Chicken Fried Steak Sandwich
Chicken-fried steak has no chicken in it: a cheap tenderized cube steak dredged and fried like fried chicken, closed in sponge-soft bread under a peppery cream gravy from the drippings.
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Chicken Cutlet Hoagie
Breaded fried chicken on hoagie roll with various toppings.
Chicken Cutlet Hero
Breaded and fried chicken cutlet on Italian hero with various toppings.
Chicken Cheesesteak
The chicken cheesesteak runs the cheesesteak method over a protein that brings none of its fat. Chopped chicken, melted provolone, and the oil the lean meat will not give, on a long roll.
Chicken and Waffles Sandwich
Fried chicken closed between two waffles, the grid doing what no flat slice can: its squared pockets pool maple syrup and hot sauce so the whole sweet-savory argument of brunch arrives in one hand.
Chick-fil-A Spicy Chicken Sandwich
Same as original with spicy seasoning blend in the breading; introduced 2010. Chick-fil-A averages $6.7M revenue per restaurant, highest ...
Chick-fil-A Original Chicken Sandwich
A sealed pressure fryer sets a tight crust fast, so the build is just a fillet, a buttered bun, two pickles. Sold under other names from 1964 to 1967, before Chick-fil-A had its own store.
Chick-fil-A Deluxe
The Chick-fil-A Deluxe is a 1980s reversal: lettuce, tomato, and cheese put back on the fried fillet the chain spent decades selling bare with two pickles. The same breast, against its own marketing.
Chick-fil-A Chicken Biscuit
Chick-fil-A’s pressure-fried breakfast fillet on a buttermilk biscuit baked in-store that morning: a Southern read on the chain’s one piece of chicken, no pickle, no sauce, plain by design.
Chicago-Style Egg Roll
The Chicago egg roll swaps pork and cabbage for seasoned ground beef in a wrapper fried hard enough to shatter, sometimes tucked into a bun. A corner-store staple with hot mustard and sweet sauce.
Chicago Hot Dog
A Chicago hot dog is an all-beef frank under a specified seven-part garden on a steamed poppy-seed bun, ordered as one phrase and built by a city that refuses to let anyone simplify it.
Cheesesteak Wit
Philly cheesesteak ordered 'wit' onions; standard parlance at Pat's and Geno's.
Cheesesteak Supreme
Cheesesteak with peppers, onions, and mushrooms.
Cheesesteak Hoagie
Philly cheesesteak with lettuce, tomato, onion, and mayo added.
Cheeseburger
A seared beef patty with American cheese laid on while it is still on the heat, so the slice melts into the crust and seals the meat. What the cheese changes runs through the whole sandwich.
Cheese Coney
A Cincinnati cheese coney finishes with a haystack of finely shredded cheddar over a cinnamon-spiced beanless chili, built in a fixed order on a steamed bun. Born at Empress Chili in 1922.
Carolina Whole Hog Sandwich
Whole hog (every part) slow-smoked over wood coals, chopped and dressed with vinegar-pepper sauce; the purest form of NC BBQ, served on a...
Carolina Slaw Dog
In the Carolinas you say "all the way" and get a fixed four-topping build: chili, mustard, slaw, and onions on a steamed bun. The slaw dog, a regional standard with no single author.
Carolina Pulled Pork
North Carolina splits on a sauce line: whole hog and thin vinegar-pepper to the east, Lexington shoulder and a ketchup-red "dip" west. The rivalry reached the legislature in 2006 and still lost.
Carne Asada Fries Torta
Carne asada fries in a torta roll; San Diego hybrid.
Capriotti's Bobbie
Capriotti's Bobbie folds a Thanksgiving dinner into a sub roll: turkey hand-pulled from whole birds roasted overnight, herbed stuffing, cranberry, and mayo. Wilmington, Delaware, since 1976.
Cannibal Sandwich
Raw ground beef on rye with onions and salt; Wisconsin holiday tradition, controversial.
California Fish Taco
San Diego-style fish taco with white sauce.