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St. Louis' Hot Salami Sandwich is Magically Delicious

"Toasting does a really nice job of bringing the sandwich together, the cheese melting into the garlicky porkfat of the salami, mingling the brine of the pepperoncinis and the pungent mustard into the crumb of the bread." St. Louis' Hot Salami Sandwich

I grew up far more within the sphere of St. Louis than of Chicago. Though I was born in Chicago Heights and my uncles, aunts, cousins, and extended maternal family all lived in and around Chicago, we moved to Quincy, Illinois when I was still in grade school. And to a Quincyan, the nearest “big city” is St. Louis. While I had fond memories of, and connections to Chicago, it was a 5+ hour drive…

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#gioias #hot salami #salam de testa #st. louis #the hill

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April List Sandwiches and March Wrapup

In April, the Tribunal will cover St. Louis' Hot Salami sandwich, the Chinese Jianbing, and Finnish Kalakukko

Hello sandwich fans and welcome to April! Today is April 1st, so remember to not take anything anyone says at face value today–except for us, of course. The Tribunal will never lie to you. We are too busy enjoying delicious sandwiches to come up with elaborate pranks. As usual, we are here on the first of the month to announce the three new sandwiches that the Tribunal will be writing about in…

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#2024 #april #hot salami #jianbing #kalakukko

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Nashville's Hot Chicken Sandwich

"The spice mix hit my sweet spot, hot enough that I felt it, that pain-high of a dish that's good and hot, the clarity of thought that arises even as your nose runs and your eyes water up." Nashville's Hot Chicken Sandwich

Kristina you will be distressed to know he’s now a Junior in high school! I first learned about Nashville Hot chicken from a 2010 post on Chicago foodie site LTHForum by the user PIGMON. PIGMON was a fellow named Rob, who I had gotten to know along with his long-term partner Kristina at various LTH events since Mindy and I moved to Chicago in 2006–picnics, holiday parties, cocktail hours, random…

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#cayenne #fried chicken #hot chicken #nashville #pickles

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Sandwiches of New England: a Supplement

"I will be taking my cue from Tarantino and talking thematically rather than chronologically. To paraphrase the wisdom of Grease, some of these items just go together, like shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom." More Sandwiches of New England

Mindy and I recently traveled to Fall River, Massachusetts to try the Hot Cheese sandwich served at some of the local hot dog stands in town. I wrote about that sandwich in a separate post. While in the area though, we took the opportunity to try some other regional fare, sandwiches and otherwise. Some of them we’ve covered previously on the site. One isn’t scheduled to appear on the site until…

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#bar pizza #boston #caçoila #dynamite #lobster roll #new england #north shore #roast beef #south shore

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Fall River's Physics-Defying Hot Cheese Sandwich

"It was soft, the mouthfeel was cheeselike, it had the sharpness of cheddar punctuated by the savory Coney sauce and the pungent bites of pickle, onion, and mustard. It shouldn't have worked but it did." Fall River's Physics-Defying Hot Cheese Sandwich

I can’t always track when I learned about a sandwich down to a specific day or time or occasion or source. Some are easy–many of the sandwiches in the oft-mentioned 2003 documentary Sandwiches That You Will Like, for example. The St. Paul sandwich. The Hot Brown. Chipped chopped ham. But there are plenty of sandwiches mentioned in that documentary that I clearly already knew about, well-known…

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#coney sauce #fall river #grahams #hamburger bun #hot cheese #hot dog stand #mustard #onion #pickle relish #sharp cheddar

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Egyptian Hawawshi

"The pita bread was slit open and filled with a thin layer of a meat mixture that stayed pleasingly moist after baking, mildly flavored with onion and garlic, with pickles on the side to act as palate cleansers between bites." Egyptian Hawawshi

Hawawshi, an Egyptian street food, is a flatbread stuffed with a seasoned mixture of minced beef and/or lamb and baked. Many articles online claim that they were invented in Cairo in the early 1970s by an Egyptian butcher either named Mohamed al-Hawawshi or Ahmed el-Hawawsh. However, Travel Food Atlas points out that hawash may also be a word for “to stuff” in Egyptian Arabic. I have been unable…

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#baladi #ful medames #ground beef #hawawshi #tahini sauce

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March List Sandwiches and April Wrapup

In March the Tribunal will be trying the Egyptian Hawawshi, Fall River's Hot Cheese sandwich, and the Hot Chicken Sandwich of Nashville.

Hello again sandwich fans, seems like it’s been hardly any time at all since the last time we did a monthly roundup post. February’s a short month even in a leap year and March is upon us now, along with 3 new sandwiches to discover. First though, we need to take a look back at what we learned over the past 29 days. In February the Tribunal went out of alphabetical order a bit, starting with the…

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#2024 #fall river #hawawshi #hot cheese #hot chicken #march #nashville

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South Australia's Fritz and Sauce

"Combining the sausage and the tomato sauce deadened the unique but subtle flavors of each a bit, but the combined flavor was good, and the butter kept the sandwich from being too dry. Solid, but nothing I need to repeat." South Australia's Fritz & Sauce

Fritz and Sauce is a sandwich from Australia, especially liked by children, consisting of a few slices of a cold cut very much like bologna with an Australian tomato sauce similar to ketchup, on buttered white bread. Seems simple, right? The devil is in the details though. “Fritz” as a term for a German-inspired bologna-like forcemeat is used only in the state of South Australia. In other parts…

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#adelaide #bologna #bung fritz #south australia #tomato sauce #white bread

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But I'm a Crepe, I'm a Wiener

