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pensnestToday's request was for Your favorite types of sandwiches, from frausorge.
I don't think I've ever mused on this subject before, so I shall have to ponder.
Chicken, with bacon, and a bit of lettuce, possibly some thinly sliced tomato, and plenty of mayonnaise on the lettuce side. The chicken side, of course, gets only butter. Granary bread, or slices of the Low GI loaf our local baker sells, which is nice and textured. I like bread that actually needs chewing. Cheap white bread is good only for rolling into little balls and sucking. (No, I don't know why.)
At least… hmm. I recall that when I was at work, ever so long ago, I used to really like a tuna salad sandwich—oh, yes, by tuna salad I mean tuna mixed with mayo and little crunchy things, some of which may be celery, into a sort of paste (the deli in Shepherd's Market did a really nice one which I have never been able to reproduce, though I try), rather than tuna chunks + lettuce, tomato etc. I mention this because on EtiquetteHell I have seen confusion on this point, although mostly in reference to chicken salad. I think that here in the UK we tend to name our chicken mixtures—it'll be 'Coronation Chicken' or 'Chicken Tikka' etc. A request for a 'chicken salad sandwich' is most likely to get you slices of chicken, plus assorted greenery.
Anyway, where was I. Oh, another one is avocado with crunchy bacon, those dried, smoked, streaky rashers you can buy in packs from the supermarket. But they have to be properly crunchy, because 'crispy bacon' is not supposed to bend. With tomatoes, and mayonnaise on the tomato-y side.
Or warmed roast beef with loads of horseradish sauce. Multi-purpose eating, which satisfies the stomach *and* clears the sinuses.
Now, on the matter of hot sandwiches, there's not a lot better than a nice Croque Monsieur. At least, I think I'm remembering it properly, as it is a very long time since I had one in France. But bread spread with duck fat and then toasted, and with Emmenthal or Gruyere melted onto it, and a decent helping of ham, om nom nom.
Although if there is anything better, it would be a bacon sandwich, probably involving a generous smearing of HP sauce. Or a bacon+bratwurst sandwich, ditto. In fact, on reflection, this is the best of possible hot sandwiches.
Incidentally, I don't think of burgers in buns as 'sandwiches', because to me, a sandwich is something between slices of bread. And a burger is, well, a burger. In the UK, that seems to be the term for the entire edifice as well as for the meat… thingy… inside it.
It does seem to me that a 'sandwich' ought to be something one can eat without deconstructing it. Club sandwiches provided in restaurants tend to fail on this particular criterion, as I am a normal human being, not a snake, and cannot relocate my jaw sufficiently to get a mouthful of everything. This is also true of the best burgers, although those supplied by Messrs McDonald and B King are flat enough to be eaten like sandwiches, with a firm hand.
Right now, though, my favourite sandwich might be the one Beast brings me, meaning that I don't have to prepare it myself. [Note: I do not 'fix' sandwiches, for they are not, as a rule, broken.] I hear faint noises which might be coming from the kitchen… or might not. Probably not. Sigh. No, he has been sorting out and emptying the waste paper baskets. Ah well. Melted cheese with Worcestershire sauce, then.
This has turned out to be a musing on language as well as sandwiches. Okay.
If you'd like to pick a subject for any available day in the rest of December, the post is here. Please do!
frausorge.I don't think I've ever mused on this subject before, so I shall have to ponder.
Chicken, with bacon, and a bit of lettuce, possibly some thinly sliced tomato, and plenty of mayonnaise on the lettuce side. The chicken side, of course, gets only butter. Granary bread, or slices of the Low GI loaf our local baker sells, which is nice and textured. I like bread that actually needs chewing. Cheap white bread is good only for rolling into little balls and sucking. (No, I don't know why.)
At least… hmm. I recall that when I was at work, ever so long ago, I used to really like a tuna salad sandwich—oh, yes, by tuna salad I mean tuna mixed with mayo and little crunchy things, some of which may be celery, into a sort of paste (the deli in Shepherd's Market did a really nice one which I have never been able to reproduce, though I try), rather than tuna chunks + lettuce, tomato etc. I mention this because on EtiquetteHell I have seen confusion on this point, although mostly in reference to chicken salad. I think that here in the UK we tend to name our chicken mixtures—it'll be 'Coronation Chicken' or 'Chicken Tikka' etc. A request for a 'chicken salad sandwich' is most likely to get you slices of chicken, plus assorted greenery.
Anyway, where was I. Oh, another one is avocado with crunchy bacon, those dried, smoked, streaky rashers you can buy in packs from the supermarket. But they have to be properly crunchy, because 'crispy bacon' is not supposed to bend. With tomatoes, and mayonnaise on the tomato-y side.
Or warmed roast beef with loads of horseradish sauce. Multi-purpose eating, which satisfies the stomach *and* clears the sinuses.
Now, on the matter of hot sandwiches, there's not a lot better than a nice Croque Monsieur. At least, I think I'm remembering it properly, as it is a very long time since I had one in France. But bread spread with duck fat and then toasted, and with Emmenthal or Gruyere melted onto it, and a decent helping of ham, om nom nom.
Although if there is anything better, it would be a bacon sandwich, probably involving a generous smearing of HP sauce. Or a bacon+bratwurst sandwich, ditto. In fact, on reflection, this is the best of possible hot sandwiches.
Incidentally, I don't think of burgers in buns as 'sandwiches', because to me, a sandwich is something between slices of bread. And a burger is, well, a burger. In the UK, that seems to be the term for the entire edifice as well as for the meat… thingy… inside it.
It does seem to me that a 'sandwich' ought to be something one can eat without deconstructing it. Club sandwiches provided in restaurants tend to fail on this particular criterion, as I am a normal human being, not a snake, and cannot relocate my jaw sufficiently to get a mouthful of everything. This is also true of the best burgers, although those supplied by Messrs McDonald and B King are flat enough to be eaten like sandwiches, with a firm hand.
Right now, though, my favourite sandwich might be the one Beast brings me, meaning that I don't have to prepare it myself. [Note: I do not 'fix' sandwiches, for they are not, as a rule, broken.] I hear faint noises which might be coming from the kitchen… or might not. Probably not. Sigh. No, he has been sorting out and emptying the waste paper baskets. Ah well. Melted cheese with Worcestershire sauce, then.
This has turned out to be a musing on language as well as sandwiches. Okay.
If you'd like to pick a subject for any available day in the rest of December, the post is here. Please do!
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Date: 2013-12-01 08:14 pm (UTC)Correct.
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Date: 2013-12-01 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-02 08:11 am (UTC)I call the meat in a burger the patty (and I wouldn't call the patty a burger without the bun, either).
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Date: 2013-12-02 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-02 03:53 pm (UTC)I always remember sitting in a little cafe at Durham with KC talking about salad sandwiches and the different meanings between the UK and US. It's strange what sticks with you.
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Date: 2013-12-03 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-03 05:05 pm (UTC)Sliced chicken with tomato and lettuce would be a chicken sandwich.
Just my understanding of it lol.
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Date: 2013-12-03 10:53 pm (UTC)