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[Butts-a-plenty]

This thread pretty much explains why Americans are fat and Eurosuperiors are not.

Anytime I make a sandwich at home its open faced. If I make one for lunch thats obviously not possible so I have to make a worse tasting and less healthy sandwich as a result.

Except that's bullshit.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...-the-uk-obesity-rates-compare-other-countries

2013 Overweight and Obesity Stats for both sexes:

US: 71%
UK: 67%
Switzerland: 57%
Spain: 62%
France: 52%
Germany: 64%
Poland: 64%
Greece: 71%
Hungary: 66%
Ireland: 66%
Italy: 58%

I don't think I need to go on any more. I don't think any country at 50%+ gets to call themselves not fat, if anything some European countries are slightly less fat while some are nearly caught up with us.

I believe recently the US is doing a much better job than Europe at dealing with childhood obesity.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

They are soooo delicious when done right.

Huge factor..

 

[nckillthegrimace]

This is a Danish ostemad. A slice of cheese on top of buttered rye bread.

All you need really. You wish you had it this good.

Is that your floor?

 

[Dennis]

Is that your floor?

No, that is a wooden table.

In Europe we go to the woods, fell a tree and carve a table. Food tastes better off a wooden table.

IKEA is something we sell to Anglo-Saxons.

 

[DoktorEvil]

Just taking this as an opportunity to post a pic of the standard breakfast plate from my favorite diner.

Lose the butter and you've won my heart.

 

[Schrade]

I always found it weird that Americans call hamburgers sandwiches though.

If someone in America calls a Hamburger a sandwich they are not American or are writing some fluff on an advertisement.

Hamburger, Burger and CustomBurgerName (like Jumbo Jack or Whopper) are the only things that are acceptable.

 

[Kacho]

Is that your floor?

Times are tough in Europe. They can't afford plates, tables or even meat to put on that sad piece of struggle bread.

 

[SkyOdin]

Thats not a standard breakfast unless you eat that for the majority of the week?
Do you? No? What is your real standard?

Why are you doubting him? When I was a kid, I ate a stack of pancakes for breakfast every day. Scrambled eggs and bacon are also common staples of the breakfast table. These days, I usually rotate between pancakes/waffles and some sort of fried eggs for breakfast, with the occasional day of eating cereal when I am feeling lazy. It doesn't take long to heat up a pan, mix the batter, and cook some pancakes.

 

[way more]

Thats not a standard breakfast unless you eat that for the majority of the week?
Do you? No? What is your real standard?

or

Some green juice

And maybe some oatmeal if we're feeling naughty. But pancakes are totally eaten on cheat days.

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

Why are you doubting him? When I was a kid, I ate a stack of pancakes for breakfast every day. Scrambled eggs and bacon are also common staples of the breakfast table. These days, I usually rotate between pancakes/waffles and some sort of fried eggs for breakfast, with the occasional day of eating cereal when I am feeling lazy. It doesn't take long to heat up a pan, mix the batter, and cook some pancakes.

Okay, but I'm American and there is no way that is typical. Most people eat a bowl of cereal, a bagel, yogurt, coffee or a breakfast sandwich or something. I don't know anyone waking up before work whipping together pancakes or waffles or a full bacon, egg, toast, hash brown breakfast. Those are for weekends.

 

[mmazurkiewicz]

Why are you doubting him? When I was a kid, I ate a stack of pancakes for breakfast every day. Scrambled eggs and bacon are also common staples of the breakfast table. These days, I usually rotate between pancakes/waffles and some sort of fried eggs for breakfast, with the occasional day of eating cereal when I am feeling lazy. It doesn't take long to heat up a pan, mix the batter, and cook some pancakes.

Yeh on a weekend. A weekend breakfast is not the same as the standard daily breakfast.

I don't care about what you eat for breakfast but what the standard is for the average American and I can assure you people don't wake up and make pancakes, waffles, or scrambled eggs and bacon daily. Those who enjoy those daily don't make it themselves.

 

[213372bu]

Thats not a standard breakfast unless you eat that for the majority of the week?
Do you? No? What is your real standard?

I know it may be a shock to Non-Americans, but pancakes and sides are the most common breakfast besides cereal.


I've been to Germany and Italy and they give you cold cuts and whatever varieties of bread as a "normal breakfast".

But here? Throw some pancakes on the grill with some cheap eggs and bacon and you got yourself a normal breakfast. Bonus points if you don't have time, just throw some damn microwavable sausage and pancakes and that's it.

It's really, really common to eat that on a normal basis (daily or every other day), along with coffee.

 

[way more]

Yeh on a weekend. A weekend breakfast is not the same as the standard daily breakfast.

I don't care about what you eat for breakfast but what the standard is for the average American and I can assure you people don't wake up and make pancakes, waffles, or scrambled eggs and bacon daily. Those who enjoy those daily don't make it themselves.

Those are all easy and fun to make. With a little practice you can cook and have a nutritious breakfast everyday.

I know it may be a shock to Non-Americans, but pancakes and sides are the most common breakfast besides cereal.

