What Would Be on Your Larry David Sandwich?

For below post: do not forget greens! Préférence for a chopped romaine and arugula mix, but options abound!

Sandwiches are my absolute all-time favorite. They are great for all occasions and all seasons! I am a summer baby, through and through, and while many of these elements are not on my favorite foods list, the combination is divine. Behold the Niçoise Bagnat: Big bagnat bread Olive tapenade on one bun Roasted garlic mayo on the other (can add anchovies paste for extra umami if desired!) Half/half canned tuna and smashed cannelini bean mix, well seasoned (can add fresh bohnenkräuter if desired, lemon pepper also delightful) Red onions (can quick pickle for more flavor, but dry well before adding) Hard boiled egg Green beans (I prefer thawed frozen or jarred, but canned or quick blanched fresh are also good!) Serve with potato salad on the side (while i love all forms of potato salad, only vinegar and herb based is acceptable here. Sorry not sorry.) Happy Summer Snacking, y’all!

I am soooooo hungry now after reading these!! My new favorite sandwich is one I’ve ordered the last 3 nights in a row— rosemary focaccia with grilled chicken, spinach, avocado, pesto, and mayo. It’s so good. My at-home fave is a BLT with avocado and chipotle mayo on sourdough.

Usually there is no way my sandwich would not have avocado and mayo, but we just got back from Switzerland, and twice in Lucerne I had gruyere on walnut bread from Bachmann’s bakery, and it was perfection. Oh, and there was some butter in there too.

Omigoodness these are fun! My absolute fave is a toasted Montreal bagel (white seeds), buttered, with sliced tomato, pepper & salt, and Swiss cheese. Easy peasy comfort food ❤️

There are going to be a lot more quality sandos in our household now, which we shall call by the names of these women with marvelous taste, including the Robin, the No-Nonsense Sandy, the Jess, the Nikki, the Gretchen Alice, the Tracie, the Blueberry Bailey, the Katherine, the Lauren, the Millie, the JR, and so many others to try. Brava all!

ooo forgot about this one from another local deli – it is so much more delicious than it sounds: Blueberry Sandwich Fresh blueberries with pesto, goat cheese, arugula, red onions & havarti on grilled schiacciata

So many good ones here! Mine would be a vegetarian beet reuben like the one my local sandwich shop makes. It is perfection.

Gonna have to go with my sourdough, arugula, extra old cheddar and marmite grilled cheese. I usulaly have an avocado and tomato salade with that. Could eat that everyday.

This is antithesis to who I generally am with food in all respects, but sometimes an Oscar Meyer bologna with American on white with yellow mustard and potato chips is heaven sent.

Thin sliced turkey (sometimes I’ll switch it up and do a chicken cutlet), thin sliced provolone, lettuce, tomato, red onions, balsamic + extra mayo.

A grilled cheese sandwich filled with sliced turkey, brie cheese and caramelized onions.

Italian flatbread topped with roast beef, roasted red peppers, arugula, super sharp cheddar, horseradish. The best sandwich ever.

The Muffins Cafe on the Upper West Side makes the BEST crudités and pesto sandwich. It’s FULL of crunchy veggies on perfect whole wheat toast. One of my first stops on every NYC trip.

Did anyone else grow up eating **peanut butter and pickle** sandwiches? Mom, why?! In my head, I can’t think of a worse sandwich, but (it feels like I’m betraying myself when I acknowledge this) I remember liking them as a kid.

Bread: ciabatta, toasted with garlic butter or aioli Veg: arugula, tomato, sprouts (plenty) Centre: halloumi, mozzarella, or marinated tofu Side: fries 🙂

Good Italian salami on a sourdough roll, with pickles, olives, peppercini..mustard, a dab of mayo……or….summer heirloom tomatoes on quality sourdough, mayo, salt/pepper…mayo a drizzle of olive oil.

Ugh! Thank you all SO much. I’m currently pregnant and sandwiches are all I want. So many wonderful ideas here, I am taking notes, thanks for taking the time to share!

My dear friend who is a chef invented the veggie toast at B*Side in Seattle. I moved back east 3 years ago and I dream of it every day: open faced, toasted sourdough, homemade whipped cashew butter, beets that have been shredded and quick pickled in sherry vinegar and 2% salt by weight, topped with a mess of herbs (parsley cilantro dill mint), a glug of olive oil, and za’atar. If it were something only I make and eat: the Christina is: open faced sourdough toasted with Trader Joe’s creamy almond butter spread on the toast, fork smashed ripe banana on top, drizzled with olive oil, and a generous sprinkling of maldon salt.

Really good sourdough, perfectly ripe mashed avocado, sea salt, fishwives pickled lemon sardines. Perfection!

