#sandwich discourse

[initial-lime]

I’m bored and I have polls, feel free to include reasons for your choice in a reblog (:

[cobragardens]

mustard or ketchup? ....or catsup? dear god.

this is a highly contentious issue in my household.

(im on the side of a good saurkraut, but im not expecting anyone to agree with me.)

I vote ketchup for most hot-food applications. The only place I really enjoy mustard is on a roast-beef sandwich, in which case it should be a 2:1 mix of Dijon mustard with honey. I consider sauerkraut more of a sandwich ingredient than a condiment, but I do agree with you that it's delicious. On its own, no, but between bread with mayo and some kind of roast beast? Mmm.

(Where I do NOT approve of sauerkraut is with sausages. But I do not approve of sausages generally--I feel that the only acceptable format for a dead pig is bacon, and I am suspicious of any meat melange--so I am not the person to consult on sausage-related topics.)

[quenchiestcactusjuice99]

Mutuals.... come hither

i need you to tell @bigfoot-dot-com he's wrong about sandwiches

[geckyjuno]

A Comprehensive Guide to Sandwiches

"Is [X] a sandwich?" - An oft-asked question by fools and intellectuals alike. While it may seem simple on the surface, the cognitive destruction resultant from the line of inquiry has resulted in more than a dozen deaths this year alone, but worry not my salivating sandwich savant; by the end of this guide, you'll be able to DESTROY the arguments of your adversaries, all the while sustaining minimal damage to your psyche.

We'll begin where all good comprehensive guides do, definitions! What we're mainly looking to do here, is establish a number of categories that one might reasonably consider a sandwich. For our purposes, we will be establishing 2 distinct categories: the hand sandwich, which is the original invention of the Earl of Sandwich, and the culinary sandwich, which is a culinary category which contains the wrap, and the stack aka the structural sandwich.

The original hand sandwich is defined as such: a non-bread food inside bread that can easily be consumed one-handed while gambling, without getting the cards greasy.

While the Earl of Sandwich was a visionary in many ways, even his forward-thinking mind couldn't predict the advent of ice cream. As such, I propose it be redefined as follows: a non-bread food inside bread that can easily be consumed one-handed while gambling, without getting the cards greasy or sticky.

Some notable inclusions: The Hot Dog, The Handwich, The 2-inch Submarine Sandwich.

Some notable exclusions: The Michigan Hot Dog, The Sloppy Joe, The 6-inch Submarine Sandwich.

The Culinary Sandwich is defined as such: a non-bread food inside bread.

It is further sub-divided into 2 categories:

The Wrap: a non-bread food inside a single piece of bread.

Some notable inclusions: The Hot Dog, The 6-inch Submarine Sandwich, The Ice Cream Cone.

Some notable exclusions: The Club Sandwich, The Burger, The Ice Cream Sandwich.

The Stack / Structural Sandwich: a non-bread food between 2 or more layers of bread.

Some notable inclusions: The Club Sandwich, The Burger, The Ice Cream Sandwich.

Some notable exclusions: The Hot Dog, The 6-inch Submarine Sandwich, The Ice Cream Cone.

And it's as simple as that! Next time someone asks you if something counts as a sandwich, simply ask them if they mean a hand sandwich, a culinary sandwich, or a structural sandwich! You're sure to end the argument on the spot.

[socially-reluctant]

any time you put ingredients between or inside a bread, it is a sandwich

taco? sandwich.

hot dog? sandwich.

wrap? sandwich.

Ice cream between waffles? sandwich.

Pop tart? sandwich.

pizza? sandwich, but open face.

sandwich is forever, sandwich is everything, sandwich is eternal

[butterflyslinky]

Settle an Argument

[the-infamous-eel]

Overly long PB&J rant incoming....

