This Awesome Sandwich

I like sandwiches more than you could possibly imagine. Submit your sandwich, and let me tell you how much I want to eat it.
THIS SANDWICH SUBMITTED BY THE WONDERFUL AND TALENTED ALEX McINTYRE SINGH OF Pandas and People “My Sandwich.Thick cut fresh bread.Thick layer of cream cheese.10 slices of smoked ham.1 slice of Emmental cheese.1 slice of thick cut honey roasted ham.Hand full of rocket leaves.4 slices of german salami.10 sliced mini gherkins.Thick layer of mustard and mayonnaise.MMMMMMMM!!!!!”MMMMMMMM!!!!! indeed, Alex! First off, a round of applause for being our first overseas contributor to This Awesome Sandwich. I’ve got two others submissions pending, but due to the display of sandwich prowess you see before you, I felt it necessary to push it to the front of the line. Also he included the ingredients which is just so superb I can’t even. First off, let’s tackle the most obvious thing about this sandwich; the good Mr. Singh knows how to stack up on the ingredients that matter. Ten slices of smoked ham AND an extra slice of honey roasted! Cream cheese and Emmental cheese (better known as Swiss cheese in the US)!! Salami AND gherkins!!! In the hands of a sandwich n00b, you’d see this split up over three sandwiches, all of which not worth the wonder bread they were flopped onto. Instead, Alex decides to lay it on thick, and comes up with a delicious (and reasonably nutritious) slam dunk of a meal. Wham bam thank u ma’am. A moment of appreciation for the fresh cut/thick cut combination you see here on display with the bread. Choosing a fresher bread not only improves the taste, but it provides vital structure and stability to the sandwich. I want you to think back to some of those old WWII newsreels you saw as a kid, with British ships embroiled in brutal conflict with the Axis powers. This bread is the landing craft keeping those brave ingredients safe against the machinations of external forces, such as dogs, floors, and German U-Boats. God bless you glorious bastards. In short, if I ever go to the United Kingdom again, I’m going into a grocery store, getting all the above ingredients, making about four of these sandwiches, eating three of them, and giving one to a homeless guy, just so I can see the smile on his face when he gets this sweet, baller-ass sandwich. I give this sandwich nine out of ten layers of honey-roasted brilliance.

THIS SANDWICH SUBMITTED BY THE WONDERFUL AND TALENTED ALEX McINTYRE SINGH OF Pandas and People

“My Sandwich.

Thick cut fresh bread.
Thick layer of cream cheese.
10 slices of smoked ham.
1 slice of Emmental cheese.
1 slice of thick cut honey roasted ham.
Hand full of rocket leaves.
4 slices of german salami.
10 sliced mini gherkins.
Thick layer of mustard and mayonnaise.

MMMMMMMM!!!!!”

MMMMMMMM!!!!! indeed, Alex! First off, a round of applause for being our first overseas contributor to This Awesome Sandwich. I’ve got two others submissions pending, but due to the display of sandwich prowess you see before you, I felt it necessary to push it to the front of the line. Also he included the ingredients which is just so superb I can’t even.

First off, let’s tackle the most obvious thing about this sandwich; the good Mr. Singh knows how to stack up on the ingredients that matter. Ten slices of smoked ham AND an extra slice of honey roasted! Cream cheese and Emmental cheese (better known as Swiss cheese in the US)!! Salami AND gherkins!!! In the hands of a sandwich n00b, you’d see this split up over three sandwiches, all of which not worth the wonder bread they were flopped onto. Instead, Alex decides to lay it on thick, and comes up with a delicious (and reasonably nutritious) slam dunk of a meal. Wham bam thank u ma’am.

A moment of appreciation for the fresh cut/thick cut combination you see here on display with the bread. Choosing a fresher bread not only improves the taste, but it provides vital structure and stability to the sandwich. I want you to think back to some of those old WWII newsreels you saw as a kid, with British ships embroiled in brutal conflict with the Axis powers. This bread is the landing craft keeping those brave ingredients safe against the machinations of external forces, such as dogs, floors, and German U-Boats. God bless you glorious bastards.

In short, if I ever go to the United Kingdom again, I’m going into a grocery store, getting all the above ingredients, making about four of these sandwiches, eating three of them, and giving one to a homeless guy, just so I can see the smile on his face when he gets this sweet, baller-ass sandwich. I give this sandwich nine out of ten layers of honey-roasted brilliance.

