#8 Beef Lemongrass banh mi style sandwich from a place called Baguette in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. I ate it many times in the short while I stayed there, probably 8-10 years ago. Sometimes I think about going back just to have it again…

Slightly toast two slices of whole grain bread in a buttered pan, between them, you put butter fried chanterelle mushrooms, sprinkle with a pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Bonus points if you found the the chanterelles yourself.

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https://www.neworleans.com/restaurants/traditional-new-orleans-foods/muffulettas/

Sandwich

Warm ciabatta with pesto, heirloom tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, a pinch of salt and black pepper, balsamic glaze, and some greens.

For some variety add grilled portabella patties, Parmesan, or brie.

One slice of (still hot) toasted sandwich bread with lots of melty butter and thinly sliced ham

Simple but delicious

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I have so many because I realised recently that most of my favourite foods are basically if not literally sandwiches in some form. What springs to mind now though is the English Fry-up crammed in to a baguette. I almost said the ‘full-English’ but admittedly it’s not quite the full English.

• A crusty but still quite soft baguette is best, similar to bahn-mi bread but longer and not as chewy
• 2 fried eggs
• 2 Cumberland pork sausage (or Irish sausages if you can get them 'cos they’re so good) slided in to longish strips on a bias
• Long rasher bacon strips to match the length of the baguette (can fold them if they are a bit too long)
• 2 hash browns
• Heinz baked beans (just a couple of teaspoons)
• Brown sauce
• Ketchup
• A glare from the grumpy Polish woman that made it for you.

Ok it’s just a well known breakfast but shoved in a baguette but somehow it does something magical to it. Especially loved this in the UK when I had a bad hangover and I could just about drag myself to the little Polish run cafe near my place. They were great, albeit grumpy.

When I was younger there was a place that sold the most fucking bomb samosas. But more so, they sold a toasted cheese and chips

• Bread
• Ketchup
• Cheese
• Masala chips
• Mustard
• Bread
• Mustard
• Cheese
• Masala chips
• Ketchup
• Bread

And it was fucking outrageously tasty.

This local lunch restaurant have what they call Mississippi club sandwich, with bacon, cream cheese, pesto, tomatoes and avocado. It’s a seriously great combination of flavors.

Home made: a Shooter sandwich.

Some beach sandwich shop at the outer banks. Fuck that deli roast beef was incredible. 20+ years ago and I think about it still

I’m gonna go the other way with this one. I got a reuben on a pumpernickel bagel last week and they put thousand island and cream cheese and wet ass saurkraut on it and it was a soggy fucking mess and it ruined my lunch. I may never go back to that bagel place.

I use to get a “trk special” at the local takeaway - they literally added it to their menu board because I got it so frequently and other people who heard also got it.

It was three pieces of bread, all the salads (tomato, lettuce, carrot, onion, cucumber, beetroot) and aioli sauce on the bottom, then a spicy kebana sliced horizontally with a heap of pepper sauce and a slice of cheese on the top layer. Quick toast with butter so the outer slices gave a tiny bit of crisp and the cheese starts to sag and voila.

Another one they added to their menu board was the “xxxx trucks special” which was named after a local business. All the apprentices there used to buy this one because it was cheap and filling. It was a fresh toasted hotdog roll, with a sausage roll instead of a sausage, and a heap of butter and tomato sauce.

I was in Dingle, Ireland. We were walking around, enjoying the town, and popped into a pub I didn’t catch the name of. Their menu looked good, so we decided to get some food. I ordered the tuna melt, and it was the best damned tuna melt I have ever had. The fish tasted great, and there was very little dressing. The red Cheddar was perfectly melted, and the rye bread was toasted, but light.

This was almost 18 years ago, and I still think about that sandwich.