Anyone else here a reuben sandwich admirer?

[ForrestGump]

I didn't used to be, but in the last few years I've quite come to like them, as an occasional menu item.

I never knew that pickled dead cow and pickled cabbage with rotting dairy byproducts could be so good.

[SOteric]

1. You make it sound so appetising.

:P

[ForrestGump]

6. Oh, yeah,

I'm real fun to go to a restaurant with. :-)

Excuse me, waiter....I'd like to start with the marine snail and rendered pig fat soup, with extra trans-fatty acids.....

[SOteric]

10. Fine, but if you're

going to order the 'fried chicken foetus plate' promise us that you'll never leave your current occupation to write menu copy.

[ForrestGump]

15. Oo....gotta write that one down

You know, it occurs to me that a restaurant that fills its menu with such descriptions just might catch on and become all the rage, spreading its franchised way around the globe and making its founders exceedingly wealthy.

I think I'll call it "The Bile Duct."

That's right.....laugh!......laugh at my vision now, but you'll all be laughing out of a different side of your face when this idea bears fruit (I mean, "excised sexual organs of several plant species").

[short bus president]

9. If I'm not mistaken

you used simliar terms to describe the reuben back in the olden days, when I ridiculed your preference for the meatball sandwich. I believe you may also have accused me of being flatulent. Oh, yes... I remember your smug attitude towards the reuben all too well.

I should've suspected such hypocrisy from a reuben-hatin' meatball eater.

:P

[ForrestGump]

11. So........

the ugly truth finally reveals itself.

well, not 'ugly' - that's too harshly judgmental. Um......'less-than-optimal'?


Man, it's hard to post stuff in a progressive forum.

[SOteric]

13. What's hypocritical? It didn't sound appetising when he said it.

It didn't sound appetising when I said it. It wouldn't sound appetising if Viggo Mortenson said it.

:shrug:

[short bus president]

16. You just

have a set of shortbus tastebuds, Esso.

:9

[ForrestGump]

17. Shush. I TOLD you not to use my real name here.

Now all the DU women are going to want to throw their arms around my muscular neck and repeatedly press their bosoms against my rippled abs. And pull my hair.

My personal hell.

[DieboldMustDie]

18. Meatballs...

there's nothin' as yummy as ground cow flesh ;)

[regnaD kciN]

22. Reminding me about the old joke concerning Hewlett-Packard...

That if HP were given an exclusive contract to sell sushi, they'd market it as "Cold Dead Raw Fish!"

;-)

[salin]

2. how about egg salad

bet one could easily skewer the contents - especially if one throws some bacon on the salad and serves it on toast...

But I do find it a particularly yummy sandwich.

[ForrestGump]

7. Yeah, I've laely come to enjoy that now and then

Though I usually make and tend to prefer tofu 'egg salad,' that only vaguely resembles the real thing in taste (at least, by my recipe).

Man, I'm hungry again..... :-(

[On the Road]

3. I Admire Them From Afar

No seriously, Reubens are as good as any other sandwich item. My daughter likes them and says that people sometimes neglect the sauerkraut.

[JanMichael]

4. Grill one up! I love them!

Only recently too. Like you. They just grew on me...Like a fungus.

[KG]

14. oh, i thought that was your skin that made you glow in the dark.

:shrug:

[Ohio Dem]

5. Man, I love a reuben.

And your description is quite accurate. But it doesn't make a reuben less delicious.

And speaking of dairy products, I sometimes call milk "the secretion of an animal's mammary gland." People always appreciate it.

[ForrestGump]

8. Cool!

I love yogurt, too, and now I can totally gross out my friends (well, if I had any left, at least that'll eat with me) by asking them if they want some of my bacteria-ridden, clotted, secretion of a cow's mammary gland. :D






This thread dedicated to Calvin and Hobbes.....

Calvin's such a great role model.

[KG]

12. a well made rueben is a thing to behold!

and then eat! :)

[MrScorpio]

19. The Reuben: The staff of life and its thousand island dressing the nectar

Prostrate yourself before its mightiness.

Pray that it finds you worthy enough to partake of the precious substance.

Be eternally grateful if you are so privileged.

[Kat45]

20. What is a reuben sandwich?

I've heard of it, but never seen it; I have no idea what's in it.

[regnaD kciN]

23. A grilled sandwich...

...with corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and thousand-island dressing on (generally) rye bread (the darker, the better, IMHO).

If the corned beef is suitably lean, a wonderful experience. If not, avoid it.

Some years ago, a local restaurant chain, Billy McHale's, offered a "lighter" version of the Reuben with sliced turkey instead of corned beef. Surprisingly, it was quite good. However, they dropped it from the menu and now only offer the standard version.

A deli near where I used to work made a great Reuben. However, thanks to the tech-sector crash that hit just after Chimpy took over the economy, I'm no longer working there, so haven't had a chance to get one recently.

:-(

[ForrestGump]

24. Darn. Forgot an ingredient.

I'd forgotten all about the Thousand Island dressing - I never eat the stuff, so I forgot entirely about it. And it's been too long since I made it the right way that I guess I forgot that whole dressing thing. Well, I'm here to tell y'all that it's also pretty good with just dijon mustard.

[deek]

21. only veggie ones

yummy