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

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!

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.

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.

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)

"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.

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...!

Miracle Whip.

A friend of Mrs. Dean's, who grew up on a dairy farm, was essentially put out with the cows in the morning, to spend her day wandering about with the livestock, I guess as sort of a member of the herd to get her out of the hair of her parents. Sounds kind of abusive to me, but OTOH, from my memories of what a lot of farmers' kids were like when I was a child (i.e. bullies), perhaps a lesser of two evils. Anyway, she related that she rather liked it, as she could just sit under a tree and read all day.

Anyway, she had a story about how her dad was so proud to eat the whipped cream that came from his own cows. Her mom, of course, these being the traditional gender-role type of people, did all of the cooking. And, her dad had thought, all of the cream-whipping. But, have you ever whipped cream, even with an electric beater? The mom was evidently not interested in that amount of slave labor. Things became a bit uncomfortable around the house the the Dad accidentally discovered all the hidden empty tubs of Kool-Whip that the Mom had been hiding in the barn or somewhere and hadn't gotten around to disposing of.

@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

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