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[Butts-a-plenty]

To be honest I'm not opposed to the idea of having non melted cheese on a sandwich, I'd appreciate at least some vegetables or something with it too though.

What is with this ridiculous idea that we don't use unmelted cheese in sandwiches? Da fuq?

Do you guys not eat Italian hoagies?

I add a slice of cheese whenever I made a turkey/chicken/ham sandwich. All versions of those sandwiches have unmelted cheese.

 

[Stinkles]

The only edible we can all agree on is CRAZY PILLS

 

[Morrigan Stark]

I will support you. This is a regular breakfast. Hell, I usually eat this for lunch

Or two. That's it.

American food culture is fucked up.

This is very common in Holland where I live too. I can't imagine these multiple topping sandwiches for lunch.

I can't tell if these posts are jokes or not. I can't stand sandwiches with eleventy billion toppings spilling out and and sauce dripping out either, but that.... that is just sad. Extremely so. I have simple bread with fresh cheese as snacks all the time, but as a meal? WTF? And that cheese looks like American cheese lol, eww.

 

[AntoneM]

Just made a European style sandwich: 1 slice of homemade bread, 2 slices of turkey, and some mozzarella; was pretty good, especially with some miracle whip (I'm still 'merican after all).

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

these american shitwiches all look gross no wonder you are all fat slobs

this is a proper sandwich

Prison changes people.

 

[Easy_G]

Seafood Vienetta?

Absolutely perfect description.

 

[Fluffhead14]

I guess the way you seem to stick a whole roast dinner between some bread for a light meal.

a sub/hoagie/hero would be for dinner, or most people might eat half a foot long sub for lunch and eat the rest later.

a regular turkey sandwich isn't more than 2-3 oz of lunch meat between two slices of bread, usually with a slice of cheese, lettuce, tomato, maybe mayo or mustard. perfectly reasonable for a lunch.

not sure how much "lighter" you're going to get unless you eat a piece of bread with a slice of cheese on it, like posted in this thread.

 

[Stinkles]

This is Paseo in Seattle. I've been to Cuba and to Florida and I've never eaten a Cuban sandwich this good.

 

[Easy_G]

This is Paseo in Seattle. I've been to Cuba and to Florida and I've never eaten a Cuban sandwich this good.

Interesting, they clearly diverge a bit from traditional Cubans. Looks good though.


Cubans are a sandwich that I think can be made at home as good, and more often better, than they are in a restaurant.

Some leftover pork, sliced ham, lots of pickles and swiss cheese, whole grain mustard, and then I like to add chipotle sliced mayo and shredded cabbage on a toasted bun.

The best.

 

[tensuke]

thank god i live in a country that doesn't eat cheese butter bread "sandwiches" and "salad cream"

Maybe you are hungry after a sandwich, because your sandwiches sound lame as fuck.

lmao

Maybe I'm using the word "sandwich" wrong but these are normal breakfast... things

the fuck is that thing? you just slap cheese and butter on bread and eat it for breakfast? are you poor, op?

sandwiches have two pieces of bread, my friend. i think scandinavian countries were punk'd.

 

[CaptainGyro]

Right now I am eating one of my favorite sandwiches , I eat these a few times a week
It might seem kinda heavy on the toppings but it's pretty easy to eat once you figure out how to eat it

Lettuce
Tomatoes
Jalapenos
sliced carrot
havarti cheese
onion
cucumber
sunflower seeds
raisins
sesame ginger dressing
no bread

 

[Easy_G]

Right now I am eating one of my favorite sandwiches , I eat these a few times a week
It might seem kinda heavy on the toppings but it's pretty easy to eat once you figure out how to eat it

Lettuce
Tomatoes
Jalapenos
sliced carrot
havarti cheese
onion
cucumber
sunflower seeds
raisins
sesame ginger dressing
no bread

 

[Omega]

That looks kinda good gimme rainbow sprinkles instead though

close enough

 

[D-Pad]

This is one of my favorite threads. Think I'll make a sandwich for dinner tomorrow~

 

[notBald]

the fuck is that thing? you just slap cheese and butter on bread and eat it for breakfast? are you poor, op?

sandwiches have two pieces of bread, my friend. i think scandinavian countries were punk'd.

