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		Two hundred and fifty years ago the Earl of Sandwich stayed up all night playing cards and invented the sandwich so you can do the same (bbc.co.uk)		134
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Oldiron_79		2012-05-12 07:59:30 PM

mudesi: [i47.tinypic.com image 538x436]

I win.

A double double down?

Thats like dividing by 0

9beers		2012-05-12 07:59:52 PM

casual disregard: BEST POSSIBLE PIZZA REHEAT METHOD

Why would anybody want to reheat pizza? Cold pizza is one of the best things ever.

Bathia_Mapes		2012-05-12 08:00:10 PM

Warchild: Well, well, well.. I was just asking Lord Sandwich, "Where the devil are those Douchebags?"

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I haven't seen that SNL sketch in years.

Ah, the good old days when SNL was actually funny.

kim jong-un		2012-05-12 08:01:17 PM

PacManDreaming: 1) Braunschweiger/liverwurst, thinly sliced onions, spicy/hot mustard, toasted dark rye.

2) Thin sliced beef tongue, onions, hot mustard on egg-bread

3) Classic Reuben

4) Beef on Weck with lots of horseradish

If you haven't tried all of those sandwiches, then you're living a very sad life.

I just bought the ingredients for #1.

Not a fan of 2. Love the rest.

mudesi		2012-05-12 08:01:38 PM

casual disregard		2012-05-12 08:02:01 PM

9beers: casual disregard: BEST POSSIBLE PIZZA REHEAT METHOD

Why would anybody want to reheat pizza? Cold pizza is one of the best things ever.

Watch the video. Apply the method. You will forsake cold pizza.

Cold pizza is communism. Cold pizza is almost as bad as "36 hour left on the dorm room floor" pizza.

kim jong-un		2012-05-12 08:04:21 PM

dericwater: PacManDreaming: 1) Braunschweiger/liverwurst, thinly sliced onions, spicy/hot mustard, toasted dark rye.

2) Thin sliced beef tongue, onions, hot mustard on egg-bread

3) Classic Reuben

4) Beef on Weck with lots of horseradish

If you haven't tried all of those sandwiches, then you're living a very sad life.

Don't forget the mutton-lettuce and tomato.

Had that when they showed the Princess Bride at the alamo drafthouse.

Very good.

Devolving_Spud		2012-05-12 08:10:41 PM

Earl of Sandwich: JOB CREATOR!

basemetal		2012-05-12 08:11:03 PM

ManRay		2012-05-12 08:11:54 PM

PacManDreaming: 4) Beef on Weck with lots of horseradish

There is a place near me that serves a good one, but only on Thursdays for some reason. It pisses me off any time I am there on another day and see it on the menu.

libranoelrose		2012-05-12 08:12:48 PM

Devolving_Spud: Earl of Sandwich: JOB CREATOR!

I would eat the hell out of that.

Hector Remarkable		2012-05-12 08:20:22 PM

Panino.

Fabric_Man		2012-05-12 08:26:59 PM

Does anyone else here put mustard on their grilled cheese?

leevis		2012-05-12 08:30:54 PM

GAT_00: RexTalionis: casual disregard: RexTalionis: Hillel the Elder did it about 1700 years earlier.

Yup, pretty much. I've pondered in the past whether any of the more ancient civilizations had the bright idea of wrapping or folding meats, vegetables, or other ingredients into a bread-like apparatus. With all the documentation gone, though, I suppose we can't ever known.

Just about every culture has had some sort of bread-like staple. I'm pretty sure the idea is nothing new.

Yeah, but Western European culture, and therefore American culture, isn't real big on acknowledging inventions from outside those regions.

Sort of like the Chinese trying to claim credit for every invention in the world. Did you know every folksy saying in the world comes from either China or Africa? Early Europeans were completely incapable of even using witty sayings until they got onto ships and traveled around the world.

jtown		2012-05-12 08:34:33 PM

mudesi: [i47.tinypic.com image 538x436]

I win.

Ow, my heart!

FloydA		2012-05-12 08:35:53 PM

Fabric_Man: Does anyone else here put mustard on their grilled cheese?

Sometimes. Depends on the cheese I'm using. But then I put mustard on nearly everything. I currently have about 50 different kinds of mustard in my kitchen.

casual disregard		2012-05-12 08:37:18 PM

Fabric_Man: Does anyone else here put mustard on their grilled cheese?

It would be simpler to identify the one or two dishes in which mustard is not appropriate.

And then never prepare and consume those dishes.

dramboxf		2012-05-12 08:37:54 PM

too2ez: Really? You just tried one today??!! No, seriously, it wasn't today, was it?

It was.

Long story: I was a very picky eater for most of my life. Only in the last seven or so years have I really opened up my eating choices.

GOT-DAMN! You are right -- I missed out on many, many years of nommy Reuben Sammiches.

too2ez: 'm also jealous because I'm older than you and STILL not a Grandpa yet. Empty nester, but no grandcritters yet.

