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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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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

all of them are, yes. But I need to go deeper. What is beyond the alignment chart?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Pizza is a sandwich. If open face is an option pizza is there. A chip, if dipped, while controversial, I believe to be a sandwich and can present a solid case

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

A chip, if dipped, while controversial, I believe to be a sandwich and can present a solid case

galaxy-brain

But I agree

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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 ?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

If you can wait a few more years you can get it toasted

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

true but please do not say this

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

"Open faced" sandwiches. Avocado toast is a sandwich.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

that's just a convertible sandwich, western style

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I used to do a temporal sandwich where I'd eat a slice of bread, other stuff, and then another slice of bread. I can't seem to place what the middle was. It may have been goldfish crackers.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A western sandwich is bread, (vegan) meat or cheese, sauce, tomato, something pickled, some salad

Observe:

  • bread - wheat raised with yeast and left to rise

  • meat - probably smoked or salt-cured or something

  • cheese - milk, coagulated and aged

  • something pickled - a vegetable was left in an acidic brine

  • 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

wine with bread is a sandwich, thus christ is a sandwich.

alsogold-anarchist

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

yes. onigiri with balkan characteristics

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Food I constantly forget that I love and can make really well

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The comically large sandwiches like Shaggy eats on Scooby Doo.

A burger is a sandwich.

A meatball sub however is not a sandwich.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The comically large sandwiches like Shaggy eats on Scooby Doo.

That's just western conceptual style

A meatball sub however is not a sandwich.

How do you figure?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's an edible sluice for melted cheese, sauce and beef orbs.

A taco is not a sluice, though, because it explodes when you bit into it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's an edible sluice for melted cheese, sauce and beef orbs.

but then is a kebap not a sandwich?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Ah, a curveball. You see, a kebab is a sandwich because the contents don't slosh when you tilt it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

yeah they do what are you on about

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Depends on where the kebab is on the wet-dry spectrum I suppose

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

More R&D is needed for paella-sized sandwiches that are wide but still short-enough to actually bite into.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I guess a samosa is kind of a sandwich.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

fair! true! Okay, big dumpling then? Large Ravioli, there's something here

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

A classic from college:

  • Ellio's pizza, cooked according to directions
  • Doritos, crumbled
  • Stack, fold, or wrap, according to taste/hand-eye coordination

Thus, the sandwich is Western in form (bread/sauce/cheese/other/cheese/sauce/bread), but the layers cohere to produce an irreducible whole apart from its components. The sandwich has the portability required for every occasion from the boardroom to the discotheque while maintaining a utilitarian, even proletarian, character. And it contains enough preservatives that if you made 1000 of them today you'd survive through Judgment Day.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tortas, imagine a burrito but with sliced bread and not a wrap.

Paninis are the grilled cheese’s classy older sibling. But some balsamic-portobello mushrooms, tomatoes, basil and a vegan cheese in a sandwich with ciabatta bread, grill it and serve.

I want to try a vegan croque monsieur recipe (ham and cheese but france-cool), but I need to find a good recipe.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Onigiri, assuming it's stuffed with something. Comes with its own edible wrapper and everything.

I'm currently eating them on long bike rides to hit my carbs and it's working pretty well.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

No, I'm pretty sure that's a jelly donut. I saw it in a documentary once.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A gordita/pupusas/arepas are tecnically a sandwich if they have more than one layer

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

From my general region... the open-faced sandwich!

Look up "horseshoe" and despair.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The Monte Cristo - Breaded and fried sandwiches.

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