The Best Sandwich Ever

[elleng]

A game to play, even if we've played it before.

“Your Top 5 favorite sandwiches, in order, please. Go.” This is a game I play in the car with my children, as if we were characters in a Nick Hornby novel. It’s a diversion to make long travel more bearable. We play it all the time. The children rush to judgment, and as is true for most of us, their answers change along with their tastes. But of late: grilled cheese on white, with tomato soup; the B.L.T. from a store in Maine near their uncle’s house, on thick country bread; ham and Brie with mustard on baguette; a meatball sub from a local deli; and — does a hamburger count? (It does not.)'>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/magazine/the-best-sandwich-ever.html?

[rusty quoin]

1. I can still remember the first time I ate a Reuben sandwich.

And it was one of those events, for me, where you remember where you were.

I was in the military, and at chow, you have maybe a few choices. It was the first time I tried liver and onions. I would never get away with serving that to my family now. It was tasty, but the texture... But the Reuben:

It has rye bread, corned beef, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing, and sauerkraut, the latter I never had tried.

But the combination, grilled with butter, makes it my favorite sandwich to this day. Tuna is my second favorite, which was my favorite till I tried the Reuben. 3, 4, & 5?..I cannot go further in this game.

[Lugnut]

2. Ham club sandwich

My second favorite is a BLT on white toast. 3rd is egg salad, then chicken salad and last is a Rachael. I strongly dislike sauerkraut but I love cole slaw.

[Freddie]

3. BLT with "real" summer tomatoes

And real mayo on sourdough toast.

[elleng]

4. YES!

[Nay]

5. The BLT with my homegrown tomatoes, thick bacon, and lettuce on

whole wheat. Can't beat it. My second sandwich? Peanut butter and jelly!

[MerryBlooms]

6. Reuban, turkey club, good tuna salad on whole wheat, Italian beef, chicken parm...

bonus: PBJ (chunky peanut butter with strawberry jam on a soft fresh whole wheat)

[japple]

7. When I was a child, we lived in Germany and were introduced to salt rolls.

They were shaped like sub rolls, but smaller and denser. They had some rye flour in them, and coarse kosher salt plus carraway seeds on top. We would slather them with butter, top with cheese and bread & butter pickles. I cannot duplicate that sandwich today, but have developed other favorites.

1. Mesquite smoked turkey with sharp cheese and slices of avocado, garden tomato, sprouts, red onion, and leaf lettuce on just-sliced artisan bread. It's so thick that I cannot wrap my mouth around it if it's toasted. I also love this combination on a tortilla and heated on the cast iron griddle just until the cheese melts. Served with salsa...

2. Meatloaf on whole wheat--ketchup on one side, mustard on the other.

3. BLT on whole wheat (butter, no mayo) with a fresh garden tomato and leaf lettuce.

4. Grilled cheese with Farmer cheese and/or cheddar on pumpernickel.

5. I am the only soul on the planet who likes this sandwich, but it's tuna and ketchup on wheat or white bread. That's it--just tuna and ketchup.

[intrepidity]

9. Tuna and ketchup... interesting

I will have to try that some day.

Deconstructing: tuna salad inside a tomato... so the tuna plus tomato makes sense. Tuna salad containing sweet relish, so the sweetness from ketchup makes sense.

I used to like tuna (straight from can) over tomato slices, covered with 1000 island dressing, which is basically mayo plus ketchup.

Sounds like you don't like mayo, but if you did, I bet adding some mayo to the ketchup and tuna would also be good.

But I will try just tuna and ketchup on bread.

[japple]

10. I remember reading somewhere that Richard Nixon loved

a combination of ketchup and cottage cheese. This never sounded appealing to me and not a good reason to dislike Nixon. There were too many other good reasons to dislike Nixon.

ETA: http://www.foodandwine.com/slideshows/presidential-food-obsessions/7

[intrepidity]

11. I like tuna and cottage cheese

plus sweet relish

[nadine_mn]

8. egg salad

Pb & J (love them still - never get tired of them)

grilled cheese

BLT before I became a vegetarian

Same with philly cheesesteak with chipotle mayo

Honestly - grilled cheese and tomato soup has to be the best ever comfort food.


I am not much of a sandwich person in terms of lots of ingredients - my husband on the other can stack 'em high