Fried Pork Chop Sandwich
A bone-in pork chop seared on the flat-top, dropped on a plain bun it overhangs with mustard and griddled onions, eaten standing off wax paper. Chicago's Maxwell Street, bone left in for a handle.
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A bone-in pork chop seared on the flat-top, dropped on a plain bun it overhangs with mustard and griddled onions, eaten standing off wax paper. Chicago's Maxwell Street, bone left in for a handle.
Fried okra on French bread; vegetarian po' boy option.
Beer-battered fried cheese curds on bread.
Cornmeal-crusted fried catfish on a bun with tartar sauce.
Pan-fried thick-cut bologna on white bread with mustard and pickles.
Beer-battered fried cod or perch on a bun; Wisconsin Friday tradition.
Look past the beef to the small cup beside it; that cup is the sandwich. Thin roast beef on a French roll, jus served separate, so the eater controls the moisture one dunk at a time.
A slice of Swiss between beef and roll turns the dunk into two surfaces against the same jus: dunked bottom, sealed top, dial moved but still alive. At Philippe's it adds seventy-five cents.
Dense Gulf grouper fried in beer batter or seared blackened, on a soft bun with tartar, slaw, and lemon: the Florida coast sandwich built around a fillet firm enough to demand it.
At a New England fish shack the fillet is haddock or cod, the North Atlantic groundfish the boats land, fried and set on a soft bun with tartar. The species choice is what makes it local.
Smoked turkey, Virginia honey ham, and Monterey Jack, toasted then steamed until it fuses into one warm thing. The Hook & Ladder is Firehouse Subs' 1994 original, built around a firehouse technique.
Sizzling chopped pork sisig with calamansi, chili, and a folded egg packed into a pandesal or brioche bun: the Filipino-American diaspora's answer to Aling Lucing's 1974 Pampanga original.
Roast beef and ham with 'debris' gravy on French bread; Mother's Restaurant.
Massive sub with cheesesteak, chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, fries, and more; Rutgers University tradition.
The Fat Moon is the grease-truck menu's breakfast-in-a-sub: chicken fingers, bacon, egg and fries in one roll. A quiet name that survived untouched when Rutgers made the trucks sanitize their boards.
The Rutgers grease-truck sub built entirely from the fried side of the menu: chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, and French fries on a sub roll, with marinara ladled through to hold the pile together.
Fat sandwich with cheesesteak, chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, fries, lettuce, tomato.
Fried chickpea fritters in pita with tahini, salad, and hot sauce; Middle Eastern import now ubiquitous at NYC food carts and nationwide.
A Havana socialite's off-menu order, made permanent under her name: turkey, cream cheese, and strawberry jam on soft medianoche bread, warm and sweet where the Cuban runs savory.
The eggplant parm hero is the senior parmigiana, the meatless form the veal and chicken heroes were copied from, and the only one whose own flesh sweats water into the bread if you skip the salting.
Breaded and fried eggplant with marinara and cheese on a grinder roll.
Get the ratio of mayonnaise to egg wrong and it is dry crumble or wet paste, with nothing to cover for it. Chopped egg, mayo, salt, soft bread: the floor of the sandwich, and the floor is the point.
Egg salad on a toasted grinder roll; diner classic.
Tomato sandwich specifically made with Duke's mayonnaise.