# Your favorite meat/cheese/bread sandwich combination **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [August 15, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075 "2025-08-15T02:49:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/61 "2025-08-15T21:12:02Z")
I think one of the best things ever invented was a simple ham and cheddar sandwich. A little mayo, maybe Dijon mustard if you’re feeling fancy. White or rye. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/62 "2025-08-16T04:02:44Z")
Pepperoni and mozzarella on sourdough, fried in a little garlic butter. Usually I shave some parmesan on the finished sandwiches but so as not to piss off the OP I will skip it today. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/63 "2025-08-16T10:02:55Z")
Fried bologna, with that free government cheese we had in the early 80s on toasted white bread. Been have memories of one lately. And toss on some potato chips or Fritos as a condiment if allowed. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/64 "2025-08-16T10:57:49Z")
Old style pastrami (not the low fat new stuff, but the stuff looking more like bacon) - Hot A good imported swiss with some bite such as Finlandia - Not melted or heated Kaiser roll (Brown mustard) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/65 "2025-08-16T13:07:56Z")
Last night I put thin sliced corned beef and swiss cheese on a very fresh poppyseed roll. I made a bit of dressing, mayonnaise, ketchup, hot sauce, and minced sweet pickle. It was the best home-made sandwich I’ve had in years. (I never seem to have the right bread, I don’t like white much, so I buy a roll now and then). ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/66 "2025-08-16T13:23:46Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > an excellent baguette, quality ham, and a soft cheese like camembert I just enjoyed a lunch sandwich very much like this from a street vendor in **[Annecy](https://maps.app.goo.gl/SJ4Ha3vEFn7rHYhy5)** — just swap the Camembert for Brie. The neat thing about French sandwiches like this is their simplicity: four or five ingredients, all of which must be too quality because there’s nothing to hide behind or camouflage poor components. Top ham, top crusty bread, top cheese, very fresh lettuce leaf, smear of top butter, that’s it. Fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/67 "2025-08-16T16:19:44Z")
Bacon, good bread fried in the fat, and a cheddar as old as my grandkids. My step dad is British and taught me the fried bread thing. Heart stupid, but perfect crunchy goodness. Proper Montreal smoked meat. Rye, a mountain of smoked meat, mustard and a really mean kosher dill pickle on the side. I really enjoy a Reuben adjacent sandwich. Dark rye, good mustard. No ‘russian sauce’. Might as well make it with baloney if you are going to put a ketchup product on a sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/68 "2025-08-16T16:28:12Z")
OK, I think this qualifies…. A croissant, split and butterflied open lengthways and filled with a good cheddar cheese, heated under a grill for a minute just to melt the cheese, then crispy bacon and sour cherry jam, then folded closed. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/69 "2025-08-16T21:59:27Z")
Mine is very simple but I swear it is my favorite: White bread, toasted Bologna American cheese Yellow mustard Garden fresh tomato slices, salted & peppered mmm ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/70 "2025-08-16T22:23:11Z")
An argument could be made that roast pork and ham are merely variations on the pork theme. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/71 "2025-08-17T00:02:39Z")
Rare roast beef on rye with Swiss cheese, mayo, pickles, onions, and anchovies ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/72 "2025-08-17T00:06:18Z")
Dave’s Killer Bread hearty white sandwich bread, with one slice spread with Stonewall Kitchen’s Maple Bacon Onion Jam, the other with bacon mustard. A hearty slice of liverwurst and another of cheese: cheddar, Muenster, or Havarti. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/73 "2025-08-17T15:32:38Z")
Same thing, only Russian Rye, and most definitely Muenster. ---
**Author:** ![theater\_in\_a\_crowded\_fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@theater\_in\_a\_crowded\_fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theater_in_a_crowded_fire)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/74 "2025-08-17T17:20:27Z")
In the summertime it’s always going to be good, thick-sliced bacon, fresh tomato from the garden, super sharp cheddar and a smear of Duke’s mayonnaise on toasted wheat bread. Nothing better when the tomatoes are coming in. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/75 "2025-08-18T00:51:04Z")
mine too, with gouda and horseradish and onion ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/76 "2025-08-18T00:53:21Z")
+1 but cheddar cheese ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/77 "2025-08-18T01:21:17Z")
As served by Boudin Bakery, turkey & havarti, on a San Francisco sourdough roll (there is a difference), with lettuce, tomato and mayo ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/78 "2025-08-18T01:48:29Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Boudin Bakery, turkey & havarti, on a San Francisco sourdough roll (there is a difference), with lettuce, tomato and mayo I’d be willing to try but only if I got to do it in SF. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/79 "2025-08-18T01:54:38Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > I’d be willing to try but only if I got to do it in SF. They are a franchise operation, but only California in the Bay Area, Santa Rosa, and Orange County. There’s a Boudin in the International Terminal at SFO. If you ever have a layover there, give it a try ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075/80 "2025-08-18T04:45:50Z")
Beef, for a change. Good quality ground beef, cooked as hamburger pattys until done to your liking. Toasted kaiser rolls to use as buns. Gulden’s spicy brown mustard spread all over the base. Add the burger. Your cheese is a pungent blue cheese. Crumble a dense layer on top of the patty. Raw red onion, thick slice. Romaine lettuce. Tomato-and-scallion based salsa. Kalamata olive slices. Jalapeño slices. Dill pickle slices. Spread some beet horseradish spread all over the lid, lower it, slice in half, eat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075.md?page=5)