The Final and Definitive Sandwich Thread

[Traitorfish]

This graph suggests that some make a sandwich using a hamburger and white bread, which is upsetting to me.

 

[BenitoChavez]

It's better than the transition from a sandwich to an oreo.

 

[Sofista]

If I eat some bread, and then some meat, and then some bread, is that a temporal sandwich?

If I eat plain risotto, and then some mushrooms, did I eat mushroom risotto?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

If I eat plain risotto, and then some mushrooms, did I eat mushroom risotto?

Depending on the quality of the mushrooms you may think that you did, possibly while rainbows were flowing from your nostrils and the general vicinity was melting like a Dali painting.

This graph suggests that some make a sandwich using a hamburger and white bread, which is upsetting to me.

When I was a kid this was my mother's substitute for taking us to McDonald's. For it to work the patty has to be sufficiently overcooked as to have no juice left at all lest the bread turn into a soggy paste. Ketchup will also destroy white bread. Overcooked meat on plain bread, the height of British Isles cuisine. I don't see how you were upset, or even surprised at this.

 

[Takhisis]

Both Wikipedia and Wiktionary define ‘hot dog’ as a type of sausage sandwich.

 

[Takhisis]

Ketchup will also destroy white bread.

No sir it will not, and I have been experimenting on this of late.

 

[cardgame]

depends how much you cheaped out on the bread, and more specifically how much of a monstrous glob of ketchup you're putting on it... it works okay in a pinch for sliced bread hot dogs, it really doesn't work for hamburgers because yes it's too much ketchup and it strains the structural integrity past breaking. Texas toast or other thick bread is the only solution if you really don't want to buy proper buns.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

depends how much you cheaped out on the bread, and more specifically how much of a monstrous glob of ketchup you're putting on it... it works okay in a pinch for sliced bread hot dogs, it really doesn't work for hamburgers because yes it's too much ketchup and it strains the structural integrity past breaking. Texas toast or other thick bread is the only solution if you really don't want to buy proper buns.

And as I said, even if you go responsibly light on the ketchup to try to keep it together, every bit of juice has to be cooked out of the meat. Ick. Ground beef reconstituted through a fusion process.

 

[civvver]

When I was a kid this was my mother's substitute for taking us to McDonald's. For it to work the patty has to be sufficiently overcooked as to have no juice left at all lest the bread turn into a soggy paste. Ketchup will also destroy white bread. Overcooked meat on plain bread, the height of British Isles cuisine. I don't see how you were upset, or even surprised at this.

I have subbed regular sandwich bread for buns many times when I have run out of buns, for both hot dogs and hamburgers. The trick is toast the bread so it can hold up. I usually slice the hot dog and turn it into a bologna sandwich basically.

Today for lunch I had a simple but satisfying sandwich: wheat bread with turkey and muenster cheese toasted in toaster oven open faced so the cheese gets toasty too, then after toasting added a smear of mayo and some chopped onions, ground chipotle pepper and fresh ground black pepper. Really good. Reminiscent of Potbelly sandwich place since they toast their sandwiches with the meat and cheese open faced through a conveyor thing, then add condiments after, and they use chopped onion instead of sliced. I copied all their concepts.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Depending on the quality of the mushrooms you may think that you did, possibly while rainbows were flowing from your nostrils and the general vicinity was melting like a Dali painting.



When I was a kid this was my mother's substitute for taking us to McDonald's. For it to work the patty has to be sufficiently overcooked as to have no juice left at all lest the bread turn into a soggy paste. Ketchup will also destroy white bread. Overcooked meat on plain bread, the height of British Isles cuisine. I don't see how you were upset, or even surprised at this.

Eddie Murphy did a bit on this once, whereby he described his mother making him a hamburger that she promised would be "better than McDonald's"... and then proceeded to essentially make a Salisbury steak/meatloaf'ish concoction consisting of ground beef, mixed with chopped green pepper and chopped onion, served between two slices of wonderbread, which of course, looked and tasted nothing like a Mc'Donald's burger. Having had exactly the same experience growing up, several times... I can definitely empathize.

As an aside... anyone who has worked at McD's (I have) and therefore knows the precise recipe for their burgers knows how to make burgers which taste, in-fact, "better than McDonald's" while still retaining the general flavour of McDonald's.

 

[Zardnaar]

Eddie Murphy did a bit on this once, whereby he described his mother making him a hamburger that she promised would be "better than McDonald's"... and then proceeded to essentially make a Salisbury steak/meatloaf'ish concoction consisting of ground beef, mixed with chopped green pepper and chopped onion, served between two slices of wonderbread, which of course, looked and tasted nothing like a Mc'Donald's burger. Having had exactly the same experience growing up, several times... I can definitely empathize.

