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Sandwich
They are proven to be the most famous snack in the world.
Each nation has invented its own favorite recipe consisting of two slices of bread and different fillings. They usually include melting cheese, vegetables, some cured meat, grilled meat or seafood, and various sauces. Simple and easy to prepare, they are justifiably the #1 fast food for all hours and for all ages.
The Earl of Sandwich and the sandwich
It got its name from the Earl of Sandwich in the late 1700s. The Earl, during a game of cards, asked for something easy, quick and tasty to be prepared that could be eaten with one hand so as not to interrupt the game. So they served him the first sandwich in the world, he liked it very much and it became a fashion in London and from there all over the world.
Famous by name!
From time to time, specific sandwiches became fashionable and to this day everyone is crazy about them. Now there are many vegetarian, but also sandwiches for special diets without gluten, without dairy and even with only vegetables without any bread. But entire peoples are fed daily with millions of sandwiches and among the most famous and delicious in the world, they are the following:
The 10 best sandwiches
Reuben sandwich
The Reuben is a popular American toasted bread sandwich. It consists of melting Swiss cheese, corned beef & sauerkraut (sauerkraut) topped with Russian salad (no relation to this we know as Russian salad) or the very popular thousand island sauce.
It is usually made with rye bread and is really delicious and very filling. It is rumored to have been brewed by European immigrants in the early 1900s in North America. It is very dear to the American people and anyone who visits the United States should try it at least once.
Cuban or Cubano sandwich
This is definitely not the classic ham and cheese sandwich. It is a top filling and mouthwatering food in essence. It was created when the first immigrants from Cuba, by the thousands, entered South Florida, USA, as workers in the tobacco factories.
Cuban-style bread stuffed with pork slow-cooked for many hours in a sweet and sour honey sauce. Ham, lots of melting cheese, pickles and mustard. Honeyed pork in its sauce inside a long narrow Cuban crusty bread that tastes like a French baguette but is wider like a loaf.
Its characteristic is that all the layers, although there are many ingredients, are compressed to make it as flat and crispy as possible. This hearty Cuban sandwich became a favorite snack of Florida workers and then became very popular in South Beach in Miami and from there all over America. Now it is known all over the world and it is really delicious and very filling. And remember, the flatter it comes out after baking, the crispier and tastier it is.
Philly Cheesesteak
You try it once and it’s unforgettable. Crispy bread stuffed with grilled juicy beef steak, caramelized onions and melted smoked cheese like Provolone or other.
The veal steak, but especially the ribeye, are cooked until the meat is browned on the outside and crusty, and the inside remains juicy and soft to retain all its juices. Hot as it is, it is cut into thin slices and put into the bread along with the meat juices. Caramelized onions, some mustard and cheese of choice are essential. A real treat from the few.
There are variations with mushrooms and hot peppers. What characterizes it is the crispy baked bread that soaks up the juices from the juicy and tender meat.
Pastrami sandwich
Famous and delicious thanks to the pastrami sausage, which is added generously to the filling. Pastrami is made from beef that is cured with spices through slow aging and acquires rich aromas and a unique taste. Mustard, sauerkraut and usually brown bread complete the treat.
Its characteristic is the many layers of pastrami and in fact the volume is made from cold cuts and not from the bread. In fact, at the famous Kratz’s deli store in New York on Houston street, I have seen with my own eyes countless times, queues on the street to taste the most famous sandwich with the fine ingredients of the Deli of the same name, which is famous mainly for its pastrami. For decades now, it has been considered New Yorkers’ premier destination for exceptional sandwiches with consistent quality ingredients on raw or toasted bread.
BLT sandwich
3 letters synonymous with easy fast food for Americans. The initials BLT, come from the following ingredients Bacon Lettuce Tomato. Simple as it sounds, with toasted or fresh bread and a little mayonnaise inside, it is one of the most popular sandwiches in America and around the world.
In North America they use the submarine BLT on long narrow white bread. In fact, this was a patent of Greek immigrants that spread from Boston through students to the rest of America and the rest of the world.
Club sandwich
BLT’s little brother consisting of many layers of crispy toasted bread and toppings, especially loved around the world. Crispy bacon, cool lettuce, juicy tomato, mayonnaise, grilled chicken or turkey and toasted bread, become a multi-story sandwich and cut into square or triangular pieces. Especially popular in groups and parties.
Grilled cheese
I will never forget my surprise when I tried it for the first time. It was 2010 in Chicago and my dear friend Greg Papas was hosting me in the city where he was born and raised. We went for a snack and when I heard he ordered grilled cheese my mind went to saganaki cheese. A freshly baked crispy sandwich with a bravely thick layer of grilled cheese and heady aromas of butter came to our table. He cut it in half and a river of hot melted cheese poured out. Each bite was crispy on the outside with buttery baked bread and oozing lava of chewy cheese inside. Enjoy to the end.
The whole secret is in its proper baking. It must be baked on a plate well buttered so that it becomes very crispy on the outside and the cheeses have time to melt all the way inside. It just needs attention to the temperature so that it browns slowly and steadily at medium intensity until the cheeses inside have time to melt.
Tuna salad sandwich
Top tuna salad with crunchy vegetable textures in two slices of brown bread. One of the favorite snacks is the cold tuna salad sandwich. If you add thin slices of crispy cucumber and pickled onions, it takes off. He raises variations, such as the hot and crispy tuna melt sandwich.
Two slices of white bread, stuffed with tuna salad, melting cheese and tomato slices. The sandwich is baked on a plate or a non-stick pan, after buttering the outside of the bread.
Lobster rolls
Cold or hot it’s really delicious. It comes from Maine, USA, the bay famous for lobsters and seafood. It consists of a fluffy oblong or round brioche bun filled with boiled lobster and drizzled with caramelized butter. A few slices of crispy lettuce, lemon, tabasco, spicy mayonnaise and Alfalfa sprouts take the taste to the next level.
This sandwich was created by lobstermen in Maine. In other words, they made the “extra lobster” a meal for their lunch. And don’t imagine that lobster in Maine is considered gourmet or expensive stuff.
It is so loved in America as well as in England, that fast food chains have been created which are famous for the famous lobster roll.
Texas brisket sandwich
The ultimate meat sandwich comes from Texas, USA. The area is famous for the slow long-hour roasting of brisket, which is nothing but the fatty but very tasty breast of the calf. This piece of beef is marinated with a dry marinade, grilled and smoked for many hours, in huge wood-fired ovens the size of a closet! The result is a crispy crust, a soft, melting crust and smoky spice aromas from the dry marination and the long stay in the wood-fired oven.
A generous amount of roast beef is stuffed into round bread usually and accompanied by corn salad, pickled caramelized onions and bbq sauce.
And for the end I have the best, across America one of the most popular sandwiches is:
The Greek gyro wrapped in a pie!
Ever since it was first tried in the United States, but especially in the last two decades, our national snack has become an American favorite. They think of it as a hot sandwich and they’re crazy about it. How could it be otherwise, with such deliciousness! In the past decade, the famous TV presenter Jimmy Fallon spread it even more, through a song that talks about how to pronounce this snack.