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pepper steak, with cheese, green peppers, n onions, on a toasted sub roll

When I was about 21, I ate breakfast at a diner. Everybody else would get eggs and toast. For me, it was grilled ham and cheese! Lots of butter slathered on white sandwich bread with American cheese and thinly sliced Virginia ham. The ham is what made the sandwich. It was dry and flavorful, and the cook just sliced it off of the hanging ham!

Oh I haven't met anyone who likes to lay doritos on a sandwich, lol. I love it! I pile them on and then smush it all down. usually it's ham, cheese, mustard and the chips.

One of my other favorites is the Rueben. Yum...yum...yum! I layer pickles inbetween the corned beef and saurkraut and I add some yellow mustard. It has to be butter the marble bread is toasted in or it's not quite the same. I'll take my chances w/the extra calories.

Definitely unique sandwiches! The Reuben sounds good with pickles.I'll have to try that. Do you use the thousand island dressing, as well as the mustard?

Absolutely, Thousand Island all the way!

Sometimes I'll put it on the side to dip the sandwhich in. It depends. I like a solid sandwhich, so not everything slides off the edge.

The pickles I use are the flat kind so either the chips (dill) or the long ones (dill) and I rinse/drain the saurkraut so it isn't all over powering.

If it's done right you kind of take a bite and fall back in your booth or seat, lol and roll the eyes. Like I said, not to worried about the calories. It would be lacking something if I did

I know what you mean about calories. I eat 1-2 good Reubens a year, so I want them to taste the way that I want them to taste. NO dull substitutes, please! If I don't make them the way that I want them, there's this nagging unsatisfied feeling that lasts for a while. Then, I have to get a good Reuben. Might as well do the calories the first time!

I look at the mouth-watering sandwiches and they look wonderful. But my favorite sandwiches are BLT on white toast and garden tomatoes and thinly sliced cucumbers on whole wheat with mayo.

Every once in a while a trip back to my childhood and have boloney and cheese from the deli section with a little mayo, crushed potato chips if I am really nostalgic or my just before teen days, liverwurst with mustard on rye, sometimes a little sauerkraut. Most times my sandwiches are dull and thin, still I love them.

Oh, Vannie! I too am from NJ and I just love to hear about deli boloney and liverwurst. Here in MO liverwurst is called braunschwieger and I'll never get used to that. There is a great deli in Highland Lakes (in Sussex County) that makes a killer liverwurst and mustard sandwich on a hard roll. Every time I go back to visit I have to have it for lunch at least once. Real, authentic hard rolls is another thing we can't get here. They call them kaiser rolls and they LOOK the same, but they're mushy and soft with no crust. Yuck!

LOL. I guess you can take the girl out of New Jersey, blah, blah!

Helen, when I worked 9 to 5, I went from going to good restaurants on my lunch hour to eating from several food trucks around my campus. My favorite breakfast sandwich quickly became Taylor ham (Taylor Pork Roll) scrambled egg and a slice of cheese on a 'real' hard roll I know what you mean about Kaiser rolls, although I do like them they are not the same as a hard roll. Speaking of hard rolls. There is nothing better than a buttered hard roll and cup of coffee, etc. I discovered that these innocuous food trucks can be dangerous to your health and your weight--who knew?

My favorites:
grilled cheese and tomato
grilled cheese with jelly on top after it's been grilled - salty sweet yum!
love, love, love ruebens
I like sub sandwiches to (not the kind from subway, but the real kind like The submarine shop in New Jersey makes - yup I'm a jersey girl too)
I also love hotdogs, with sliced fried potatoes, green peppers and onions in a pita pocket. Those are the best!