Egg Salad Sandwich
Chopped hard-boiled eggs with mayo and seasonings on bread.
Chopped hard-boiled eggs with mayo and seasonings on bread.
Egg salad on a toasted grinder roll; diner classic.
Strip the ham and sausage off a Southern breakfast biscuit and you are left with egg in warm bread, where the sandwich turns on one decision: how the egg is cooked. The ring, the fold, the skillet.
Two scrambled or fried eggs and a slice of American cheese folded onto a toasted, faintly sweet egg bagel and wrapped in foil. The New York City corner-deli morning counter's standing call.
In eastern North Carolina the barbecue sauce is thin enough to drink: cider vinegar, red and black pepper, no tomato. Chopped whole-hog pork with crackling skin and sharp slaw on a soft bun.
Tomato sandwich specifically made with Duke's mayonnaise.
Two thin patties, two slices of American, hand-leafed iceberg on a 3.5-inch toasted bun. Harry and Esther Snyder put the first In-N-Out drive-through in Baldwin Park, California in 1948.
Shaved beef and lamb off the spit, heaped loose into flatbread under a pale garlic white sauce and a thin red hot sauce. The Turkish-German spit sandwich, rebuilt big for an American cart window.
A seasoned griddled beef patty on pan de agua under shredded cabbage, pickled onion, and pink salsa rosada: the Dominican street burger that lines Amsterdam Avenue in Washington Heights.
Ten-inch pork hot dog grilled or steamed, served at Dodger Stadium since 1962; America's most famous ballpark frank, 2+ million sold per ...
French fries with gravy and melted cheese on bread; diner creation.
Two coney shops share one wall in downtown Detroit, and the argument between them is the dish: a natural-casing beef dog under loose beanless chili, mustard, and a cold heap of raw onion.
Fried scrapple on toast or roll; similar to Philadelphia style.
Fried chicken wings with sweet and tangy mumbo sauce on bread.
Bacon-wrapped hot dog grilled on an illegal street cart outside LA clubs and concerts, topped with grilled peppers, onions, mayo, ketchup...
Extremely tall, multi-layered sandwich named after comic character Dagwood Bumstead.
Fresh, never-frozen beef on a lightly buttered toasted bun; Wisconsin-born chain's signature. The butter goes on the crown of the bun.
Cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, no fennel: cudighi is a pork sausage spiced like a pie, pressed into a patty, griddled, and topped with pizza sauce and mozzarella. The Upper Peninsula's own Italian sandwich.
The Tampa Cuban presses four meats onto a lard-enriched loaf: roast pork, boiled ham, Genoa salami, Swiss. The salami is the marker that separates it from Miami's three-meat build.
Ham, mojo-roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard on pressed Cuban bread; no salami (key Miami vs Tampa distinction). Heart of L...
Key West variation often includes lettuce, tomato, and mayo alongside standard Cuban fillings; reflects Key West's laid-back style.
Ham, Swiss cheese, and ham croquettes on Cuban bread with lettuce, tomato, mayo, and sometimes julienne potato sticks; the croquettes add...
American bistro interpretation: ham and Gruyère with béchamel on toasted bread, broiled; upscale brunch staple.
Butter croissant as sandwich vehicle for various fillings; elevated by artisan bakeries nationwide (Tartine, Dominique Ansel). Korean-ins...