What's your favorite sandwich?

Pauleo1214 said:
I enjoy spicy things. I also thought I was a manly man too. Then I tried this.
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They were selling them at my grocery store. Like a little kid, I slipped it in the cart hoping my parents wouldn't notice, wait I do my own grocery shopping, and have to live with the consequences of my bad decisions.

Yeah, so one small nibble was enough to make me reach for the milk jug. The milk didn't help. Keeling over and vomiting into the toilet did. Stomach pain stayed for quite a while.

Had I fully digested it, my ass would look like the Japanese flag.
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You should always eat Ice Cream afterward, probably won't help but when you're in misery on the can it gives you hope!
 
Hot and Challange should never be in the same sentence! I never go there, I love hot pepper, but prefer to be able to feel my tongue after eating it!
 
Totally agree. The heat shouldn't ever outweigh the flavour!

One time I tried a hot-sauce, just dabbed the pointy-tip of a pizza slice in it, and it basically pierced my tongue — or may as well have.

The heat should enhance, not distract from, the taste of something.
 
I worked with a guy years ago who would eat insanely hot wings and never break a sweat, You could smell and feel the heat sitting across from him, and he's munching through them like nothing at all. When we'd go for wings at lunch he'd often have to plead and argue with the staff to get their hottest wings.
 
Barry said:
I worked with a guy years ago who would eat insanely hot wings and never break a sweat, You could smell and feel the heat sitting across from him, and he's munching through them like nothing at all. When we'd go for wings at lunch he'd often have to plead and argue with the staff to get their hottest wings.
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I didn't know you worked with my brother!
 
andare said:
I'm on a diet and I still clicked on this thread. And I don't even eat sandwiches. What an idiot.

In Italy we don't have a sandwich culture, we just slap cold cuts in a roll and eat it.
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It's ironic you say Italy has no sandwich culture when Italian immigrants invented much of America's.

The Italian Hoagie, pepperoni roll, and spiedie are a few. Last night I made the latter.

The spiedie is just lamb, beef, pork, or chicken on a skewer (or spear, hence the name spiedie) that is cooked over the fire, and put on an Italian roll with a vinaigrette.

My vinaigrette was a combo of olive oil, lemon juice, fresh basil, mint, garlic, salt, and pepper.

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Pauleo1214 said:
It's ironic you say Italy has no sandwich culture when Italian immigrants invented much of America's.

The Italian Hoagie, pepperoni roll, and spiedie are a few. Last night I made the latter.

The spiedie is just lamb, beef, pork, or chicken on a skewer (or spear, hence the name spiedie) that is cooked over the fire, and put on an Italian roll with a vinaigrette.

My vinaigrette was a combo of olive oil, lemon juice, fresh basil, mint, garlic, salt, and pepper.

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Pretty sure spiedie comes from our word for skewer, "spiedino" or "spiedo". We do have those but we usually don't put them in rolls.

Italian American cuisine developed from localized dishes that were never famous nationwide in Italy and were later changed into something new, like spaghetti and meatballs or Sunday gravy. There might be/have been similar recipes in Italy somewhere but that was a long time ago. That's why Italians will get angry when asked about these dishes :)

Sometimes foods exist in Italy but under different names. For example, it took me a while to understand what gabagool was. It's a phonetic adaptation of capocollo but we call it coppa in Milan. Italians are often clueless about these regional terms. These words don't travel much across the country because each Italian city has its own separate language.
 
andare said:
I'm on a diet and I still clicked on this thread. And I don't even eat sandwiches. What an idiot.

In Italy we don't have a sandwich culture, we just slap cold cuts in a roll and eat it.

I don't think anything can beat a quesadilla but one day I'll be able to go to the US and I will have a pastrami sandwich in New York. Also on the list is a Cuban sandwich.

I spent my university years in Milan eating döner kebabs. Can't beat a proper shawarma made by an Arab with suspicious eyes while the Quran is blasting from the speakers. When I moved to Krakow there were nice Polish girls selling them. It's not the same! Now we have Arabs and Turks too, much better.

I still have a soft spot for an authentic bratwurst from Thüringen from my year in Weimar as an exchange student. These are the correct sausage-to-roll proportions
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I guess we don’t have the same sandwich culture as in the US but we definitely have a bit of it. All the focaccias with prosciutto and mozzarella or with vegetables you can find in Rome, or the various tramezzini. Maybe it’s mostly a Roman thing?

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giovanni said:
I guess we don’t have the same sandwich culture as in the US but we definitely have a bit of it. All the focaccias with prosciutto and mozzarella or with vegetables you can find in Rome, or the various tramezzini. Maybe it’s mostly a Roman thing?

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Oh we have those, for sure, but they pale in comparison with 3-meat and 5-sauce American subs :)
 
I had a great Buffalo Burger on Sunday, with Saskatoons and smoked cheddar — forgot to take a pic.
It was good enough to mention here, though. Thick, juicy bison meat...
 
I tried @Feral Feline 's pepper salami/gouda bagel sandwich. Delightful!

I made a couple modifications. First was to toast the bagel with a little butter and melt the cheese. Lots of fresh pepper to give it some kick.

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Next was to add some arugula with the pepper salami. The salami is thick sliced for extra chewiness. The arugula is dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, some salt and pepper.
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Hot cherry pepper slices to top it all off.
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Served with a fuji apple to keep things healthy?
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