Good-Ass Sandwich

[wombat]

OK, enough with these sandwiches that need to be grilled and fried and panini'd and brined the night before. Anyone can make a good ass sandwich that way. I need a sandwich that I can put in a plastic bag and it won't make me want to cry when I eat it two hours later. Who's up for that challenge?

[Asherdan]

P
B
&
J

I mean, if you ain't fancy and shit. Take a thermos full of milk with you.

OR

Get some good crunchy bread you like and hit it with the mayo and the honey-dijon mustard. Then layer the ham on one side and some good ass cheese on another. Get yourself a good thick layer of red leaf lettuce on the ham side and some chunky-juicy tomato slices on the other and slap the sides together. The ham and the cheese will protect the bread from the vegetable moisture and keep it from going all mushy while still giving you the zing of getting some tasty veg crunch with the sammich.

If you're feeling sassy, slice up a pickled egg (you save your pickle brine and do up your own eggs RIGHT) and put it in the middle between the lettuce and the tomato.

HAM SAMMICH, THE GODS HAVE SPOKEN IN DELIGHT.

[AugustWest]

Not so much a recipe as a tip from AB -- If sogginess is a problem, use an oil-based spread (ie mayo, butter/margarine).  This protects the bread from the moisture in the stuffings.

[Choop]

NO NO NO you're doing it wrong.

build the sandwich in parallel from the outside in, excepting condiments: mayo (and salt and pepper) on one side, mustard on the other. meat on both sides, seasoned by the condiments. cheese on both sides, then garden between. join and devour. extra points for a center slice of bread with mayo and mustard opposite the ends.

for pb&j just peeb up both pieces of bread before you jay.

[greenkoolayd]

(you save your pickle brine and do up your own eggs RIGHT)

'round these parts, folks make their own brine for pickled eggs and they add beets, as well.

[Asherdan]

And on that note, you can pickle eggs in beet juice. They look like bloody hell but are damn fine.

[Doc]

My daily sandwich for a while now has been: 9-grain bread, tasty cheese, lettuce (whatever I've got but not iceberg), tomato, roast beef or ham and Branston pickle. It is this last ingredient that makes it a true culinary treat, I've had a friend who ate a sandwich composed of the pickle and nothing else and she was well satiated.

The order is to put the pickle directly on the bread (which seems like madness from a soggy point of view but is necessary to properly disperse it's flavour and it's not that soggy anyway) then meat, tomato, lettuce and cheese. This ensures the tomato (the most dangerously soggy element) is surrounded by the waterproof layers of meat and cheese and will not destroy my delicious bread.
Is so good.

[littlefallsmets]

Oat nut bread or some other multigrain with a lot of chunkity texture. Don't skimp on the mayo, we'll all be dead soon either way.

The best deli turkey you can get your hands on. Lettuce, red onions. Sharpest cheddar cheese in a twenty-mile radius, if it can etch glass that means it is good cheddar cheese.

Mung bean sprouts if available. Avocado if it is good and fresh, mediocre avocado ain't worth it.

I guess you could slip in some bacon, if that's your thing, but I'd consider it sort of gilding the lilly.

Slap it together. Eat. Eat like three of them. Salt and vinegar chips on the side if your diet allows them.

[theinevitable]

I am scared to eat salt and vinegar chips ever since the time I ate so many that I got blisters on my lips.

they're so damn good, though.

[side_show]

Do you have Salt and Pepper chips in the US?  If find that they are a wonderful foil to the burnt lips of the Salt and Vinegar variety, and go well with almost any sandwich.

[littlefallsmets]

An acceptable-if-rare substitute for salt-and-vinegar chips would be ketchup-flavoured chips.

Or, like, REALLY REALLY THICK crinkle cut chips with ketchup drizzled all over them, preferably from a diner-style squirt bottle. Thickness to hold up to the weight of the 'chup.*

Some kind of vinegar-y chip to accompany.

*(Heinz, of course.)

[wombat]

Pickled eggs in beet juice and ketchup flavored chips. So you guys' strategy is instead of coming up with a sandwich I will want to eat, to destroy my appetite completely so I don't want a sandwich at all.

[Carlos del Vaca]

There's a chip vendor--Herr's, I think?--that has cheddar and hossradish chips now.  Holy CRAP.  They are good.

[greenkoolayd]

There's a chip vendor--Herr's, I think?--that has cheddar and hossradish chips now.  Holy CRAP.  They are good.

hell and fuck yes!  herrs kettle cooked chips are the shit.  there is an excellent mesquite BBQ flavor that fuckin rocks, too.  also, grandma gibbles kettle cooked chips.

oh man, i need to quit thinking about junk foods.  i have gained too much weight since i got laid off last year.

[littlefallsmets]

Actually, wombala, I could see a salad where sliced beet-pickled eggs and ketchup-chips were interesting co-garnishes.

Sort of a meta-take on a chef's salad with some grilled chopped chicken instead of ham. Relatively bitter greens, some radish, some carrot, some cheese.

Nice bitey balsamic vingy thingie on top. Chips as the stand-in for the crouton.

Sorta an uber-version of the early MacDonalds attempts at having a salad on the menu.