So, we have so many varieties of both peanut butter and jams/jellies, not to mention types of bread, that the combos are too high for me to count this morning. Everything from unsweetened, super crunchy all natural peanut butter to silky smooth, super sweet, added oil stuff. In the jam category there's a similar distribution, from chunky preserves with only the fruit's natural sugars to sweeten it, to stuff that's 90% corn syrup (not really, but close enough). Bread has the same range.

It's all about sweet and salty together. Everyone has their preferred combo. The media saturated "stereotypical" version is creamy peanut butter and overly sweet grape jelly on tasteless and textureless white bread. This is the "Golly, gee, mom!" 1950s pb&j. My favorite is raspberry jam, creamy but not sweet peanut butter, on a softer wheat bread.

Typically, the jam/jelly is from black or red fruits, but I guess stone fruit varieties are an option. No one really goes for citrus fruits.

It's all about your preferred combo and levels of sweet and salty, and what sort of bread. It's very subjective. A pb&j can be the worst slop of a sandwich imagined and they can be divine. Perfection in simplicity. And what would fall into either category for me may be switched for someone else.

I (inexplicably third culture kid at times) grew up eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch every day because my mother is normal, and all my English friends were rude about them despite literally never having tried one because "ough it just sounds gross." Anyway I want to see if this is a trend beyond children from southern England.

NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT KNOW - JELLY IN THIS CASE MEANS JAM, NOT JELLO-TYPE FOOD - MANY OF MY PEERS WERE NOT AWARE OF THAT.

[copperbadge]

Just to add to the sandwich conversation: a food writer called MFK Fisher considered the best sandwich to be one that had been sat on to warm it slightly

(Recipe: cookingindex[.]com/recipes/6282/m-f-k-fishers-warm-sandwich[.]htm

I have to say I'm slightly perplexed by the recipe because like...isn't that just a slow motion Cuban sandwich? I guess it's an interesting technique and useful if you don't have a panini press or are going to be in traffic for a while but mayo at body heat for an hour sounds like a recipe for food poisoning.

(I may be influenced by the fact that I don't like ham or mayo all that much, admittedly. :D)

[ingravinoveritas]

So, in honor of David hosting the BAFTAs this year, The Guardian is soliciting questions for him to answer, and I just needed to share a selection of them...

(Sharing this last one only because the secondhand embarrassment is so strong, and why would you even ask David this. Also agreeing with someone else who said this question is so clearly made for Michael Sheen...)

[oceanwithouthermoon]

one of the WORST things i see in fandom/ship discourse is when people say "straight ships just dont sit right with me.." like hey.. what do u mean by that.

ESPECIALLY if we're talking about GIRLS who EXCLUSIVELY like mlm ships... i dont care what you say, i think youre fetishizing gay men and youre weird for this. (same thing with guys who exclusively ship wlw but i see that less in fandoms.)

but then, on the other side of this we get people calling them "heterophobic.." NOOOO THAT ISNT REAL IM LITERALLY RIPPING MY HAIR OUT THAT IS NOT A THING.

its not "straightphobic," in fact its literally more homophobic than anything (do not deny that its super fetishy, we all know that its fetishization so dont play dumb..)

(im not saying u have to ship straight ships btw i literally dont care, ship what u want, im SPECIFICALLY talking about people who hate on them, call them toxic because theyre straight, comment on every post that their gay ship is better, etc.. generally just people who are super annoying and fetishy about it. not just people who ship what they ship.. the thing im talking about is basically watered down fujoshis..)

[heurtebizzz]

It's mayo, y'all. Americans (and Canadians, btw) put mayo (sometimes also mustard) on their sandwiches. I'm an Eastern European transplant but have lived in the U. S. long enough to get used to it. I don't miss butter.

I was reading a thing where an American was saying that Europeans are weird for putting butter in sandwiches and like ??

So, do Americans not put butter in their sandwiches? Like, I get if you’re having cream cheese, or PB&J or something else with a bit of moisture in it, I don’t have butter with that either, but what if you were having, say, a cheese sandwich, a normal one made with just cheese, I’m assuming you wouldn’t have a slice of cheese between two bits of dry bread. So what would you have? Do you use something instead of butter/margarine, or do you just not have that kind of a sandwich?