As an aside... anyone who has worked at McD's (I have) and therefore knows the precise recipe for their burgers knows how to make burgers which taste, in-fact, "better than McDonald's" while still retaining the general flavour of McDonald's.

When I worked there ling time ago we made burgers for ourselves.

Wasn't that much wrong with the ingredients. The owner operator favorite involved a double quarter pounder with egg and bacon.

I liked adding cheese and tomato to a M Chicken sometimes with bacon.

My consumption if McDonalds went up though. From never to handful of times a year.

 

[Sommerswerd]

When I worked there ling time ago we made burgers for ourselves.

Wasn't that much wrong with the ingredients. The owner operator favorite involved a double quarter pounder with egg and bacon.

I liked adding cheese and tomato to a M Chicken sometimes with bacon.

My consumption if McDonalds went up though. From never to handful of times a year.

My favorite custom things to do were putting the sweet-and-sour nugget sauce on the crispy chicken sandwich, which is predictably delicious, making Big Macs using Quarter-Pounder meat instead of regular patties, and putting lettuce and tomato on the Filet of Fish.

 

[Zardnaar]

My favorite custom things to do were putting the sweet-and-sour nugget sauce on the crispy chicken sandwich, which is predictably delicious, making Big Macs using Quarter-Pounder meat instead of regular patties, and putting lettuce and tomato on the Filet of Fish.

They sold Big Mac's here with quarter pounder meat called them super macs.

Adding lettuce and replacing ketchup with big Mac sauce is a trick as well with the quarter pounder.

I think the year 2000 was last time I had a filet of fish.

They've improved since then. Only the meat gets kept in a warming drawer now instead of the burger in a warmer.

 

[Sommerswerd]

They sold Big Mac's here with quarter pounder meat called them super macs.

Adding lettuce and replacing ketchup with big Mac sauce is a trick as well with the quarter pounder.

I think the year 2000 was last time I had a filet of fish.

They've improved since then. Only the meat gets kept in a warming drawer now instead of the burger in a warmer.

Yeah I saw a sign for the "Super Mac" the other day and I figured that was what they were doing. I'm surprised they didn't start doing that alot sooner. I can't possibly be the only employee who thought of it.

The warmer drawer was already around when I worked there. It was a dramatic improvement, especially for the burgers because it kept them not only hot, but moist as well. The other ingenious component of the system was the vertical toaster/mini-conveyor at the start of the sandwich "assembly line". So in addition to a hot patty from the warmer drawer, you also get a freshly toasted bun with every sandwich.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yeah I saw a sign for the "Super Mac" the other day and I figured that was what they were doing. I'm surprised they didn't start doing that alot sooner. I can't possibly be the only employee who thought of it.

The warmer drawer was already around when I worked there. It was a dramatic improvement, especially for the burgers because it kept them not only hot, but moist as well. The other ingenious component of the system was the vertical toaster/mini-conveyor at the start of the sandwich "assembly line". So in addition to a hot patty from the warmer drawer, you also get a freshly toasted bun with every sandwich.

When I was there they used the warming cabinet. Which dried the burger outvanr made the lettuce manky.

Quiet days was cook to order.

Quarter pounder here is a legit good burger. They do a big box here. 4 burgers, fries, drinks so we get that and upgrade the drinks to shakes. Costs about $15 USD iirc. Haven't had it since December.

Wife eats the cheese burger with mayo and mc chicken, I get the big Mac and quarter pounder (with mayo).
At that price point it's competitive with cheaper, better option and the wife likes the cheeseburgers and McChicken.

Americans say the quality here is better but it's more expensive. No dollar menu, McChickens about $3.50.

They changed the shakes as well they're nice now, and they changed the way they fry stuff now. No more beef tallow.

 

[civvver]

They briefly had bigger big macs here, but I don't think it was quarter pounder patties, just bigger than the usual ones I liked it a lot since the big mac taste is fine but it's got a bad bread to meat ratio. Nowadays I just add mac sauce to the fresh beef quarter pounder, which by the way really is an upgrade over the old one. I think it's pretty easy to get that mcdonald's taste, the main things are seasoning since they have a distinct salt and pepper vibe and then cook on a flat top, don't grill. You need to grill a white bun too.

 

[Takhisis]

There used to be Triple Macs here, i.e. a Big Mac with an extra layer, but I haven't been to McDonalds much this past 2 or 3 years so I don't remember whether they still have them.

 

[civvver]

I am making meatloaf for dinner tonight. You know what that means. Next week, meatloaf sandwiches! That's probably the best part about meatloaf.

 

[civvver]

I made that disney grilled cheese sandwich and it wasn't that good. I liked the garlic mayo on the artisan bread part but the cream cheese middle was too much for me. I'll just stick to my normal cheddars or american cheeses.

 

[Takhisis]

So, how many meatloaf sandwiches remain?