But here? Throw some pancakes on the grill with some cheap eggs and bacon and you got yourself a normal breakfast. Bonus points if you don't have time, just throw some damn microwavable sausage and pancakes and that's it.

I never eat cheap eggs. Only free range and organic.

 

[Necromanti]

I don't know what's confusing me more, the OP's incredulity at having a larger, well-dressed sandwich for lunch, or the Americans' inability to grasp the concept of an open-faced sandwich.

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

I know it may be a shock to Non-Americans, but pancakes and sides are the most common breakfast besides cereal.


I've been to Germany and Italy and they give you cold cuts and whatever varieties of bread as a "normal breakfast".

But here? Throw some pancakes on the grill with some cheap eggs and bacon and you got yourself a normal breakfast. Bonus points if you don't have time, just throw some damn microwavable sausage and pancakes and that's it.

It's really, really common to eat that on a normal basis (daily or every other day), along with coffee.

I'd feel sick if I tried to eat pancakes before work. They just make me want to go back to sleep. An orange, yogurt, banana and coffee please. Maybe some avocado.

I don't know what's confusing me more, the OP's incredulity at having a larger, well-dressed sandwich for lunch, or the Americans' inability to grasp the concept of an open-faced sandwich.

We grasp them, we're just curious why all your sandwiches are open faced. Open faced sandwiches feel incomplete to me usually.

 

[Beefy]

I don't know what's confusing me more, the OP's incredulity at having a larger, well-dressed sandwich for lunch, or the Americans' inability to grasp the concept of an open-faced sandwich.

The other one is people thinking all Americans eat bad food or a person from Sweden represents the whole of Europe.

 

[marrec]

I don't know what's confusing me more, the OP's incredulity at having a larger, well-dressed sandwich for lunch, or the Americans' inability to grasp the concept of an open-faced sandwich.

We do love some open faced sandwiches here in America though:

 

[Necromanti]

We grasp them, we're just curious why all your sandwiches are open faced. Open faced sandwiches feel incomplete to me usually.

I wonder if there's a reason for the open-faced sandwich being the European standard, but that might be due to a different perspective on the food. Some see it as a smaller meal of breakfast food, where you'd have a few slices of a high-quality (or at least tasty) piece of meat or cheese. Plus, some types of bread aren't optimal for a closed sandwich. I usually make my sandwiches open-faced, but with a moderate amount of meat on top. It's different if I'm making something like a BLT or hot sandwich, though.

 

[Dai101]

After all these photos of depressing Swedish open faced sandwiches, this is a Danish open faced sandwich for reference:

Lol, I guess we lose.

This is a Danish ostemad. A slice of cheese on top of buttered rye bread.

All you need really. You wish you had it this good.

You know, after these two, the ice cube sandwich isn't that sad anymore.

 

[Hilbert]

What's this about not calling hamburgers sandwiches? I am American and have no problem calling them sandwiches.

Technically, not sure how someone could say they aren't.

 

[way more]

Hot Turkey Sandwich

 

[213372bu]

We love open-faced sandwiches a lot down here in southern US, but you have to be that guy to just call it "a sandwich" like any other portable sandwich.

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

I wonder if there's a reason for the open-faced sandwich being the European standard, but that might be due to a different perspective on the food. Some see it as a smaller meal of breakfast food, where you'd have a few slices of a high-quality (or at least tasty) piece of meat or cheese. Plus, some types of bread aren't optimal for a closed sandwich. I usually make my sandwiches open-faced, but with a moderate amount of meat on top. It's different if I'm making something like a BLT or hot sandwich, though.

See, we have bread for breakfast too. We call it toast. I put avocado and tomato on toast. Cream cheese on toast, hell I'll put bacon and eggs on toast. But we'd call it toast with stuff on it, not a sandwich. And it's always toasted.

 

[CoolOff]

Hot Turkey Sandwich

 

[CoolOff]

See, we have bread for breakfast too. We call it toast. I put avocado and tomato on toast. Cream cheese on toast, hell I'll put bacon and eggs on toast. But we'd call it toast with stuff on it, not a sandwich. And it's always toasted.

Would you toast ryebread, or a slice of sourdough? Or are those banned from breakfast?

Spoiler

Again, I think this is just a word problem. America needs a specific word for "open-faced sandwich" and this wouldn't even be a thread.

 

[Necromanti]

Now I'm starting to understand why my aunt was confused by the thought of having a sandwich for lunch if the OP's thoughts are any indication.

See, we have bread for breakfast too. We call it toast. I put avocado and tomato on toast. Cream cheese on toast, hell I'll put bacon and eggs on toast. But we'd call it toast with stuff on it, not a sandwich. And it's always toasted.

As far as I'm aware, "smörgås" ultimately translates to "(open) sandwich". I mean, it could be boiled down to "a slice of bread with butter and cheese", but I think we just need to embrace the diversity of the humble sandwich.

 

[213372bu]

Around here, as far as sandwiches go, there are a lot of well known "piled-high" sandwiches, and they actually have lots of flavor and don't taste horrible ex:

But adding tons of toppings to a sandwich seems to be the "norm". I don't bat an eye when someone asks for "everything" (lettuce+tomatioes+olives+spinach etc.) I honestly just think of it as something as minute as adding ketchup to a hotdog.

