Sandwiches nobody eats anymore

Cafe Society
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This article was in my Yahoo news feed this morning.

  • Coronation Chicken
  • Olive Loaf
  • Chow Mein Sandwich
  • Fluffernutter
  • Banana and Mayonnaise
  • Finger Sandwiches
  • Mock Ham Salad
  • Hot Brown
  • Liverwurst Or Braunschweiger
  • Scotch Woodcock
  • Souper Burger
  • Sloppy Joes

I’ve italicised the ones I’ve never heard of. Of the others: I’ve made Coronation Chicken sandwiches; but not for a couple of decades, and only a few times. I don’t think I’ve had olive loaf, by my dad liked ‘pickle-and-pemento’ loaf sandwiches. I didn’t care for them. I’ve never had a fluffernutter. I don’t eat finger sandwiches because I want whole sandwiches. I’ve never had a hot brown. I still eat Braunschweiger sandwiches (can’t seem to find liverwurst here). I never cared for sloppy joes, even when I was a kid.

I have to say the Scotch Woodcock looks delicious. And I have a couple of tins of anchovies.

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Do people in the UK still eat fish paste sandwiches? I just finished listening to a podcast about the Poirot story Sad Cypress and much of the plot centered around shrimp, crab and lobster paste sandwiches. Poirot only solved the crime because he was so turned off by the sandwiches.

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Finger Sandwiches are still popular party food around here. Many local caterers and groceries pump thousands out every weekend. I don’t sense that they’ve ever gone away.

EDIT: Upon reading the article, it appears that the “Finger Sandwiches” write-up is UK-specific, closely associating finger sandwiches (aka “tea sandwiches”) with tea time. Down here in the southeastern US, finger sandwiches fill a different socio-culinary role. Our finger sandwiches also aren’t (usually) made of the same ingredients as UK tea sandwiches.

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  • Coronation Chicken
  • Olive Loaf
  • Chow Mein Sandwich
  • Fluffernutter
  • Banana and Mayonnaise
  • Finger Sandwiches
  • Mock Ham Salad
  • Hot Brown
  • Liverwurst Or Braunschweiger
  • Scotch Woodcock
  • Souper Burger
  • Sloppy Joes

I only know three of these terms: banana and mayo, braunschweiger, and sloppy joe.

I regular make sloppy joes for the kids. It’s an easy way to get flavorful protein into them. And I get a hankering for braunschweiger from time to time to make for myself. I’d never guess that people would combine banana and mayo; maybe a weird take on avocado and mayo?

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Do Brits even know what pimento cheese is?

“Sloppy Joes” may be on the wane, but its cognates are as popular as ever. Boogaloo Wonderland sandwiches, bodega chopped cheese sandwiches, Woonsocket Dynamite sandwiches, the various varieties of “loose meat aka Maid-Rite” sandwiches…

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We had sloppy joes for supper the other night, so there! And I love Braunschweiger, but I haven’t had any in ages because I’m the only one who eats it in our house.

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Most of those seem regional and / or lost their popularity many decades ago. Of the those I recognized, the only ones I’ve ever actually had, and still have, are finger sandwiches and sloppy joes. Around my house, at least, the sloppy joe is still as popular as ever (it was my favorite food day when it was on the menu at my school cafeteria).

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I love braunschweiger, but it bothers my gf that I occasionally buy it. I also love olive loaf and sloppy joes.

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I checked to see if they still offer Limburger cheese sandwiches at Baumgartner’s in Monroe Wisconsin and found this review:

Bill Mento
“Drove 1 1/2 hours for their chili
And limburger cheese sandwich.
Can’t wait to go back.”

Well, let’s hope you were driving back alone, Bill.

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I eat variations on the Sloppy Joe quite often. Is there cooked ground beef in the fridge? If yes, then dinner is a simple one. No muss, no fuss.

The rest on the list don’t appeal to me much at all. Or to most people these days, it seems.

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Indicates you’re doing it wrong. :wink:

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Personally, I don’t regard Sloppy Joes, or for that matter any “open face sandwich,” as a sandwich. To me, a sandwich, by definition, is a food that one can (politely) eat with one’s hands.

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Since when is a Sloppy Joe an open face sammich?

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My sloppy joes are not open face, and they are eaten in hand. They also typically lose a lot of their content to the plate below and require some cleaning up with a utensil.

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I’ve had several of those - I make the Hot Brown every year after Thanksgiving to use up some of the leftover turkey. Very tasty, but a bit of a pain to make.

Banana and Mayonnaise???

Have you seen a new-ish you tube channel called Sandwiches of History? A man has several old cookbooks and will make sandwiches the way the recipe states then he tries to plus it up a little and will rate how good the sandwich is. It’s very entertaining and informative.

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As a kid growing up in the south I remember old-timers eating tomato sandwiches: Two pieces of plain white bread, a fresh home-grown sliced tomato, mayo, and salt and pepper. Nothing else.

My recollection is that they really hit the spot on a hot summer day. Haven’t seen or had one in many years.

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From the OP’s link, “These sandwiches have sadly fallen out of fashion…”

I don’t see anything sad about it. What kind of sick freak would eat bananas and mayonnaise?

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I still enjoy a good sloppy joe (called hot tamales in my corner of Wisconsin), and the Mrs. gets a hankering for liverwurst or braunschweiger sandwiches from time to time.

I’ve also enjoyed limburger and liederkranz cheese, but have not yet tried them on a sandwich.

I have had a head cheese sandwich before. It was better than olive loaf.

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  1. Since when is a Sloppy Joe “open-faced?”
  2. Otherwise correct.
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Olive loaf is available at medium-large deli counters but does seem to be getting pushed out. Ham salad, too.

The only sloppy Joes I really remember outside a home or cafeteria were fancy wild boar in a sage sauce at a trendy spot (Longman & Eagle). But open face.