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My ultimate portable meal (a sandwich) would consist of: Two slices of toasted gluten-free bread. Chicken, tomatoes, mustard, and mayonnaise. Romaine lettuce. Black pepper & Turmeric. A bag of chips and a soda 😋
Most days for supper, I have a ham and Swiss cheese sammich with mustard on 12-grain bread.
Hmmm.... sandwiches.

Well, a really good corn beef Ruben would probably top my list.

For dinner when we are tired we make grilled cheese sandwiches:
- Good sourdough bread (quite easy to get around here.)
- Sharp white chedder + Muenster
- Shallots browned in butter used to toast the bread on the griddle
- Some chopped shallots in the sandwich with the cheese.
- Good tomato slices in with the cheese and chopped shallots
Good morning, I would consider sandwich 🥪 two slices of bread with somethings in between. However, in France they called the German style Belegte Brötchen as sandwich as well, bread roll or baguette with something in between
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German style belegte Brötchen pales in comparison to most everything similar. You often get no mayonnaise or mustard, butter it is, and 1 other ingredient, ham or salami. Either or. The bare minimalist kind, dry-ish. Parsley on it only if you're lucky.

BMT was unknown as a concept or a placeholder for composition until Subways showed up.

Then again, on the coast you may get Fischbrötchen like the one shown. Fresh from the boat or its sales booth. Raw, or cured fish (herring, mackerel, flatfish, what they caught that morning), onions, mayonnaise, pickled cucumber. This I will recommend.

I have a chile lime salt spread that I will use when attempting my own.
I made oyster mushroom to filling - vegan alternative to lobster to but we just like it - for our next meal together. We put it in a toasted sausage bun. Unfortunately Fred had to leave town so it's waiting for him to come back.

I would qualify the grain as being milled but if you want to say sushi is a sandwich…do you expect to call it a fish, veg and nori sandwich and have people to know what you mean?
I don't know that I have a favorite sandwich, but grilled mozzarella, eggplant, tomato, olive oil, and basil on crusty bread is pretty good. So is a good hot pastrami on rye with mustard (haven't had that in ages).

My mom invented (as far as I know) peanut butter and cucumber on rye. It sounds weird, but it's pretty good!
Is sushi a sandwich? Is a hot dog a taco?
We used to have friendly debates about these things at one of my jobs.
It's a classic example of why it's hard to define things. Like, what is a human? Plato tried to define humans as "featherless bipeds" which sounds like it works until Diogenes brought a plucked chicken and declared, "Behold, a man!"
https://sites.psu.edu/sierraastle/2019/10/21/behold-a-man/
I like most sandwiches, but my favorite has to be the Aussie Burger I first had from Hungry Jack's (Burger King in the US). Basically a normal burger; lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty and all that - but with a few added ingredients: slices of pickled beet root, a pineapple ring, and a fried egg. It's a tall sandwich!
I just finished a grilled cheese sandwich—which we've been eating a lot of since we finally found a gluten free bread that toasts nicely. The sourdough seems to be the deciding factor.

Ham or bologna sandwiches, typically without cheese, are a "safe" food for me (not too challenging, unlikely to cause gastric distress, etc.). If I'm feeling fancy, it's turkey, spicy cheese, pickles, and tomato.

Mayo is a MUST. I have no idea how people choke down sandwiches without it. I like other toppings, such as mustard, but they don't scale up quite like mayo does.

I still have not been able to replace my pre-GF favorite, fried fish subs. GF fish portions are getting closer to the dimensions of gluteny fish, but gf sub rolls are hard to come by if you're not in the restaurant industry. And I'm still trying to figure out how to make my own hot pepper relish. The vinegar in the commercial stuff is no bueno.
I find mayo absolutely disgusting. OTOH, warm egg yolk, which I love as a sausage or home-fries dipping sauce, I find excellent. A friend of mine finds egg yolk absolutely disgusting.

As for my favorite sandwich, the so called French Dip is my go-to.
Since we figured how to make our own sweet & sour sauce, and chicken is cheap, I can see s&s chicken sandwiches in our future. Currently am a big fan of the Wawa Italian sub...with mayo, red wine vinegar, meat and cheese. And since it's Hoagie Season, where the prices drop, I get a 10in which for me is two meals. Also, duck sauce can be made easily at home, that's next to make. We already make our own fried rice...
I like miracle whip over mayo🤷‍♀️
shawarma, i guess fits the topic. gyros.
and falafel stuffed in a pita.
I splurged at the hippie store recently and now my new fave is sustainably farmed (supposedly - but you can't trust the fascist criminal revolutionaries in the United States Federal Government to actually enforce standards because they want to kill us) smoked sardines on pumpernickel or rye bread.

I guess I'll have to add a wood-smoker to go with the small fish and meal-worm farm running along the walls of my imaginary underground shelter too. Heh.
Ruben, gyro, grilled cheese with green chilies, egg ham cheese with whole wheat and mayo, left over Thanksgiving turkey with miracle whip

The best mustard
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For a long time ~60 years I have enjoyed pickle and cheese sandwiches.
I prefer a whole wheat bread ( seeds and nuts a bonus ) , dill pickles ( spicy is just fine ), dijon mustard, and a flavorful cheese. Today ( just because of this thread ) Shropshire Blue cheese will fill that important role. A sharp cheddar will do, or aged Gouda,heck anything but processed 'cheese food'.
Toasting is not required. Mayonnaise is disgusting and will not be used on a sandwich side.
I have seen this type of sandwich only once in the wild. A pub in Salisbury England. Good cheese, fantastic bread, but the pickles were some sort of relish. Tart and not sweet, which would have fouled thing up a little.

