Tag: sandwiches

Where do you stand on the Sandwich Question?

(Via Facebook) After looking over my options, I… I think that I am actually a Structure Purist / Ingredient Purist.  This surprised me, because I happily eat subs, hot dogs, ice cream tacos, chicken wraps, and burritos*. But when it comes down to it, I just don’t think that they’re, you know, sandwiches.  I was not expecting this.

*I would categorize “ice cream between waffles” as being itself a classic sandwich arrangement, but I admit that that way lies redefinitional madness.

Adventures in Sandwiches: the Emperor Rupert and the Muerte a Castro.

I decided to spend my lunch time making a sandwich; and being one of those obsessive New Media types, I decided to blog about it.

The basic sandwich is the Emperor Rupert, an item of my own design: deli sliced turkey, Monterey Jack cheese, lettuce, and chipotle mayonnaise on seeded rye. This would have been made with a sandwich press, except the thing that I thought was one of those was actually a pizzelle cookie maker, so improvsation was the name of the game. Continue reading Adventures in Sandwiches: the Emperor Rupert and the Muerte a Castro.