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Give me your best sandwich concepts (hexbear.net)
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I don't necessarily mean specific recipes, I mean concepts. A western sandwich is bread, (vegan) meat or cheese, sauce, tomato, something pickled, some salad, mostly, all layered and/or thinly sliced. Cross out maybe some of them for simplicity, like the mayo tomato or the british cheese and cucumber.

A döner kebap is sort of layered but everything but the protein layer is more of a mix up and not like tomato followed by onion or whatever.

A Banh Mi is sort of western of course, but it does a twist. The layers are there-ish, but they don't matter so much. Sort of a hybrid between something like a kebap and a pita if you catch my drift.

What other sandwiches are there, conceptually?

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[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

A classic from college:

  • Ellio's pizza, cooked according to directions
  • Doritos, crumbled
  • Stack, fold, or wrap, according to taste/hand-eye coordination

Thus, the sandwich is Western in form (bread/sauce/cheese/other/cheese/sauce/bread), but the layers cohere to produce an irreducible whole apart from its components. The sandwich has the portability required for every occasion from the boardroom to the discotheque while maintaining a utilitarian, even proletarian, character. And it contains enough preservatives that if you made 1000 of them today you'd survive through Judgment Day.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Spanakopita is a sandwich with phyllo as bread.

Baklava is a serial, stacked, homogeneous sandwich on phyllo.

Gibanitsa is a sandwich on phyllo that is serial, stacked, and heterogeneous.

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Pa amb tomaquet is best breakfast

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

A western sandwich is bread, (vegan) meat or cheese, sauce, tomato, something pickled, some salad

Observe:

  • bread - wheat raised with yeast and left to rise

  • meat - probably smoked or salt-cured or something

  • cheese - milk, coagulated and aged

  • something pickled - a vegetable was left in an acidic brine

  • sauce - perhaps it is a fermented sauce

A pattern emerges:

  • something edible was preserved through a biological process and left to develop flavor

From here we can see that the ur-sandwich is not about structure or ingredients, but rather the number of different preservation processes brought together into a single dish.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

wine with bread is a sandwich, thus christ is a sandwich.

alsogold-anarchist

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think there has to be an unbroken linear arrangement. A sandwich means every ingredient has something above it and something beneath it, instead of all being mixed in together. Egg salad, tuna salad, etc. would all be considered single-ingredient sandwiches.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want to try a 驴肉火烧 (lǘròu huǒshāo - donkey burger) but I don't think it's even legal in amerikkka.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

why not it's the land of the free

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

We're weird about horsemeat and donkeys are sort of horses

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

The Monte Cristo - Breaded and fried sandwiches.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually do this one, mix of peppers, onions, different mushrooms maybe, garlic and olives fried up and then use 2 toasted (on a pan not in a toaster) portobello mushrooms. I've also done the mushroom for bread with a leftover red cabbage and carrot vinaigrette coleslaw, vegan Russian dressing, saeurkraut and tempeh and it was a sorta reuben. Fucking amazing.

When I did morning shifts at my previous job I would often eat what I would call The Bananarito, I'd make a large thin pancake and wrap it around a banana with nuts, whatever fruit was around at the time and this amazing date caramel sauce we had. Wrap it up, pop it in a press for a bit. I'm not a breakfast person and generally all I can stand to eat for the first bit after waking up is bread, fruit and nuts. You can add a bit of oatmeal in there too.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually do this one, mix of peppers, onions, different mushrooms maybe, garlic and olives fried up and then use 2 toasted (on a pan not in a toaster) portobello mushrooms. I've also done the mushroom for bread with a leftover red cabbage and carrot vinaigrette coleslaw, vegan Russian dressing, saeurkraut and tempeh and it was a sorta reuben. Fucking amazing.

see this is what i'm about. this mfer turned a veggie stir fry into a sandwich

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I give a shit about sandwiches. My livelihood since I've started working has been about food I have done fine dining, high end catering for millionaire 'charity' dinners, done riders for Rockstar, catered business summits that I wish I knew how to bomb effectively, hole in the wall vegan places, a string of random other restaurants and also doing craft service for movies. One huge thing I have learned over this career is that every single person on this planet really just wants to eat a great sandwich. Liz Lemon was entirely correct on that one. There is no better food format, the other most popular is bowl of stuff and rice and thst requires a bowl and a utensil. The Sandwich is the absolute food of the people. Packable, portable, gets the job done at worst and is among the best damn food ever at best. There is a reason burgers and pizzas and sausages on buns in hotdogs form are absolutely massive, they're fantastic. Form, function and flavor as well as an unlimited well of variety. The sandwich has it all.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You get it

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If I had my own restaurant somehow it would be almost entirely sandwich focused. Soup of the day, a few salads and maybe house made potato chips or wedges or something but the main thing would be the best fucking sandwiches ever. I'm at a point I could run a successful place but also don't wanna

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny, my win the lottery restaurant is the stew kitchen that also serves sandwiches. Stew is like $2 a ladle, sandwich is $20 on account of the artisanal craft. Except if I think you look cool in which case you just get the sandwich

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

I've got a few really really good soups thst I csn rotate but it's not something I'm as good at. I do amazing tomato basil, roasted red pepper, 'cream' of mushroom, Moroccan stew, potato paprika and I am in fact the pope of chilli town. Other than my mains I'm not great at soup

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A gordita/pupusas/arepas are tecnically a sandwich if they have more than one layer

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Stuffed peppers

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Food I constantly forget that I love and can make really well

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yes. onigiri with balkan characteristics

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