# Sandwiches nobody eats anymore **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 16, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714 "2024-12-16T16:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/282 "2024-12-29T17:48:23Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > That’s the way the Navy cooks made them. I have the 1993 version of the Armed Forces Recipe list – 1700 pdf pages – and there are two for Monte Cristo sandwiches, one with turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese layered between two slices of white bread, which is dipped in an egg/milk mixture then grilled on a griddle for 2-1/2 minutes per side. The other has ham, turkey, bacon, sliced hard-boiled egg, sliced tomato, and leaf lettuce layered on one slice of pumpernickel then drizzled with thousand island dressing just before being served cold and open-faced. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/283 "2024-12-29T18:09:54Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > when I first heard the term “fluffernutter” it sounded vaguely sexual / “dirty” to me. I’ve been eating them (occasionally) for four damm decades, and that never once occurred to me. I’m ashamed of myself! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/284 "2024-12-29T19:11:22Z")
You’ll thank me the next time you encounter some nuts that need fluffing. Just don’t start laughing. Or take too big a bite. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/285 "2024-12-30T22:26:18Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@silenus](#): > > > > > [@wolfpup](#): > > > > > > I don’t know what “English mustard” is > > > > Colman’s or Keen’s. Nuclear, in other words. > > Thanks for the tip. The supermarket I was in today didn’t have it, at least not among the many prepared mustards they stocked. But one of the major supermarket chains does carry Keen’s. It’s not labeled as “English mustard” but it does say “hot mustard” and the label has a picture of flames! 😁 I must get some! One of the restaurants around here famous for their roast beef serves it with fiery hot horseradish, much hotter than the “hot” horseradish you can normally buy, and I love it! I’m also a big fan of wasabi. I just wanted to add that in my grocery shopping excursion today, I found that, unbeknownst to me, the aforementioned super-hot horseradish is available for retail sale under the restaurant’s brand name (“The Keg”). Haven’t opened it yet but I may try it on my next roast beef sub, and if it’s as hot as I think it should be, I may roast a prime rib later just to have with it, along with some homemade mashed potatoes and Knorr Hunter gravy. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/286 "2024-12-30T22:39:21Z")
I am a big fan of The Keg’s horseradish. A newly opened bottle is pleasantly hot, and delicious on beef and fish. The price is very reasonable too. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/287 "2025-01-12T05:58:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I still eat Braunschweiger sandwiches (can’t seem to find liverwurst Aren’t Braunschweiger and liverwurst the same? I do like Braunschweiger, but rarely get it because I can’t finish a package as quiclkly as the label says I ought to, after opening it. Lunch isn’t a big thing in our house. We usually have a substantial brunch late in the morning and then little or nothing until we have dinner. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/288 "2025-01-12T12:20:02Z")
I think the main difference is that Braunschweiger is smoked ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/289 "2025-01-12T13:37:01Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Aren’t Braunschweiger and liverwurst the same? Definitive answer upthread: > [@kayaker](#): > > All Braunschweiger is Liverwurst, but not vice-versa. Liverwurst is a general term for liver sausage. Braunschweiger is a type of liver sausage, typically smoked, from the German town of Braunschweig. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/290 "2025-01-13T04:06:00Z")
Possibly through my browsing of this thread, I was suggested to try the Sandwiches of History YouTube channel today. I’d dare say he tries a lot of different sandwiches nobody eats anymore. Here’s one that kinda works: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kg9L6xAaSkI/hqdefault.jpg "Meat Salad Sandwich (1936) on Sandwiches of History⁣") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg9L6xAaSkI) And here’s one that doesn’t: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QPsmbhPsCkU/hqdefault.jpg "Peanut Butter Sandwich, kinda (1927) on Sandwiches of History⁣") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPsmbhPsCkU) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/291 "2025-01-13T04:30:25Z")
I never did peanut butter and bananas because I loathe the texture of bananas. I’m good with banana bread, but somehow can detect the velvety texture of just a little bit of banana in a blended smoothie and reject it. But toasted peanut butter and bacon? Yep. Not since I was a teen, but I was fond of it once upon a time. I’ve been saying a revisit may be worthwhile for a decade or so now. Maybe this will be the year. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/292 "2025-01-13T04:39:46Z")
When my parents were first married and living in Worcester Mass, they used to toss change into a ceiling lamp, and when they had enough money, collect the change and go get chop suey sandwiches. This was around the beginning of WW2. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/293 "2025-01-13T12:35:33Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I never did peanut butter and bananas because I loathe the texture of bananas My gf makes something she calls an Elvis Wrap. She spreads peanut butter on a low carb tortilla, then wraps it around a whole, peeled banana. When I laugh at her making one she tells me not to be cruel. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/294 "2025-01-13T14:06:02Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I never did peanut butter and bananas because I loathe the texture of bananas. I remember trying peanut butter and bananas as a kid. Wasn’t thrilled. I do like peanut butter and honey. Not all jellies work great for me, Welches grape is too sweet. My mother used to buy some kind of currant jelly that was the right flavor. Also easy to spread because I just like a schmear of jelly on the peanut butter. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/295 "2025-01-13T14:58:05Z")
My favorite fruit and peanut butter combo is with apple. For a sandwich, you have to slice the apples thin. I also like apple and cheese. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/296 "2025-01-13T15:06:17Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > 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. One of those episodes popped up in my YT feed not too long ago-- the [oyster sandwich](https://youtu.be/jRCPNBH2Dio). Now, I _like_ oysters, both raw and otherwise, but something about the idea of an oyster _sandwich_ kind of turns my stomach. > [@kayaker](#): > > My gf makes something she calls an Elvis Wrap. She spreads peanut butter on a low carb tortilla, then wraps it around a whole, peeled banana. When I laugh at her making one she tells me not to be cruel. It sounds like her heart is true. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/297 "2025-01-13T15:51:16Z")
> [@solost](#): > > something about the idea of an oyster _sandwich_ kind of turns my stomach. Oyster po’boy, dressed. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/298 "2025-01-13T15:58:23Z")
True, I would happily eat an oyster po’boy, but that’s an entirely different kind of sandwich from the 1917 oyster sandwich depicted in the ‘Sandwiches of History’ video I linked to. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/299 "2025-01-13T16:20:27Z")
A fried oyster po’boy is fantastic. What they were making in 1917 isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/300 "2025-01-13T17:01:42Z")
Yes, the 1917 sandwich looks bad. Just pointing out that not ‘oysters on a _sandwich_ kind of turns my stomach’ implies po’boys. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714/301 "2025-01-13T18:59:02Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I do like peanut butter and honey. Oh, yes - I used to do that one. Not often, though. I’m still a fan of the old pb&j from time to time. Only now my tastes are more patrician and I like thick, fancy, expensive handmade jams. I usually have some jar or other in the cupboard (right now it’s a wild blueberry) that I will pick up in a fit of enthusiasm and then it will sit unopened for a few months until the urge to make a couple strikes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-nobody-eats-anymore/1011714.md?page=16)