I don't always bother with the butter. Less is more, as far as I'm concerned. I've never tasted a sandwich I liked better than this.

And oddly enough, I've never been anything close to fat.

 

[Stinkles]

Interesting, they clearly diverge a bit from traditional Cubans. Looks good though.


Cubans are a sandwich that I think can be made at home as good, and more often better, than they are in a restaurant.

Some leftover pork, sliced ham, lots of pickles and swiss cheese, whole grain mustard, and then I like to add chipotle sliced mayo and shredded cabbage on a toasted bun.

The best.

That one is the "midnight " or the pork loin roast. They have a traditional pressed sandwich too. But my god. The medianoche.

 

[Bornstellar]

That one is the "midnight " or the pork loin roast. They have a traditional pressed sandwich too. But my god. The medianoche.

Damn me. I went to Uneeda Burger today. Had no idea it was right next to Paseos.

Should have gone there instead.

 

[RodanCeros]

I just get my American cheese here:

Zingermans! Talk about some great sammies.

 

[Ghost is Bad]

Maybe I'm using the word "sandwich" wrong but these are normal breakfast... things

honestly that doesn't look like it would satisfy a starving wombat.

 

[SpoonyBard]

honestly that doesn't look like it would satisfy a starving wombat.

You could have several. And they would taste better than anything you get from Subway.

 

[Ledsen]

honestly that doesn't look like it would satisfy a starving wombat.

That's why we eat it as part of a breakfast or as a snack, not a meal in itself. Which has been explained several times on each of the 19 pages so far...

 

[Adam_Roman]

My go-to sandwich is deli-sliced turkey with a very light spreading of mayo, spinach, tomato, onions and a slice of either meunster or provolone cheese. Is that considered too many toppings for Europe?

 

[Prophet Steve]

I can't tell if these posts are jokes or not. I can't stand sandwiches with eleventy billion toppings spilling out and and sauce dripping out either, but that.... that is just sad. Extremely so. I have simple bread with fresh cheese as snacks all the time, but as a meal? WTF? And that cheese looks like American cheese lol, eww.

As breakfast and lunch it is completely appropriate. Nutritious, fast, cheap. The super tasty big things are kept for dinner.

And don't tell Dutch people their cheese looks like shitty American cheese. I don't like cheese a lot but we have like five different varieties at my work at the lunch table and people are damn picky about it.

So yes, they are serious.

 

[GhostWriter24]

American food is far and away the greatest cuisine on the planet. BBQ, sandwiches, wings, burgers...it's all fantastic.

 

[Bedlam]

American food culture, which no matter the kind of food basically always comes down to some kind of binge-eating, is thoroughly fucked. It's sad how some Americans don't even recognize a simple "Käsestulle" or "Käsebrot" as something eatable.

edit: This is what I'm talking about:

That stuff right there is great. A lot of people eat it like that in the Netherlands, basically a butter and cheese sandwich.

Yay for healthy, quality food in moderate portions!

 

[tearsofash]

Home made sandwiches for me are just Gouda, meunsta, or provolone cheese with some lunch meet and mayonnaise between two slices of white bread. If it's a burger, just cheese and mayo. If it's a sub sandwich I usually just get meat, spinach, and chipotle/mayo on it.

I'm pretty simple. If the venue has a fancy burger with fried onions or an egg I'll usually get that, though.

Everyone else demands tomato, onion, lettuce, and pickles but I don't understand.

 

[Lonewolf_92]

You could have several. And they would taste better than anything you get from Subway.