The sandwich I’d love to have named after me, I haven’t actually had. I love a pile of arugula on pretty much every sandwich, and really wish I’d had the opportunity to customize my favorite one (porchetta at Salumi in Seattle) this way.

I now have a bunch of screen shots of sandwich ideas 🤣 For me, it would be crunchy peanut butter (preferably fresh ground from Krema Nut Company in Columbus, Ohio) along with very thinly sliced Bubbes dill pickles on toasted sourdough. A fave a mine while pregnant that I still indulge occasionally.

I feel like this should be the sandwich you make that other people don’t, so while the perfect sandwich is and always shall be good white bread, lightly toasted, with mayo and perfect ripe tomato, my sandwich would be toasted thick cut good white bread, mayo, sliced tofu drizzled with soy, sliced cucumber and cilantro. It’s a delicious, hearty summer sandwich.

mine only qualifies as a sandwich “technically” as it two slices of toast between two slices of toast, i.e. a stack of four slices of white bread or sour dough toast, not too darkly toasted, with margarine spread on them. it used to be salted butter, but 21st century butter has too high a water content so I end up with soggy toast.

Anything, really. As long as it comes with a ginormous side of Fritos, we’re good.

I love so many of these ideas in the comments. I can’t tell if the assignment was to pick our favorite sandwich to be named after us, or to add our name to our own creation. So here’s both: the swordfish steak sandwich at the Net Result on Martha’s Vineyard. Or a homemade creation I riff on from a recipe on Ali Stafford’s site, called the 44 Special: Roasted sweet potato, pickled onions, arugula, goat cheese, aioli, rye bread.

Sourdough, a thick slice of beefsteak tomato, Y-peeled cucumber ribbons, SPREADABLE cream cheese (THOU SHALL NOT SMUSH THY BREAD), good dijon mustard, salt, pepper, olive oil. Nothing can spill out or get messy. I’d call it the No-nonsense Sandy; under $8 with tax.

Crabcake sandwich with a ketchup horseradish sauce on the side.

I cannot get enough of toasted sourdough topped with whipped cottage cheese, finely chopped cucumber, tomato and avocado and lots of salt.

Oh, I’ve got this. I got it at a bodega on my 2nd week in NYC and it’s been my only breakfast order for the last 15 years. Bacon, egg, cheese (extra cheese, if I’m hungover), with avocado and hot sauce on a croissant. Slaps every time! (Though, I did get it last week on a blueberry french toast bagel and it was delish!!)

while I am not Lisa- that is the perfect Zingerman’s sandwich- Lisa’s Honey- a shed ton of Vermont white cheddar and honey mustard with a good tomato grilled on challah bread. The perfection is in the gooey crunch ratio – If you know, you know…. I dream of this sandwich and when I go back to Ann Arbor, they have to look it up in the retired sandwich directory… which makes me feel old and also so appreciative that they have the directory and are willing to use it!

I have two- one I make myself, which is fried egg, bacon and cheddar on a toasted bagel. The other is my go to order from my favorite place in my hometown. It’s a bagel with sliced turkey, melted muenster cheese and bacon. It’s delicious and I miss it so much.

Reading these with interest but I think, when it comes down to it, I would happily eat a cheese and pickle sandwich every day of the week. Got to be white sliced loaf, got to be a good strong British cheese (cheddar, double Gloucester, Red Leicester) and Branston Pickle. Bread well buttered. I don’t think life gets any finer.

I’ve had this on repeat for a few years: homemade thousand island dressing (hipfoodiemom), good turkey (I like kirkland), sometimes cheese, trader joe’s coleslaw mix, and picked red onions (loveandlemons). Good on all kinds of bread and buns!

Pimento cheese & fried green tomato w/ Dukes’s on Texas toast. Add jalapeños if feeling spicy.

Been going to the same Italian deli close to where we live for 15 years now. I would be so honoured if they named a sandwich after me! My order crusty Italian bread, fresh mozzarella, marinated eggplant, artichokes and zucchini, black pepper, drizzle of balsamic and olive oil. My 7 year old just started adding eggplant to his mozzarella sandwich on my birthday last week. Felt like he is learning to love my sandwich. What a right of passage. I am loving this slightly older kid time (4 and 7). Crossing my fingers for many more birthdays eating the best sandwich and reading books with my wonderful boys.

Ham with cheddar cheese, sliced apple and honey mustard on rye or really good bread grilled! If you don’t like ham or can’t eat it sub turkey and make sure you put cheese the top and bottom of the sandwich so when you cook it the contents of the sandwich stay in place!

I own a fitness studio in Philadelphia and on the street level below us there is an awesome family owned deli. It’s apparently very hard to get a sandwich named after you, they already have so many awesome combos. I have been trying for years to get a sandwich named after the studio – this goal might matter more to me than any other goal I have for the business.

