Cynthetiq

You go to a sandwich shop and they have just about any cold cut, (ex. if you like rare roast beef they got it), hot sandwich you can long for with just about any dressings, vegetable, type of bread....

Given the scope, what will you probably always order? and what's the standby if they don't happen to have your first pick? Do you get a pickle? Potato Salad? Cole Slaw? Macaroni Salad?

It is hot pastrami with swiss, mayo, on a hero. If that is available, that's what I'm ordering.

Salami with American cheese, toasted white bread, yellow mustard.

pickle and cole slaw please.

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snowy

I would never order the same thing, most likely. I love sandwiches of all kinds, and what I would order would depend on my mood. I have a couple of standbys--rare roast beef on sourdough with provolone or havarti cheese, mayonnaise, and mustard, no veggies; honey smoked turkey, thinly sliced, on buttermilk or wheat bread with muenster cheese, mayonnaise, and thinly sliced heirloom tomatoes; tuna melt on toasted sourdough with cheddar cheese or provolone, with extra mayo, thinly sliced tomato, and leaf lettuce. Hot pastrami sandwiches are always good, as are French dips. Yum.

Yes, pickle, yes potato salad, yes macaroni salad, yes cole slaw--again, depending on my mood and what sandwich I choose.

Right now I'm going to go have honey turkey on whole wheat white (yes, whole wheat white) with thinly sliced cheddar and mayo.

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Daval

We don't have any sandwich shops nearby - just a couple of sub places if that counts.

When I go there for lunch I always for the assorted cold cuts on white with cheese (mozzarella), lettuce, tomato, green pepper, cucumber, sub sauce (italian dressing), salt/pepper

When in Montreal I always have a Montreal smoked meat sandwich with extra pickles on the side. Its basically like a corned beef sandwich.

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Willravel

I always try to get a turkey wrap of some kind, but a tuna wrap is good, too.

jewels

A Reuben all the way, please. (Or is that a Rachel???) Corned beef, sauerkraut, thousand island and swiss on rye, cut in half. Half-sour pickle. A little potato salad and cole slaw as only a real deli can do it. Dr. Brown's cream soda. Heaven.

Classic New York.

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noodle

toasted everything bagel with nova lox, cream cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion...

a really good toasted double-decker club with yellow mustard...

turkey on whole wheat with sprouts, tomatoes, carrots, spinach, pickles, cucumbers, lettuce, mustard and light mayo...

a c&h special: ham and provolone toasted on a hoagie roll with chicken salad and pickles on top. with a side of peruvian sauce.


i like baked beans from time to time or mustard based potato salad. otherwise just give me a good, ice-cold kosher dill with my sandwich and i'm happy.

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Skutch

At a deli I order corned beef lean, swiss cheese, russian dressing, with an extra side of russian. Although, the other day I was at Subway and the guy working there recommended a "Seafood Combo", layer of seafood (fake crab, mayo based) atop a layer of tuna fish, lettuce and onions, and although the thing cost me $9 it was surprisingly good.

Bill O'Rights

Tuna salad on dark rye with chopped onion. Pickle spear and a macaroni salad on the side with a medium coke.

I have fairly simple tastes.

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The_Jazz

8" Hitman, no mayo or peppers, spicy mustard and a bag of Jay's Sour Cream & Onion.

Or a wreck if I'm at Potbelly's with a chocolate shake and a bag of Vinter's Barbeque.

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God of Thunder

Roast beef and turkey with provolone cheese and either Russian or 1000 island dressing on pumpernickel. Toasted please

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jewels

Hitman? Wreck? You gotta 'splain the regional stuff, please.

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Frosstbyte

I have a very very difficult time ordering anything but a Reuben with a pickle and coleslaw if I know the Reuben is made with good corned beef, a lot of cheese and the coleslaw is solid. Every once in a while I like an italian meat sandwich, but I tend to regret it about 3/4 of the way through.

That is, of course, unless I'm living in Philadelphia and it's prior to 2005, in which case things change dramatically. But Poor Bob Koch went and had himself a heart attack, so the beautiful, magical sandwiches of my college era have gone to whereever great sandwich makers go when they die. I still have dreams of turkey, corned beef, potato salad (yes, in the sandwich) and provolone cheese on a hoagie roll. It almost brings a tear to my eye.

The_Jazz

A wreck is Potbelly's-specific. I guess they're not as widespread as I thought. Roast beef, salami and ham with swiss, toasted.

A hitman is regional (or maybe Chicago-specific): proscuitto, provalone, an Italian ham I can't remember, all on Italian bread with a soft crust and chewy consistency.

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Meditrina

What I order would depend on my mood, I suppose. I like trying new things, especially those things that are specific to a restaurant or an area.

If I don't know what order, my standard back up is tuna salad on a roll with lettuce, pickle on the side please. Macaroni salad, potato salad, or cole slaw... I eat them all!


oh, and this thread is making me hungry. Snack time!

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Martian

This is an interesting philosophical question.

I'm a very go-with-the-flow kind of guy, so it's pretty much impossible for me to predict what my order would be. I don't generally know what I'm going to order when I eat out until I'm looking at the menu. I pick whatever sounds good at the time.

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jewels

Nope, never heard of either. Sounds good, though.

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Poppinjay

We have Potbelly's in DC. What about Schlotzky's? I love their turkey pastrami with swiss and mustard on dark rye.

Otherwise, I'm a sucker for a reuben, or a BLT.

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Baraka_Guru

Grilled vegetable panini with a strong cheese. Scratch that—make that a kick-you-in-the-ass cheese.

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Fotzlid

Like some others, I never know what I'm going to order till I look at the menu.

My standby is usually some sort of roast beef sandwich when I can't decide.

ratbastid

I like sandwiches of many kinds, but I'm particularly a fan of the Cuban.

