Grinder (New England)
Regional term for submarine sandwich; often toasted with melted cheese.
USA
Grilled PB&J
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich griddled like grilled cheese.
Grilled Chicken Sandwich
Fast food's diet-counter answer to the fryer, born in the late-1980s health wave. Chick-fil-A's pickle-brined 1989 breast set the template; McDonald's learned the harder lesson.
Green Chile Cheeseburger
Burger with roasted Hatch green chiles and cheese; New Mexico's signature burger.
Green Chile Breakfast Burrito
Eggs, potatoes, cheese, and green chile in a flour tortilla.
Goetta Sandwich
Fried goetta (German-inspired oat and pork sausage) on bread; Cincinnati breakfast staple.
Gerber Sandwich
Open-faced garlic bread topped with ham and Provel cheese, broiled; invented at Ruma's Deli.
Georgia Peach BBQ Sandwich
Smoked pulled pork under a peach-pureed barbecue sauce, the fruit standing in for refined sugar and doing the bodying and acid too. A Georgia build keyed to the state's emblem.
Geoduck Sandwich
The geoduck sandwich is a race against a cooking window measured in seconds: the siphon is sweet and crisp raw and turns to rubber the instant it overcooks, so it goes on a bun barely fried at all.
Garlic Noodle Sandwich
Buttery, garlicky, Parmesan-slicked noodles, the San Francisco kind people cross town for, scooped into a Dutch crunch roll. Coated not wet, so the filling holds and the crumb stays intact.
Garbage Plate
A Rochester Garbage Plate is a split bed of home fries and macaroni salad under two cheeseburgers or hots, flooded with spiced meat hot sauce, with white bread to mop. Trademarked 1992.
Gallega Sandwich
Ham, salami, and cantimpalo, a firm Spanish chorizo, pressed on ciabatta at Miami Cuban counters. Gallega means Spaniard in Cuban slang, a word Havana's Galician population made generic.
Fry Bread Sandwich
Fry bread used as sandwich bread with various fillings.
Frogmore Stew Sandwich
Lowcountry boil ingredients (shrimp, sausage, corn) on a roll.
Frito Pie Sandwich
Frito pie (chili over Fritos with cheese and onions) served on bread or bun.
Frita Cubana
Seasoned ground beef patty (sometimes mixed with chorizo) on a Cuban roll with shoestring potato sticks, raw onions, and ketchup; Cuban-A...
Fried Scallop Roll
The fried scallop roll comes off the clam-shack fryer: day-boat scallops dried and fried whole to a crisp shell over a sweet plush centre, piled hot into a griddled split-top roll.
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.
Fried Okra Po' Boy
Fried okra on French bread; vegetarian po' boy option.
Fried Green Tomato BLT
BLT variation with fried green tomatoes instead of (or with) fresh.
Fried Chicken Sandwich
A genre, not a recipe: a brined, breaded, craggy-fried fillet closed in a soft bun with flat dill pickle and a sauce kept off the crust. The build two chains went to public war over.
Fried Chicken Biscuit
A fried fillet inside a warm, flaky buttermilk biscuit, codified into a category by Bojangles' and the biscuit-chain South. The Southern breakfast handheld that sat out the chicken-sandwich wars.
Fried Cheese Curds Sandwich
Beer-battered fried cheese curds on bread.
Fried Catfish Sandwich
Cornmeal-crusted fried catfish on a bun with tartar sauce.