BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?

Subject: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 01:36 PM

Maybe it's just cause I'm sitting down to eat my lunch... Maybe it's that I'm such an opportunivore that my list of foods I don't like is in the single digits... Maybe it's just to 'chat'...

But whatta ya like? Currently, a little paper-thin-sliced roast beef... on a cheesy-white bread... with lettuce, tomato, mustard and Franks Chili-lime 'hot' sauce (I say 'hot' cause it's NOT at all...)

Oh... and a pickle... gotsta haves m' pickle!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 01:40 PM

Strong cheddar cheese and marmalade.
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: MMario
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 01:45 PM

Cheesy white bread as in "mostly air and no flavour" or white bread with cheese in the dough?

My favorite sandwich is usually the one I'm eating - with the exception of my home town, which is, of course, my very favorite Sandwich.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 01:53 PM

white bread with cheese in the dough

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: MMario
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 01:57 PM

"Cannibal Sandwich" runs a close "nearly a favorite" though.

Whole-grain bread, raw mince, thick sliced onion, and horseradish.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:05 PM

Roast chicken, fresh red peppers, tomato, lettuce, and pesto sauce on a whole wheat bun. (dark rye or pumpernickle is good too).

And a nice cold ice tea to wash it down.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:07 PM

Turkey, whole wheat bread (usually my home-made), lettuce, tomato and mayo. Finest kind.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:08 PM

For breakfast...
Toasted white-bread with refried mashed taters leftover from the night before... with cheese...

After 8 or 10 pints of Guinness... chips (which is to say french fries)... a good chip-butty... and HP sauce...

Mmmmm...

(Hard to believe one can read a thread that makes one hungry WHILE one is eating!)

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:11 PM

chip-butty?   That sounds painful, what is it?

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:13 PM

chip-butty... a french-fry sammich... (So I'm lead to believe...)

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:14 PM

French fry sandwich?   French fries on bread?   With HP sauce?

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:16 PM

The very man, Ron!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:17 PM

The old standards, the BLT and the Club Sandwich work for me too.

In the fall and winter, I likes a hot turkey and fries soaked in gravy for lunch, butter-covered veggies on the side. Feel those arteries cloggin', yeah!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:17 PM

What the hell are you people doing over there??????    French fries on bread? That's not a sandwich, it is something you would send back to the kitchen!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:20 PM

Yer loss Ron...

Try it some time, don't forget the HP Sauce... especially when yer half in the bag... it's the BEST!

(o.k... a bacon butty, from half a pound of bacon is THE BEST... but chips is a good close 2nd)

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:21 PM

where does "butty" come from? Sounds like it is slang for butter.

When you say bacon, what type are you referring to? That sounds good.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:23 PM

Whole-grain bread, raw mince, thick sliced onion, and horseradish.

I read this first as "raw mice....

Peanutbutter-and-jelly on really good bread. Has to be outstanding jelly, too -- not just Concord grape or processed strawberry.

Around here you can get a turkey breast sandwich made with cream cheese, lettuce and cranberry sauce. Put it on a good whole-grain, multi-grain bread.




"Why can't you starve at the beach?"
"Because of the sandwiches there."

Hyuk, hyuk.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:23 PM

Whatever kinda bacon you want...

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: MMario
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:26 PM

Ron - you've never had a FF sandwicH? Or a potato chip sandwich? Or a baked bean sandwich?

Comfort food!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:27 PM

Chip butty and lots of other British terms explained.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:27 PM

Oooooo... Baked Bean sammich!

Niiiiiccccce!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: GUEST,Sandra
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:30 PM

Braunschweiger, lettuce and raw onion on rye bread...

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Arnie
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:33 PM

As a Yorkie, a sandwich has always been a buttie to me - even tho' I'm now ensconced in the deep south. They don't do chip butties in any of the chippies around here though - have to buy the chips and put them in butties at home. Confusingly, a bit further north from GOC - in the Newcastle area - a buttie is a friend!! Second only to a chip buttie is a Marmite buttie!!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:39 PM

Two eggs, over easy, on Texas toast.

Hot weiners & beans dolloped onto buttered bread.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Wesley S
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:40 PM

Chunky peanut butter and mayo. Toasted.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:41 PM

You just like a hot weiner.... in ANY form...

:-P

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: frogprince
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:41 PM

Sumtimes itz a great big BLT with maynaiz. Uther times itz lox, tomato, and unyun on a bagel.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:58 PM

Never had a "chip butty", doesn't really sound like comfort food to me!    Fries with gravy, or malt vinegar or even gravy.   Cheese fries aren't bad.   With a thick shake. Clogs your arteries but it is worth the pain!

Do burgers count?

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:59 PM

I know you are, but what am I?

:-P

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:02 PM

Malt vinegar is the piss of Satans lowest minion!
Gross!

You can count burgers I guess... not exactly what I was on about but since when have there been rigid "on-Topic" rules here eh?

:-)

"I know you are, but what am I?"
Yer the guy who want my hot weiner!
Hehehe

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:05 PM

I know you are, but what am I?

:-P

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:06 PM

Wait? -I'm- the guy who wants my hot weiner???

I'd break my neck!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:10 PM

Like this guy...

