Rank these sandwiches
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Agreed. Even worse if you add a cheesesteak as well.
But, in compliance to the original request,
1. Reuben (pastrami and mustard instead of dressing)
2. Grilled cheese, especially is additions like onions, salami, tomato, etc, are allowed
3. BLT - nice, but not all that
4. PB&J - Meh. Good for a kid or when I am desperate at 2 AM and too lazy to put together anything else.
I can't chew crunchy things, and I can't stand the taste of raw tomatoes or anything cabbage/sauerkraut-adjacent. My choices are therefore limited, and I like both equally because this is the narrow nice into which my reality has forced me. As long as you overdo the butter on the grilled cheese.
Don't come to Australia. Well, do come, but not for a reuben.
There are a handful of places here that say they have a reuben. They will even take your money and give you food.
But don't be fooled. On the off chance that they even know what a reuben is supposed to be, they will serve it to you without dark rye bread, with a random sauce, with thick cut beef that almost but doesn't quite taste entirely unlike corned beef or pastrami, and maybe with some sourkraut.
And yet. I will still try every reuben I find here in the hope of one day coming across the random shop that actually understands what it is.
I think the BLT is the pinnacle of sandwiches, especially when made with tomatoes that have ripened on the vine in your own garden. It‘s the only sandwich that I think needs mayo (I’m not a mayo fan). The combination of toasted bread, salty and crunchy bacon, good tomatoes, mayo, and lettuce - perfection. BLT being first, I do love ruebens , though.
I was coming back to say this, actually. Why put tomato or lettuce on bacon?? Why would you do that??? Egg, hash browns and maybe some cheese - maybe. But not salad stuff. Bacon bits on a salad? Absolutely! Salad on bacon? No! Also: brown sauce++
(1)my kids are a disappointment to me as, so far, they seem to adore tomato sauce. I can just see the fussy little monsters refusing to eat brown sauce too... that is until they get treated to their first proper Full English
{2)I'm a bad parent, they haven't had that yet. Or even bacon butties.
(3)Forum software doesn't do asterisks? wtf?
Because the acidity of the tomato balances perfectly with the richness of the bacon, and the crispness of the lettuce compliments both. Bacon isn't the centerpiece, it is one player in a trio of fillings.
Your heresy against the unimprovable perfection of bacon has been noted. Remain in your home, citizen — the Culinary Attitude Adjustment Police will be with you shortly for re-education.
You'll never take me alive, CAAPers!
They are great with lox, cream cheese, thinly sliced red onions, and tomato. Poppy bagel preferred.
I went with Reuben, though I'm reaching a point in my life where they're a little heavy for me. But it's really difficult to say because they all exist in very different compartments for me.
Specifically, I would pretty much never buy a PB&J, but I probably eat more PB&Js than anything else: you don't need fresh ingredients and they don't need to be cooked. I can go from "I want a PB&J" to "I am eating a PB&J" with speed and reliability far surpassing any other sandwich on the list.
Grilled cheese I probably have a stronger preference for, but requires more work to achieve. They now sit in a weird spot where I really enjoy them, but I rarely make them for myself, and yet when I go to a restaurant I almost never order one because I tell myself I can always make myself one...
I enjoy a good BLT, but I rarely make them for myself- I don't tend to have bacon around the house and my SO hates the smell of cooking bacon. Buying them is kind've a crapshoot because you're relying on the restaurant being able to have decent lettuce and tomato, and being able to execute bacon well. (I do live in a place with several local smokehouses, so if a restaurant is doing the locally sourced thing, I can be in good bacon hands. A place nearby makes a BLT with locally cured maple bacon and (when in season) local tomatoes which takes a BLT to the next level with that hint of sweet in there... Mmm.
Also, this post has made me do that thing where I keep writing restaurant wrong, and then I'm staring at the red squiggle of "you did it wrong" and I keep thinking, "no, wait. That can't be right. Why is this word the way it is?"
Specifically, I would pretty much never buy a PB&J, but I probably eat more PB&Js than anything else: you don't need fresh ingredients and they don't need to be cooked. I can go from "I want a PB&J" to "I am eating a PB&J" with speed and reliability far surpassing any other sandwich on the list.
Grilled cheese I probably have a stronger preference for, but requires more work to achieve. They now sit in a weird spot where I really enjoy them, but I rarely make them for myself, and yet when I go to a restaurant I almost never order one because I tell myself I can always make myself one...
I enjoy a good BLT, but I rarely make them for myself- I don't tend to have bacon around the house and my SO hates the smell of cooking bacon. Buying them is kind've a crapshoot because you're relying on the restaurant being able to have decent lettuce and tomato, and being able to execute bacon well. (I do live in a place with several local smokehouses, so if a restaurant is doing the locally sourced thing, I can be in good bacon hands. A place nearby makes a BLT with locally cured maple bacon and (when in season) local tomatoes which takes a BLT to the next level with that hint of sweet in there... Mmm.
Also, this post has made me do that thing where I keep writing restaurant wrong, and then I'm staring at the red squiggle of "you did it wrong" and I keep thinking, "no, wait. That can't be right. Why is this word the way it is?"
PB&J is what I'll make for myself because I'm lazy, but if someone else is making it I'll go for the Reuben. Not fond of grilled cheese at all, pretty meh of BLT. So I guess I'd order them as
Reuben
PB&J
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BLT
Grilled cheese
Reuben
PB&J
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BLT
Grilled cheese
When I was in school my Mom packed a PB&J sandwich in my lunch every day for years. When I was in 7th or 8th grade I looked at that sandwich and I told myself that when I grew up I would never eat another one again.
I've kept that promise.
I've kept that promise.
That's exactly it, I'd never actually buy a PB&J and I don't usually have peanut butter on hand, and every time I buy an interesting jam/jelly/marmalade, I end up forgetting about it and it gets thrown away.
Ditto for a grilled cheese. I'd never buy one and if I'm making it, I'd make something a bit more interesting, like a Croque monsieur.
There is a local Romanian place that also owns their own beef farm in, well, Romania. They make a Reuben with their own Pastrami instead of corned beef. It is beyond compare with the other options in this poll.
(I am aware that strictly speaking this is a half-Rachel, not a Reuben. I don't care.
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(I am aware that strictly speaking this is a half-Rachel, not a Reuben. I don't care.
)yeah, I often prefer honey with pb... I also prefer honey to syrup for things like pancakes.
honey on toast with butter and a hint of salt... yeah.
my goto for jelly/jam/preserves on pb&j is cherry/black cherry. if not available, blackberry is also good.
I gave up PB&J after an unexpected and unpleasant run-in with a jelly I was not prepared for in my formative years.
However, I have been known to scarf down a triple-decker PB&Nutella on more than one occasion...
However, I have been known to scarf down a triple-decker PB&Nutella on more than one occasion...