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Your Favorite Sandwiches?

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You may hate Mayo, but I'll bet you'd like this......:D

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Veronica T

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My favorite sandwiches are mostly traditional Wisconsin.

Winter Holidays: Raw beef and onion and salt on black bread or rye bread.

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1. Veronicas and Ronettes. Invented by yours truly. Reuben sandwiches dipped in a savory batter and deep-fried. Ronettes are the bite-sized appetizer version.

2. 勝美. Veronicas with kimchi substituted for the sauerkraut.

3. Reubens on a late Saturday afternoon at now defunct Club 113 supper club. Served with French fries with Heinz 57 ketchup, dill pickle spear, martini.

4. Kurobuta Terimayo hot dog. Purists insist upon Kagoshima pork sausage; there are the Berkshire herds in Wisconsin. Do you know how commercials say pork is the other white meat? Heritage pork is not white. It is the modern breeds which yield white, unflavorful pork.

Berkshire pork sausage on a brat bun (a slightly more resistant to the bite, more substantial hot dog bun), teriyaki sauce, Kewpie mayonnaise, nori seaweed and bonito flakes.

5. Brat. Usinger's bratwurst on a brat bun. Served with sauerkraut, German-style potato salad and beer. Preferably with polka music while tailgating in a stadium parking lot before a Packers or Badgers football game or during Oktoberfest.

a. Currywurst. Bratwurst on a bratwurst bun with curry and Bulldog tonkatsu sauce.
b. Yakisoba. Brat with yakisoba.

6. Chicago hot dog.

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7. Cheesy hot dip combo. A very messy Italian beef, sausage and Provolone cheese sandwich that is eaten while standing so as to not get stains on the clothing. The sandwich is briefly dunked in the 'beef juice' and topped with spicy giardiniera (pickled chopped sport peppers, celery, cauliflower, carrots, oregano and garlic in an oily vinaigrette). Beefs can also be ordered 'dry', 'wet' and 'sweet' (with green bell pepper strips) or 'soaker' (the bun submerged in the 'beef juice' served without meat).

For the more adventurous, advanced eaters: Although I do not recommend a dipped as a starter beef, if you should order a dip beef, do not order fries or any side dish, make certain your beverage has a straw and have a space at the counter where you stand to eat available because once you pick up your sandwich and commence, you cannot gracefully put the sandwich down. And be sure to have plenty of napkins and you will want to wash your hands afterwards. I am food otaku and carry baby wipes in my purse.

8. Cheeseburger. With grilled ground beef, cheddar, lettuce, onion slice, dill pickle slices, Heinz 57 ketchup, Kewpie mayonnaise.

9. Gyro.

10. Tunafish submarine. My go-to sandwich on Fridays when meat is forbidden (except during the periods of religious fasting).

Runner Up: Uwe hot dog. Kosher hot dog with sliced onion and plum sauce.

Honorary Mention: Peanut butter and jelly, Coney Island chili dog (from Detroit, Michigan), bagel with smoked salmon, cream cheese and capers; lobster roll, Philly cheesesteak, pastrami on rye with Cel-Ray soda water.
 
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Fastuni

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You are a real "foodie", aren't you? :)

Most of them sound very tasty, but I would feel guilty eating a deep fried battered Reuben.

My "sandwiches" are whatever the fridge allows to be put on a bread. :D
 
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Veronica T

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You are a real "foodie", aren't you? :)

Most of them sound very tasty, but I would feel guilty eating a deep fried battered Reuben.

My "sandwiches" are whatever the fridge allows to be put on a bread. :D

I have graduated to otaku level. There was a Sunday night when all the hot dog joints in my village were closed and I drove all the way to Division Street in Chicago to buy a sack of hot dogs. Actually, with me quantity is just as important as quality. And I stopped at White Castle on the return trip for sliders! Although I am not very big I am a very big eater. ギャル曽根 / Gal Sone and 小林尊 / Kobayashi Takeru watch out!

The nice thing about my list is that with the except of the hot dog, if you have a Presto Grandpappy deep fryer, Veronicas, Ronettes, 勝美 and everything else can easily be prepared at home. Some countries, such as Ireland, do not have corned beef. They do — but it comes in a tin and resembles Spam. Which is fine but it is not really corned beef. If I was Irish, I think I would much rather buy a big piece of meat and corn it myself.

I was a moderator on a food discussion board for several years. I do not understand what is so difficult about Chicago hot dogs. We had a competition challenge for a prize in which the participants submitted a YouTube video on how to make a Chicago hot dog. Out of twenty entries, not a single person got it right. Not one. There were substitutions of jalapeño for the sport peppers, sweet relish instead of the neon green relish (one guy added food coloring to dill relish; when I asked if he had ever tasted neon green relish, he admitted that he had never eaten a Chicago hot dog nor had he ever been to Chicago), Düsseldorf or Dijon mustards rather than yellow mustard, non-poppy seed buns, tomatoes that looked as if they had been stripmined, non-kosher hot dogs — and — as much as I love Heinz 57 ketchup — the biggest sin of all — putting ketchup on a hot dog. French fries are the delivery system for ketchup.

Bear that in mind if you ever go to a dog stand in Chicago. I may have saved your life.

Bear that in mind .... Chicago. That is very funny.
 
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Stanley Doble

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Tim Horton's chocolate chunk bagel with strawberry cream cheese and a coffee. Is that even a sandwich? Doesn't matter, they don't make the chocolate chunk bagel anymore. I miss them.
 

Fastuni

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Veronica T said:
Although I am not very big I am a very big eater.

Haha. I also am blessed with an efficient metabolism.

Some countries, such as Ireland, do not have corned beef. They do — but it comes in a tin and resembles Spam.

Same here in most German stores. There is also the so called German ¨corned beef¨ which is actually a cold cut in jelly and doesn´t even remotely resemble actual corned beef.

as much as I love Heinz 57 ketchup — the biggest sin of all — putting ketchup on a hot dog. French fries are the delivery system for ketchup.

Absolutely. I don't like ketchup on sausage/bratwursts at all - too sweet.
Yellow mustard (medium hot) is much better.

Bear that in mind if you ever go to a dog stand in Chicago. I may have saved your life.
Bear that in mind .... Chicago. That is very funny.

I will - if I ever get to Chicago and eat a hot dog.
Now if I only can travel back in time and listen to the warnings not to eat one of those vile Manhattan "kebabs" (actually charred rubberized fat in a bun). :p
 
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