The White Horse Sandwich

[NulloModo]

So, fifteen years or so ago, when having first moved to DE, I was introduced to the after thanksgiving joy known as the 'White Horse Sandwich'.

The basic White Horse consists of white bread, cold turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mayo, and (preferably hot) gravey. Now, I imagine this leftover sandwhich exists all over, and probably goes by a variety of names. So, my question for you is: What do you call your version of this beast, and what goes onto it?

Also, if anyone knows the origin of the name 'White Horse' for this sandwhich, I would love to hear it.

[howard88]

I have been eating this exact sandwich after Thanksgiving all my life.

We never bothered to name it and simply think its the best sandwich

to have after Thanksgiving.

[TheFoodTutor]

I use turkey, mayonnaise and a touch of cranberry sauce. I don't like to put stuffing on my sandwich, though, because it's just too much bread for me that way. I usually eat my first leftover turkey sandwich on the evening of Thanksgiving and then I just keep eating them until the turkey's all gone.

I've never heard it called a White Horse, though. Oh, and sometimes they're good with iceberg lettuce, too.

[woodburner]

So, fifteen years or so ago, when having first moved to DE, I was introduced to the after thanksgiving joy known as the 'White Horse Sandwich'.

The basic White Horse consists of white bread, cold turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mayo, and (preferably hot) gravey.  Now, I imagine this leftover sandwhich exists all over, and probably goes by a variety of names.  So, my question for you is:  What do you call your version of this beast, and what goes onto it?

Also, if anyone knows the origin of the name 'White Horse' for this sandwhich, I would love to hear it.

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I know them as "Pilgrim Sandwiches"

White sourdough bread, sliced roast turkey, stuffing, lettuce, cranberry aioli. no brown gravy, served with a garlicky dill pickle, and potato chips.

woodburner

Edited November 27, 2004 by woodburner (log)

[spaghetttti]

Gosh, these sandwiches sound amazing! Would adding some crisp smoky bacon be considered gilding the lily?

[Jinmyo]

NM, is the hot gravy ladelled on top? Or spread like mayo inside the sandwich?

[NulloModo]

NM, is the hot gravy ladelled on top? Or spread like mayo inside the sandwich?

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I have seen them served both ways, although around my family the gravey was usually ladled inside the sandwhich... tending to run out all over one's chin with each bite taken.

[Holly Moore]

Around my house, through the weekend after Thanksgiving at least, it was cold turkey, cold stuffing, cold gravy, real cranberry sauce and the piece de resistance, crisp iceburg lettuce.

Our name for it by Sunday was "not that again!"

Edited November 27, 2004 by Holly Moore (log)

[woodburner]

Gosh, these sandwiches sound amazing!  Would adding some crisp smoky bacon be considered gilding the lily?

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It would work fine, I would just cut the sandwich in quarters though, at that point.

These things can get big.

I've found that adding half the volume of stuffing to turkey, makes a good ratio. Use an airy bread for the sandwich bread.

Come to think of it, the stuffing really acts as an extra piece of bread, such as on a triple-decker.

woodburner

[pingarina]

Wow, never knew it had a name. Maybe it's an Eastern thing (I'm from S. Francisco). It's my favorite part of Thanksgiving, since I cook the meal and am not too hungry by serving time. Usually turkey (dark), mayonnaise, lots of salt and pepper, cranberry, with gravy and stuffing on side, always in one of my homemade rolls. Sigh...that wasn't to be this year - BF's family didn't take to freshly baked rolls. Too weird, I suppose. They were used for duck feed, while the frozen Arnold dinner rolls (really just little round hot dog buns) were given center stage. And I didn't get any leftovers to take home! It's scrambled eggs and crackers for me tonight.

[Pan]

Wow, never knew it had a name.  Maybe it's an Eastern thing (I'm from S. Francisco).

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Maybe, but I never heard of it before, either. I always thought it was just a sandwich with leftover turkey, and I would have had it on whole wheat, rye, maybe sour-dough bread, but definitely not supermarket white.

[Jason Perlow]

What I had for dinner tonight:

Behold, the Thanksgiving Sandwich. Hot white meat turkey tossed in gravy, with warm New Orleans-style Cornbread Stuffing and Grand Marnier Cranberry Sauce, on an Onion Roll.

EAT ME!

[Brite14]

I too was introduced to this sandwich when I first moved to DE (small world- er, small state- eh, Nullo?).