I thought you’d never ask! Swoon. “The Rebecca” Boar’s Head honey maple turkey, shaved Smoked Gouda Granny Smith apples, very thinly sliced Dijon honey mustard Pickled red onion Jalapeno kettle chips On a thinly sliced cranberry nut wheat bread.

My current favourite is sliced roast beef, smoked cheese, chilli crisp and sweetcorn on a demi baguette or crusty white roll. But sandwich I’ve eaten the most times in life is definitely mature cheddar and marmite. Can’t beat it.

The California Delight at Board & Brew in southern California: Turkey breast, cream cheese, roasted unsalted sunflower seeds, sprouts, lettuce, tomato, & mayo on sweet wheat bread. I also get a side of their secret sauce for dipping.

There was a local restaurant (rip now) that made a sandwich I still replicate as my favorite – a BLT but on toasted Texas Toast bread, spread with peach jam on one side, thick cut pepper bacon, thin cut tomato, sliced avocado, and shredded lettuce tossed with mayo. That sweet peach jam really sets off the peppery crisp bacon!

My favorite sandwich of all time is the red snapper sandwich from Working Girl Cafe in San Francisco. Sub a wheat roll and no mayo because the sandwich is so moist already you don’t need it. It’s perfectly balanced and incredibly delicious. I used to treat myself once a week when I worked in the financial district. And I would talk about it to my colleagues who would all look at me skeptically. Two of my colleagues went together and ordered them. Later they told me they each took their first bite, looked at each other and said, damn it shes so right.

My oldest son eats one we lovingly call “The BreathKiller” – garlic bagel, lox, red onions, capers, NO CREAM CHEESE”

We literally have a sandwich we jokingly call “the George” that is known in our friend group. IT IS: Cinnamon raisin bagel, toasted Butter Bacon egg & cheese THE GEORGE. Know it, love it.

when i was pregnant with my first son and in the throes of first trimester nausea, the first real meal i was able to tolerate (other than the ol’ crackers and gatorade special) was a toasted thomas cinnamon raisin english muffin topped with 2 scrambled eggs cooked in the microwave in a bowl so they’re the perfect little patty size (this is the perfect texture when pregnant; don’t @ me), and exactly one slice of cheddar cheese, all sandwiched together, made by my mom (the most important part). it hit the freaking spot and became my hyperfixation meal, although it always tasted 1000% better when she made it <3 this remains my favorite sandwich and now she makes them for my sons, too!

If I ever have to leave my job, I plan to open a sandwich shop called BLT’s (for Billie, Leroy and Tommy, beloved grandmother and uncles). Billie wasn’t much of a sandwich eater but made my grandfather a grilled cheese every day of their married life (60+ years), so that would be the Irwin. Leroy was a hippie, so a classic California veggie sandwich on seeded bread for him, and for my uncle Tommy who was a prankster, a cow tongue sandwich once a week because he tricked his sister into eating one fifty years ago and the story still makes us all cry with laughter.

Really good baguette, salty Virginia ham, creamy provolone, lettuce, avocado, and a mayo-y, tangy, herby house dressing. Also, Joanna, I’ve been making that egg and cheese for myself regularly since Deb posted the recipe on COJ 14 years ago.

Fifteen years ago, my husband and I decided to pack a picnic and go for a hike (as much as one can “hike” in suburban Chicago). I made us Food & Wine’s take on tuna bocadillos. I guess I was really talking them up – before, during, and after consumption. My husband thought they were just fine. He still teases me about how I waxed rhapsodic about those humble tuna sandwiches, so I guess that’s my signature sandwich.

oooh no way can I choose just one. A few options: *Jambon beurre on baguette (eaten on the streets of Paris) *Bacon egg and cheese, thin slices of avo and tomato, plus scallion cream cheese on a not-monstrously-sized lightly toasted everything bagel. *Crunchy peanut butter, sliced bananas, chocolate chips on soft whole wheat sandwich bread (eaten during my first pregnancy).

My dad used to embarrass me at Subway because he would request to go to the *end* of the sandwich line first so that he could get the mayo next to the tomato and about a dozen other peculiarities. But now that I’m an adult I GET IT.

We make a roll for beach days called “The Beach Roll”. The bun is key – typically we go for a white bun with crispy top coated in sesame seeds. Then you butter both sides, thin slices of tomato, very mature cheddar cheese, one leaf of crisp lettuce, mustard, mayo, salt and pepper. Enjoy while sitting on the beach with a cold drink. Best meal on earth.

My husband and I kind of do have our own sandwich at my friend’s coffee shop – blueberry bagel with scrambled egg schmear. We’re almost the only people who order it, to where when someone *does* order it someone in the back assumes it’s us (and 99% of the time, it is) Otherwise, I worked at a deli through college and I made my own sandwich: muligrain baguette with roast turkey, colby jack, pickles, lots of black olives, red onion, green pepper, tomato, cucumber, salt/pepper, oregano, mustard, garlic/herb mayo.