Just about (any second now) to become a grandfather for the 3rd time. I need to update my profile with more recent pics of the grandbabies.

Sir_Dude		2012-05-12 08:38:45 PM

libranoelrose: [www.foodnetworktv.com image 616x462]

The best cuban sandwich I ever ate was acquired from a shady character under one of the elevated sections of I-95 in Miami.

okdaddio		2012-05-12 08:52:45 PM

Saberus Terras: Ahem....

This is a sandwich, and don't you dare skip the veggies, they separate a champ sandwich from a chump.

Ingredients:
1 baguette in either white or wheat (Rye works also)
4 oz, thinly sliced, of each of the following:
- Ham, cured
- Turkey breast
- Genoa salami
- Corned beef
- Pepperoni
2oz each of sliced cheese:
- Cheddar, medium
- Provolone
- Swiss (Emmental)
Romaine lettuce (Iceberg if only no other choice)
Julienned carrot
Fresh leaf spinach
Sliced tomato
Sliced red onion
Sliced black olives
Sliced bell pepper
Mayo (NOT salad dressing)
Spicy deli mustard
Black pepper

Slice baguette lengthwise, spread mayo on top and mustard on bottom. layer meats on the bottom, cheeses in the middle and veggies on top. Close sandwich and cut in the middle.

Serve with kettle-cooked chips or thick-cut fries.
Serves 2

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Ring3577		2012-05-12 08:55:43 PM

Daughter asked me once "Dad, what is an open-faced sandwich?" I explain it. She said "Oh..that makes much more sense. I thought it was a sandwich so big you had to 'open your face'

libranoelrose		2012-05-12 08:57:48 PM

Sir_Dude: libranoelrose: [www.foodnetworktv.com image 616x462]

The best cuban sandwich I ever ate was acquired from a shady character under one of the elevated sections of I-95 in Miami.

This whole thread is making me hungry. I would love a cuban right now.

ZeroCorpse		2012-05-12 08:58:11 PM

Two hundred and fifty years ago the Earl of Sandwich stayed up all night playing cards and invented the sandwich so you can do the same

Silly subby... How can I invent the sandwich? It has already been invented.

bingethinker		2012-05-12 09:14:04 PM

Mmmm. Cold leftover pizza and beer. Breakfast of champions. Cold leftover lasagna is good too.

Real Women Drink Akvavit		2012-05-12 09:14:15 PM

Fabric_Man: Does anyone else here put mustard on their grilled cheese?

I do from time to time. It really depends what else is going on that grilled cheese. I like mine to go beyond the basic grilled cheese. I do add a touch of mustard to my baked mac n cheese - especially if I add ham or other meat to it - and also to most types of quiche I make. Not enough you can tell there's mustard in there, but the combo of a tablespoon or so of mustard (I have several types in the condiment refrigerator) and a bit of hot sauce really does something very, very good to the flavor of most dishes baked or grilled that contain cheese.

I am just as fanatical about hot sauces as FloydA seems to be about mustard, though I have plenty of mustards (and various 'fancy' salts) as well.

bump		2012-05-12 09:17:49 PM

CSB: When I was in HS, I went through an '80s emo' stage and would take the meat off my sandwich, and add pixie sticks and cap'n crunch then smoosh it all together. I invented the damn thing while serving detention in the school library - again, I was going through a very sullen period...

hbk72777		2012-05-12 09:20:51 PM

Too late subby, I learned about this during one of the history lessons in between the USA Cartoon Express cartoons.

/I just brought you back some nostalgia

JosephFinn		2012-05-12 09:24:39 PM

Comsamvimes: 9beers: Best sandwich ever, the Reuben.

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Oh my....

That made me so damn hungry. The reuben is my favorite sandwich EVER.

God damn yes, that is. So nice and tender and sweet....

bump		2012-05-12 09:28:27 PM

"reuben is my favorite"

astouffer		2012-05-12 09:30:50 PM

There is only one sandwich and a little bar called The Triangle makes it.

LordOfThePings		2012-05-12 09:35:43 PM

Mmmm, 250-year-old sandwich...

Devolving_Spud		2012-05-12 09:46:54 PM

libranoelrose: Sir_Dude: libranoelrose: [www.foodnetworktv.com image 616x462]

The best cuban sandwich I ever ate was acquired from a shady character under one of the elevated sections of I-95 in Miami.

This whole thread is making me hungry. I would love a cuban right now.

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LordOfThePings		2012-05-12 09:51:32 PM

Look, ma! No hands.

BeSerious		2012-05-12 09:59:20 PM

I saw "American cheese" in someone's post and practically barfed.

Chances are it's "Orange American" and that makes it worse.

/Not a cheese snob.
/"American cheese" is garbage.

hbk72777		2012-05-12 10:03:46 PM

BeSerious: I saw "American cheese" in someone's post and practically barfed.

Chances are it's "Orange American" and that makes it worse.

/Not a cheese snob.
/"American cheese" is garbage.

