The Final and Definitive Sandwich Thread

[yung.carl.jung]

BREAKING: I have added a new poll option for your consideration!

The KFC Double Down - sandwich or no?

that's an easy one. does the deep fried.. something count as a slice of bread? imho it does not, therefore no sandwich.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

that's an easy one. does the deep fried.. something count as a slice of bread? imho it does not, therefore no sandwich.

Well, the chicken is breaded.

 

[amadeus]

My favorite—hands down—is a good Rueben sandwich! That corned beef, thousand island (hey, where are these islands anyway?) dressing, and sauerkraut?

I’m getting hungry thinking about it. I might have to try to make one again, but good luck getting real corned beef here! It only comes in a can.

edit: fixed a four-month old typo

 

[Birdjaguar]

BREAKING: I have added a new poll option for your consideration!

The KFC Double Down - sandwich or no?

Of course not.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Well, the chicken is breaded.

That is true, however if anything that is surrounded by breadcrumbs is automatically bread, then the definition of bread becomes kind of pointless. A piece of fried chicken is as much bread as a meatball rolled in breadcrumbs, meaning not at all

 

[abradley]

Peanut butter and Jelly.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

That is true, however if anything that is surrounded by breadcrumbs is automatically bread, then the definition of bread becomes kind of pointless. A piece of fried chicken is as much bread as a meatball rolled in breadcrumbs, meaning not at all

Alright...I'll concede this one and change my vote. I was swayed by the fact that if KFC brought back the doubledown I would be in my truck faster than I could post this reply.

 

[Hrothbern]

Slice white bread, butter, slice dark Frisian rye bread, butter, slice Gouda cheese (or bacon), butter, slice Frisian dark rye bread, butter, skice white bread.

Frisian rye bread, very dark almost black, is made by just putting (broken) rye and rye flour (you can add old rye bread or crumbs) with some water and salt in a can, wait half a day, and than in the oven for roughly 24 hours at 110 C.
It becomes from that long time at low temperature a bit sweet and dark.

To be cut in two... straight or diagonally.

 

[civvver]

My favorite—hands down—is a good Rueben sandwich! That corned beef, thousand island (hey, where are these islands anyway?) dressing, Nd sauerkraut?

I’m getting hungry thinking about it. I might have to try to make one again, but good luck getting real corned beef here! It only comes in a can.

Seems like they can go either way with thousand island or russian dressing, and with saurkraut or coleslaw. I prefer russian dressing and saurkraut. You need a good rye to really pull it off though.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I've also seen them with pastrami instead of corned beef.

 

[Gori the Grey]

No one should have said that a half prepared quesadilla was a quesadilla either, but someone did...opening the door for all sorts of nonsense!

No one did. I said that a wedge of a quesadilla is not a quesadilla. If you told your friend you were going to make him a quesadilla and gave him one sixth of a quesadilla, he would stab you (since you evidently hang out with people who stab each other over such matters). To eat a quesadilla, it has to be cut with utensils.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

No one did. I said that a wedge of a quesadilla is not a quesadilla. If you told your friend you were going to make him a quesadilla and gave him one sixth of a quesadilla, he would stab you (since you evidently hang out with people who stab each other over such matters). To eat a quesadilla, it has to be cut with utensils.

A single wedge is a piece of a quesadilla. A quesadilla is made in a process, and the last step of that process is cutting it into wedges. Serving it before it is cut into wedges would be like serving a piece of raw chicken; you didn't finish making it.

 

[Gori the Grey]

A single wedge is a piece of a quesadilla.

You keep making my point for me.

The poll offers "a quesadilla" as an option. Perhaps a piece of a quesadilla is a sandwich; a quesadilla requires being cut (with utensils) to be eaten (in its pieces).

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You keep making my point for me.

The poll offers "a quesadilla" as an option. Perhaps a piece of a quesadilla is a sandwich; a quesadilla requires being cut (with utensils) to be eaten (in its pieces).

If it is a quesadilla it has already been cut, thus it has pieces. If it hasn't been cut it is merely the makings of a quesadilla. A quesadilla in the making. A potential quesadilla. An unfinished quesadilla. When a quesadilla is served it has already been cut and requires no utensils.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

i sometimes eat an uncut quesadilla and it's totally fine to eat like a sandwich. it's a sandwich either way really, uncut, folded, or cut. maybe someone needs to up his cheese melting game.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

i sometimes eat an uncut quesadilla and it's totally fine to eat like a sandwich. it's a sandwich either way really, uncut, folded, or cut. maybe someone needs to up his cheese melting game.

Well...to be completely honest if I make a quesadilla for myself I may not cut it either. To cut it you sort of need to wait for the cheese to set up a bit so it won't just splooge out, and if it's just me I'm likely to take it back to my desk before it can be effectively cut and just eat it. But as you say, I still pick that up with one hand and eat it without any utensils.

@Gori the Grey is just fighting this like he is cornered because...well...he's cornered. A quesadilla is a sandwich.

 

[Zkribbler]

My favorite—hands down—is a good Rueben sandwich! That corned beef, thousand island (hey, where are these islands anyway?) dressing, Nd sauerkraut?

St. Lawrence River between Canada and the US.

 

[Lohrenswald]

sandwich means two seperate pieces (not connected) on both sides of a thing

doesn't even need to be something edible I think, like in strategy games you can talk about being sandwiched when attacked from two sides or whatever

 

[Farm Boy]

Oooh. The taco bell quasadilly is out then.

 

[civvver]

I've also seen them with pastrami instead of corned beef.

I'd probably just call that pastrami on rye then. Which is a very popular deli sandwich as well.

I've seen some places offer a California Ruben which is turkey and coleslaw instead of corned beef and sauerkraut.


One of my favorite sandwiches to make at home is super simple: Italian bread, I put it open face into my toaster oven with capicola and salami or ham on one side and cheese on the other, provolone or muenster or white cheddar. Toast, then smush the sides together to make the sandwich when done. Leaving it open face during toasting lets the meat get a little crispy and render some fat, and the cheese gets all melty and browned. It's fantastic that way and needs no dressing.