Salvadoran Pupusa
Thick corn masa flatbread stuffed with cheese, beans, pork, or loroco, griddled and served with curtido (pickled cabbage) and tomato sals...
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Salt Potato Sandwich
Syracuse-style salt potatoes mashed on bread; local curiosity.
Salmon Burger
A bound salmon patty: paste-blended salmon folded with hand-chopped salmon, egg, and breadcrumb. The Pacific Northwest standard non-beef build on a toasted bun.
Sacramento Squeeze Burger
A smash burger with a frico ring: a fistful of cheddar dropped on the steel around the patty, fried into a lacy skirt that overhangs the bun. The Squeeze Inn's Sacramento signature since 1977.
Runza
Bread pocket stuffed with beef, cabbage, and onions; German-Russian immigrant creation, Nebraska chain famous.
Roast Pork with Spinach
Roast pork with sautéed spinach and provolone.
Roast Pork with Long Hots
Philadelphia's other sandwich: garlic-roasted pork shaved thin and reheated in its own jus, sharp provolone, and fried long hot peppers whose heat arrives a beat late and builds across the roll.
Roast Pork Italian
Slow-roasted pork with sharp provolone and broccoli rabe on Italian bread; rivals the cheesesteak.
Roast Beef Sandwich
The plain national roast beef sandwich: rare beef sliced thin against the grain, on bread, with horseradish. No jus, no soak, no gimmick, the baseline every regional version departs from.
Roast Beef Hero
Cold rare roast beef sliced paper-thin off the deli blade, ribboned into folds on a long seeded New York hero roll with horseradish mayo, lettuce, tomato.
Ripper Hot Dog
Hot dog deep-fried until the casing 'rips' open; crispy exterior.
Riggies Sub
Chicken riggies (spicy chicken with rigatoni) served in a sub roll.
Reuben
Corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing on grilled rye bread.
Reindeer Sausage Sandwich
Grilled reindeer sausage on a bun with onions; Alaskan specialty.
Red Hot
Smoked pork/beef hot dog with red casing; Rochester staple.
Ramp Sandwich
The ramp sandwich is governed by a foraged plant and a six-week window: wild Appalachian leeks cooked soft and sweet, piled on plain bread with a fried egg, eaten while they are out of the ground.
Raising Cane's Chicken Finger Sandwich
Three chicken fingers on buttered Texas toast with Cane's sauce, a one-hand spin-off of the single-item Baton Rouge chicken chain Todd Graves opened in 1996 after his LSU plan failed the class.
Rachel
Sliced turkey (or pastrami) with drained coleslaw, Swiss, and Russian dressing on butter-griddled rye, the slaw and the meat both swapped from the Reuben.
Quiznos Classic Italian
Genoa salami, pepperoni, ham, and capicola with mozzarella and red wine vinaigrette, run through a conveyor toaster. Quiznos built its name on the toasted sub, founded in Denver in 1981.
Quesabirria
Birria meat with melted cheese in a pressed tortilla, served with consommé dip; birria taco's cheesier cousin, equally viral.
Pulled Pork Sandwich
Slow-smoked, shredded pork shoulder with BBQ sauce on a bun, often with coleslaw.
Puffy Taco
The San Antonio puffy taco: a disk of fresh masa deep-fried raw so it balloons into a light, hollow-walled shell, folded hot and filled with picadillo. The crackle is the whole signature.
Puerto Rican Tripleta
Three meats, layered along a loaf of pan de agua with papitas inside the close, the Puerto Rican sandwich whose name carries its specification along the Santurce panadería network.