.

    A simple cheese sandwich, when bread, butter and cheese are all first class is hard to beat.


  10. Rossa, on March 2nd, 2012 at 19:20 Said:

    Nothing quite hits the spot like a bacon or sausage sarnie. With or without egg or tomato for me, mushies, tomato or brown sauce or branston etc for anyone else. Thick white farmhouse loaf or a baguette for me.

    Any hot roast meat – beef, pork (hog roast), lamb, chicken, proper homemade burger etc. Sometimes as an open sandwich with onion gravy or hot apple sauce, maybe a bit of stuffing…..no giggling at the back now ;-)

    Croque monsieur et madame, anglais version i.e. ham and cheese toastie (ham and egg for madame) is good if the ingredients are worth it.

    Love black pepper pastrami, prawn mayo, smoked salmon, smoked turkey with gruyere, smoked chicken with avocado, egg mayo has to be with cress, always preferred watercress to cucumber on white, peanut butter and ‘jelly’ or banana, nutella on white bread only, banana and dark brown or demerara sugar, ‘eggy’ bread layered with fruit and maple syrup and finally that French pain de compagne hollowed out and filled with ratatouille, left to soak all the aromatics and olive oil into the bread and served cold on a picnic….yum!

    Oh and lettuce sandwiches. Lettuce leaf smeared with marmite and rolled up, which my Dad used to give me as a child…RIP


  11. dearieme, on March 2nd, 2012 at 23:24 Said:

    What on earth do you take to be unhealthy about butter, Hob? Have the health fascists been getting at you?


  12. James Higham, on March 2nd, 2012 at 23:28 Said:

    I do admit to a certain amount of Lurpak. Suppose I’ve dug the hole deeper now.


  13. dearieme, on March 3rd, 2012 at 00:02 Said:

    Look, the only approximations to complete life-sustaining foods that nature provides are milk and eggs. Enjoy!


  14. CherryPie, on March 3rd, 2012 at 00:36 Said:

    My favourite sandwich is Egg Salad, you can’t beat it..

    The bread does come with a very thin coating of butter…


  15. CherryPie, on March 3rd, 2012 at 00:38 Said:

    My second favourite sandwich is chopped egg with a little butter added. It is much tastier than egg mayonnaise which is the standard offering.


  16. dearieme, on March 3rd, 2012 at 12:49 Said:

    Oi, Hob, get reading!
    http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/obesity-paradox-13-take-heart.html


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