While the controversy about the vegan hotdog is still goin on, I introduce you guys this beautiful “soup sandwich”.
I’m all for a good sandwich with delicious sauces, but how are you supposed to eat this? I would argue it’s not a sandwich once the bread is too soaked to pick up. It’s not even about getting your hands wet and gross, which is bad enough, but the real problem is the lower slice won’t have any structural integrity. Shits gonna fall apart and all into your lap.
Instead, I recommend using a knife and fork so you can chop it up like a salad, and it can complete the set as a “soup sandwich salad.”
I agreed that it’s losing its benefits of being a sandwich when soaked like that, but there are many sandwiches that are wet or require knife & fork.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torta_ahogada
…require knife & fork.
Sort of…
Depending on the company and setting, perhaps. But they can still be eaten with hands, provided there’s a napkin and preferably a little water around, afterwards.As someone who grew up in Philly, we have a local/regional sandwich that’s a whole lot messier than that Chicago one. I think once or twice in my life did I see someone eating it with a knife and fork, and I suspect they were from out of town.
What regional Philly sandwich? I’ve only had cheesesteak, pork & greens, and some scrapple breakfast thing. Not a fan of scrapple
Cheesesteak, bingo. A greasy, unhealthy steak sandwich with lots of cheese… or cheese-product, haha.
Never heard of pork & greens being a Philly thing, especially. Scrapple’s pretty good when made right, sort of like smashed “homefry” potatoes, but the ingredients are kinda nasty, like hotdogs, etc.
The roast pork and broccoli rabe is my go to over the cheesesteak every time I’m in Philly. I can’t remember the name but there’s a place at Reading Terminal Market that has one I dream about
You might be thinking of Dinics.
Yes!! That’s it
I have not had the Torta, but I’ve eaten the other two and they weren’t soaked in soup. I also like a good french dip, but there you dip the bread a little at a time.
Shits gonna fall apart and all into your lap.
I’ll tell you what I tell my 3½ year old and five year old: “Lean your chin over your plate [god-damnit!].” (The god-damnit is said quietly in my head, lol.)
I always have a plate and eat above it no matter how structurally sound my sandwich is. Crumbs and little bits always find themselves falling off. I highly recommend it.
If I did that, my dog wouldn’t love me anymore.
Well then you have no issues with this sandwich I guess 😄
I’d presume you’d eat it like a hot chicken sandwich, ie fork and knife.
I don’t think my mental image of a chicken sandwich is the same as yours, but I do enjoy an open faced tuna melt, which I find is easier to eat with a knife and fork. But I don’t really consider that a sandwich, either. It’s more like chipped beef on toast, which I suppose you could argue is also a sandwich.
I have never heard of eating a chicken sandwich with a fork and knife, hot or otherwise.
Are we going back to definitions territory or are you willing to explore new ways of eating your food?
By the way, for the particular case of the chicken sandwich the knife might turn out to be handy if the chicken is alive ;)
I’m not really sure what you’re asking or where the dichotomy is. Are you referring to a specific type of chicken sandwich in your region which is typically eaten with utensils? Because I have never in my life seen or heard of someone eating a chicken sandwich with utensils. I’m sure there are people who don’t like getting their fingers messy who do so, but they are the odd ones out.
Just kidding. I don’t see nothing wrong eating with cutlery or getting your fingers sticky. Just a matter of preference.
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Not the same person, but all of the top results in a search for a sandwich not eaten with hands were posts relating to etiquette. Scrolling down, it did mention one sandwich (not the one you link anywhere on the page) but even that didn’t say in the summary that utensils were required.
I did look it up. The most common result I found was a hot Nashville style fried chicken sandwich, which is eaten with the hands.
I think I’d have the soup separate and dunk the sandwich liberally, but I can see spreading some on both pieces of bread first, too
Or thicken it so it’s more of a sauce then a soup…or if daring enough a spread.
I love this!
You could seal the bread with cheese and toast it and you wouldn’t have that problem.
And you could totally still make it into a salad that way if you wanted, it would just have cheese croutons :)
Go back to sleep, babe. There’s no such thing as a soup sandwich. It can’t hurt you.
Yo I hope you don’t feel much about the vegan hot dog thing, that one user was outta pocket. Shit looked good and of all the products to say shit on, the vegan hot dog is the wildest as the substitutes are damn good these days.
Also your soup sandwich looks delicious, tho it looks like one of those meals you need to eschew manners to eat and savor the mess after. I see cucumber, zucchini, mushrooms there, what else ya got on it?
Thanks for your support! Not much really. On top what you already make, it has a bit of mozzarella, some oat cream and garlic.
I ate two of these and it felt as a complete meal.
Actually there is a bit more to it. From the cucumber I only used the skin. Also, i used sourdough bread.
Combining elements of both to make something not as good as either.
This loser doesn’t want a hot, wet mess in his mouth.
Holy shit, that other thread was something else. Some people become unhinged at the thought of others doing things differently from them.
This sandwich looks bomb af. Got recipe?
Hi, I dont have a proper recipe for this. Actually I was doing some sort of mushroom sauce for the pasta but then a few friends from my son showed up for dinner. So I sacrificed my pasta and got creative with the bread and some extra ingredients.
Recipe? You make soup, you chuck it on a butty, bish bash bosh.
Soup Sandwhich, amazing.
I came here not unhinged, but more like “WTF ,mate?” .
But shoot i’d try this beautiful bastard of a sammich!
I dunno about this… I see a wet cucumber and I’m runnin
What about pickles?
O shit 0.o
I love pickles. I don’t think I can live with this contradiction
Damn, you must hate cucumber water.
Could be a courgette, that’s a much more common vegetable soup ingredient.
I randomly had a Mason jar and a cucumber (for homemade sushi, not butt stuff) and decided to do some hippy shit and threw sliced cucumber and strawberries with filtered water in the jar. It was actually pretty amazing.
Ordered cucumber limeade once thinking it would be a refreshing cucumber-tinged beverage and it turned out to be more like a lime-tinged glass of thick cucumber glop. It actually tasted pretty good but the milkshake-but-a-cucumber vibe was just too much.
Ngl, I don’t like unpickled cucumber, but I’d try this anyway. With a fork handy, but a good sourdough should hold up to a sauce like that.
This MAY work, if you toasted the bread super crispy first to give the soup something to soak into.
As a heavily mustachioed and embearded individual I am 100% down with a knife and fork sandwich, I’d eat this for sure.
So… Would a sourdough bowl filled with clam chowder be considered a soup sandwich? 🤔
Honestly… Looks pretty good!
Why the fuck is this downvoted?? You’re only giving an opinion. And I agree, I’d make a complete mess but the sandwich looks great.
Thanks!
I’m using sourdough bread.
