I’ll eat bread with nothing at all on it and enjoy it.
And I get really irritated when a resteraunt (or anyone else) insists on putting something on food that I specifically asked them not to. Whether it’s mayonnaise or not. It’s one reason I stopped going to them, at least at home I can choose what I’m going to eat.
I think that if you like you sandwiches “dry,” then you ought to have them “dry.”
You would have liked “Bogie’s Sandwich Bar” back in the day. They were a small Toronto chain, maybe three or four locations, and you ordered your sandwich by filling out a form. On that form, you could check all that you wanted on your sandwich, and if you did not want something, you simply didn’t check it at all.
So, you might check Roast Beef, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Horseradish Sauce, on a Kaiser Roll, and that’s exactly what you’d get. Mayo would be on the form, but if you did not check it off, you wouldn’t get it..
I don’t know if you ever got to eat at Toby’s, in Toronto. They did burgers and fries, and that was pretty much it. Oh, they might have had a green salad, and perhaps a brownie or ice cream for dessert, but their main claim-to-fame were their burgers.
One thing that they always had on the menu was what they called their “Honest Burger.” It was a cooked beef patty between two halves of a bun, and that was it. If you wanted anything else on it, there was mustard, relish, and ketchup on the table. Anything else, you ordered it: cheese, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, pickles, at 25c extra each.
Of course, Toby’s made more complicated burgers, but they always had the Honest Burger, for those who wanted a burger, but didn’t want chili on it, or salsa, or barbecue sauce, or mushrooms, etc. Great place; it’s no longer around, but I used to love it.
My experience is that dry sandwiches tend to feel harder to swallow. I have intentionally used them when I want that sensation.
I also just personally like the taste of mayo. And a small amount of ketchup. (I do not like mustard and don’t particularly care for Miracle Whip.) But neither taste good on their own.
Never been to Toronto, but that sounds like something I’d have liked, yes.
@Der_Trihs , if you do find yourself in Canada, look for a Harvey’s. It’s a fast food chain, but it will serve you a plain burger if you like. They default to plain, actually.
When your burger is ready, they ask you what you want on it. You tell them. There are many choices, laid out behind the glass (rather like Subway), and the person behind the counter will put whatever you want on your burger. There are many choices, and if you want more, just ask: “Mustard, relish, two pickles please, one slice of tomato, one raw onion ring and a few hot pepper rings,” for example. That’s what you’ll get, and you get to watch them make it for you. Of course, if you don’t want something, don’t ask for it; and if you want nothing at all, just say so, and you will get nothing at all.
The difference between Toby’s and Harvey’s is that Toby’s was a sit-down table service restaurant that also served beer and wine, while Harvey’s is fast food, where the strongest drink is Coke or coffee. Regardless, there is still a place where a plain burger will be a plain burger, if that’s what you want.
I also eat dry sandwiches, which does get comments from my son when he sees me do it. But eh, mayo or mustard don’t make that much of a difference to me.
I prefer dry sandwiches but will often use mustard as a condiment.
I also prefer dry toast with eggs when eating the occasional breakfast.
I like dry sandwiches. I used to sometimes order a wrap at the company cafeteria, and the conversation would be something like:
I’d like the chicken wrap, please.
What do you want on it?
Chicken and a little lettuce, please.
And what else?
Just chicken and lettuce
Mayo?
No thanks
Mustard?
No thanks, just chicken and lettuce
Just chicken and lettuce?
Yes please.
Grunt
But they gave me the plain sandwich.
Unless a burger is really good, i like some ketchup on it. (If the burgers are fresh ground beef from the supermarket, I’ll enjoy it plain, with no bun, just a fork and knife. 
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I like a tiny amount of mayo on my BLT, because i think the sour tang of the mayo helps. If the tomatoes were really good, it wouldn’t be helpful, but they usually aren’t very good. And i like a tiny amount of mustard on a corned beef sandwich. But mustard has a very strong flavor, and i don’t want much.