This might seem a random question, but I actually need to know this for the purpose of writing fanfic.

[preciousmetaltimeofnight]

I think my main frustration with the lore today comes from tonal disconnect between what we knew about the event today vs what the event actually was. Like the event itself would probably have been a fun silly thing that I would have enjoyed. Had it not been built up to with the implications that they were gonna learn a important new information about the federation and steal important tech. When we learned about the mission it seemed like a secret spy thing with high stakes. Atleast from Cellbit's pov, with a possibility of more answers about the federation. And then today it turned out that it wasn't a small spy mission. But a server wide event that half the characters had no in character reason to attend.

(Like some of the sillies were from qsmp being MCRP and inherently silly but also a full half of those characters had no reason to attend instead of just getting info from Cellbit later Lore wise)

There's also the disconnect from it being really obvious meta wise that the admins want them to keep the MiniMes and the players supposedly stealing secret tech from the federation. Like what's the point of a heist if you are just gonna later have the guy they heisted it from just give them out? Or imply via Duck video that the federation wanted them to steal the MiniMes?

[doctorsiren]

A singular piece of ham inbetween cheese and Bread, Toasted in the pan, i call grilled cheese because i didn't know any other name to call it in English. ..

Though, we call it Ostesmørbrød i Norwegian, which is Cheese sandwich, and Most often DOES have something other then just cheese.

Thank you

See!!

Also that’s such a fun sounding name hehe

[diagonal-queen]

Hello sandwich girl. Okay keep in mind my [unspecified well known sandwich chain] may be different from your [unspecified well known sandwich chain] because we live on different continents but. Listen to me and listen to me carefully. White bread. Lettuce. Cucumber. (You can leave the tomatoes cuz I know you don't like tomato, but originally in my perfect recipe there is tomato just know that). Olives (Green olives preferably), and if you must, onion. The terriyaki chicken option or whatever is closest to it. Cheddar cheese. Chipotle sauce. If they allow extra bacon on that bad boy then Hell you put extra bacon on that bad boy. Get it toasted. I'm trying to think of who could best appreciate my perfect recipe and it's probably tachihara I'll be honest

god bless

holy moly!!!!!

i FULLY agree, give tachihara a goodass sandwich and some cookies. i appreciate you remembering my dislike for tomatoes jestie <3 unfortunately we've only got black olives at my chain, but olives are olives!

Ingredients:

white bread

teriyaki chicken

bacon

cheddar

toast him!

lettuce

cucumber

olives

onion

chipotle sauce

results: my rating for the transmasc sandwich is a 9/10. holy shit dude. i'll be entirely honest jestie i was lowkey not super eager for this one since i don't really like cucumber and olives (they don't make me sick like tomatoes, but i wouldn't seek them out), but WOAH. the cucumber and olives go super well with the teriyaki and bacon! it's crispy and mmmmmmmmmm nice one jestie

[ecclecticmx]

Every time I make a sandwhich for myself I cut it in half, but grilled cheese is always a diagonal cut as well for some reason. It just doesn't feel right otherwise.

I never contemplated that some folks don't eat uncut sandwiches, but I realize after making my fist post I only eat PB&Js without slicing them and it's definitely for tired adult reasons lol.

If a grilled cheese is cut diagonally, it is fancy and mature.

If a grilled cheese is cut vertically, it is for children.

If a grilled cheese isnt cut at all, it's for a grown and tired adult who is just happy they slapped two slices of bread together for a meal.

[icescrabblerjerky]

I've just realised why folk are freaking out about carrots on sandwiches and it's because y'all are americans and you think we're putting this in between two pieces of bread:

when in fact we are putting THIS in our sandwiches

And someone else pointed out that grated carrot is a standard ingredient in Banh Minh as well.