Lunch of suffering

Well a properly done baguette is going to leave shattered crust all over your napkin, but with a little kitchen engineering we can probably rig one to pop out a greasy pinion gear in your lap right when you're going for the last bite.

 

Just stack the sandwich so that when you take a bite, the pressure causes the meat to slide out.

 

I thought Primanti Bros. had a trademark on that.

But just maybe...

 

A sub shop near work does it. "They're generous with the meat". Well, that means nothing if it falls out when I grab the sub.

 

Ah yeah, we've got an otherwise-excellent one that slices the roll, puts all the lettuce and tomatoes in the roll and then... lays the meat on top of it, to make it look bigger.

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Hey, maybe you can explain Pennsylvania sandwich rolls, since I'm not native...

All these little mom-n-pop sandwich shops offer me a choice between "soft rolls" and "hard rolls" but I can't actually tell the difference. They're all mushy soft to me. Are the hard ones really supposed to be that much harder?

 

More English Muffin porn, this time corn beef lunch. Kale from a pot outside by the front door.


These are prone to squirt the meat out the far side as you bite.

 

You're getting somewhere with that! Maybe we call that one..

THE MANIC GT: Homemade english muffins with fried egg, cheddar cheese and a slice of ham

For what it is worth, I think the "Egg McMuffin™" is the best food McDonalds sells. It's an egg cracked and cooked on-site, the ham is... ham, the cheese does its thing... and their muffins are decent all by themselves.

If you've already decided to hit yourself with all that a ham, egg & cheese sandwich can do, their version is remarkably good. You'd always be able to make better at home as Mendel shows, but beating the chain for price or convenience on a travel day.... nope. At least, I can't do it yet.

 

From what I see, you just source the bread from wherever you choose... then give it the cool name.

We have somebody nearby doing those sorts of breads but selling them as Portuguese water biscuits.

 

the line in the morning at our local mcdonalds drive thru goes all the way down the street. luckily, there is an er nearby

 

Was just thinking how English muffins are the best way to eat honey.

I'm from NJ, and we have better cheese steaks.

 

I don't doubt this. If there was ever anything truly special about ones from Philadelphia, the rest of the world has long since caught up.

That's not to say you can't have some kitschy fun in South Philly between Pat's and Geno's but that's become a tourism/pop culture thing, and less of a food thing.

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More automotive sandwiches:

THE CYBERTRUCK: Probably just an oversized sliced turkey and bacon club on Texas toast, but we aren't sure because it still isn't done. None have ever made it out of the kitchen. We'll keep smiling and taking deposits and telling you that it'll be along soon. Garnished with a couple of big steel ball bearings.

THE CHALLENGER HELLCAT REDEYE: A Smucker's Uncrustable™ PB&J sandwich authentically sourced from the vending machine at a not-too-nearby correctional institute. Comes with a sack of Funyuns and a voucher for a Groupon neck tattoo.