Well, if the sandwiches posted in this thread are indeed typical over there, then I can easily understand how you would only eat a sandwich for lunch and stay full.
Is it common to make big multi-topping sandwiches in the US?
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Well, if the sandwiches posted in this thread are indeed typical over there, then I can easily understand how you would only eat a sandwich for lunch and stay full.
Okay yeah, sandwiches are not breakfast food here the way they apparently are in the EU and your sandwiches would never be called sandwiches here. A sandwich is a centerpiece of a lunch in the US, not something you eat with an egg and cereal. We do actually eat breakfasts like those but nobody would call some eggs or cheese on a single piece of bread a sandwich. It's just toast with toppings. Or like, lox: salmon and cream cheese and veggies you spread on a bagel or toast. But nobody would ever call that a sandwich.
It did make me more hungry for the sandwich I brownbagged: Pastrami, spring mix, white onion and balsamic vinaigrette on honey oat. Which adheres to my sandwich standard: bread (two slices obviously), 3ish slices of lunch meat, greens and one or two other veggies, some kind of spread/dressing. cheese optional.
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Chainsawkitten
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Toast to me is something you grill... or toast, as it is called. Definitely not the same thing as a piece of bread and toppings to me.
Regarding butter on sandwiches. In Swedish, a sandwich is litteraly a butter-goose. Not sure where the goose part comes from, since you don't typically eat goose with it, but at least it's better than sand.
Why would you put butter on cheese toast.Maybe I'm using the word "sandwich" wrong but these are normal breakfast... things
Put some cheese on bread, maybe some slice hotdogs. Then put it in the oven till golden brown. Serve with cereal.
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Cheese handles your fat intake and some of your protein. Butter is just fat. Bread gives you some fiber but mostly carbs. You still lack some balance from higher dietary fiber intake and vitamins with just cheese, bread, and butter.
In movies and shows they always do these huge Subway-style sandwiches with tons of toppings. Never just a simple butter and cheese-type sandwich. Is this common in US homes? Another trope is people only eating a sandwich for lunch. I can't imagine how hungry you must be after such a meal! I know our Norwegian neighbours do this as well, but they're kinda crazy soooooo...
Maybe I'm using the word "sandwich" wrong but these are normal breakfast... things
OP has to be trolling us
DontBeThatGuy
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Absolutely, yes.
Oh yeah that too: I don't know of anyone who eats just bread with toppings for breakfast in the US. far as I know the convention is always to pop it in the toaster. But once toasted then it's not completely out of the ordinary to put a scrambled egg on top and call it a meal
You know people can eat other non sandwich things in addition to their sandwich?
ElectricBlanketFire
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Mmm a cold shredded cheese sandwich from a vending machine.
Why would you put butter on cheese toast..
Put some cheese on bread, maybe some slice hotdogs. Then put it in the oven till golden brown. Serve with cereal.
The ones I posted aren't toast... toast is bread that you toast, I just posted some normal bread.
Those are either between-meal snacks or breakfast sandwiches you eat alongside other stuff... check out my post up there.
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The Albatross
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Yes, multi-topping sandwiches are very common.
A good sandwich in the US usually consists of:
1. Bread.
2. Some sort of meat/protein, like chicken, turkey, roast beef, or some sort of meat concoction (pepperoni, balogna, etc).
3. Vegetables like lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, hot peppers,etc.
4. Some sort of condiment like a mustard, mayonaise, an aoli, or some sort of spread.
5. A cheese
If you're going out to a restaurant and order a sandwich, this is what you'd expect to find.
This certainly isn't limited only to the US though...
A good sandwich in the US usually consists of:
1. Bread.
2. Some sort of meat/protein, like chicken, turkey, roast beef, or some sort of meat concoction (pepperoni, balogna, etc).
3. Vegetables like lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, hot peppers,etc.
4. Some sort of condiment like a mustard, mayonaise, an aoli, or some sort of spread.
5. A cheese
If you're going out to a restaurant and order a sandwich, this is what you'd expect to find.
This certainly isn't limited only to the US though...
Veritigo_X
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Cold shredded cheese! Haha, I can't anymore. You guys are too much.
Daria Morgendorffer
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So this thread made me wonder, you obviously don't eat those sandwiches as breakfast, but what do Americans eat for breakfast then?
That would be us Dutchies, and it's called hagelslag
Azzurri
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Sandwich thread? Sandwich thread.
I'm gonna send BritGAF a whole crate of Westside Monte Cristo sandwiches from The Melt in Cleveland.
Honey ham, smoked turkey, Swiss and American cheese sandwiched between two deep-fried slices of bread, sprinkled with powdered sugar. You'll thank me once the indigestion passes.
We have a Melt here too, like 5 min from my place. It's so good and filling.
The issue with the bread and bakery situation in America is that most people don't shop daily, so a loaf of bread has to last a week or so minimum, which means its gonna suck.
Restructuring society so that people have the time to shop every day or every other day is going to take some time outside of the biggest cities.
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DoktorEvil
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We do eat sandwiches for breakfast.
Ham/sausage/bacon, Egg, and Cheese over a Bagel/croissant/Roll/Sub/Hero/etc. is fairly common.
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ElectricBlanketFire
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Butter and cheese sandwiches.
Breakfast is often skipped during the week, but often is things like oatmeal, cereal, muffins, eggs, stuff like that.
When there is time to be had, stuff like waffles, pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, more involved things.
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I usually eat a bowl of cereal or oatmeal. If I have more time then I'll make eggs or something.
More_Badass
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Eggs, waffles, pancakes, bagels, muffins, bacon, sausage, cereal, ham, oatmeal, etc
And sandwiches too
what do you mean "cold" cheese? Cheese is a cold food that you sometimes grill or heat up.
Toast with butter only? That doesn't seem right.
When I was a kid at Grandma's house, that was all one single meal too...
Pffffff, puny torta. Now this
That's a torta.
Ironically enough, my mom used to call these "A poor kid's torta", the context being "A poor kid would put EVERYTHING into the torta if given the chance", it kinda stuck for our family to call them that.
RedNumberFive
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Butter and cheese sandwich for breakfast?
Why bother even getting out of bed for such a sad meal?
Why bother even getting out of bed for such a sad meal?
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std-wichThis is like a $15 sandwich. It'll last you for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And then maybe the next day too.
egg and cheese sandwich (with meat sometimes), bagel w/ cream cheese, cereal, or nothing
butter and cheese though.... I can't wait to have a laugh with my mates in my flat abut that one
Often nothing. Commonly a bowl of cereal and a piece of fruit. If you mean what's the Traditional American Breakfast, the type a restaurant would serve and most people make occasionally to treat themselves then...
With regional variations, of course.
Kacho
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It's like you took a picture of my kitchen table this morning. Almost exactly identical except for the dishware.
brokenbeans
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This is like a $15 sandwich. It'll last you for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And then maybe the next day too.
NipplesAndToes23
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Y'all need to watch the movie Chef. It has the most delicious looking sandwiches in it. I never had more of a craving for a grilled cheese sandwich in my life.
Eh? Ideally good cheese is best at room temperature. It's kept cold to preserve it, sure, but you are missing out if you think of it as a cold food.