A Ramble About Sandwiches

I have a funny relationship with sandwiches. Sometimes I love them, sometimes I hate them. I don’t know why, but sandwiches are very hit or miss with me. Recently, I went right off sandwiches, but the other day, I made myself one and it was nice. I then wondered why I had been holding back on sandwich and overall bread consumption. Right now though, I really want a sandwich.

So, uh, let’s talk sandwiches.

It’s the bread

The thing that often turns me away from sandwiches is honestly the main component. The bread. There are tons of different breads to have, but I prefer my bread to be soft and easy to manage. Sure, a baguette is nice and crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle, but it’s overall a bit too hard. I like nice, soft, fluffy bread. And rather thin bread as well. Your standard English loaf.

Village bread is nice as well, but the shape does somewhat irk me. You have to have rather long, thin slices. Rolls are best had fresh and ciabatta bread is too hard for my liking. The only real crunch I like is with a Lebanese flatbread, that’s been lightly grilled for a bit. Bagels are bread as well. They’re a special kind of bread. Fancy bread. Although it really does depend on what the bread is topped with.

You can’t not have butter on a sandwich, no matter what.

Cheese needs to be grilled

However, there is also one other thing I dislike: normal cheese. I find that just sticking in some cheese sorta ruins the texture a bit, and can be really overpowering. However, if I grill or melt the cheese, then it becomes way, way better.

Another thing that I dislike though is fresh vegetables. At least, I do if they’re with cheese. Tomato is okay, but anything warm alongside cucumber or lettuce just isn’t very nice. Cheese contrasts pretty badly with a fresh sandwich.

Aside from those things, I’ll happily put whatever between two slices of bread. Meat is preferable, along with some sort of sauce. But either way I’m not that bothered. And I’ll always eat what’s put in front of me.

My favourite sandvich

Everyone has to have a favourite sandwich, and I’m no exception. Mine is a tuna mayo sandwich. But the tuna mayo needs to have sweetcorn and maybe a tiny bit of onion in it. The bread I prefer is an English loaf, but, funnily enough, tuna mayo is one of the few fillings I’d have in a baguette. I very rarely have this though because tuna is expensive and awful for the environment.

The runner up though is an egg mayonnaise sandwich. Egg mayonnaise is easy to make. You hard boil some eggs, shell them, mash them together and add some mayonnaise, as well as a little bit of salt, pepper and a pinch of paprika. The bread you use is up to you, but I like my egg mayo in a Cypriot pitta bread that’s been lightly warmed under the grill. Sure, egg mayo is basically egg on egg, but damn is it tasty.

At the end of the day, if it’s tasty, I’ll eat it. I’m not that fussy. And as Heavy Weapons Guy says, “om nomnom nom nom”.