Western/Denver Sandwich
Scrambled eggs with ham, onions, and bell peppers on toast.
The American Lunch-Counter Classics
Turkey Sandwich
Sliced turkey breast with lettuce, tomato, and mayo on bread.
Tuna Salad Sandwich
A tuna salad sandwich is built in a bowl: canned tuna flaked and bound with mayonnaise, carried with crisp diced celery, then pressed between two slices of soft bread that recede entirely.
Tongue Sandwich
Beef tongue, brined like corned beef and simmered soft, sliced thin on seeded rye with mustard: the smoothest, mildest meat the old Ashkenazi deli counter serves.
Tomato Sandwich
A thick homegrown beefsteak, salt, pepper, and a heavy smear of Duke's on cheap soft white bread, eaten over the sink for the few summer weeks a Southern garden tomato is at full sugar.
The Moistmaker
The three-slice Thanksgiving leftover sandwich with a gravy-soaked center slice. Named by Ross Geller on Friends in The One With Ross's Sandwich, December 1998.
Thanksgiving Sandwich
Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and gravy on bread; post-Thanksgiving classic.
Sloppy Joe
Ground beef in tangy, sweet tomato-based sauce on a hamburger bun.
Sloppy Joe (NJ Style)
A cold knife-cut triple-decker: two meats, Swiss, drained coleslaw, Russian dressing, layered on three shaved sheets of Pullman rye. Born at Town Hall Deli, South Orange, in 1936.
Pimento Cheese Sandwich
Spread of cheddar, pimientos, and mayo on white bread; 'caviar of the South.'
Ham and Pimiento Cheese
Salt-cured country ham shaved thin under a Southern lunch counter's pimiento cheese: the tangy cheddar-and-mayonnaise spread answered by a low cured funk, cold off the tray.
Ham and Cheese
A few slices of cold ham, a slice of cheese, soft bread, a swipe of mustard, cut on the diagonal: the plain lunchbox baseline every other sandwich is measured against.
Egg Salad Sandwich
Chopped hard-boiled eggs with mayo and seasonings on bread.
Duke's Mayo Tomato Sandwich
Tomato sandwich specifically made with Duke's mayonnaise.
Chopped Liver Sandwich
Sauteed chicken livers hand-chopped with onion and hard-boiled egg, bound with schmaltz on Jewish rye: a kosher deli spread engineered by the absence of butter.
Chicken Salad Sandwich
Chopped chicken with mayo, celery, and seasonings on bread.