When I moved to Denver, I couldn’t find Fluff anywhere, just this marshmallow creme crap. I begged my stepmom to send me a jar, forgetting that the high altitude would affect the jar. The bottom of the plastic jar got a nice bullet-shape to it. But man oh man it tasted sooo good. I think I had 2 sandwiches with a huge glass of milk for dinner that night.
I also loved to make open faced sandwiches in the toaster oven - a slice of bread topped by a slice of baloney topped with a slice of cheese topped with a slice of tomato. You knew it was ready when the baloney started to curl up to a bowl.
And I loved vienna sausage sandwiches with mayo, and cucumber sandwiches with mayo.
It had to Hellman’s, though, or I wasn’t touching it. Get that Miracle Crap out of my face.
Now I will also accept Duke’s mayo. And Hellman’s was called “Best Foods” out in Denver.
FLUFFERNUTTERS! I know what I’m having for lunch tomorrow! Shoot, I don’t know if I can last until tomorrow. I might have one as a snack today.
I also loved peanut butter apple cinnamon sandwiches. Once, I put peanut butter on an apple cinnamon bagel and it was amazing… so I started making sandwiches with Macintosh apples (or Granny Smith), peanut butter and cinnamon sugar. Yum.
Tomato sandwiches, OMG, On wonder bread with Hellmans and black pepper. It’s almost time to plant those wonderfully ‘fugly’ but great tasting Branywine tomatoes. I just grow them for the sandwiches…
Grilled cheese for me, too. I hated marshmallow fluff as a kid, and I presume I probably still do, so fluffernutters are out. One more sandwich I fondly remember (and still enjoy although it’s been years since I’ve had one) is a slice or two of Swiss cheese with Hellmann’s on white bread (either toasted or untoasted). That was one of my favorite night time snacks.
Homemade pimento and cheese spread, with chunks of cheddar, jarred pimento and chopped bread and butter pickles my grandmother made from her own garden cukes. I wish I wish I wish I could have it just like that, but I settle for sweet jar relish, or even good pre-made spread. Not the cheap stuff though. That’s one generic I can’t stomach.
Use white bread and cheese food (absolutely none of that real cheese crap), toss a tablespoon of butter in the skillet, slather the outsides of the bread with real, full-fat mayo, slap in two or three slices of cheese food and toss it in the pan, browning both sides. Goes best with some potato chips and ketchup or cool ranch doritos.
A diet coke is a must. My very first soft drink was Tab, but when I was introduced to diet coke, I was won over instantly.
Deviled ham sandwich. Just deviled ham on white bread. 'Twas my lunchbox sandwich of choice all through grade school, and into high school. I still have one occasionally, though it’s on whole-wheat now.
And, grilled cheese, though I’ll make it with other cheeses beyond American now, and add some garlic powder.
What’s with all you tuna and mayo eaters? It’s Tuna and Miracle Whip. The “zip” takes care of the relish part. And you make it straight in the can or pouch with a fork. Same with deviled ham.
Tomato sandwiches are awesome, too. But only with home grown tomatoes. I simulate the taste by putting ketchup and mayo on sandwiches. It tastes really good with hamburgers off the barbecue, slightly burnt.
I also like PB&J, but I don’t consider that a children’s thing. Though maybe when you mix it all together beforehand…
Not me, but my sister loved peanut butter and pickle sandwiches when we were kids, to my utter horror. She says she still has one once in a while. And, yes, I wouldn’t put it past her to enjoy these when we were kids just because she knew it squicked me out. Sibs do these sorts of things. But we’re in our forties, and she still says she loves a PB+P sandwich, so I guess she really does.