Maybe it is a perceptual thing, but, for example, one meat sandwiches with lots of veggies doesn't look "big" to me

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

Would you toast ryebread, or a slice of sourdough? Or are those banned from breakfast?

Spoiler

Again, I think this is just a word problem. America needs a specific word for "open-faced sandwich" and this wouldn't even be a thread.

Of course. At any diner you'll get at least the option of white, wheat or rye toast, oftentimes more. We toast everything.

 

[CosmicQueso]

LMAO

For someone with such "high" standards for your gaming IQ and resolutions, you really don't give a shit what you put in your mouth. You Euros have gotta be trolling with this shit.

Maybe if dude could have a real sandwich he wouldn't get so pissed off about games.

 

[BajiBoxer]

Yeh on a weekend. A weekend breakfast is not the same as the standard daily breakfast.

I don't care about what you eat for breakfast but what the standard is for the average American and I can assure you people don't wake up and make pancakes, waffles, or scrambled eggs and bacon daily. Those who enjoy those daily don't make it themselves.

Of course not, they usually go to the waffle house. Really though, scrambled eggs are quick to make, and frozen waffles are extremely common. Most typical would probably be cereal, instant oatmeal, and/or some kind of toasted product like toast, bagels, pop-tarts, or waffles.

A lot of people I know skip breakfast altogether though.

 

[ZackieChan]

God, some of you people are insufferable. Do you all not realize that different cultures enjoy different food, or the same type of food in different ways? Have the complainers ever set foot in a different country/region?

That Danish sandwich is some bullshit, though. It looks good, but don't elevate it beyond just being a slice of cheese on some bread.

 

[birthday-suit]

Bread and cheese isn't a sandwich, its bread and cheese.

I'm tired of these threads coming at MURICA!

Like damn...you gonna make fun of us because we have more ingredients?

 

[Amory]

This thread is the best. It's the American sandwich with a ton of meat and toppings of threads

 

[SocksAndShoes]

We do love some open faced sandwiches here in America though:

*picture of awesome pot roast open faced sandwich*

We have the best open faced sandwich: The Kentucky Hot Brown

 

[CosmicQueso]

Bread and cheese isn't a sandwich, its bread and cheese.

I'm tired of these threads coming at MURICA!

Like damn...you gonna make fun of us because we have more ingredients?

Yeah. Adding tomatoes makes us greedy and gluttonous.

 

[Seductivpancakes]

The older again, the less I like big sandwiches.

 

[Supermanisdead]

I mean Sweden doesn't really have much of a culinary culture compared to southern Europe but god damn we make awesome breakfast sandwiches. What about a korvsmörgås? Uncooked Falu sausage on a sandwich (ie bread with butter). Like sex in your mouth. And no this is not a troll post. It is that good. Someone asked about my ideal sandwich and here it is.

not even prisoners eat shit like this

 

[Order]

This is a Danish ostemad. A slice of cheese on top of buttered rye bread.

All you need really. You wish you had it this good.




This below is the sort of stuff you get if you eat out:

I didn't know the struggle was that real in Europe. I'll pray for yall. 🙏

 

[akira28]

I'm looking at that one shrimp sandwich, and those little things look more like fat woodgrubs than shrimp...

 

[CosmicQueso]

Yo LondonGAF I'll be in you in a few weeks. Any suggestions where I can find the best Struggle Bread while I'm there? I'd like to try Struggle Bread for myself.

 

[Loomer]

Yes. This is the only sandwich that we know how to make.

 

[Blastoise]

This thread wen't from yummy to disgusting real fast!

 

[Parakeetman]

Yes. This is the only sandwich that we know how to make.

The Dagwood

 

[Nosgotham]

I'm American.

I've never heard of eating s sandwich for breakfast.
Sandwiches have a bottom slice of bread and a top slice of bread.
My typical sammy is mayonnaise,meat,cheese,lettuce,tomatoes and pickles.


That's all I have to add.

 

[Walpurgis]

We do love some open faced sandwiches here in America though:

I thought sandwiches were supposed to have bread.

The Dagwood

Do people actually eat that? As in, a single person?

 

[Sakura]

I don't know what's confusing me more, the OP's incredulity at having a larger, well-dressed sandwich for lunch, or the Americans' inability to grasp the concept of an open-faced sandwich.

I just have trouble calling a single slice of bread with a dainty piece of cheese on it a sandwich. If I put some butter on a piece of toast I would not say I am eating a butter sandwich. That doesn't make any damn sense.

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

I'm American.

I've never heard of eating s sandwich for breakfast.
Sandwiches have a bottom slice of bread and a top slice of bread.
My typical sammy is mayonnaise,meat,cheese,lettuce,tomatoes and pickles.


That's all I have to add.

Really?

 

[mullet2000]

Seriously though guys, stop eating meals on the floor.

 

[old manatee]

In the US they are called sandos.

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

In the US they are called sandos.

Sammy.