BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:44 PM

didn't that kill Elvis?

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:45 PM

I keep books about a detective named Edward X. Delaney, whose author's name escapes me now but he wrote the Deadly Sin and Commandment series, one of which stars Capt. Delaney, in my kitchen because of the excellent sandwich recipes therein. He taught me, among other delicious things, to use potato salad as a salad condiment. Yum!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Charmion
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 05:00 PM

Peanut butter on brown bread (preferably multi-grain) with sliced Bosc pear. Even better than sliced banana.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: bobad
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 05:29 PM

A muffelatta sandwich in the French Market in New Orleans.

A smoked meat sandwich at Schwartz's in Montreal.

A smoked salmon (lox) on a toasted Montreal bagel with cream cheese, slice of onion and tomatoe.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 05:37 PM

BLT,. hold the L..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: bobad
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 05:42 PM

Like Jack Nicholson said in "Five Easy Pieces" "I'd like you to hold it between you legs".

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 05:44 PM

BLT with avocado slices!
Light rye with sprouts, avocado and Ranch dressing!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Devilmaster
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 05:46 PM

For me, its usually a simple ham and cheese wit mustard. although when I have the ingridents, i'll maybe make something a little more special... Restaurant wise - nothing beats a jumbo corned beef on rye from Malic's deli here in Windsor.... with a side of spec.

And Ron - it ain't just us crazy canucks - Primanti Brothers out of Pittsburgh makes a great sangy where they put the fries and the coleslaw in it...... I make it a must when I get back to the Pitts....

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 05:48 PM

Muffalettas ~ yes! Italian cold-cut meats and sliced cheeses topped with olive salad on a big round Italian roll.

I believe that the famous Elvis specialty sandwich was peanut butter and banana dipped in egg and fried on both sides like French toast. Tasty, but not for the faint of heart!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 05:54 PM

I can get into a GOOD BLT (yeah, hold the L, usually) or a roast turkey with mayo..or even a carefully done Italian cold-cut with hot peppers and NO onion.

but I have been refining the art of the Peanut Butter sandwich for 60 years now, and have 'almost' got it. A mixture of ½ crunchy PB, ¼ crunchy Almond butter, and ¼ cashew/Macademia butter... with Tasmanian Leatherwood honey...between 2 slices of some sort of lightly toasted multi-grain bread with NO preservatives! (The variations in bread choice can make all the difference)

The special nut-butters must be tracked down...currently, I get them at Trader Joe's. There are other types of honey that will do.....the Leatherwood is simply the one I'd pick for my last meal.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 06:11 PM

A thin layer of good cheese....a thick layer of fresh ham....and a large amount of picled beetroot....YUM...all in a Kingsmill 'Moreishly Malted' bread sandwich.....Just getting hungry...off to get a sandwich..Byeeeeeee
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: number 6
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 09:20 PM

Bobad ... that one scene with Jack Nicholson has got to be one of the all time classics!!! LOL just thinking about it.

Thanks for mentioning it.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 09:30 PM

Then of course there is the ever present Italian sandwich. Ham, olive oil, cheese, sliced olives, sliced peppers and onions. All this goes into a roll about a foot long.

I also enjoy hard boiled eggs, mashed with mayo and black pepper in one of those foot long rolls.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 09:58 PM

Is the sandwich you are referring to a hoagie? a Hero? a Submarine? a grinder? or a wedge? They're all the same thing, of course..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 10:32 PM

I'm rather fond of grilled cheese (preferably a good cheddar) on my gramma's home-made honey-whole wheat bread. Ham or bacon make a nice addition, but not necessary. Peanut butter and Gramma's home-made strawberry jam on the afore-mentioned bread is a pretty close second.

Clinton, I can't stand vinegar (or anything even containing vinegar, for that matter) either. Yuck! Can't get the stuff past my nose.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 10:36 PM

Up at Teton National Park you can get a multigrain roll with about 8 ounces of lox-style smoked salmon, mayo, sweet onion, and capers.

We bought one each, and they were so good we bought more for breakfast.

A decent salmonburger is also a treat.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Janie
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 10:48 PM

Summer:
    Sourdough bread melt with Monterey Jack cheese, tomatoes, avocado, sprouts, cucumber and a tarragon or popseed vinegrette.

