Italian Beef Combo
A Chicago Italian beef with a grilled Italian sausage laid in alongside the shaved seasoned beef; the two-protein combo order from the Taylor Street beef-stand tradition.
USA
In-N-Out Style Burger
Fresh, never-frozen beef, hand-leafed lettuce, tomato, and spread on a sponge-dough bun.
In-N-Out 4x4
Four beef patties and four slices of American cheese; In-N-Out's secret menu maximum standard build.
Impossible/Beyond Burger
Plant-based burger patties designed to mimic beef using heme (Impossible, est. 2016) or pea protein (Beyond, est. 2012); available at Bur...
Idaho Finger Steaks
Strips of beef coated in batter and deep-fried, served in a basket or on bread with cocktail sauce; Idaho's unique contribution to fried ...
Hot Pastrami
Steamed pastrami served hot on rye with mustard.
Hot Open-Face Turkey Sandwich
The diner hot turkey sandwich: roast turkey on a single slice of soft white bread, the whole plate flooded with hot gravy, eaten with a fork. The blue-plate special, built around bread meant to soak.
Hot Open-Face Roast Beef
A single slice of soft white bread under thin roast beef and brown gravy, a scoop of mashed potato beside it under the same gravy, eaten with a fork off a wide oval diner plate.
Hot Muffuletta
The hot muffuletta runs a New Orleans cold sandwich through a press: heat thins the olive-salad oil and melts the provolone, fusing the cured-meat stack into one warm object.
Hot Brown
Open-faced turkey sandwich with bacon, tomatoes, and Mornay sauce, broiled; Brown Hotel original.
Horseshoe
Open-faced sandwich with meat on toast, covered with French fries and cheese sauce.
Hoosier Tenderloin
The Indiana breaded pork tenderloin under the state's own nickname: a pounded, fried cutlet hanging inches past a small bun, dressed cold in the center. A schnitzel gone Hoosier.
Hoagie
Philadelphia's term for submarine sandwich; specific bread and construction.
Hero Sandwich
New York term for submarine sandwich; typically on Italian bread.
Hawaiian Sweet Bread Sandwich
Soft enriched Hawaiian sweet rolls sliced and filled with ham and Swiss, baked under a Dijon-butter-poppy-seed glaze and pulled apart at the seams.
Hawaiian Plate Lunch Sandwich
Plate-lunch components, two scoops of rice and a scoop of macaroni salad with a marinated protein, folded into a soft roll. L&L, Zippy's, and Rainbow Drive-In in Hawaii.
Hamburger
Ground beef patty on a bun with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, and condiments.
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.
Ham and Cheese Hero
The plainest cold sub a New York deli offers: sliced ham and provolone the length of a crusty roll, where the oil and oregano do the work the filling cannot.
Half-Smoke
Larger, spicier half-pork, half-beef smoked sausage on a bun with chili, onions, and mustard; Ben's Chili Bowl famous.
Haitian Patty
Flaky, turmeric-yellow pastry filled with spiced ground beef, chicken, or saltfish; Haitian-American bakery staple in Little Haiti and Br...
Gyro (American)
Lamb-beef mixture cooked on a vertical rotisserie, sliced and served in pita with tomato, onion, and tzatziki; Greek-American creation, d...
Gym Shoe
Italian beef with corned beef, gyro meat, and mozzarella; fusion sandwich.