Fish Taco
Beer-battered fish in a corn or flour tortilla with cabbage slaw; Baja California/San Diego.
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Fish Sandwich (New England)
At a New England fish shack the fillet is haddock or cod, the North Atlantic groundfish the boats land, fried and set on a soft bun with tartar. The species choice is what makes it local.
Firehouse Subs Hook & Ladder
Smoked turkey, Virginia honey ham, and Monterey Jack, toasted then steamed until it fuses into one warm thing. The Hook & Ladder is Firehouse Subs' 1994 original, built around a firehouse technique.
Filipino Sisig Sandwich
Sizzling chopped pork sisig with calamansi, chili, and a folded egg packed into a pandesal or brioche bun: the Filipino-American diaspora's answer to Aling Lucing's 1974 Pampanga original.
Ferdi Special
Roast beef and ham with 'debris' gravy on French bread; Mother's Restaurant.
Fenway Frank
The Fenway Frank is cooked twice, boiled to hold then griddled for snap, served on a New England split-top roll with mustard and relish, and it tastes of the ballpark first.
Fenway Frank (Expanded)
Boiled Kayem beef frank served at Fenway Park in a New England-style top-split bun with choice of toppings; over 1.5 million sold per Red...
Fat Sandwich
Massive sub with cheesesteak, chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, fries, and more; Rutgers University tradition.
Fat Moon
The Fat Moon is the grease-truck menu's breakfast-in-a-sub: chicken fingers, bacon, egg and fries in one roll. A quiet name that survived untouched when Rutgers made the trucks sanitize their boards.
Fat Darrell
The Rutgers grease-truck sub built entirely from the fried side of the menu: chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, and French fries on a sub roll, with marinara ladled through to hold the pile together.
Fat Cat
Fat sandwich with cheesesteak, chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, fries, lettuce, tomato.
Falafel Sandwich (American)
Fried chickpea fritters in pita with tahini, salad, and hot sauce; Middle Eastern import now ubiquitous at NYC food carts and nationwide.
Elena Ruz
A Havana socialite's off-menu order, made permanent under her name: turkey, cream cheese, and strawberry jam on soft medianoche bread, warm and sweet where the Cuban runs savory.
Eggplant Parm Hero
The eggplant parm hero is the senior parmigiana, the meatless form the veal and chicken heroes were copied from, and the only one whose own flesh sweats water into the bread if you skip the salting.
Eggplant Grinder
Breaded and fried eggplant with marinara and cheese on a grinder roll.
Egg Salad Sandwich
Get the ratio of mayonnaise to egg wrong and it is dry crumble or wet paste, with nothing to cover for it. Chopped egg, mayo, salt, soft bread: the floor of the sandwich, and the floor is the point.
Egg Salad Grinder
Egg salad on a toasted grinder roll; diner classic.
Egg Biscuit
Strip the meat off a Southern breakfast biscuit and you are left with egg in warm bread, where one name covers two different eggs: the cracked-fresh ring, the frozen fold, the kitchen skillet.
Egg Bagel Sandwich
Two eggs and a slice on an egg bagel, wrapped in foil at a New York counter. The egg-enriched ring is the hook, and the bread behind it crossed an ocean, organized a 1907 union.
Eastern NC BBQ Sandwich
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.
Duke's Mayo Tomato Sandwich
Tomato sandwich specifically made with Duke's mayonnaise.
Double-Double
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.
Döner Kebab (American)
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.
Dominican Chimi Burger
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.