If the sandwich is only 250 years old, what were women doing the previous 5,750 years?

My favorite sandwich is... the one she damn well better be making me right now...

/goes to check kitchen

dericwater:

Don't forget the mutton-lettuce and tomato.

Heh... I grew up on a small farm where we raised lamb. When other kids were complaining "PBJ *again*" I was complaining "Leg of lamb on homemade bread with butter and seasoned salt AGAIN?"

Was he hanging out with those guys who smoked and invented coffee so they could stay up and smoke some more?

The gambling was just an excuse.

Philosophical question: If a man has a plate with bread and meat/cheese - but a woman did not bring it to him, is it truly a "sammich"?

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

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Give me a Sandwich and a Douchebag, and there is nothing I can not do!

"Yes, a few rounds of Geralds."

/Hot like a Mrs. Miggins pie shop pie

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

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

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: 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.

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.

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

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'

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.

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.

Earl of Sandwich: JOB CREATOR!

I win.

There is of course the humble grilled cheese.

My sister and I both independently experienced the same thing when it came to grilled cheese. Our mother never fixed grilled cheese, that was our father's specialty. Both of us had friends and we went to their places and their folks were thusly responsible for the feeding of our faces. Grilled cheese, even in its most complex variations, tends to be simple and quick. What we both experienced, however, was that the grilled cheese at our friends' houses was incorrect. "The bread is not black yet, therefore this is not finished and it is not edible." Dear old dad would let the damn thing sit there until both sides were almost completely black. To us it was normal!

Once we became adults, we happened to be talking about our childhood together and some of the things we experienced. I mentioned how odd everyone else's grilled cheese was and she laughed for she had experienced the same thing. Gosh, dad! You probably shouldn't be grilling sandwiches!

In my opinion, this is the best possible method for grilled cheese sandwich.

Whenever my dad comes over I try to make sure I have the ingredients for... "The Dad."

Split a whole wheat "sandwich round" and slather spicy brown mustard on both sides.

Add swiss cheese to both sides.

Put four rumpled slices of deli ham on one side, and four of peppered turkey breast on the other. Add extra cracked black pepper.

Put a slice of American cheese in the middle because fark you.

Put it all together, put some butter on each side, then stamp it in a pannini press for a few minutes, just to get it warm.