"The buckwheat crepe was soft and flexible but pulled apart easily. This galette became almost an equal partner in the flavor, and its earthy, nutty flavors complemented the sweetly savory sausage well." But I'm a Crepe, I'm a Wiener

Sausages enveloped in some kind of flatbread–baked inside a pastry shell or a bread roll, wrapped in pancakes, steamed in a yeasted dough or simply dipped in some kind of batter and fried–are somewhat universal. Sausage rolls featuring seasoned minced meat wrapped in pastry and baked are popular throughout the British Commonwealth, Ireland, Africa. Countries all over Europe have similar…

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#brittany #buckwheat #chipolata #crepe #galette #galette-saucisse #toulouse sausage

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February List Sandwiches and January Wrapup

Welcome back, sandwich fans, to a brand new month at the Tribunal! As is our practice, we have 3 new sandwiches to explore in February, and we’ll tell you all about them in a moment. First, let’s take a look at what the past 31 days held for the Tribunal! We spent the first several weeks of January tracking down the origins of the Freddy, a far South Side Chicago sandwich featuring a patty of…

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#2024 #february

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Miami's Frita Cubana

"The beef-and-pork patty brings to mind chorizo while the sauce hits sweet, sour, and savory notes, again paprika-forward, while the shoestring potatoes are crisp and salty and fun to bite into." Miami's Frita Cubana

Two months ago, I wrote about the Cuban sandwich called Elena Ruz, which originated in the late 1920s / early 1930s at a Havana restaurant called El Carmelo. It wasn’t my favorite, though I can see why it appeals to so many people. Around that same time in Havana, street food vendors called friteros working carts called puestos, with propane burning planchas or griddles, were beginning to sell…

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#cuban burger #frita cubana #onions #shoestring potatoes #tomato sauce

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January List Sandwiches and December Wrapup

Happy New Year, sandwich fans! It is now 2024, but more to the point it is now January, a new month at the Tribunal, when we announce 3 new sandwiches that we will be exploring and sharing with you. But first, let’s take a look back at December, a festive month full of great food for many. We started the month with the Danish holiday roast Flæskesteg, and tried a few of the sandwiches that Danes…

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I Want To Believe: Hawaii's Flying Saucer

"Some alchemy happens as the sauce simmers, the ketchup and soy sauce mingling with the beef juices and the cooked onions. Combined with crisp buttered bread and melted American cheese? It's magical." I Want To Believe: Hawaii's Flying Saucer

The Flying Saucer is a sandwich that originated on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i and has, over the past few decades, spread at least to Maui and O’ahu as well. It consists of a saucy loosemeat mixture, like a Sloppy Joe filling, placed with a slice of American cheese between two slices of buttered white bread and cooked in a Toas-Tite sandwich iron until nicely browned and, well, flying saucer…

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#american cheese #flying burger #flying saucer #jaffle #sandwich iron #sloppy joe #space burger #toas-tite

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Francheezie: Yet Another Chicago Hot Dog

"The hot dog was of the jumbo, casingless variety, unremarkable apart from how crisply bronzed both it and the bacon were by their bath in hot oil. What cheese remained was negligible." Francheezie: Yet Another Chicago Hot Dog

Should We Add This To The Chicago Sandwich Canon? I’ll be honest, when I saw that Wikipedia claimed the Francheezie was a Chicago thing, I was skeptical. I could not have named a single restaurant that carried a Francheezie on its menu. And with the hot dog culture that Chicago has, it doesn’t make sense for a Chicago hot dog stand to serve the Francheezie. So that we’re all on the same page, a…

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#american cheese #bacon #chicago #family restaurants #francheezie #hot dog #north side

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Dansk Pork: Flæskesteg Sandwiches

"I've eaten three Flæskesteg sandwiches this week and I'll probably have another for lunch tomorrow. It is as good a fast food sandwich as I think you're likely to find." Dansk Pork: Flæskesteg Sandwiches

Flæskesteg, Danish-style roast pork with crackling, is considered a national dish of Denmark by many. In centuries past, traditional Danish cuisine consisted of peasant food, cabbages and potatoes, onions and other root vegetables, dried grains and legumes, pickled vegetables, dried sausages, salted and smoked fish and pork. Fresh pork was a rare treat enjoyed solely around the Christmas…

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#denmark #flæskesteg #holiday roast #pickles #red cabbage #remoulade #roast pork

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December List Sandwiches and November Wrapup

In December, the Tribunal will be covering Danish Flæskesteg, Hawaiian Flying Saucers, and the Francheezie.

Hello Sandwich fans! It’s December 1st, time to break out a new set of sandwiches for the Tribunal to test, taste, and tack on to our tally of the world’s bready bits of bliss. I’m here to tell you all about them. But first let’s recap November’s tasty topics. We started the month with a deep dive into the history of Eggs Benedict, along with an exploration of a few of its more delicious…

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#2023 #december #flæskesteg #flying saucer #francheezie

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Put Your Hands Together For... Empalmes

"Empalme, at its most basic, consists of this: tortillas of nixtamalized corn, dipped in lard, sandwiched together and cooked on a grill, or in a griddle." Put Your Hands Together For... Empalmes

The cuisine of the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon is… generally fairly meat-forward. Cabrito, or young goat, is a staple, a holdover from the Spanish Jews who founded Nuevo Leon’s capital city, Monterrey. Goat is used in numerous ways there, whether cooked on a stick over an open fire (cabrito al pastor) or in a tomato-based stew (cabrito en salsa), its organ meats cooked in its own blood (fritada…

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#cheese #chile colorado #chorizo #empalmes #refried beans #tortillas