If any sandwich has stuff leaking out the sides… Ick. That’s just gross. I realize most people like oozing sandwiches, but i find them viscerally repulsive. I’ve disassembled sandwiches and scraped off a lot of the sauces. I’ve also disassembled sandwiches and eaten the fillings with a fork and knife, and thrown away the soggy bread.
Yes, you are. So am i. But it’s okay.
Exactly. I don’t mind mustard or some “sandwich spread” that is adding flavour for its own sake, but adding butter to a sandwich that already has strong flavours perplexes me.
I like mayo, but I almost never order it on any sandwiches or put it on at home. At home, I’m lazy and just slap some stuff on some bread or in between some bread and call it day. Oh, and some kind of pickle—whether cucumber, hot pepper or other vegetables. Maybe put mustard or hot sauce on it. If I’m being fancy and put veggies on it, then I’ll go full in on wet with oil and vinegar , heavy on the vinegar, no mayo.
So completely dry (no sauces, no pickles) I do maybe 1/3 of the time.
When I go to Subway, I sometimes have a hard time convincing the sandwich artist that I don’t want cheese. It’s not because I’m lactose intolerant or I hate the taste of cheese: it’s because I’m going to be adding dill pickles, banana peppers, and mustard so the taste of the cheese will probably be drowned out, so why not spare myself a few useless calories and spare the restaurant the expense of the cheese?
Ditto.
The best way to protect food from me is to put ketchup on it – can’t stand the stuff. And I only put butter on things that are hot enough to melt it.
If I’m at home, I often make a sandwich out of two slices of cheese with two slices of bread. Sometimes two slices of chicken or ham. No spread of any kind.
Eat your sandwiches the way you best enjoy them. What’s weird is people telling you that your sandwich choices are weird.
No not weird. Why would it be weird? You like what you like I can have my sandwich, wrap or handheld with or without condiments.
Now if all you like is dry toast with no fixings that’d be uh unusual
Especially if your brother regularly eats four fried chickens and a Coke. 
But, to the OP, I’m with you. I strongly dislike the flavor of mayonnaise, and it frustrates me how frequently people who prepare my food at restaurants can’t understand that “plain” and “no mayo” means exactly that. Please, please do not put mayo on my food!
And, yes, I regularly eat a chicken sandwich “plain” (or, as the OP describes it, “dry”), though I might put cheese on it, or barbecue sauce.
This sounds more than vaguely Communistic.
But we have room for dangerous iconoclasts in this great Republic of ours.
This thread remiinds me of the golden moment in one of the Travis McGee mysteries, when Trav and Meyer are having lunch at a Mexican food place with a Mexican-American sheriff who suspects their bona fides. Meyer removes all doubt when he samples his super-spicy enchiladas, gets a thoughtful look, and then douses them with Tabasco sauce, thus impressing the sheriff with his toleration and appreciation of fiery foods. Mayonnaise would probably have gotten them jailed.
Yeah, cheese is one of those things I don’t like on my chicken sandwiches, for whatever reason. Whenever I go to Chick-Fil-A and get the deluxe, I have to omit the cheese. Don’t know why, as I prefer a hamburger with cheese.
Mayo seems to be common enough of an aversion that I’m surprised there is anyone surprised that a customer might not want some. I have two friends with extremely strong feelings against mayo, and I’ve encountered at least a couple dopers who put mayo in the “Satan’s sperm” category.
Totally depends on quality of ingredients. Fresh baked bread and a lovely piece of meat? Absolutely no need for anything else besides a little bit of butter. Generic sliced bread and processed meat? Absolutely I’ll be needing more ingredients and the condiments are going carrying a lot of weight (a dollop of American yellow mustard alone isn’t going to cut it)
As an aside, despite what some American delis seem to think , “more ingredients” doesn’t mean you can make up for having generic processed meat by just adding more generic processed meat. If the sandwich is bland with just one slice of crappy ham, it’s not going to be improved by adding a layer of bland ham two inches thick.
See, I reserve that category for Miracle Whip 
. Love mayo, but really dislike MW and I’ve had several people tell me they couldn’t tell the difference between the two if you’d held a gun to their heads. Taste is weird and just so insanely subjective.
I totally agree on the MW question. That substance is banned from my kitchen.