Strangelove77
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For all I know it could taste amazing, but good God is that a sad looking fucking sandwich.
Is it common to make big multi-topping sandwiches in the US?
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Guys, I did some extensive research, carried out surveys and experimented in depth, and I've come to the conclusion...
...it's a sandwich with butter and cheese inside. Mind-blowing, I know.
NumberThree
Member
REAL cheese should not be grilled, cheese is made to eat as is. Grilling is for sub-par cheese that can't keep up otherwise.
Grilled cheese is the REAL struggwich.
ZackieChan
Member
It's almost as if different cultures have different tastes
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yeah that is insane. Holy shit.
A loaf or baguette here is maybe $2, $3 for the really larger ones. And my supermarket gouges prices too.
Wha? Melted cheese can be amazing. Ever had pizza or raclette?
Edit: oh I guess it was sarcasm... or European humour I guess
It's almost as if my statement and his statements are perfectly absurd and idiotic counterparts.
Butts-a-plenty
Banned
Somebody go tell those Italians they need to be using cold, unmelted cheese on their pizza.
NumberThree
Member
Since it's Christmas time I went totally wild and cut a slice of leftover ham on my butter & cheese sandwich. I feel like a king.
Shadax the wizard
Member
Wait. So a sandwich in the US with two breads is a sandwich. And a sandwich with one bread is an open sandwich? Is an open sandwich even a common thing over there or is it a weird exotic variant? Here we simply call both variants for a sandwich, open or closed.
I think the biggest difference and the main reason why people from the US can't believe people in Europe would just eat one slice of bread with a single topping is because we have a way bigger variant of bread and the only thing available in the US, whitebread the most unhealthy and mass-produced of them all (EDIT for clarity:
I should probably have phrased it differently as "the bread isn't available" is obviously bullshit: Of course I know more types of bread are available in a first world county. But it seems they aren't really part of the diet or your everyday meals like they are here in Europe or, more specifally, Germany. Again, all I can go from is my own anecdotal evidence and the utter disbelief of one-topping-bread-meals in this thread
I never lived in the US myself, I only know a few people from the US, but they were always surprised and almost shocked at the amount of bread we (germany) eat and how completely different it was from US-style white bread.
This is what I and pretty much everyone else I knew back in school during ate at breakfast - bread with cheese...
http://www.hallofamilie.de/fileadmin/bilder/hallofamilie/Artikelbilder/RTEmagicC_pausenbrot.jpg
bread with ham...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe..._mit_Butter,_Wurst_und_zwei_Scheiben_Brot.jpg
whole grain bread without the crust...
http://www.quia.com/files/quia/users/carladefaveri/Pausenbrot/Kasebrot
That's a typical breakfast or dinner in germany. Because the bread itself tastes great and has quite a bit of nutrition - that depends on the type of bread however. Even the bread itself, without any topping, can be a pretty tasty meal. Bread is awesome.
Sandwichs are definetely not as common here as they are in the US. And that's where the misunderstanding comes from: I would never call the stuff you see here sandwiches. It's bread with cheese. But because you only ever use bread for sandwiches in the US, I guess it's hard to convey the difference? Let's try it!
All sandwich meals use bread. Not all bread meals are sandwiches.
If all I got was white bread I would probably go crazy. Just look at these beauties laughing at that piece of white bread!
http://www.koenigbrot.at/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/1/1/brot283434.jpg
I don't know how it is in flyover country, but I'd laugh at someone who only ate white bread, just like I'd laugh at someone who only eats pizza, chicken nuggets, and ketchup. White bread is for 8 year olds.
Shadax the wizard
Member
A pizza ain't a sandwich though. No wait, maybe pizza is an open sandwich and hamburger is a sandwich?
Gosh I had this quoted from the last time I viewed this thread.
Some of us Scandinavians use different words for open faced sandwiches and regular sandwiches so it is not a sandwich to us.I like both kinds depending on how hungry I am and I find a lot of people in this thread to be overly narrow minded.
I'd like to submit this in rebuttal to the cheese and butter crowd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6N-YmGuiGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6N-YmGuiGw
Ok I'll just throw this exquisite croque Monsieur in the garbage.
at my school we had a food truck exclusively serving grilled cheese variations
shit was awesome
butzopower
proud of his butz
A lot of cheeses actually have their flavors open up more when they are melted. Source: girlfriend who worked with and sold cheese for 2 years. Additional source: my taste buds
I don't know about the multi-topping thing (as I'm British, not American) but I do have sandwiches for lunch at work. Not just one though, I have a couple.
Not so. It can be eaten as is but grilling it changes the flavor profile so you can grill it for a different taste. REAL cheese can be prepared multiple ways.
You're trying too hard to make the strugglewich seem more reasonable.
open sandwiches are not common here, at least I don't think I have even ever seen one that wasn't french toast.
You guys should read my next post after that one. It's funny that no one commented on the post I replied to, which was equally as absurd as mine.
This is a ham and cheese sandwich from the deli around the corner.
The fuck, is that for real?
Disclaimer: I don't like cheese.
However, there are a lot of french/swiss cheese where I think heating them up would be blasphemy (and to be honest, they're already so liquid I'm not sure how you'd go about that), maybe the poster was referencing that?
