Is it common to make big multi-topping sandwiches in the US?

Ledsen said:
It's basically the same thing as my oft-mocked photo. He just put a couple of cucumber slices on one of the sandwiches and egg on the other. He also shows the rest of the breakfast that I didn't show.
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It's all in the composition.

Edit: also, a slice of bread is a slice of bread. Sandwich has two slices of bread and something in-between.
 
Funny enough the biggest sandwich I've had, long subway style not included, were in South America. It was a club sandwich but down there they make it with like eggs and chicken salad and ham and all of this other stuff.
 
Ardenyal said:
Yeah we had those in school but I will always remember crispbread from my conscript service. A week in the bush and having a poverty sandwich.. heaven!
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Yeah, same here. I used to pack my fashionable cargo pants with plain crispbreads for long marches/stretches in the woods and they usually broke into pieces :P We were so physically exhausted that eating one them would give a energy boost of several coffees. It was a weird feeling.
 
UFO said:
Here's the bread isle at my local American deli.

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lol wtf do you shop at the local gas station? Try going to a non-ghetto grocery store and you can buy some decent bread.

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This thread was a hella good read! I would say us Americans like to get more "more bang for their buck," Euro-Gaf can stay with that struggle between two pieces of bread :p
 
SpoonyBard said:
I've never heard that term, interesting. Would a piece of flatbread with some butter still be considered as an open sandwich? Usually you don't use flatbread to sandwich anything...
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Technically, I guess. But most flatbreads would just be referred to by their name, and I wouldn't expect a flatbread when someone talked about a sandwich.

It's worth noting that in the Nordic languages the sandwich equivalent is just "buttered bread" or similar.
 
psynergylover said:
This thread was a hella good read! I would say us Americans like to get more "more bang for their buck," Euro-Gaf can stay with that struggle between two pieces of bread :p
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I think people just talking about different things.

There is a difference between daily breakfast and what you eat once in a while. I hope no one is eating a sandwich with a bunch of different toppings, grilled cheese and whatever as part of the daily diet.
 
psynergylover said:
This thread was a hella good read! I would say us Americans like to get more "more bang for their buck," Euro-Gaf can stay with that struggle between two pieces of bread :p
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Consuming less is a good thing I suppose...But I stay loading up my sandwiches. To me mitigating the taste of bread is necessary, but Europeans like my wife prefer more bread! The best bread I had was when I visited Germany though. Mouth watering bread everyday like it was normal. In the U.S. it's treated like a specialty.
 
PdotMichael said:
I think people just talking about different things.

There is a difference between daily breakfast and what you eat once in a while. I hope no one is eating a sandwich with a bunch of different toppings, grilled cheese and whatever as part of the daily diet.
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What's wrong with having a sandwich with lettuce, tomato, pickles, cheese, etc. every day?
 
I'm American and the cheese on bread thing does't look off to me at all; it's how you might consume higher end cheese. We prefer crackers here but they also sell breads near the artissanal cheese displays, particularly the brown/dense European style I see posted all over this thread.

And to the Americans saying "Why wouldn't you grill that?" have you never had cheese with a great dry texture? Not all cheese is meant to be eaten melted, some cheese loses a lot of what makes it good when you do.

Urban USA is so much different than the suburbs/walmartized USA. You also have East Coast / West Coast differences.. where the East Coast has more imported European goods / culture and the West has more home spun high end products. (not that they don't also both have each, but West Coast in all things is just.. "newer" and less European)

Then you have the suburbs of major urban areas.. where the supermarket culture is combined with fresh/artissanal product culture and you have these giant grocery stores packed full of high end goods. I live a few blocks from a grocery store like that.
 
PdotMichael said:
I think people just talking about different things.

There is a difference between daily breakfast and what you eat once in a while. I hope no one is eating a sandwich with a bunch of different toppings, grilled cheese and whatever as part of the daily diet.
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A grilled cheese is the same thing as the OP's picture, but heated up. I wouldn't eat it everyday because that would be boring, but we're comparing apples and apples as far as nutrition.
 
When I visited Denmark, I was forced to eat a "sandwich" like that for breakfast and then I was hungry the entire morning until lunch. I thought that was just the appetizer.
 
I don't really have time for that shit for breakfast. I have 5 minutes to prepare&eat...

So I can't understand how single Americans do this
 
Kite said:
lol wtf do you shop at the local gas station? Try going to a non-ghetto grocery store and you can buy some decent bread.

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I was going to say the same. That's the damn gas station snack section by the coffee and such that he posted.

There are good bakeries all over America and they don't have to be of foreign origin.
 
PdotMichael said:
Like one poster said that many cheeses aren't meant to be grilled.




You mean the argument USA is better because you can buy all types of beer is not exactly that?
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I understand that, but there are plenty of relatively low fat cheeses that go great on a grilled cheese without sacrificing taste. I believe you could eat one or the other daily, it's your choice. But saying that one has more fat when they share ingredients? That doesn't make sense. All I'm saying.
 
I still don't think we have the original misunderstanding under wraps.

OP asked if sandwiches in the US were what you see in media, basically the grinder / submarine / deli sandwich. Then OP went on to question if someone only eats a sandwich for lunch, wouldn't they still be hungry. Was OP asking if we eat the butter and cheese breakfast sandwich for lunch? I feel like there's just a huge cultural difference in how we are raised to look at a sandwich.
 
What you US guys do not understand is that it is not a "struggle sandwich" or "struggwich" in any way. It is not made in this way because of lack of ingredients. I usually have the fridge full of ham, salami, wurst, pickles, onions etc. and I still make only bread + cheese + optional tomato one. The taste is great and I do not really need to add any meat or eggs to that. It's a cultural preference thing not an economic one.
 
I'm a man of Publix Subs, Firehouse Subs taste but I'm not above a good struggle sandwich.

Struggle sandwich ghosts of struggle past:

Those broke days when you made fried bologna sandwiches.
When you had nothing in the house and made a ketchup sandwich.
The struggle kraft cheese slice sandwich with no meat.
 
StoppedInTracks said:
What you US guys do not understand is that it is not a "struggle sandwich" or "struggwich" in any way. It is not made in this way because of lack of ingredients. I usually have the fridge full of ham, salami, wurst, pickles, onions etc. and I still make only bread + cheese + optional tomato one. The taste is great and I do not really need to add any meat or eggs to that. It's a cultural preference thing not an economic one.
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True. As a Hungarian American, my first 7 years in Hungary taught me that my people can't take a 2 hour trip without packing bread & butter. My grandma must think we might starve to death if we're more than an hour away from the house.
 
...Scatter... said:
I'm a man of Publix Subs, Firehouse Subs taste but I'm not above a good struggle sandwich.

Struggle sandwich ghosts of struggle past:

Those broke days when you made fried bologna sandwiches.
When you had nothing in the house and made a ketchup sandwich.
The struggle kraft cheese slice sandwich with no meat.
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LOL, I used to do that a lot as a kid...out of choice.
 
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