X+Y = Sandwich

[Cusina]

My father is a serious PB & J addict. Midnight snacking style. Very coarse whole wheat bread, the chunkiest peanut butter available and grape jelly is the favorite.

However, my mother doesn't really eat the stuff and she does the shopping, so every once in a while he runs out of a key ingredient and is forced to substitute.

Hence the birth of the PB & M (peanut butter and mustard) sandwich. EW!

[mags]

My father was for many years an enormous food snob. He used to bug the shit out of waiters in French restaurants by ordering "rrrrrrrrat-ta-TOO-ya" -- you know, what most Americans call "rat-ta-TOO-ee." Once, when he and my stepmother and I got stranded in Hyannis late at night, he asked at the Herz counter for the name of a good local restaurant that might still be serving dinner. He returned to the car, beaming, and announced that we would be going to someplace called "Denise." It was, of course, Denny's. Where my stepmother and I did the sensible thing, and ordered cheeseburgers, and my insane father ordered the seafood salad, a medley of ocean-fresh seafood, crisp vegetables and our homemade tangy vinaigrette served on a bed of lettuce with olives and continental breadsticks. He deserved what he got.

Anyway, when I was a tot, before his hardcore snobbery had set in, he used to make my breakfast, regularly serving up his two favorite sandwiches: bologna and ketchup on white toast, and raw ground beef on Wheat Thins, crowned with a dollop of ketchup. He would deny this to his dying day, but I knows what I knows. Plus, I loved them.

Tomato sandwiches -- on white bread with gobs of Hellman's -- remain a favorite of mine. Even better if you stick in a slice of sharp cheddar, but I guess at that point they veer away from trashy. And cold leftover take-out Chinese stir-fry -- of pretty much anything -- is great on a kaiser roll. Mayo optional. My college roomate used to make sandwiches of sliced raw hot dogs on white bread with Miracle Whip and dribbles of bottled Italian dressing, but he never persuaded me to try one.

[gus_tatory]

Place one Steak-umm on a plate...

{admitting ignorance}

what is a Steak-umm?

[Toasted]

Steak- um's are some ultra-thin frozen meat product. My sisters used to

eat it on wonder bread with mustard.

[jackal10]

Sourdough bread

Marmite

chunky peanut butter

Homemade and home grown Grape Jelly

Sandwich spread (or salad cream)

[Toasted]

Has anyone mentioned suger and butter sandwiches made with wonderbread?

A specialty of the house when I was growing up! Served with Tang. No wonder

we were such hyper brats.

[ronnie_suburban]

Cream cheese and ketchup on toasted, buttered rye.  It's yummy.  I think this was my invention? 

What?! No pickles?!

=R=

[Mayhaw Man]

Peter Pan Crunchy Peanut Butter and mayhaw (what else? ) jelly on wheat with a liberal sprinkling of Elmer's Chee Wees. A gourmet treat. Try one today!

[docsconz]

If this thread isn't a good example of the culinary diversity of eGullet and the maxim "to each, one's own," I don't know what is.

[Pickles]

Has anyone mentioned suger and butter sandwiches made with wonderbread?

Not sure if he used Wonderbread, but my Swedish step-grandfather used to say this was a dessert item in his native land. My mother was treated to it many a time.

[hillvalley]

Has anyone mentioned suger and butter sandwiches made with wonderbread?

Not sure if he used Wonderbread, but my Swedish step-grandfather used to say this was a dessert item in his native land. My mother was treated to it many a time.

I spent a summer at sleep away camp eating butter sugar sandwhiches on Jewish rye.

It's now a comfort food

[Randi]

Tomato sandwiches -- on white bread with gobs of Hellman's -- remain a favorite of mine. 

Make it a huge sweet Jersey tomato slice (as big as the bread). Sliced purple sweet onion optional.

[tommy]

i'm making mayo sandwiches tomorrow. little rounds of thin white bread, with a bit of mayo and thinly sliced red onion inside, with edges rolled in fresh parsley. yummy sammy.

[Purrkins]

...onion sandwich. You use a lot of good mayo, current favorite is Hellman's Mayonesa (made with lime juice), slice the onion paper thin. Pile onto a good white bread with salt and pepper. Sometimes we use a seasoned salt like Jane's Krazy Salt. Drink a cold beer or two while indulging. Instant nap.

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Oh Lord, yes! Add as many thin slices of ripe tomato as you think you can hold on with the top slice of bread, add a goodly shake of Spike, roll up your sleeves and eat over the sink. There's no way you can put it down, so you'll have to eat it while the juice runs down your chin and arms. And you gonna have to wash your face afterwards.