You do realize there many varieties and not all of them come in a plastic sleeve?

muckin refarkable		2012-05-12 10:05:26 PM

Fabric_Man: Does anyone else here put mustard on their grilled cheese?

Yes
Try one with roasted green chilis........Heaven on toast

lasercannon		2012-05-12 10:15:38 PM

At a local safeway they have a touchscreen for the deli so you could custom order your sandwiches. it noticed that it allowed you to select two meats for a sandwich with bacon as a topping and they have 3 meat combo as a single meat choice. So I figured out that I could order a turkey, roast beef, ham, chicken breast, bacon cheddar cheese sandwich. I did that every once in a while until they started to complain.

SFSailor		2012-05-12 10:18:42 PM

Real Women Drink Akvavit: libranoelrose: casual disregard: There is of course the humble grilled cheese.

With tomato soup.

With plenty of hot sauce (Tabasco or Tapatio preferred) in that tomato soup, of course.

I usually put avocado slices in my grilled cheese sammiches, sometimes add crispy bacon as well, always put garlic powder on the outside so I end up with a garlic toast, avocado, bacon, grilled aged cheddar with a touch of swiss sammich. Serve with fresh cut veggies, radishes and homemade sweet and spicy pickle chips so your arteries have a bit of a fighting chance. Pretty tasty lunch that keeps you filled up for a while.

Holy crap that sounds fantastic!

Thanks for the ideas, but now I'm hungry....

Wayne 985		2012-05-12 10:25:32 PM

Literally just made a sandwich. Smoked ham, honey mustard, mayo.

Worst Name I Ever Heard		2012-05-12 10:28:37 PM

PacManDreaming: 1) Braunschweiger/liverwurst, thinly sliced onions, spicy/hot mustard, toasted dark rye.

2) Thin sliced beef tongue, onions, hot mustard on egg-bread

3) Classic Reuben

4) Beef on Weck with lots of horseradish

If you haven't tried all of those sandwiches, then you're living a very sad life.

Had all but #4...any suggestions finding one (a *good* one) in the S.F. Bay area? I was in Western N.Y. from 88-93 but sadly did not become aware of the existence of this legend until some time after.

Psycat		2012-05-12 10:30:01 PM

I actually came up with a complex system for folding round slices of meat to fit in between two square slices of bread that distributes the meat very evenly. The normal configuration takes eight layers for proper symmetry and is a good excuse to lay on the corned beef.

/yes, I do have OCD
//worked at a bakery once--I was a loafer
///and a fan of the band The Sandwitches

Worst Name I Ever Heard		2012-05-12 10:35:51 PM

Psycat: I actually came up with a complex system for folding round slices of meat to fit in between two square slices of bread that distributes the meat very evenly. The normal configuration takes eight layers for proper symmetry and is a good excuse to lay on the corned beef.

I bet you can tessellate cheese slices like a champ, too.

Psycat		2012-05-12 10:35:56 PM

Random thought: Do people make Manwiches any more? IIRC, they were just Sloppy Joes or something like that. Nowadays, if you tell your wife to 'go git me a Manwich, woman', she might return with the pool boy's schlong wrapped in a hot-dog bun...

Psycat		2012-05-12 10:39:01 PM

Worst Name I Ever Heard: I bet you can tessellate cheese slices like a champ, too.

Un-tessellated cheese?? Oh, the horror! You can bet the pepperonis on my pizzas are also distributed properly.

/actually, this borderline autistic behavior is really, really helpful in my weird genre of art
//and I do go out on dates, sometimes with a non-relative, too

phamwaa		2012-05-12 10:41:13 PM

PacManDreaming: 1) ~~Braunschweiger/liverwurst, thinly sliced onions, spicy/hot mustard, toasted dark rye.~~
2) Thin sliced beef tongue, onions, hot mustard on egg-bread

3) Classic Reuben

4) Beef on Weck with lots of horseradish

If you haven't tried all of those sandwiches, then you're living a very sad life.

Braunschweiger triggers my gag reflex. Blecch.

Need_MindBleach		2012-05-12 10:42:54 PM

Also, had the Earl of Sandwich not been such an incompetent naval administrator, there might not be a United States of America either. Hurray for cards!

Mock26		2012-05-12 10:52:17 PM

The Earl of Sandwich, the most reviled person by women in the history of humans.

redonkulon		2012-05-12 10:56:22 PM

so a farking 'sandwich' is a very early meme before meme's became a thing? what is the first meme ever?

kd8our		2012-05-12 10:57:20 PM

hbk72777: BeSerious: I saw "American cheese" in someone's post and practically barfed.

Chances are it's "Orange American" and that makes it worse.

/Not a cheese snob.
/"American cheese" is garbage.

You do realize there many varieties and not all of them come in a plastic sleeve?
yea, I use to pour it into a box lined with a big bag. It got cold and hard later. I don't know what happened to it after that. The process was rather amusing and I still remember the smell. Lots of various powders, nutrient mix, a little lactic acid, coloring and lots of oil. One of the joys of working temp jobs as a teen.