Winter:
    My homemade molasses-wheat bread with crunchy peanut butter and a really topnotch orange marmalade. Especially nice when the bread is still warm and at peak fragrance. Gotta to have a tall glass of ice-cold milk with this one.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 11:59 PM

Damn, so many that I love. One of my fav's, which I dare not eat anymore is a chopped liver with an egg sliced, some tomato, lettuce, stuffed into a pita. A cholesterol bullet, but to die for.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: SharonA
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 03:39 AM

I'm fond of the local deli's specialty: several slices of turkey, provolone cheese, Romaine lettuce, roasted peppers and cucumbers, on pumpernickel, with honey mustard. The pumpernickel they use isn't really thick enough to hold it all together, but it still tastes fabulous. And, as Clinton says, ya gotta have the pickle on the side.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: kendall
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 04:43 AM

The Italian sandwich roll is unique, not as thick as a submarine. I'm told it was invented right here in Portland Maine.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 10:27 AM

Chip butty (trans. French fries sandwich.) & HP sauce.

Heaven.

My Grandad loved what he called Connie Onnie butties. Condensed milk sandwiches. He actually ate them. He said he used to eat them in the Somme trenches.

Banana butties are good.

Crisp butties too. (trans. crisps = potato chips)

American sandwiches seem very complicated.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 10:31 AM

Bobad and PoppaGator.....Somewhere in another sandwich thread I wax poetic on the virtues of the Muffaletta which I believe is the greatest sandwich in the world. After eating Mufffies almost daily for 4 months in N.O., I think the one I make now has the best of all the ones I used to eat there!

I think my personal second place is thin sliced and very rare roast beef on sourdough white with sharp Swiss and Bleu cheeses, escarole, tomato, horseradish, and Russian dressing....and then grilled. Great sandwich! If you have the proportions right, each bite is like a taste explosion with the whole being more than the sum of it's parts....most of which are strong flavors on their own. You have to try one of these to believe the flavor!!!

A well made Reuben is hard to beat!

Soft, punky, bread with real butter and fresh, home grown, tomato!!! You can only eat these for a few weeks each year and I make the most of it!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: CarolC
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 02:08 PM

Sliced, very firm tofu, fried in toasted sesame oil and real fermented soy sauce (not that sugar and caramel coloring fake soy sauce), on any really good whole grain bread with mayo, alfalfa sprouts (or lettuce) and sliced tomato, and a pickle and some potato chips (crisps) on the side.

:-P

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 02:09 PM

Oh, yeah, Repaire; we had a little place in town that served pretty much that concoction, with the lox, onion, and capers, as an open sandwich, and called it a "two eyes open". Regretably, they dropped that part of the business. Gotta pick up the ingredients and make some of our own...

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 02:17 PM

Minor correction, to that movie-dialog snippet I quoted above. "Sammich" was not the correct phonetic spelling in this instance, not at all:

"What kinda sanguitch ain't too fattening?"

"A half-a sanguitch."

There. Now I feel better. Hey, it's just about time to go out for lunch ~ maybe I'll go to R&O's for a half-and-half po-boy (fried shrimp & fried oysters), or just around the corner to Crazy Johnny's for BBQ prime rib on a pistolet roll...

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 02:52 PM

Hey Poppa GAtor.........Is there still a joint there called "Ralph and Cockoos" or something like that?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 06:14 PM

"Ralph and Kacoo's" is a seafood restaurant founded in Baton Rouge, LA, which opened a branch in the French Quarter in New Orleans a while ago (maybe 10-15 years ago?). I think I remember them closing down and reopening during the intervening years. Or maybe they closed down and didn't reopen; I'm really not sure.

I haven't eaten there in years, and haven't been paying close attention (even though I spend an occasional evening directly across the street at O'Flaherty's Irish Channel Pub, a live music venue.) My memory, and my understanding of other peoples' consensus opinion, is that R&K's is/was good-but-not-great, roughly equivalent to dozens of other places in neighborhoods all over town and therefore not especially worth a special trip to an area where there's no place to park for free on the street.

Of course, if you're a tourist staying in a nearby hotel and strolling around the Quarter, it would be as good a place as any to enjoy a shrimp po-boy, seafood platter, or an order of boiled crawfish or crabs. The local seafood is so outstanding that it doesn't require a genius chef to produce good and reasonably-priced meals ~ just get good ingredients from a reputable supplier and follow the many traditional time-tested recipes, with or without minor variations.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 07:47 PM

N.O. has no shortage of seafood restaurants, nor are they short on some fabulous top of the line establishments, but they are short on just plain old places to eat. I love the town but after awhile I began to long for just a plain old restaurant. Chains they have as well but I hated those joints too.

