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All-beef hot dog with mustard, onions, and spicy meat chili sauce; Greek-American diners throughout NJ.
All-beef hot dog with mustard, onions, and spicy meat chili sauce; Greek-American diners throughout NJ.
A deep-fried all-beef dog dressed in one strict order, mustard then onion then a fine cinnamon-clove Greek meat sauce. Order it all the way, the Paterson way.
Smoked beef brisket on white bread or a bun with pickles and onions; often served with sauce on the side.
A scored disc of Taylor ham or pork roll griddled flat, folded with egg and American cheese onto a New Jersey hard roll. The North Jersey and South Jersey names for the same sandwich.
Loose seasoned ground beef scooped from a steam well onto a soft bun, the Sioux City sandwich named for the counter it was sold across, eaten with a spoon and no apology.
"Super" is an instruction about a moisture budget, not a flavour: guacamole, sour cream, and cheese folded into a sealed San Francisco Mission-style tube, a containment problem.
The North Shore three-way scaled up: rare thin-shaved roast beef on an onion roll, dressed with James River barbecue sauce, mayo, and cheese, loaded big and built to hold.
Italian-style meatballs in marinara sauce with optional cheese on a sub roll; Subway's signature hot sub.
Genoa salami, pepperoni, and Black Forest ham on Subway's sub roll, built down a glass line in front of you. Named in 1975 after a New York transit system the Connecticut chain had never operated in.
Same sandwich concept with different regional names across America.
Generic term for a long sandwich on a cylindrical roll; regional names vary.
A Rhode Island clam shack move: the stuffie, a big quahog chopped with breadcrumb, the clam's liquor, onion, pepper and chouriço and baked in its shell, scooped warm onto a buttered split-top roll.
Buffalo's maximalist order: a whole steak sub and a whole hot-sauced chicken-finger sub built into one roll, blue cheese between them. The portion is the joke and the appeal at once.
Burger patty and cheese steamed in a metal tray, served on a bun; unique to central Connecticut diners.
Chicago's steak sandwich runs beef through Milanesa logic: a thin cut pounded out, breaded, deep-fried, drowned in red gravy with mozzarella and giardiniera on an Italian roll.
A Des Moines supper-club plate carried into bread: seared beef tenderloin sliced into a garlic-butter-soaked Italian roll, basil and garlic seasoning the crumb edge to edge.
Egg foo young usually arrives under gravy and gets eaten with a fork. The St. Paul sandwich refuses both, treating the patty as a self-contained protein slab between two slices of plain white bread.
Provel cheese-laden St. Louis pizza folded or used with fillings.
Cut from the shoulder, the St. Louis pork steak is grilled for char then braised in Maull's barbecue sauce until it falls apart, served on square white bread whose real job is soaking up the sauce.
Day-marinated meat cubes grilled on a skewer and stripped into a plain slice of Italian bread that grips the metal and shields the hand. Binghamton's signature, char and vinegar all through.
Marinated fire-grilled cubes of chicken, pork, or lamb stripped off the skewer into a split roll with onions and peppers, the loaded form of Binghamton's spiedie and its vinegar-and-mint marinade.
On a spicy chicken sandwich the heat is in the flour, fried into the crust so it stays welded to a juicy fillet. From Wendy's 1996 staple to the 2019 Popeyes launch that lit the chicken sandwich wars.
Grilled Spam glazed with shoyu on a pressed block of short-grain rice, banded with toasted nori: the Hawaiian convenience-store sandwich, credited to a Kauai cook in 1982 and a box mold.
The Lakota fry-bread Indian taco of the Northern Plains: USDA commodity pintos, ground beef, salsa over a hot round. South Dakota made fry bread its state bread in 2005.