Sandwich aux Crevettes
Shrimp sandwich; often with cocktail sauce.
Shrimp sandwich; often with cocktail sauce.
Grey shrimp sandwich; tiny, flavorful shrimp.
A salt-cured anchovy fillet against buttered crusted bread: barely a build, mostly a decision about what can survive a fish this concentrated, cured on the Roussillon coast for centuries.
Tuna sandwich; canned tuna with mayonnaise.
The pink-and-white baton never met a crab: surimi is pollock paste flavored and dyed to fake one, folded with mayonnaise into a cheap baguette. France eats almost half Europe's surimi sticks.
France's oily-fish sandwich: hot-smoked mackerel in firm slabs or fresh-cooked and flaked, on a buttered baguette with lemon or pickled shallot built into the bite.
Lobster sandwich; Breton lobster (homard bleu).
Lobster sandwich; luxury coastal item.
Herring sandwich; smoked or pickled.
Crab sandwich; Brittany's Atlantic catch.
Salt-cured anchovy pounded with garlic and olive oil, dragged thick across split baguette: the anchoïade is Provence's aperitif spread eaten as a held slice, the bread there to blunt the salt.
Sandwich spread with tapenade (olive paste); Provençal specialty.
Salt cod sandwich; various preparations.