Most food things between two pieces of bread make a decent sandwich. One of the best sandwiches was a smoked tempeh, lettuce and tomato on fresh baked wheat with some sort of vegan aioli. Splendid, kudos to some crunchy diner in Missoula, MT. Have not found it's equal.
@stefani banerian Felafel in pita...so YUM!

When I was growing up on Sundays we had our big meal around lunch time, then it was whatever we fixed ourselves in the evenings. One time Mum found the pantry was rather bare, and so asked what we had fixed ourselves. We had all been fine, then she came to my brother. He told her he had made a sandwich. "But we have no bread!" she said. He replied that he had a cheese sandwich: a piece of cheese between two other pieces of cheese! (He liked cheese)
my favorite sandwich, which I have not had access to in decades, was from Mower's Market in Woodstock, NY. It was muenster cheese on raisin pumpernickel with mayo, alfalfa sprouts and tomato
I used to pick one up on my way to do overnights at the crisis center
My current fav seems to be the chicken salad club on rye toast
My favorite sandwich would have to be toasted bread--buttered, thick slices of fresh tomato, crispy bacon, and mayo on both pieces of bread.. Plus coarse pepper on the mayo. Deviled egg and bacon is another great choice.
"I like miracle whip over mayo🤷‍♀️"

@Cass, at first I thought you meant a sandwich with Miracle Whip ON TOP of mayo and almost gagged.
@Cass
Yay, more mayo for me!

Dad was a Miracle Whip guy, when it was available. I've tried it, I didn't hate it.

I miss Wawa subs.
pickle and cheese sandwiches
I think my mother ate peanut butter and banana sandwiches when she was pg with me, and PB and pickles with my brother (or maybe the other way around?). Her first child, my sister, sparked cravings for hot dogs... which didn't stay down 😬 but she swilled them anyway.

heyyyyyyy... I wonder if that's why I have a problem with peanuts!
I mean, it's genetic... but if trauma can change genes...!
I have indeed whipped cream. But I have a Kitchenaid, which helps a lot.
When I visit friends in Allentown, I will usually get some sort of Wawa wrap or bagel sandwich, as they are about a three minute drive away. Also, Wawa has free compressed air and their ATMs don't charge an extra fee. Their bathrooms are clean. As corporate overlords go, they seem quite reasonable.
I will whip cream, occasionally, as a flourish to make dessert nicer. But not just to have on hand!
when the cream sits out too long.

when i was a kid i ate a lot of BLTs
Growing up sandwiches were frequently very low effort food. PBJ, bologna ( or olive loaf ), Miracle Whip, and "American cheese" in the cardboard box loaf. Individually wrapped slices were not a thing for a while. Braunschweiger made frequent appearances because my dad liked that with a glass of buttermilk. BLT's in the summer only. That's when they were in the garden or store. With iceberg lettuce and Whip. Egg salad after easter.. Meatloaf sandwiches after dad made a meatloaf. and such. That's when I started making pickle and cheese
My sister and I ( like many kids ) experimented with various alternative sandwich fillings. Baked beans, potato salad and such. That's when I started the pickle and cheese. It was generally not in my lunch box, just on the weekends. In the 70's we started to get small wheels of cheddar at the base commissary, it was bye bye American cheese, do not miss it. We also switched to wheat bread from white. The advent of packaged sliced meats meant that bologna went away too, the Braunschweiger stayed.
@Mark Wollschlager
it was bye bye American cheese, do not miss it
Was this government cheese or American cheese?

I can say that the American cheese I get at Subway today doesn't taste anything like the government cheese of yore.

Us non-wealthy plebes had to eat government cheese even when we were off welfare because the schools would serve it up melted in Mac&Cheese and grilled cheese sandwiches all for the price of one Lunch Ticket (my abusive and neglectful parents made sure I knew exactly what I was costing them for the offensive act of not dying.) The wealthy and privileged kids of course had stay-at-home moms who made them bag lunches full of weird health food.
olive loaf

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that recently started turning up around here... it's not Esskay but it'll do
@RichardIt was usually the Blue Kraft box cheese, like Velveeta is still sold.. At times the commissary stocked 'Issue' foods, generic labeled canned or packaged goods and we got those things at a usually much lower price. As wikipedia says Government Cheese is "American cheese", so the 'Issue' version was probably that same stuff. But the period we bought it was the 60's to maybe the early 70's.. Wikipedia says that distribution to citizens started with Reagan in the early 80's
ooh I know what I forgot... tomato, mayo, and potted meat 😋
Peanut butter and miracle whip sandwiches is a thing I got from my Dad.
Might delete that...
@Pedro Subrosa 🤢 no. I use any spread lightly…mouth feel.
Also, falafels are super ready to make.
@Griff Ferrell BWAHAHA! That is such Dad food!
@Muse

Sweet fat and savory sweet fat, what's not to love

I think I've run out of MW
@Muse
Braunschweiger salad sandwiches
Braunschweiger onion mustard

See, this is why waist...
With pickled brussel sprouts on the side
Braunschweiger is an excellent fat delivery system

I've been known to make potted meat salad sandwiches

Salad all the things
@deanc - I do make whipped cream. My first attempts were terrible - first time, I ended up making butter. Next time I got a blob of whipped cream stuck on the ceiling (which was one of those popcorn sprayed things.) When we moved out the whipped cream was still up there - the land lord had not bothered to look up there.
Peanut butter and miracle whip sandwiches is a thing I got from my Dad.
I had a friend who used to make her hamburgers like that