Grinder (New England)
Regional term for submarine sandwich; often toasted with melted cheese.
Regional term for submarine sandwich; often toasted with melted cheese.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich griddled like grilled cheese.
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.
Burger with roasted Hatch green chiles and cheese; New Mexico's signature burger.
Eggs, potatoes, cheese, and green chile in a flour tortilla.
Fried goetta (German-inspired oat and pork sausage) on bread; Cincinnati breakfast staple.
Open-faced garlic bread topped with ham and Provel cheese, broiled; invented at Ruma's Deli.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ham, cheese, salami, and cantimpalo (Spanish chorizo) with mustard and mayo on ciabatta; Spanish-influenced Miami sandwich.
Fry bread used as sandwich bread with various fillings.
Lowcountry boil ingredients (shrimp, sausage, corn) on a roll.
Frito pie (chili over Fritos with cheese and onions) served on bread or bun.
Seasoned ground beef patty (sometimes mixed with chorizo) on a Cuban roll with shoestring potato sticks, raw onions, and ketchup; Cuban-A...
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.
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.
BLT variation with fried green tomatoes instead of (or with) fresh.
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.
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.
Beer-battered fried cheese curds on bread.
Cornmeal-crusted fried catfish on a bun with tartar sauce.