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The everyday French boulangerie chicken baguette: a half-loaf, a thin band of mayonnaise, three or four slices of cooked breast, and a leaf of green lettuce.
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The everyday French boulangerie chicken baguette: a half-loaf, a thin band of mayonnaise, three or four slices of cooked breast, and a leaf of green lettuce.
The roast chicken sandwich, skin and all: a whole rotisserie bird carved into a baguette, dark meat and crisp seasoned skin and rendered jus, the Sunday roast and its Monday leftovers.
Curried chicken sandwich; popular boulangerie item.
Cooked chicken, raw vegetables, and mayonnaise in a split baguette, the everyday lunch of the boulangerie cold case. Drain the tomato and dress the chicken, and the loaf holds for an hour.
Potjevleesch is French Flanders in a slab: four white meats, rabbit, chicken, veal, and pork, set cold in a vinegary jelly and laid on crusted bread. The estaminet eats it under hot frites.
The Auvergne's slow pot of salt pork and cabbage, lifted out and drained of its broth and packed into a crusted loaf. A whole boiled dinner reduced to the only state a soup can ride in bread.
Pont-l'Évêque cut into honest slabs along a baguette, rind kept on, eaten with a glass of cidre brut from the Pays d'Auge orchards; the square moulding decides the cut.
Chabichou du Poitou, the small tapered goat cheese of Haut-Poitou, sliced over a baguette with honey or a fig: a tangy goat-cheese sandwich the loaf is built to frame.
The Sandwich Pique-Nique is defined by where it is eaten, outdoors and hours after packing. The build leans on cured meat, firm cheese, and a crusted loaf, all chosen to arrive intact.
A Basque sauté of peppers, onion, and tomato cooked soft with piment d'Espelette, often set with egg, packed into a crusted loaf. Ham optional.
The sandwich pineau-melon carries a Charentes apéritif into bread: ripe Charentais melon steeped in Pineau des Charentes, the fortified wine lending the fruit a savoury backbone.
The Sandwich Picodon turns on a dry goat cheese that crumbles rather than spreads: a sharp, peppery button from the Drôme and Ardèche, bridged by a thread of honey, on a tight-crumbed baguette.
Picardy regional sandwich; local products.
The sandwich perpignanais rubs its bread with tomato and olive oil before any meat touches it: pa amb tomàquet under fuet and roasted peppers, the Roussillon eating Catalan on a French loaf.
The Sandwich Pélardon is built on one small Cévennes goat round, caught young and creamy, its lactic tang framed by a thread of chestnut honey on an open-crumbed loaf. Hill cheese folded into bread.
Pâté Lorrain in a baguette: a Baccarat charcutier's day-after workaround that turns the pastry-wrapped pork-and-veal pie into a hand-held lunch.
Sandwich with Hénaff pâté; iconic Breton brand.
The charcuterie sandwich that arrives with its own pastry attached: slices of pate en croute, a terrine baked inside a butter-dough case, the cut face a mosaic of meat, jelly and crust.
Country-style pâté sandwich with cornichons.
Point through the glass and pay in coins: a split demi-baguette, butter, a few folds of pale poached jambon de Paris. The everyday Paris counter sandwich, plain on purpose.
The Sandwich Parisien Classique is the jambon-beurre settled into a fixed form: jambon de Paris and thick butter on a morning baguette, with lettuce, tomato, and cornichons each in their proper place.
The Sandwich Ossau-Iraty closes a baguette over a thick slab of firm Pyrenean sheep cheese and a smear of Itxassou black cherry jam, the sweet-tart fruit doing the work a slice of ham does elsewhere.
Omelette sandwich; folded egg in bread.
Norman-style sandwich; cream, apples, Camembert, cider influences.