At Capriotti's, my favorite sub shop, they call it a Bobbie. Fresh turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and mayo. I crave it all year.

[elswinger]

I went over to a friend's house for dinner this year so have no leftovers to enjoy (we had Coq Au Vin), but I'll add my version of the leftover Thanksgiving sandwich.

Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy wrapped in a flour tortilla and lightly fried. Serve with more hot gravy on top (though I guess you could put cranberry sauce on it if you like).

[cakewalk]

Jason, I'm sure it tasted good, but that looks absolutely revolting!

I love the name White Horse Sandwich. No one else seems to call it that, but everyone knows what you're talking about. I think at some point an imaginative person took a look at the white bread, white turkey, white mayonnaise, etc. and invented a name. Great stuff.

[Jason Perlow]

Jason, I'm sure it tasted good, but that looks absolutely revolting! 

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I can assure you, it tastes anything but revolting. Its probably one of the best uses for leftover turkey and thanksgiving accoutriments you can possibly have.

[Fred12fred]

Jason, I'm sure it tasted good, but that looks absolutely revolting! 

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I can assure you, it tastes anything but revolting. Its probably one of the best uses for leftover turkey and thanksgiving accoutriments you can possibly have.

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No knife, no fork, and no napkins in the picture

So, exactly how did this get from plate to mouth without making a huge mess?

[Jason Perlow]

No knife, no fork, and no napkins in the picture 

So, exactly how did this get from plate to mouth without making a huge mess? 

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It didn't. Half of it didn't leave the plate, I had to come back and do battlefield cleanup with a fork.

[woodburner]

What I had for dinner tonight:

Behold, the Thanksgiving Sandwich. Hot white meat turkey tossed in gravy, with warm New Orleans-style Cornbread Stuffing and Grand Marnier Cranberry Sauce, on an Onion Roll.

EAT ME!

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Yup,

That's a Pilgrim.

Nice job.

woodburner

[lovebenton0]

Jason, I'm sure it tasted good, but that looks absolutely revolting! 

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I can assure you, it tastes anything but revolting. Its probably one of the best uses for leftover turkey and thanksgiving accoutriments you can possibly have.

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I thought it was a give-me-some-now-good-looking sandwich myself! But then mine didn't look that much different earlier.

We've never called it anything but turkey sandwich -- or maybe "the turkey sandwich!"

If gravy goes on the outside then it's an open-face turkey sandwich, to us, with turkey, dressing, cranberry in the middle and gravy ladled all around the relish pile on top of a piece of toasted bread.

[tanabutler]

That sandwich looks like Tommy Tomato. Take a cherry tomato and slice it, horizontally, not too very deeply, as though cutting the mouth for a Muppet. (Sort of in half without actual decapitation.) Put two tiny dollops of soft butter, and with the tip of a knife or the tine of a fork, add two little eyes above the cut.

Hold the tomato by its newly cut "jaws," and say (in a high, squeaky voice): "My name is Tommy Tomato. I'm going to be siiiiiiick."

Then squeeze the tomato. It will look like it's puking.

Some things are better left to the imagination. And the description would have been appetizing, but something about having seen Tommy Tomato just makes it...unfortunate.

As far as a White Horse sandwich goes: who wants to eat Mister Ed?! I make a sandwich rather like the one you've described (Jinmyo: gravy spread like mayo, thinly, on the bread), but I never thought it had, or needed, a name. Note: I've lived in ten states (everywhere but the Pacific Northwest) and never heard reference to a White Horse sandwich.

BUT I LOVE THEM ANYWAY!

Edited November 30, 2004 by tanabutler (log)

[Jinmyo]

Tana, Jason's sandwich certainly looks like Tommy Tomato. But it also looks like it had a great sense of humour to it.

Too bad it had turkey in it. Feh.

[jilli42]

I never knew it had a name either, but this is how I eat it. 2 slices white bread, thinly coated with mayo. Sprinkle lots of pepper and some salt on both pieces. Put a layer of turkey on one piece. Spread on a thin layer of cranberry jezebel sauce. Add more turkey. Coat this with a thin layer of mashed potatoes. Cover the other piece of bread with stuffing & top with gravy (hot or not, depends on my mood at the time) Smoosh together & eat. DELICIOUS ! I love carbs- can you tell ??

My fiancee made one, minus the cranberry sauce & added a layer of egg salad. I thought it would be too much, but it was really quite good. And he would only let me have one bite..