# What's For Dinner Tonight: Episode 2021 – A New Hope

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [January 20, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015 "2021-01-20T19:38:57Z")\
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**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:** [August 24, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/3498 "2024-08-24T17:51:41Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Made a sandwich with lots of butter, the mortadella which turned out to be thinly sliced so arranged it on the sandwich in a heap, Dijon mustard, crispy leaves of Baby Butter Leaf lettuce, and Hellman’s mayo. OMG! Such a simple thing, but so delicious!
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> I immediately made another one. This may soon become a staple around here!

It’s now an official standard around here! As a lover of sandwiches, on my last outing yesterday I picked up two more packs of fine Italian mortadella, a large pack of Black Forest ham just for variety (and a pack of sliced Swiss cheese), another box of Sweet Baby Butter Leaf lettuce, and another loaf of bread. I already had tomato and red onion. Plus I have a pre-made roast beef and cheese sub. I’m in sandwich heaven!

I didn’t realize until I looked it up the other day that mortadella is basically a fatty bologna – bologna with bits of pork fat in it. This doesn’t put me off it at all, as the only reason bologna has a bad rep is that supermarkets abound with cheap, crappy versions of it. I learned years ago that bologna from an upscale deli like Pusateri’s is a great, quality sandwich meat, and real Italian mortadella is even better.

Now I’m tempted to try out **[Anthony Bourdain’s mortadella sandwich recipe](https://www.allrecipes.com/anthony-bourdains-5-ingredient-sandwich-7966078)**. It’s basically like my beloved roast beef and cheese, but with mortadella. I don’t have provolone but it should work with Swiss.

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