I don’t necessarily mean specific recipes, I mean concepts. A western sandwich is bread, (vegan) meat or cheese, sauce, tomato, something pickled, some salad, mostly, all layered and/or thinly sliced. Cross out maybe some of them for simplicity, like the mayo tomato or the british cheese and cucumber.
A döner kebap is sort of layered but everything but the protein layer is more of a mix up and not like tomato followed by onion or whatever.
A Banh Mi is sort of western of course, but it does a twist. The layers are there-ish, but they don’t matter so much. Sort of a hybrid between something like a kebap and a pita if you catch my drift.
What other sandwiches are there, conceptually?
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A western sandwich is bread, (vegan) meat or cheese, sauce, tomato, something pickled, some salad
Observe:
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bread - wheat raised with yeast and left to rise
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meat - probably smoked or salt-cured or something
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cheese - milk, coagulated and aged
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something pickled - a vegetable was left in an acidic brine
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sauce - perhaps it is a fermented sauce
A pattern emerges:
- something edible was preserved through a biological process and left to develop flavor
From here we can see that the ur-sandwich is not about structure or ingredients, but rather the number of different preservation processes brought together into a single dish.
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I actually do this one, mix of peppers, onions, different mushrooms maybe, garlic and olives fried up and then use 2 toasted (on a pan not in a toaster) portobello mushrooms. I’ve also done the mushroom for bread with a leftover red cabbage and carrot vinaigrette coleslaw, vegan Russian dressing, saeurkraut and tempeh and it was a sorta reuben. Fucking amazing.
When I did morning shifts at my previous job I would often eat what I would call The Bananarito, I’d make a large thin pancake and wrap it around a banana with nuts, whatever fruit was around at the time and this amazing date caramel sauce we had. Wrap it up, pop it in a press for a bit. I’m not a breakfast person and generally all I can stand to eat for the first bit after waking up is bread, fruit and nuts. You can add a bit of oatmeal in there too.
I actually do this one, mix of peppers, onions, different mushrooms maybe, garlic and olives fried up and then use 2 toasted (on a pan not in a toaster) portobello mushrooms. I’ve also done the mushroom for bread with a leftover red cabbage and carrot vinaigrette coleslaw, vegan Russian dressing, saeurkraut and tempeh and it was a sorta reuben. Fucking amazing.
see this is what i’m about. this mfer turned a veggie stir fry into a sandwich
I give a shit about sandwiches. My livelihood since I’ve started working has been about food I have done fine dining, high end catering for millionaire ‘charity’ dinners, done riders for Rockstar, catered business summits that I wish I knew how to bomb effectively, hole in the wall vegan places, a string of random other restaurants and also doing craft service for movies. One huge thing I have learned over this career is that every single person on this planet really just wants to eat a great sandwich. Liz Lemon was entirely correct on that one. There is no better food format, the other most popular is bowl of stuff and rice and thst requires a bowl and a utensil. The Sandwich is the absolute food of the people. Packable, portable, gets the job done at worst and is among the best damn food ever at best. There is a reason burgers and pizzas and sausages on buns in hotdogs form are absolutely massive, they’re fantastic. Form, function and flavor as well as an unlimited well of variety. The sandwich has it all.
From my general region… the open-faced sandwich!
Look up “horseshoe” and despair.
After Christmas when I’ve got my leftover vegan turkey, the second I’m home from my family and have cracked a beer and gotten baked it’s time for some white bread with leftover tofurkey and mushroom gravy covered in fries. That shit is amazing. This horseshoe thing…is an affront to midnight after Christmas is done
Much of this shit could be made vegan behind the scenes, and no one would notice. Sort of like how they don’t notice that 20-50% of fast food meat is TVP/hydrolyzed soy protein.
Oh I could do a vegan horseshoe. It’s just an affront to nature no matter what
Jibarito is Western style but uses a plantain instead of bread
Edit: ok I see what you’re looking for now. I’m sorry you’re limited to three spatial dimensions
all of them are, yes. But I need to go deeper. What is beyond the alignment chart?
I guess a samosa is kind of a sandwich.
fair! true! Okay, big dumpling then? Large Ravioli, there’s something here
I feel like British and Russian savory pastries might also fall into this category.
here you go - a sandwich using tamales as bread
the fuck is the wet shit he is squeezing out of those pouches
liquid sandwich. edit - corn, beans, roasted peppers
I think this gets the spirit but also, hard no
a stack of pancakes or waffles is a sandwich that many are too dainty and proper to eat with their hands.
when you grab more than one French fry, that’s a sandwich. and the condiment you dip it in is like the au jus.
lasagna is an oven baked sandwich. same with multi layer bean dip.
conceptually, a sandwich is a edible delivery system for helping you eat with your hands. a bread bowl is a sandwich.
A multi layer beam dip is not a sandwich until it’s on a chip. A bread bowl is a sandwich in form but not function and therefore doesn’t meet the criteria. Unless you’re picking that shit up and munching it in from the side and getting soup everywhere, which means you aren’t eating the soup which means eating it as a sandwich is not eating the food as intended and is therefore not a sandwich, this is called formalism. The resulting bread after the soup is mostly eaten is closer in function to the sandwich but bread with something soaked in is getting a bit too far removed. Gravy is a sandwich under those rules.
a lasagna is not a sandwich because it does not have the carbohydrate on the outside to grab and help eat but otherwise yes, we’re getting somewhere here. How do I edibly glue them fries together for that fry-bread sandwich?
We deep fried a couple sheets of lasagna noodles at work so they were like chow mein noodles but big and square and then put lasagna stuff in there and ate it like a sandwich
On the May 16, 2006 episode, Ze challenged his viewers to create an “Earth Sandwich.” The goal was to place two pieces of bread on the ground at points directly opposite each other on the globe, creating a giant sandwich between the two pieces of bread.[9] The task was completed by brothers Duncan and Jon Rawlinson in Spain and Morgan in New Zealand.
You mean like that ?
I ain’t galactus, the entire earth is not edible to me. I mean something like the grilled threese but optimally way more edible
I’m looking for what I cannot conceive. Does roasted aubergine as bread fuck? Is there some sort of concept where it’s all pickles in bread and you eat it paired with something else? I’m looking to expand my horizon here
