Andrew Lekashman - One Sandwich - The Joy of Sandwiches (Page 165)

Açma Sandviç

Açma is the soft, buttery, faintly sweet milk-bun ring shelved beside the crisp simit. Choosing it makes a tender sandwich: cool sucuk or kaşar, a gentle hand, never toasted hard.

Acılı Dürüm

Spicy wrap; with chili paste or peppers.

Acılı Döner

Spicy döner; with hot pepper paste (biber salçası) or chili flakes (pul biber).

Açık Pide

Açık means open, and a pide is open almost by default, so the word is a retronym: the rimmed boat of dough with its topping baked open needs a name only because the Black Sea seals its kapalı shut.

A halved bread roll on a wooden board, the bottom half spread thick with raw seasoned pork mett and topped with onion rings and chives, the salt-flecked top half resting beside it.

Zwiebelmett

Onion Mett; Mett pre-mixed with finely diced onion throughout.

Zigeunerschnitzel Brötchen

Schnitzel with bell pepper sauce in roll; paprika-tomato sauce with peppers and onions (name controversial, sometimes called Balkanschnit...

Würzburger Bratwurst

Würzburg's own bratwurst, pan-fried and bent into a Kipf roll at a Marktplatz stand running since 1970, built for a city that eats beside a glass of Franconian wine.

Wurstsalat Brötchen

Sausage salad roll; strips of Lyoner or Fleischwurst in vinegar-oil dressing with onions.

Wurstbrot

Germany's everyday Wurstbrot: dark Graubrot, butter to every edge, sliced cold cuts on top, built at the table for the nightly Abendbrot instead of cooked.

Wrap (various)

A tortilla rolled tight, sleeved in plastic and chilled: how the American wrap reached German bakery chains and Bahnhof kiosks in the 1990s, and how Kamps came to fill it with döner chicken.

Wiener Würstchen

Vienna-style sausage; thin, smoked, mild pork and beef frankfurter. Boiled, served in roll with mustard.

Wiener Schnitzel Brötchen

Wiener Schnitzel in roll; properly made with veal (Kalb), pounded thin, breaded with flour-egg-breadcrumbs, fried in butter. Premium vers...

Westfälischer Schinken Brötchen

Westphalian ham roll; dry-cured ham from Westphalia, smoked over beech and juniper, strong flavor.

Weißwurst Brötchen

Munich's white sausage comes with a ritual: peel it, dip it in sweet mustard, finish before the noon bells. Slip it into a Brotchen and the ceremony folds into one hand.