Miami Sandwich
The Miami sandwich is a deli club that switched loaves: ham, turkey, bacon, Swiss, lettuce, tomato, and mayo, built cold on Cuban bread. The loaf is the whole point.
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Memphis Rib Tips Sandwich
The rib tip is an off-cut, and the Memphis sandwich built on it does not hide that: cartilage-laced spare-rib trim, smoked soft and sauced, piled on plain white bread that soaks the sauce.
Memphis BBQ Sandwich
Memphis pork sandwich's one structurally definitive call: the slaw goes inside the bun. Hickory-smoked shoulder, thin tomato-vinegar sauce, cold cabbage on top of the meat at Tops since 1952.
Medianoche
Same fillings as a Cuban sandwich but on sweet, egg-enriched yellow bread (pan suave); named 'midnight sandwich' because it was served at...
Meatball Sub
Meatballs in marinara with melted mozzarella on a sub roll.
Meatball Parm Hero
The New York meatball parm hero: bread-bound meatballs simmered in marinara, capped with mozzarella, and broiled on a hero. Soft filling on soft bread, the one parm with no crisp shell to defend.
Meatball Hoagie
Beef-and-pork meatballs in clinging gravy on a seeded Italian hoagie roll from Sarcone's, Amoroso's, or Liscio's, finished with aged sharp provolone. Philadelphia discipline, not a soft-roll sub.
Meatball Grinder
The New England meatball grinder: meatballs in marinara on a sturdy Italian roll, finished under a broiler with melted mozzarella until the cheese blisters and the crust deepens to mahogany.
McDonald's McRib
A boneless pork patty pressed into the shape of a rib rack, lacquered in barbecue sauce, with onion and pickle on a corn-dusted roll. The fast-food item built to vanish and return.
McDonald's McCrispy
A flat, wide white-meat fillet with crinkle-cut pickles on a toasted potato roll. McDonald's launched it 24 February 2021 as the Crispy Chicken Sandwich, then renamed it McCrispy in 2023.
McDonald's Filet-O-Fish
A steamed bun, a breaded pollock fillet, half a slice of American cheese, and a cold tartar on the crown. McDonald's chain-product reading of the 1962 Cincinnati Lent build.
McDonald's Big Mac
Two beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, American cheese, pickles, and onions on a sesame seed three-part bun; created 1968 by Jim Delli...
Maxwell Street Polish
Grilled Polish sausage on a bun with grilled onions and yellow mustard; Maxwell Street Market original.
Matzo Ball Soup Sandwich
Some delis serve matzo ball with chicken on bread; niche item.
Maple Bacon Burger
A hard-seared cheeseburger that swaps tang for sugar: bacon candied in maple syrup, sharp cheddar to cut it, built around Vermont's two signature products.
Manapua
Hawaiian char siu bao (steamed pork bun); Chinese-Hawaiian.
Maine Lobster Roll
Cold picked lobster barely bound with mayonnaise and lemon, mounded on a toasted split-top roll. A lobster salad on a hot-dog bun, and the version most of the country pictures.
Maid-Rite
The branded Iowa loose-meat sandwich: finely ground beef cooked loose and dry, no tomato, on a steamed bun, franchised out of Muscatine in 1926.
Loose Meat Sandwich
Seasoned ground beef, browned into loose crumbles, piled on a soft bun with no sauce and a spoon on the side. The Iowa lunch that gave up the patty on purpose, and that three towns still claim.
Long Island Bacon Egg and Cheese
On a Long Island deli counter the BEC call is bacon egg cheese on a roll, and the roll is always a kaiser; the regional build that anchors a generation of Nassau and Suffolk mornings.
Lomi Lomi Salmon Sandwich
Lomi lomi salmon (cured salmon with tomatoes and onions) on bread.
Lobster Grinder
Picked lobster bound in mayonnaise or warmed in butter, packed into a foot-long sub roll over iceberg and tomato; the southern New England Italian-sub reading of lobster.
Livermush Sandwich
Fried livermush (pork liver and cornmeal) on bread; Shelby, NC specialty.
Lexington BBQ Sandwich
Pork shoulder smoked over oak, chopped, doused in the thin vinegar-and-ketchup "dip," and capped with red slaw dressed the same way. The Piedmont North Carolina build, and its one-ingredient line.