There’s something about this sandwich that’s a little dirty. In the XXX sense. You know, between the slipperly slotches of mayo on the tomato, the shiny grease on the fries and ketchup, the empty maws of the plates behind it… And, you know, the porno lighting. Let’s get down to brass tacks; this is a very well designed sandwich. It takes the basic concept of the BLT and pushes it to the next level; the Charmeleon to the the BLT’s Charmander, as it were. It also defies sandwich convention by choosing the grilled chicken instead of a thin-sliced deli meat like turkey. I personally think this is an inspired choice, and notice that’s a direction that restaurants like Potbelly’s are embracing. Expect more grilled chicken in your future. God I love grilled chicken. I can count seven ingredients; chicken, bacon, two layers of swiss (?), tomato, lettuce, avocado (!!), and mayonnaise. The bread is an interesting case, though initially appearing to be a conventional white, the subtle changes to color and texture make me think this may be a sourdough we’re dealing with. I would also like to point out how pimpass baller it is that they used avocado, which never gets enough credit for its place in sandwich architecture. This is clearly the work of a professional. In summary, if I were left alone with this sandwich in a locked room for thirty minutes, with a pair of cameras recording my every move, I would make one hell of a dirty film. And by dirty film, I mean a half-minute of frenzied mastication, followed by twenty-nine minutes thirty seconds of me scratching my belly and occasionally burping. Don’t tell me that someone out there wouldn’t get off on that. I give this sandwich an XXXXX out of XXX.

There’s something about this sandwich that’s a little dirty. In the XXX sense. You know, between the slipperly slotches of mayo on the tomato, the shiny grease on the fries and ketchup, the empty maws of the plates behind it…

And, you know, the porno lighting.

Let’s get down to brass tacks; this is a very well designed sandwich. It takes the basic concept of the BLT and pushes it to the next level; the Charmeleon to the the BLT’s Charmander, as it were. It also defies sandwich convention by choosing the grilled chicken instead of a thin-sliced deli meat like turkey. I personally think this is an inspired choice, and notice that’s a direction that restaurants like Potbelly’s are embracing. Expect more grilled chicken in your future. God I love grilled chicken.

I can count seven ingredients; chicken, bacon, two layers of swiss (?), tomato, lettuce, avocado (!!), and mayonnaise. The bread is an interesting case, though initially appearing to be a conventional white, the subtle changes to color and texture make me think this may be a sourdough we’re dealing with. I would also like to point out how pimpass baller it is that they used avocado, which never gets enough credit for its place in sandwich architecture. This is clearly the work of a professional.

In summary, if I were left alone with this sandwich in a locked room for thirty minutes, with a pair of cameras recording my every move, I would make one hell of a dirty film. And by dirty film, I mean a half-minute of frenzied mastication, followed by twenty-nine minutes thirty seconds of me scratching my belly and occasionally burping. Don’t tell me that someone out there wouldn’t get off on that.

I give this sandwich an XXXXX out of XXX.

(via foodforfatties)

Steps To A Better Sandwich #1 - Sandwich Meat and Cheese Pairings

follow these simple guidelines for a more harmonious sandwich (instead of randomly mashing together cheeses and meats like a spaz).

Turkey :: Cheddar, Swiss

Ham :: Swiss, Colby, Muenster, Mozzarella

Roast Beef :: Monterey Jack, Jarlsberg

Salami :: Cheddar, Brick

Bologna :: Monterey Jack, Cheddar

Pastrami :: Provolone, Swiss, Monterey Jack

(base info via The International Dairy Deli Bakery Association™ and tested by me. Steps To A Better Sandwich #2 will focus on breads, #3 with condiments.)

oh, holy crapnagget, i want to just sit here and stare all night at that panini pressline. WOW. that’s like watching an old west cowboy brand a fat bessie. no, i’ll do you one better, this looks like the reactor of some next level spaceship that runs on alien panini technology to keep its plutonium core to the correct amount of crispiness. i wish that salad didn’t comprise 40% of this photo, but it’s a nice looking salad anyway, lots of cherry tomatoes (RIP tomatoes 2011-2011). I want to congratulate this sandwich with four enthusiastic rounds of applause (out of five)

oh, holy crapnagget, i want to just sit here and stare all night at that panini pressline. WOW. that’s like watching an old west cowboy brand a fat bessie. no, i’ll do you one better, this looks like the reactor of some next level spaceship that runs on alien panini technology to keep its plutonium core to the correct amount of crispiness.

i wish that salad didn’t comprise 40% of this photo, but it’s a nice looking salad anyway, lots of cherry tomatoes (RIP tomatoes 2011-2011).