I was spending about 5 months altogether in New Orleans. The company I was with wanted to totally reorganize our branch there and I got the the assignment. What this also meant was that I was away from home almost constantly for 5 months which gets old. I flew home most weekends but living out as I was in one town was different. I was used to being gone all the time as I flew all over the US every week, but getting tied in one place? I was lucky it was N.O., a place I really loved!

But under those conditions, everyplace stinks after awhile and the new Regional Manager and myself got to asking everyone, "Hey....Where's a good place to eat?" We were looking for usual spots and we ate well most times. I had Muffies everyday for lunch which was a pleasure but as we tried everyone's suggestions I began to wonder at the taste of some of these folks. Hence my question about R&K's.

Several people told us about it so one night Jim and I hit the place and, uh........well.......It was the pits!!! Jim and I both were appalled. Now I was used to grease being a part of the cooking in N.O. but man.....that place took it to new levels! The plate arrived with everything swimming in grease! The salad was swimming in grease! Hell, the grease was swimming in grease. I was immediately reminded of Dylan's line..."Just then the whole place exploded from the boiling fat."

Yeah.....I love New Orleans but that night at R&K's about cured me on deep fried anything for years!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Peace
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 11:48 PM

Capicolo (forte) and Rosa Marina on a crusty bun.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Peace
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 11:50 PM

Roast beef sliced thin and piled high
Mayo
Salt and pepper
White bread

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From: Peace
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 12:00 AM

Bacon
Strong cheddar cheese
Raspberry jam

on brown toast.

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From: Peace
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 12:01 AM

Turkey
Cranberry sauce
Mayo
Salt/pepper

on white bread

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From: Peace
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 12:08 AM

Chopped walnuts
Chopped apple
Mayo
Mashed up hard-boiled eggs
Onion


Brown bread

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Peace
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 12:20 AM

Toasted rye bread--almost burnt
Butter

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Peace
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 12:23 AM

Grilled cheese on whole wheat bread

The cheese is a very sharp cheddar
I like to include hot peppers

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Peace
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 12:24 AM

Enough of this. I am going home to eat.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 04:57 AM

Marmalade.

Family legend has it I was a sickly child and lived on nothing else for years. As a disgustingly healthy person from about age 11 onwards I naturally dispute this version of events!

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 05:17 AM

Hot buttered toast,
Vegemite & Honey...

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Firecat
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 06:08 PM

Vegetarian sausage with loads of ketchup, or cheese, tomato and salad cream, or cheese salad, or mozzarella and cucumber (with salad cream). All on brown bread.

But if we're talking sweet sarnies, you can't beat chocolate spread and peanut butter together! Unless it was a strawberry or brown sugar sarnie!!

I'm off to feed now!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 07:11 PM

Hot buttered toast,
Mashed Banana & Honey...

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: van lingle
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 08:53 PM

The best sandwhiches I've ever had were the Italian subs made at the original Jerry's Subs on University Blvd. in Wheaton, Md long before they franchised out.
Now I'd have to say pulled pork on a kaiser with a big glop of cole slaw between bun and pork with a good buffalo burger running a close second.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 09:45 PM

Roast beef with cream cheese and diced black olives on pumpernickel.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: GUEST,Sandra
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 06:13 PM

I was reading about the New Orleans restaurants...one we visited, (I hope it's still there after Katrina rolling into town)...it was downtown, called Mother's, I had a sandwich called Debris ...it was drippings and bits of meats from whatever they were cooking. Tender...juicy (of course), flavorful....Most memorable. There was always a line around the block to get into this little old place.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 06:54 PM

"... pulled pork on a kaiser with a big glop of cole slaw between bun and pork "

oh, my, Van Lingle...where I come from, you'd ostracized for putting cole slaw ON a BBQ sandwich. One of my first memories of moving to the Wash DC area is ordering a pork BBQ and having slaw slathered on it without being asked. Arrrgghhhhhh....

and, as it happens, the original Jerry's Subs in Wheaton is where I asked for a sub WITHOUT onions, only to discover, after driving a mile or so and taking a big bite, that it was FULL of onions. (Yeah...they did make 'em pretty good, though, if you watched close!)

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Cluin
Date: 31 Aug 05 - 09:01 AM

Like Joe Pesci said in one of the Lethal Weapons... They f##k you at the Drive-Thru!