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.

The perfect Summer sammy, and one that’s surprisingly contested as actual food:

Summer Tomato Sandwiches

1. Lightly toast white bread. I like buttermilk-based ones.
2. Add mayo, not miracle whip, MAYO(!) to taste.
3. Add sliced tomatoes.
4. Enjoy!

We had these growing up on really hot Summer days, the kind of day when it’s too hot to cook.

I make my own unforgettable sandwich. It goes like this: homemade wholemeal bread with seeds, homemade butter, lettuce, ham, skinless tomatoes, hardboiled egg, mayo, spring onion or radish or dilled(fermented) cucumber.

Hamssalad sandwich, made fresh at a sandwich shop, I need not say more. Brits know what I’m on about

A local Italian place has a hot turkey sub with Swiss & banana peppers that comes with a side of fries. It has fresh tomatoes & lettuce and is soaked in extra virgin olive oil. It’s so fuckin’ good.

Ultimate B-egg-el: everything bagel, garden veggie cream cheese, slice of sharp cheddar cheese, pickled beets, sprouts, arugula, it’s friday would you like a fried egg, vinagrette.

Baguette from our local bakery in Schinnen, they do the original French method, with tick sliced tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, home made mayo (whisked, no stickblender stuff), salt and pepper. Delicious.

croque madame

Former chain of vegan subs out of SoCal named Subvegan had some of the best sandwhiches I have ever tasted, vegan or otherwise. Vegan deli meat and vegan cheese quality vary, but this place had the hookup for the best of both. A 9in sub was $12, loaded so fat it barely closed and was two meals worth for any normal person.

Their italian sub, the Godfather, had (vegan) turkey, ham, salami, provalone, cheddar, pepperoncini peppers, tomato, arugula, olives, onions, mayo, and italian dressing. The bread was always the perfect ratio of crunch to fluffy, their sauce portion was always on point, and their veggies were fresh as fuck. I salivate even just typing it out.

My fiancee and I would order in advance to have a sub waiting for us whenever we visited her family in Anaheim. It was the best. We started making plans in June to move out there so she could live near her parents and they closed their doors in July. Good vegan subs are a rarity, let alone vegan subs that stand out in quality against their non-veg counterparts. I am still in mourning.

There’s a chain near me that makes a breakfast sandwich with eggs, bacon, white cheddar, a really excellent garlic aioli, and Ciabatta bread.

I go there way too much.

When I was 14 i flew to california to visit my grandmothers place in sacremento. Down the street there was an ice cream shop/diner called Vic’s my grandmother would take me there every few days and I’d get their reuben. I don’t know what it was specifically about that reuben but I still think about it.

It was pretty heavy on the swiss cheese and there was a significant amount of beef. The saltiness from the cheese and beef mixed with the sour and slightly sweet of the thousand island and sauerkraut so perfectly and I had a chocolate milkshake and some ruffles too. The sandwich had been pressed and pan fried in butter too so it had a really nice crisp to it

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.

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.

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.

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.