Something about pork and ham on the same sandwich... If we could just figure out how to get bacon in there, we'd have a porcine trifecta!

Cynthetiq

can't you just ask for a Cuban with bacon?

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Jozrael

We have a deli called "Taste of Reality" near us that has specialty sandwiches. I mean sure, you can order a cold cut sandwich, but they've got DOZENS (like 30-40) of these weird combos that you've probably never tried. They're all invented by an employee at some point or another through the years and named after them. For example, "Mike's Delight" combines Chicken Cutlets, bacon, barbeque sauce, and pepperjack cheese. Or something like that. They put hash browns on most of their breakfast sandwiches. A "Penola's Package" comes with mozzarella sticks, french fries, and chicken strips covered in a honeymustard sauce on a long roll (you can tell I like the chicken sandwiches <.< xD). There's dozens of these, each with unique combinations that you probably won't find pretty much anywhere else. I wish I could show you an online menu :P

Halx

Turkey w/ lettuce, tomato, mayo and cheese
Hot Pastrami w/ american cheese
Roast Beef w/ russian dressing and cheddar

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Redlemon

I like to go with something on the specials list, first.

But, if I have a free reign, I go with the LBK. The LBK was a special at Koch's Deli in Philadelphia. It is constructed as follows:

Rye
Russian dressing
Turkey
Tomato
Turkey
Russian dressing
Rye
Russian dressing
Roast beef
Cole slaw
Roast beef
Russian dressing
Rye

Not only is it tasty, but it is beautiful, with alternating reds and whites.

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Frosstbyte

Ah, at least someone else knows the magic that was Koch's. Good to hear, lemon, good to hear. That was a delicious sandwich.

Skutch

The StrokeMaker?

ratbastid

Wouldn't be a Cuban anymore, Hoss. That's the paradox that is the Cuban.

I had a sammich (That's the proper spelling, by the way. Like "breffis", the first meal of the day.) today that knocked my socks off. It was called an Italian Sailor, and had pastrami and pepperoni with swiss, hot, on pastrami, with this chunky grainy mustard. Killer.

Viking1064

At a regular deli, I like:
Roast beef on rye w/ yellow American cheese, lettuce, mayo and pepper.

At an Italian deli, I like,
Sopressata, fresh mozzarella and red wine vinegar.
or
Prosiutto, fresh mozzarella and red wine vinegar.

MontanaXVI

I miss Schlotzky's we had one here in Columbus (actually Pickerington a 'burb) but it closed up and none even close now.

We do have a couple Penn Station's and those aren't bad I kinda like the Italian Sausage sub, but no matter where I go it HAS to be a reuben, HAS TO BE!!!

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little_tippler

I tend to vary depending on the menu, so a bit like Martian, but I do get tired of sandwiches. All that bread, you feel stuffed after a few bites. I don't know, I guess I ate one too many bad sandwiches. Especially in Spain...they have horrible hard bread.

I do like my aunt's tea party mini-sandwiches though. She makes curried mince ones, and also asparagus and mayonnaise. They are great.

I also like the english bacon sarnie, or sometimes salmon and cream cheese. Other than that, the portuguese "prego do lombo no pão" is a standard (sirloin steak fried in garlic in a roll dipped in the pan juices - literal translation is "sirloin nail in a roll"). Makes a good meal!

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snowy

That sounds delicious.

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kutulu

My standard sandwich is an italian sub (ham, salami, pepperoni) with lettuce, tomato, provolone, and a vinaigrette.

IanSturgill

I must order an Italian as well, no ham though(extra pepperoni). It must have mayo, lettuce(or sprouts), pickles, pickled hot peppers, and Italian dressing. and Red Onion.

Jimmy Johns has the closest approximation to this, and their bread is delicious.

ktspktsp

I need to avoid looking at this thread, at least until I return to the US.

BadNick

Well I love sandwiches of all sorts, but lately this Italian chicken cutlet has been one of my enduring favorites. A local place called Altomonte's Deli makes it better than anywhere else I've ever had. I don't know where they get their chicken, but they start with very good, tastey chicken cutlets, pounded out by hand, breaded and lightly fried; they put this on a fantastic crusty Italian bread roll with sesame seeds from their own bakery...all their breads are great; they top this with various options, but the one I like best is sharp imported provolone, lightly sauted broccoli rabe with chopped garlic, and home made roasted peppers.

Shagg

If there is tri-tip to be had, hard to beat a barbeque tri-tip sandwich. If the place has a good beef dip I will almost always order that to the exclusion of all else. Classic italian w/ no tomato is a standby. Grilled cheese, havarti and sharp cheddar on sourdough is tasty.

One of my great weaknesses though is Quizno's chicken carbonara. (hold the shrooms)
For breakfast, pastrami fried with mustard and a scrambled egg with either rye or sourdough.

I'm really picky when it comes to sandwiches though, virtually no vegetables, no mayo. hate ranch, can't stand peppers. No matter what, bacon makes any sandwich better.

lostgirl

Depends on where I go.

If I go to Subway it's usually a turkey sub with bacon, tomato, spinach, green peppers, mustard and mayo. Sour cream and onion chips on the side sometimes.

If I go to Steven's Philly Cheese Steak it's always a BBQ Special with onion rings.

Bear Cub

If they have a Reuben to die for, I'll take it.

Other than that, Gaetanos used to have this great chicken cutlet sub. Lettuce, tomato, onion, portabello mushrooms, mozzarella cheese, a chicken cutlet, and a light vinegarette dressing.

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Poppinjay

I tried the Potbelly's wreck this past weekend. Wowzers.

Then back on the vegetarian diet. It makes me sick to think of all these tasty animals I could be eating on a regular basis.

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Zeraph

Cranberry turkey, hands down.