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:10 PM

Clinton, that is blasphmey!   Malt vinegar is sweet nectar from the gods. Okay, maybe "sweet" is the wrong choice of words in this case.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: MMario
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:36 PM

well - I would say burgers count as sandwiches - but do (hot)dogs? - hmmm - probably - becuae grinders/heroes/subs are "sandwiches"

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: number 6
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:39 PM

Watercress sandwiches, with the crusts removed.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: jeffp
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:40 PM

East Carolina style BBQ pulled pork on a soft roll. Extra sauce optional.

Yum!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:45 PM

I'm not a big fan of them, but the State Sandwich of New Jersey is pork roll with egg and cheese on a hard roll.   New Jersey is the home of pork roll.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:52 PM

... let me clarify... the pork roll is on a Kaiser roll, which most of us in the Garden State refer to as a hard roll.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:01 PM

Malt vinegar is puss from the boil on Hitlers dogs butt!
:-P
Heh

Honestly, the stuff makes me gag so badly that I've had to take breaks playing in pubs, after someone in the room with me has ordered fish and chips, and then poisoned them with malt vinegar... I have to clear out till the stank is gone... or have someone light up a big stanky cigar to block it out...

"Like this guy..."
Someone needs to tell Bubbles we found his father!

"do (hot)dogs"
apply mustard and relish to inside of bun... top with hot pickles and kraut... drop straight down neck hole!
Mmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:06 PM

"I have to clear out till the stank is gone"

I have a friend who has the same reaction to mustard. Another friend can't stand pickles and will send back his sandwich if they put a pickle on the plate. I think these reactions can be traced to bad toilet training or sitting to close to the television as a child!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:12 PM

maybe it's bad television, or sitting too close to the toilet....

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Don Firth
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:13 PM

Not necessarily my all-time favorite (it varies), but certainly toward the top of the list.

Blasphemy sandwich (this is what I started calling it when I took one to work and a Jewish friend said "God's gonna get you for that!").

Split a bagel, lather the bottom half with Dijon mustard, lay a nice, thick slice of ham on that, add a thick slice of Walla Walla sweet onion (about the same diameter as the bagel) on top of the slice of ham, put a small skiff of mayo on the top half of the bagel, and assemble. Accessory:   Big kosher dill pickle.

Sometimes I took two of them to work.

See ya a bit later. It's lunchtime here.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:17 PM

Potato sandwiches sound like a weird selection only to those who haven't had a good one. I've only recently learned about the British delicacy the "chip butty," but years ago, when I first arrived in New Orleans, I encountered the Fried Potato Po-Boy: freshly fried, crisp French Fries on a loaf of French bread, soaked in roast-beef gravy (preferably thick with shredded beef "debris") and dressed with lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise. Pretty much duplicates the taste and texture of a classic New Orleans roast beef po-boy for less than half the price. In fact, some folks believe that this potato sandwich was the origin of the now-universal term "po-boy," because of its extreme affordability.

In the fairly-recent Hollywood comedy "Spanglish," Adam Sandler plays a chef and, at one point, makes himself a great sandwich as a late-night snack. On the DVD, among the "extras" or "bonus materials," there's a segment in which an actual Los Angeles chef, who was called in as a consultant to suggest a recipe for the "world's best sandwich," demonstrates how to make it. It's basically a BLT plus a fried egg and melted cheese; my wife couldn't resist the challenge and made us each a sandwich according to the instructions. I don't know if it's the world's very best sammich, but it's pretty dern good:

Two thick slices of some kind of coarse "country" bread: toast em, spread one slice with mayo and melt Monterrey Jack cheese on the other.

On the slice of bread spread with mayonnaise, start stacking:
~ bacon, 3 slices (American-style bacon, that is);
~ lettuce and tomato
~ then the egg, fried over easy, with the yolk unbroken and ideally still runny
~ top it off with the melted-cheese-coated slice of bread, cheesy side down of course.

Yum!

PS: Another Hollywood movie quote of note, from some Mafia comedy ("Analyze This," maybe?) ~ "What kinda sammich ain't so fattening?" "A half-a sammich!"

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:18 PM

Lobster roll, of course.
left over pot roast
venison
sliced roast beef
cold baked beans. (Not that crap with the ketchup, real Boston style)

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:18 PM

Is it too off-the-hook for me to say that my DREAM sammich invloves me, Kim Poirier and Alison Mack? ,-)

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: MMario
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:19 PM

I'm assuming seperatley, right Kendall? I mean, I like all those things too, but baked beans, lobster and venison alltogether *shudder*

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:28 PM

I like Kendall's menu!! I have not had good Boston Baked beans in ages!   Thanks for the reminder Kendall!

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: GUEST,Bizibod
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:33 PM

Tinned sardine in tomato sauce with sliced banana on brown bread .YUMMM.....

(You have to have a wash afterwards else you'll be smothered in cats.)

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:42 PM

Banana and sardine?!?!?! Really?

Wow... I'll have to keep THAT one in mind...

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

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Peace
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 12:00 AM

Bacon
Strong cheddar cheese
Raspberry jam

on brown toast.

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
From: Peace
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 12:01 AM

Turkey
Cranberry sauce
Mayo
Salt/pepper

on white bread

Subject: RE: BS: Wazzur Favourite Sammich?
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!