I want to congratulate this sandwich with four enthusiastic rounds of applause (out of five)

(Source: lustforlifeee-)

sandwiched: “Peking Duck Sandwich” Have you ever had duck before? It’s like chicken, but for fancy people. I’ve had duck a few times before, and I’ll be damned if I didn’t think it was one of the tastiest things I’ve ever had; so flavorful and tender that the juice dripped down my chin like some kind of weird 60’s ducksploitation film. So, the thought that this person made a duck sandwich is as exciting as the day that I discovered that you could put gasoline on a fire to make explosions. But this is a better explosion. It’s an explosion of FLAVOR. I can’t quite figure out what the ingredients are, and in the future, I’ll demand that people include ingredients, but no one cares about this blog yet so I have to find these suckers on the #sandwich tag. BUT WHATEVER, obviously what matters is that there is some kind of fluffy pita breadalike, some green veggie thing that probably tastes incredible, and a metric buttton of duck with some crazy Azn sauce on it. What’s the sauce made of? I have no idea. I can imagine it tastes like a high-five feels, though. But what I want to direct you to is not the closer of the two sandwiches, but the further. Not only is there an abundance of perfectly done meat (and it is perfectly done, look at the color and consistency), but… Do you see that crazy brown crackle right around the edge of the meat? That’s crispy duck skin. Crispy-ass duck skin. If you could sell that stuff in bags, the Dorito’s company would be out of business within thirteen hours. Twelve hours, because that’s how long it takes for a human stomach to explode when filled to capacity, and one to file the paperwork to shut it down out of shame and self-pity. I give this sandwich eight quacks out of nine, because everyone knows nine is a duck’s favorite number.

sandwiched:

“Peking Duck Sandwich”

Have you ever had duck before? It’s like chicken, but for fancy people. I’ve had duck a few times before, and I’ll be damned if I didn’t think it was one of the tastiest things I’ve ever had; so flavorful and tender that the juice dripped down my chin like some kind of weird 60’s ducksploitation film. So, the thought that this person made a duck sandwich is as exciting as the day that I discovered that you could put gasoline on a fire to make explosions. But this is a better explosion. It’s an explosion of FLAVOR.

I can’t quite figure out what the ingredients are, and in the future, I’ll demand that people include ingredients, but no one cares about this blog yet so I have to find these suckers on the #sandwich tag. BUT WHATEVER, obviously what matters is that there is some kind of fluffy pita breadalike, some green veggie thing that probably tastes incredible, and a metric buttton of duck with some crazy Azn sauce on it. What’s the sauce made of? I have no idea. I can imagine it tastes like a high-five feels, though.

But what I want to direct you to is not the closer of the two sandwiches, but the further. Not only is there an abundance of perfectly done meat (and it is perfectly done, look at the color and consistency), but… Do you see that crazy brown crackle right around the edge of the meat? That’s crispy duck skin. Crispy-ass duck skin. If you could sell that stuff in bags, the Dorito’s company would be out of business within thirteen hours. Twelve hours, because that’s how long it takes for a human stomach to explode when filled to capacity, and one to file the paperwork to shut it down out of shame and self-pity.

I give this sandwich eight quacks out of nine, because everyone knows nine is a duck’s favorite number.

youthvictorious: grilled cheese :) Oh. My. God. Let’s start this blog off in style with one of the best looking grilled cheeses I have ever seen. Look at how that cheese melts out of the corners. Look at how much there is, the way it creates its own nooks and crannies, like little bubbly birthday presents. The way that that bread gradates from barely done to cripsy crunchy, giving you the whole range of flavors to tantalize you. And let’s not even get started on the perfect presentation, the soft white playing the perfect compliment to the toasty brown and pale yellow. This is a grilled cheese for the ages. I’ll be honest, I don’t need a woman to love. I want to cuddle up with this delicious creature and spend about five years in a torrid, dairy-laced romance, until ending on some South African airport runway, tears streaming down my face, asking her, begging her, please, love, don’t leave. Stay with me forever. But instead, she turns and walks up the stairs into the fuselage. The door closes. The propellers start. The wind blows, and she’s gone, forever, leaving me with only memories. This sandwich gets four weepy eyes out of four.

youthvictorious:

grilled cheese :)

Oh. My. God. Let’s start this blog off in style with one of the best looking grilled cheeses I have ever seen. Look at how that cheese melts out of the corners. Look at how much there is, the way it creates its own nooks and crannies, like little bubbly birthday presents. The way that that bread gradates from barely done to cripsy crunchy, giving you the whole range of flavors to tantalize you. And let’s not even get started on the perfect presentation, the soft white playing the perfect compliment to the toasty brown and pale yellow. This is a grilled cheese for the ages.

I’ll be honest, I don’t need a woman to love. I want to cuddle up with this delicious creature and spend about five years in a torrid, dairy-laced romance, until ending on some South African airport runway, tears streaming down my face, asking her, begging her, please, love, don’t leave. Stay with me forever.

But instead, she turns and walks up the stairs into the fuselage. The door closes. The propellers start. The wind blows, and she’s gone, forever, leaving me with only memories.

This sandwich gets four weepy eyes out of four.