The paper the sub is wrapped in would probably taste better than sub from Subway.

That said, the differences in how we view and eat sandwiches all goes back to divergent history. From what I understand, in the Nordic countries, sandwiches came from the use of bead as plates (like the trencher from which modern bread bowls spawned). For the US and UK, it traces back to the legend of the old Earl of Sandwich and his chef and gambling addiction. In the Mediterranean and Middle East, it comes from the unleavened flatbreads and pocket breads common in those areas.

Still, speaking as an American, it seems a bit weird that it has devolved into a side dish mostly eaten alongside breakfast given its history, especially one eaten solely with few toppings. I'd almost expect it to be used like how simple buttered bread is sometimes used as a side to a meal here in the US, as a method to sop up rich sauces and gravies left from a entree. It certainly seems closer to that than a sandwich.

The rather unappealing photo of what looks like buttered Wonderbread with a paper thin slice of cheese on top didn't help matters.

 

[Ledsen]

My go-to sandwich is deli-sliced turkey with a very light spreading of mayo, spinach, tomato, onions and a slice of either meunster or provolone cheese. Is that considered too many toppings for Europe?

Not for a meal sandwich, no. With breakfast, no we wouldn't eat that.

 

[Trident]

American food culture, which no matter the kind of food basically always comes down to some kind of binge-eating, is thoroughly fucked. It's sad how some Americans don't even recognize a simple "Käsestulle" or "Käsebrot" as something eatable.

edit: This is what I'm talking about:


Yay for healthy, quality food in moderate portions!

In what way is bread, cheese, and butter "healthy"?

 

[strafer]

Cheese is nothing compared to that garbage peanutbutter and jelly stuff americans do.

its absolutely disgusting.

cheese is awesome.


also this thread is weird

 

[Trident]

Cheese is nothing compared to that garbage peanutbutter and jelly stuff americans do.

its absolutely disgusting.

cheese is awesome.


also this thread is weird

Peanut butter and jelly is indeed the weakest shit ever.

 

[1.21Gigawatts]

I make a distinction between "belegtes Brot", "Sandwich" and "Burger".

Belegtes Brot(this is breakfast on a weekday or lunch when you are still in school: Pausenbrot)

Sandwich(this is breakfast on the weekend or lunch)

Burger(this is lunch or dinner)

 

[Bri]

Kalles kaviar with sliced hard boiled eggs or two THIN slices of cheese, even the rich people eat this.

Pure gold.

 

[Ledsen]

Kalles kaviar with sliced hard boiled eggs or two THIN slices of cheese, even the rich people eat this.

Pure gold.

oh shi-

 

[Renekton]

Fold the bread slice and you have a butter sandwich as per your definition.
This thread is fun, I tell you.

Folded buttered bread

 

[Discotheque]

Yeah I think even butter and cheese is too complicated for a sandwich. I just like to have a bread sandwich for lunch, where I basically just fold a piece of bread and eat it

 

[ZackieChan]

Not sure we ever got an answer from OP or the other pro-struggwich crew on WHY having multiple toppings on a sandwich is bad. They even apparently eat sandwiches with more toppings on them for dinner. So I'm not even sure what the issue is. Different cultures eat different things? OK?

 

[strafer]

Kalles kaviar with sliced hard boiled eggs or two THIN slices of cheese, even the rich people eat this.

Pure gold.

This is gold.

But don't drink anything after. It will taste like shit.

 

[Branduil]

This thread is hilarious. I mean I eat cheap sandwiches sometimes but I don't pretend doing so somehow makes me cultured.

 

[Hoo-doo]

Wait a minute... Americans don't eat sandwiches like that? To me, a sandwich is a single piece of bread with one or two toppings. The most common ones are cheese or thin slices or ham. Add a bowl of cereal or some coffee and that's what 90% of Swedes eat for breakfast.

Here is a pretty normal breakfast:

This is how we do it in the Netherlands as well.