Almost 20 years ago, in my very early twenties, I lived in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. There was (and still is!) a great shop called City Feed. Their #9 – Farmer’s Lunch Sandwich is my platonic ideal. Extra sharp cheddar, mayo, granny smith apple, pickled green tomato, grain mustard and red leaf lettuce on an Iggy’s baguette. IFYKYK.

#1- The Surfer- Grilled (!) peanut butter and jelly, on sourdough if possible, potato chips and a cold glass of milk on the side. #2- The Brit- Thick-sliced sourdough, sliced Seaside cheddar, and small chunk Branston pickle smeared evenly over both slices of bread. #3- The Old Hippie- Ciabatta or focaccia sliced open horizontally, smeared with mayo, drizzled with olive oil, maybe a smear of hummus, layered with marinated chickpeas, sliced olives, extremely thinly sliced Vidalia onion, sun dried tomatoes in oil, feta cheese crumbles, sweet hot pickled peppers, heaps of arugula or mixed super greens, salt, pepper, a little more olive oil, wrapped in waxed paper, then foil, left overnight in the fridge pressed beneath any heavy items you might have in the fridge (leftover lasagna?), served in unmanageable, messy, delicious squares with a glass of white wine at a picnic on the grounds of a botanical garden or on a hike, with humans you love.

Inspired by an old school Waterbury CT Italian deli: Fried artichoke hearts, fresh mozzarella, hot cherry peppers and horseradish creme on a soft Italian roll. Perfection in sandwich form!

Man, I love a good sandwich! Mine would be chicken salad (chicken, walnuts, apples, red onion, mayo) and sprouts on cinnamon raisin bread!

This isn’t really *my* sandwich, but the sandwich of my daughtership to my dad: honey white bread with good butter and Genoa salami. When I was in grade school, for a treat, my dad would take me to a local bakery that was next to an Italian deli and we’d rush home and make the best pre-dinner sandwiches before my mom got home. My dad has dementia now, and it’s really really hard, but thinking about those sandwiches makes me so happy. This is inspiring me to go get us some bread and salami.

BLT with dill cream cheese on an un-toasted sourdough bagel

Ohhh Probably classic egg and cheese on a bagel or a caprese sandwich on focaccia !

Toasted sourdough spread with mustard and honey with sharp cheddar or smoked gouda, tart apple slices, turkey, and radicchio. *chef’s kiss*

Inspired by Milano Market in Morningside Heights: Rosemary focaccia bread with fresh pesto, avocado, tomato, fresh mozzarella, basil, and arugula. So delicious I recreated it at home in Michigan and served to my family and friends for my baby shower years ago.

Rosemary and sea salt sourdough bread from my local bakery, branstons pickle spread (small chunks), dijon mustard, mayo, salt, pepper, really good tomato, arugula, gouda cheese, and ham.

Summer: BLT 4ever All other times: PBJ, crunchy PB and strawberry or blackberry jam PS. RIP Colbert Questionnaire, best sandwich q was always fun.

uno reverse, you say? OK. I accidentally named my daughter after a sandwich. I was very ill during pregnancy, and the only meat that tasted good was a meatball sub from a restaurant called Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli, near my office in Denver. I ate it at least once a week. I didn’t even make the connection to her name, but somehow “Heidi” ended up on the top 3 names list we entered the hospital with, and it was the name she exited the hospital with. Months later, I took her downtown to meet some work friends for lunch, and that’s when it hit me that I’d named my daughter after a sub. (wtf) Heidi is 3 years old now, and in her toddler pickiness will eat 6-8 ounces of meatballs once a week as her main source of protein. It’s incredible and so, so funny to me.

I guess it would be the sandwich I’ve had for lunch the last few days! Applewood smoked turkey, havarti, sprouts, mayo and mustard, toasted whole grain bread. But there are so many good sandwiches to choose from! Ham and brie on a baguette is a serious fave, same with a classic caprese.

Dark chocolate slightly melted an a grilled baguette

Oh I do have one, if we can bend the rules a little with a grill? Anna Jones’ miso rarebit- cheddar, crème fraiche, lime and chilli mixed and melted on toasted sourdough with lime chilli and coriander dressed cucumber salad. The woman is a genius

There are options here for me: 1. Grilled cheese with mild cheddar, havarti, goat cheese and a raspberry jam. 2. Pretty much the Chick-fil-A pimento honey jalapeno chicken sandwich. Perfection.

Mine would be a turkey sandwich on toasted sourdough with giardinara, lettuce, tomato (from my garden!), and mayo.