# How to eat a \_\_\_\_ salad sandwich **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040 "2011-04-20T02:28:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/1 "2011-04-20T02:28:39Z")
I really like the _idea_ of [chicken/egg/tuna/shrimp/etc.] salad sandwiches, but every time I eat one, the innards all squeeze out the other side of the sandwich every time I take a bite. Is there some secret method of making and/or eating a [chicken/egg/tuna/shrimp/etc.] salad sandwich so this doesn’t happen? What am I missing? Or is that just the way it is? Do I have to resort to pita bread? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/2 "2011-04-20T02:30:08Z")
Leave a frame of bread around the innards. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/3 "2011-04-20T04:33:30Z")
Use a soft white bread and hold the sandwich at the crust to help keep the edge closed. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/4 "2011-04-20T04:45:28Z")
1. Don’t put too much x salad in the sandwich. 2. Don’t make the x salad too runny with mayonnaise (I tend to make it on the dry side and then put a bit more mayonnaise on the bread if I feel I need it). 3. Each the sandwich such that you’re able to squeeze it closed at the back side. 4. Live with the mess (egg salad still tends to end up somewhat messy for me much of the time). ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/5 "2011-04-20T13:30:29Z")
Instead of making a sandwich with a top and bottom slice of bread, make two half-sandwiches each with a single slice of bread folded over. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/6 "2011-04-20T14:04:47Z")
Cut it diagonally into quarters and take big bites. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/7 "2011-04-20T14:21:09Z")
Seal it up in an old-fashioned sandwich iron. It’ll also be nice and toasty that way. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/8 "2011-04-20T14:44:49Z")
Instead of sliced bread, use a sub roll (or half of a sub roll); cut the roll in half, length-wise, then ‘hollow out’ most of the bread in the middle, leaving a firm crust and enough of the bread for substance/flavor. You will now have a reservoir in your sub roll. Fill it up with the salad of your choice (Mmmmmm, I love chicken salad, tuna salad, shrimp salad; I kinda have to be in the mood for egg salad). This tends to be neater than eating the salads on sliced bread. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/9 "2011-04-20T14:55:49Z")
Instead of sliced bread, hollow out a dinner roll and stuff with salad-sandwich filling of your choice. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/10 "2011-04-20T15:15:25Z")
I’m fairly sure this is a regional thing-- around here the best bread for that would be a [bolillo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolillo). It’s very spongy, so it’s easy to stuff it with a meal’s worth of filling. We eat 'em for breakfast (eggs, beans, chorizo, tomatillo salsa) all the time. Yum. And leftovers for _lonche_ [/spanglish] 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/11 "2011-04-21T01:01:04Z")
Stuff it in a turducken before slicing. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/12 "2011-04-21T01:12:10Z")
You can come up with all kinds of contrivances, but the fact is that sandwiches were never meant to have all the stuff that people put in them. It defeats the whole purpose, if you have to hollow out a bolillo, or press it in an iron, etc., and it _especially_ defeats the purpose if you can’t eat a sandwich using only one hand without the filling spilling out all over you. You might as well just have a salad. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/13 "2011-04-21T02:39:33Z")
People all over the world have been stuffing things in variuos bread-like things in multitudes of ways. Who are you to say that none of these methods were meant to be? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/14 "2011-04-21T02:57:09Z")
I eat it with a side of chips, then use the chips to scoop up the remnants. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/15 "2011-04-21T03:18:38Z")
Hold it near the edges, keep the pressure on, and every so often turn it around long enough to eat a little of the filling that’s oozing out. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/16 "2011-04-21T03:46:59Z")
Don’t put so much salad in the sandwich. Or eat with crackers. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/17 "2011-04-21T05:24:34Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > People all over the world have been stuffing things in variuos bread-like things in multitudes of ways. Who are you to say that none of these methods were meant to be? I’m saying that while those things were meant to be as surely as the sun rises in the east, a sandwich was meant to be eaten on-the-go, with one hand, and neatly, so that it doesn’t mess up your clothes–as surely as the sun sets in the west. 🆒 And if you drive an automatic, you can eat on the road. 🆒 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/18 "2011-04-21T07:45:52Z")
I should clarify. Put the salad on the crackers…don’t put crackers in a sandwich! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/19 "2011-04-21T08:33:06Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > a sandwich was meant to be eaten on-the-go, with one hand, and neatly, so that it doesn’t mess up your clothes– Clearly, you have never had a nice drippy peanut butter, banana and honey sandwich. A good breakfast taco is the perfect car food. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040/20 "2011-04-21T20:24:06Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Don’t put so much salad in the sandwich. Or eat with crackers. I’m gonna go eat a cracker sandwich and then hang out in one of the low-carb threads. 🆒 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-eat-a-____-salad-sandwich/579040.md?page=2)