the most iconic American sandwiches

[MightyGiants]

I often tell my waitress I want a rubber band sandwich and make it snappy!

It usually gets a laugh.

Remember they work on tips folks   

[Jolly Blue Giant]

I've already listed my iconic sandwiches - hot pastrami on rye with Russian dressing, lobster rolls, etc., the truth is, I grew up in a home with parents who survived the great depression so I learned how to eat cheap...not so much because I am cheap, I just learned to like foods that other people rarely eat.

Examples:

- Scrambled eggs and ketchup sandwich
- potted meat sandwich
- Deviled ham (mixed with sweet relish and mayo) sandwich
- tomato and mayo sandwich

And those that everyone has heard of

- egg salad sandwich
- PB&J

There's others, but I'm being constantly interrupted so that I can't think straight

There could probably be a whole thread just on meals from the depression era that people still eat - brown flour gravy (milk gravy) on pancakes, saltines and milk, etc

[LennG]

I had sort of the same upbringing. I was a child of the 50s and 60s when things were really booming, but not so much in our house. Both my parents worked so I was always fixing my own food since I was about 14.
I had always loved a good Tuna fish sandwich, but I was always looking to zing it up a bit, instead of the same old tuna all the time. I was always adding things to it to sort of 'spice' it up a bit. I can say the same for my standard PBJ sandwiches. I was always trying new jellies, with adding different ingredients to it, like chocolate chips, different fruits, etc. I think that has carried over to the present day as I do most of the cooking in our house and I'm always looking to 'improve' a standard dish with some extra stuff, or spices.

Anyway, some things, from my youth have still carried over into adult life, especially sandwiches.
I've mentioned my favorites, but in addition, and this is only my own sandwich, a good fresh turkey salad with only Hellman's mayo. My own thing is to fry up some onion and add it along with some chopped egg and assorted spices and it has to be eaten on fresh bakery rye bread.
One of my other favs is a good sloppy joe sandwich on a fresh onion roll--messy but good.

[Jolly Blue Giant]

I too like to doctor up simple sandwiches like adding chopped green olives onto my egg salad sandwiches and pineapple chunks to chicken salad along with cut up celery. I think I'll do that for lunch today 

[jimv]

I eat my tuna sandwiches with chopped onion & a slice of tomato.

[Ed Vette]

My Sunday morning breakfast is usually toasted egg bagel with sliced lox, capers and butter.


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[babywhales]

Philly Cheesesteak
Nashville Hot
Cornbeef Special  (Cornbeef, Coleslaw, swiss, & Thousand on Rye)
Porkroll, Egg and Cheese on a Kiser
Italian Sub
BLT CLUB
Grilled spam and Cheese on a roll

[Ed Vette]

Philly Cheesesteak
Nashville Hot
Cornbeef Special  (Cornbeef, Coleslaw, swiss, & Thousand on Rye)
Porkroll, Egg and Cheese on a Kiser
Italian Sub
BLT CLUB
Grilled spam and Cheese on a roll

If you were from NJ it would be Taylor Ham, Egg and Cheese.


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[Jolly Blue Giant]

Ed, it seems you over hit your "send" button. It immediately reminded me of one of my favorite commercials of an Encyclopedia company getting barraged with orders...LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ltwg2nTK4

[Ed Vette]

Ed, it seems you over hit your "send" button. It immediately reminded me of one of my favorite commercials of an Encyclopedia company getting barraged with orders...LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ltwg2nTK4

Or we are very serious about our Taylor Ham.


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[Jolly Blue Giant]

Or we are very serious about our Taylor Ham.
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[DaveBrown74]

Technical question: Pork roll and Taylor ham are identical, correct?

[Ed Vette]

Technical question: Pork roll and Taylor ham are identical, correct?

https://youtu.be/i2nuPVTU4Z4


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[MightyGiants]

Technical question: Pork roll and Taylor ham are identical, correct?

https://www.hobokengirl.com/history-pork-roll-taylor-ham-new-jersey/#:~:text=Officially%2C%20is%20it%20Taylor%20ham,Philadelphia%20call%20it%20pork%20roll.

[Bob In PA]

Ed: I apologize if I ruined your joke, but I just deleted all the duplicate posts (before seeing the one with the punch line!).   Bob