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Give me your best sandwich concepts

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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  • 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.

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

    • I think there has to be an unbroken linear arrangement. A sandwich means every ingredient has something above it and something beneath it, instead of all being mixed in together. Egg salad, tuna salad, etc. would all be considered single-ingredient sandwiches.

  • 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.

  • Spanakopita is a sandwich with phyllo as bread.

    Baklava is a serial, stacked, homogeneous sandwich on phyllo.

    Gibanitsa is a sandwich on phyllo that is serial, stacked, and heterogeneous.

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