Bowl of yoghurt and oats, piece of bread with any topping you want (cheese being the most common), and a hot mug of coffee. Glass of OJ if possible. Best breakfast.

 

[daviyoung]

This thread is hilarious. I mean I eat cheap sandwiches sometimes but I don't pretend doing so somehow makes me cultured.

and this is the crux of the thread

these sandwiches aren't eaten because they're cheap

 

[Beefy]

Not sure we ever got an answer from OP or the other pro-struggwich crew on WHY having multiple toppings on a sandwich is bad. They even apparently eat sandwiches with more toppings on them for dinner. So I'm not even sure what the issue is. Different cultures eat different things? OK?

Which some people seem to not get. A hell of a lot of people have called OP's pic struggle bread or asking the OP if they are poor. Do you not think that is kind of harsh? The OP even said what it is and that kind of open sandwich is a thing where he lives, yet some people still say it.

It's like you have said people from different cultures have different tastes. Americans tend to have a larger sandwich as they see it as a whole meal. Were as sandwiches in the UK (when you aren't eating at a restaurant) are seen as part of a meal so are smaller.

 

[Ledsen]

Not sure we ever got an answer from OP or the other pro-struggwich crew on WHY having multiple toppings on a sandwich is bad. They even apparently eat sandwiches with more toppings on them for dinner. So I'm not even sure what the issue is. Different cultures eat different things? OK?

Where in the OP do I say it is bad to eat multiple-topping sandwiches? I was immediately jumped on by dozens of Americans for showing a part of a normal breakfast though, if that's what you mean.

 

[tensuke]

You could have several. And they would taste better than anything you get from Subway.

There's no way you could say a piece of bread with butter and cheese slapped on would be better than anything you get at Subway, if you've been to Subway.

 

[Roi]

There's no way you could say a piece of bread with butter and cheese slapped on would be better than anything you get at Subway, if you've been to Subway.

uuuuuuh yeah it does though.

 

[CaptainGyro]

Where in the OP do I say it is bad to eat multiple-topping sandwiches? I was immediately jumped on by dozens of Americans for showing a part of a normal breakfast though, if that's what you mean.

Well as said before you called your sandwich a "normal common everyday sandwich" as if the american sandwich was some kind of freakish monstrosity, and with the calling the Norwegians crazy and also pointing out they eat only a sandwich for lunch ( like americans do) you didn't exactly make it sound like it was perfectly fine.

You edited your post though

 

[Ledsen]

Well as said before you called your sandwich a "normal common everyday sandwich" as if the american sandwich was some kind of freakish monstrosity, and with the calling the Norwegians crazy and also pointing out they eat only a sandwich for lunch ( like americans do) you didn't exactly make it sound like it was perfectly fine.

You edited your post though

I edited it back to what it was when I posted the thread, that normal everyday thing was only there for a day at most in the middle of the thread. The lunch thing is pretty clearly a joke and was not really commented on by anyone.

 

[CaptainGyro]

well yeah I don't think anybody thought that you literally thought all Norwegians were crazy but you definitely made it seem like you thought having only a sandwich for lunch was weird. Are you really going to suggest that your post doesn't come across that way?

 

[ZackieChan]

well yeah I don't think anybody thought that you literally thought all Norwegians were crazy but you definitely made it seem like you thought having only a sandwich for lunch was weird. Are you really going to suggest that your post doesn't come across that way?

It certainly did before it was re-edited. We're expected to understand trolling, like "no good cheese" guy and others are doing, in the context of a thread that seems to be baffled by American sandwiches and holding out a piece of cheese on bread as the pinnacle of sandwich making. It's fine. I don't think anyone would say that it doesn't taste good. Just that it looks so plain and poor compared to a normal sandwich here. Especially when it's photographed on what looks like the floor.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

You could have several. And they would taste better than anything you get from Subway.

Well now that we've set the bar on the ground...