The chips provide a nice crunchy texture you don't get from most sandwiches. The chips could live on the sandwich though, a nice alternative.
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Is it common to make big multi-topping sandwiches in the US?
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The chips provide a nice crunchy texture you don't get from most sandwiches. The chips could live on the sandwich though, a nice alternative.
Shadax the wizard
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At least have the decency to chose Doritos instead. Crisp bread is fucking awesome though and gets too little love.
Tarkus
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If you mean French fries. When I eat McDonald's, I put fries on the burger.
Tarkus
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Yes, shoestring potato batons.
butzopower
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There's a Peruvian food truck in San Francisco that does a Lomo Saltado sandwich that is really really good, and it has fries on it.
A Fish Aficionado
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Porto's in LA cubano with plantain chips
Doritos would be a bad choice here. The harsh artificial cheese flavor would take away from the provolone and avocado. BBQ Chips are a great choice adding a slightly smokey and spicy flavor.
hydrophilic attack
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Christmas is here, and with it delicious fruit bread cheese sandwiches. MERRY CHRISTMAS SANDWICH-GAF
Looks great. What Americans don't understand is the mich higher average quality of ingredients in Europe. You don't need to stuff your sandwiches full of stuff, if the bread and toppings themselves are great quality. Sure, you can get good quality ingredients in the US too, but it's much harder to find and the average person will get crappy ingredients much more often than here in Europe based on my experiences from living in different parts of the world.
butzopower
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While we're talking plantain, let's add some Jibarito sandwiches from Chiacgo to the mix:
This is lunch in USA (
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This is lunch in USA (
I've never seen these anywhere outside of downtown Chicago
Bullshit.
High quality and variety is probably better here. Even basic grocery stores have tons of variety in types of meat, cheese, veg and bread.
LookAtMeGo
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Oh hell yeah. I always put my bag of chips or crisps or whatever you kids call them these days on my subs.
ElectricBlanketFire
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We've been over this. They are not much harder to find.
butzopower
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Nah, even Tescos have bread better than 85% of the bread you can get at a grocery store in the US, in my experience. The butter is also quite a bit better as well. A lot of groceries are also cheaper unless you are talking like Target / Walmart.
We Americans put more food on our sandwiches because it's delicious!Butts-a-plenty
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Oh please. When I was living over there most people were living off the option at Lidl + Aldi, not these fresh baked loaves.
This shit.
Shadax the wizard
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BBQ? C'mon, I'd rather make Simply Sara BBQ sammies and top it off with some Cheetos and sweet fruit beer.
Chips should never go along with proper food.
Lidl is low-teir where I live, we avoid that place.
Butts-a-plenty
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Chips + pickle is the classic side for a lunch sandwich, you're wrong bro.
Doesn't change the fact that Lidl + Aldi are by far the fastest growing grocery stores across the Europe.
Haunted Tank
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Who buys that packaged shit from grocery stores? Don't you have bakeries?
man what's the carbs phobia? can't possibily be worse than mayo if eat it frequently. it's heavy on oil and eggs, they're gonna clog your veins with cholesterol
usually you don't get fat because you eat bread, you get fat because you eat bread with too many shits on it
Speaking as European, it could get relatively expensive to make a big multi-topping sandwich with various cheeses and meats. Sandwich shops here (Belgium) usually only have one main topping, some veggies and mayo/mustard for around 3-4 euro (which would be equivalent to the same amount in dollar).
everyday math
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It's not hard at all.
Butts-a-plenty
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Fresh baked bread is good the day of, sure. But if you need something with a little shelf life sliced bread is where its at.
In what reality is mustard bad for you? It has like zero calories and has a bunch of healthy nutrients.
Shadax the wizard
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Now that I think of it Subway does indeed have a bag of chips as a side order here. I still think it's the weirdest thing ever though.
EDIT: However, Subway is the only place to ever do this and it's otherwise unheard of.
butzopower
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See, no one said this looked bad. What do you think of the first sandwich the OP posted?
Does that look great? Does that give the impression of higher average quality?
Europeans giving Americans shit for being fat and yet they think it's weird that we put whole veggies on our sandwiches and think every piece of bread has to have butter slathered on it.
Euro-bros need to be more consistent.
Euro-bros need to be more consistent.
hydrophilic attack
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Well, there's research about it:
Shit like this is not nearly as widespread in Europe, at least not outside the UK which shares the Anglo-saxon heritage of inequality and social stratification.
See, no one said this looked bad. What do you think of the first sandwich the OP posted?
Does that look great? Does that give the impression of higher average quality?
Looks like really bad quality bread, but probably nice Swedish hardcheese.
Manmademan
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Complete bullshit. It's trivial to find high quality groceries in the US unless you're stuck in flyover country.
yes my mistake
Has Europe not learned how to count macros yet and how to fit anything into your daily diet?
Edit: I don't think you know how calories work
You do realize that most of those counties in dark green are super-rural, right? Barely anybody lives in them. I'm actually surprised that some of the counties in that map have supermarkets in them at all, like those Eastern Nevada counties. Shit's barren.
What you'll find is that Americans are generally fatter the poorer they are. Income inequality has little to do with accessibility to supermarkets.
hydrophilic attack
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That was sort of my initial point. Due to higher income inequality the AVERAGE American on on AVERAGE gets lower quality ingredients as poorer people are left with much worse options. I very carefully used the word average in my initial post
i don't think that's a problem in europe
butzopower
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But that doesn't explain why you said it was harder to find better ingredients?
Who believes that?
Butts-a-plenty
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What's not a problem? You can count macros to lose and gain weight.
Everyone? It doesn't matter what you "believe", because it's....a fact.
Carbohydrates (ie bread and sugar), are converted in your body to the same thing: glucose. It doesn't matter if it comes from sugar or a slice of bread. It's literally the same thing wrapped in a different package.
This in turn raises your blood sugar which is toxic to your body. Then insulin comes out to deal with this excess blood sugar, storing it as fat in your cells, making you fat. So there's a bunch of negative things happening at once.
I don't know why this seems to be nonintuitive for people. Maybe because they've been told growing up that bread (grains) are healthy for some reason and you're now anchored to that belief?
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/carbohydrates-and-blood-sugar/
hydrophilic attack
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Because of the high economic segregation in America, usually many poor people live in the same areas. In these areas, groceries don't carry High-quality ingredients, because it wouldn't make business sense, and in these areas they're therefore hard to find.
Lionel Mandrake
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Jesus Christ, that cheese toast thing is so bad it made this thread turn classist.
See, no one said this looked bad. What do you think of the first sandwich the OP posted?
Does that look great? Does that give the impression of higher average quality?
The cheese is good cheese, the bread, although tasty, is the average white sugary stuff a kid might eat for breakfast before school, I wasn't expecting a gourmet battle when I made the thread so I didn't want to post something fancy. It's not even my pic (I don't buy cheap bread like that), I found it on google. Maybe someone should reverse image search and contact the owner of the photo and link them to this thread.
butzopower
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And this is where American GAF lives and why we don't understand fresh ingredients?
Well, have you looked at the picture posted in the thread?
Most american sandwiches posted are like 90% meat and fat, 5% vegies and 5% bread, so...
What astonishes me most aren't the ingredient, it's the sheer amount of them (both in number of ingredients and the quantity of each ingredient).
Porto's in LA cubano with plantain chips
Fuck me that looks good. I haven't found good Cuban food since I left Miami.
Butts-a-plenty
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It's disingenuous. Bread contains healthy fats, potassium, protein, fiber and vitamins. Sugar contains none of those. Carbs are also necessary for good cardio.