[snowangel]

And then there's my bacon sandwich. Bacon sandwiched between more bacon. No bread, no mayo, no nothing but bacon. It's good. Really good.

[fifi]

...onion sandwich. You use a lot of good mayo, current favorite is Hellman's Mayonesa (made with lime juice), slice the onion paper thin. Pile onto a good white bread with salt and pepper. Sometimes we use a seasoned salt like Jane's Krazy Salt. Drink a cold beer or two while indulging. Instant nap.

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Oh Lord, yes! Add as many thin slices of ripe tomato as you think you can hold on with the top slice of bread, add a goodly shake of Spike, roll up your sleeves and eat over the sink. There's no way you can put it down, so you'll have to eat it while the juice runs down your chin and arms. And you gonna have to wash your face afterwards.

Welcome Purrkins. Sounds like you know your way around a sandwich. My sister sometimes adds tomato. I am a genetic mutant. I hate raw tomato so I don't indulge in that direction. Do you find the big dose of onion makes you nappy?

[SobaAddict70]

Worcestershire (sp) sauce sandwiches.

Take a slice of bread, smear with butter. Or toast bread lightly, then smear with butter.

Add Worcestershire sauce and garlic powder to taste.

Eat.

Soba

[chromedome]

When I was young, and a bachelor, and frequently intoxicated, I made the Ultimate "Cholesterol Highball" Grilled Sandwich....

Fry half a pound of bacon. Drain the pourable fat from the pan. Butter two slices of bread; place them butter side down in the pan, fry until crisp. Remove from pan. Butter the uncooked sides. Place one in the pan, uncooked side down. Cover with as much cheese as will fit. Place the half-pound of bacon on top of the cheese. Cover the bacon with another great whack of cheese, then the second piece of bread. Fry on both sides until the outsides are crispy as well, and the cheese has melted.

Although this recipe is peanut butter free, that's probably because I was just too ripped to think of it.

This sandwich was normally consumed with the last beer left in the house, a large pickle (sometimes a large jar of pickles), and a chunk of smoked eel from the euro-deli across the way from where I lived.

This is just one example of why I'm occasionally surprised that I made it to age 40.

[josephreese]

Has anyone mentioned suger and butter sandwiches made with wonderbread?

A specialty of the house when I was growing up!  Served with Tang.  No wonder

we were such hyper brats.

Butter and sugar rolled in a warm tortilla, too.

My mother in-law still makes fresh tortillas every couple of days. When we visit I'm sure to get up early to catch one or two hot of the iron.

Edited February 2, 2004 by josephreese (log)

[Mudpuppie]

Do you find the big dose of onion makes you nappy?

Curly-headed?

Onions never make me sleepy, but by god Fifi, you're not alone!

[duckduck]

When I was in high school a friend of mine used to spread an ungodly amount of mayo between two slices of white bread. I personally love peanut butter, jam and bacon, especially when on a split, grilled bagel. And what's a tuna sandwich without the bbq chips? I also make a crab and shrimp white bread salad, kind of like potato salad except you use chunks of white bread instead of potatoes and the day after I take it out of the fridge and put it between slices of bread much like the stuffing sandwich mentioned earlier.

I do believe my worst transgression though was about second grade when I made a tuna fish, peanut butter, cottage cheese and dill pickle sandwich. It wasn't half bad. I think it was Helen Worth's book Cooking Without Recipe's that challenged me as an adult to think beyond the box. Who the hell says peanut butter has to go with jelly? She highly encourages experimantation. There are so many brilliant combinations out there waiting to be discovered. Munch on, People!

[hjshorter]

I'm not sure I should be admitting this....

I like deviled ham. The kind that comes in a can. On white bread, with Miracle Whip.

[Rhea_S]

Toast two slices of bread, spread cream cheese on one slice, top with leftover canned corned beef sauteed with garlic and onions and other slice of toast. Microwave 15 seconds and eat. I used to eat that back when I was in high school. Or maybe it was mozarella rather than cream cheese because there was definitely something white and stringy.

[reesek]

if it can be eaten - it can be piled on bread, covered with cheese and melted or topped with another slice of bread and grilled.

my childhood favorite was peanut butter (and butter) on toasted english muffin - topped with celophane-wrapped american cheese. it's better melty, but fake cheese seems to have 2 temperatures - molten and hard. i think i still have scars from over-eager eating.

i eat salad sandwiches at work. gross cafeteria caesar salad is vastly improved when part of this complete sandwich.

[duckduck]

Deviled ham and cream cheese between two slices of toast. Mmmmmm. A staple in my house. Or a slice of black forest ham with a slice of Kraft Old English singles and bread n butter pickles with mayo between twp slices of toast. God, I'm getting so hungry right now.