A small selection of the breads available at my local deli. I had no idea that as an American I was living in a bread wasteland.
Yeah, cause every town has a Zingermens. /rollseyes
Yes America has a wide variety of bread if you live in hip place and have the money to purchase it. But you lying about the typical American eat (what to us is) artisan bread every day. That guy begging for money just down the street in your yuppy college town sure the hell isn't eating good bread. The majority of Americans eat wonder bread types and if they want to be "healthy", store variety wheat bread. Food desserts are a real thing in America. It is insulting when America's try to pass off what is consider high ends food stuff in our own country as standard every day fare eating by the majority of people when demographics and show that would be clearly impossible for the majority.
Shadax the wizard
Member
Lol, that's nasty. It's like the bread is only the carrier for the content and not a part of it.
Machine
Member
Take a deep breath and relax. I think if you carefully re-read this thread, you will notice that most of the posts are not 100% serious (mine included).
And here I was sitting, thinking I just offended the whole of american culture by suggesting that maybe Americans don't eat different types of bread as regularly as some other countries.
People were mad, yo.
Also, if you would efer go ahead, pick up some crazy awesome piece of gouda or camenbert and melted I would probably have to kick you out of my house. Or yours. The cheese you melt isn't the same as the cheese you eat by itself.
Captain Tuttle
Member
It's like The Marshall Plan never happenedMaybe I'm using the word "sandwich" wrong but these are normal breakfast... things
What was absurd about it?
Maybe I'm using the word "sandwich" wrong but these are normal breakfast... things
This reminds me of a book I read in middle school called Grapes of Wrath.
Yes, a sandwich that's open is called an "open-faced" sandwich. This isn't common but you can find it in some breakfast restaurants. To sandwich something means place between two objects.
In the US, a sandwich is almost exactly like a burger, except you switch the buns for slices of bread, and the beef patty for cold, sliced meat like turkey, beef, ham, pastrami, etc.
It's as big as you want to make it.
This is a typical sandwich:
exmachina64
Banned
Without the Marshall Plan, the cheese wouldn't be there.
Boombloxer
Member
Maybe I'm using the word "sandwich" wrong but these are normal breakfast... things
This is a struggle sandwich in the same way sugar and water is struggle juice.
cm osi
Member
I love me a good juggle.
In the US, a sandwich is almost exactly like a burger, except you switch the buns for slices of bread, and the beef patty for cold, sliced meat like turkey, beef, ham, pastrami, etc.
It's as big as you want to make it.
This is a typical sandwich:
That looks like a normal (lunch) sandwich (I think a lot of confusion from this thread comes from the fact that in Europe, it is common to eat those "open sandwiches" with 1 to 2 toppings for a small meal wen you aren't that hungry or during breakfast).
Not that monstrosity:
Are those... things common in the US?
Finland wasn't included and the results are plain to see on this very page.
This thread was funny a month ago, but now its been resurrected, it hard to tell if people are joking when they are rehashing arguments that are a month old. Posting a deli from richest city in Michigan and passing of as a common America corner deli and other posters say "if you didn't shop in the ghetto" aren't funny; it comes across classiest. How are Europeans to know if your are pulling their leg, or showing real American culture?
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
He also used more than one slice of bread. None of this "open-ended" sandwich nonsense.
Fried bologna sandwiches are the shit. Toss a fried egg on there and it's pure bliss.
mmazurkiewicz
Member
we need to start a new thread where people only post actual photos of their actual breakfast/lunch and list where they are from.
You have a strange interpretation of what I said.
dsp
Member
You're god damned right it is.
Shadax the wizard
Member
So I played 'open Drake' all along only to unlock true 'Drake' after the fact? That's immersion breaking as fuck. Someone please get me respiration, like right now!
charlequin
Banned
An open-faced sandwich isn't a real thing.
The entire point of the sandwich is that something is contained between two breads do you can eat it more easily. Bread with stuff on it really needs a different English name since it's basically a different food.
Boogie9IGN
Member
4lbs Kryptonite sandwich (Avocado, bacon, beer-battered onion rings, extra pepper jack, ham, mozzarella sticks, pastrami, pesto, roast beef, salami, stuffed-jalapeño poppers, turkey)*
* Pretty sure some of the ingredients have been taken out of the one in the pic, that's why it doesn't look quite as epic
This is a goddamned sandwich
$26.62
4lbs Kryptonite sandwich (Avocado, bacon, beer-battered onion rings, extra pepper jack, ham, mozzarella sticks, pastrami, pesto, roast beef, salami, stuffed-jalapeño poppers, turkey)
This is a goddamned sandwich
I can't even find the bread
exmachina64
Banned
Delicious.
4lbs Kryptonite sandwich (Avocado, bacon, beer-battered onion rings, extra pepper jack, ham, mozzarella sticks, pastrami, pesto, roast beef, salami, stuffed-jalapeño poppers, turkey)*
* Pretty sure some of the ingredients have been taken out of the one in the pic, that's why it doesn't look quite as epic
This is a goddamned sandwich
I had to google the 4lbs to be sure I wasn't remembering the conversion to a normal unit wrong...
Who the hell eats that much? That'd be enough for like 6 people from the looks of it...
