Food Memories: What's Your Favorite Sandwich, Ever?

Today Conan O'Brien tweeted that he's "only enjoyed four sandwiches in his life." Depressing, Conan! While I've had quite a few meals I can't recall, there are a few sandwiches in particular I remember as being fantastic. Do you have four favorite sandwiches? Read on for mine!

1. My grandmother's Peanut Butter and Bacon Sandwich - I can still taste the crisp, salty bacon fighting with the creamy sweet peanut butter for my taste buds' attention. Her secret was generously buttering the white bread before slathering it with peanut butter. My secret was to try my hardest to eat it slow enough.

2. The Roasted Sweet Potato Pesto Wrap in Denver - I was visiting my college roommate in Denver when she brought me to a vegetarian restaurant with the best wrap I've ever tasted. Wraps are usually just poor substitutes for good, thick bread. Not this one. Filled with roasted sweet potatoes, caramelized onions, roasted mushrooms and a generous coating of pesto, it was sweet, savory, and incredibly satisfying.

3. The Russian Deli Special - I used to love this tiny Russian deli outside of Detroit so much I'd bring dates there just so I could have my favorite sandwich. Small, cramped, and with plenty of fluorescent lighting, it really was the opposite of anywhere you'd want to go on a date. But my love for that sandwich drove me to turn a blind eye. It consisted of roasted turkey sliced thin, piled with coleslaw and Russian dressing on good rye bread. Creamy, messy, and perfect.

4. The Doner Kebab with Fries - You might have tried a gyros or kebab sandwiches before, but nothing compares to the kebab stands in Europe. These aren't exactly classy joints, but for fast, convenient, and inexpensive food, there's nothing like a doner kebab. Stacked meat shaved thin and wrapped in a hot pita with onions, tomatoes, "white sauce" and the "spicy sauce," these hunger ceasing behemoths are greasy and wonderful. And better yet are the stands that will throw a few French fries as well.

What are your favorite sandwiches?

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Comments (89)

Ooh, that vegetarian wrap sounds fabulous. I often feel like veggie wraps aren't very filling, but that sounds so hearty.

My favorite sandwich ever is very similar to the Russian Deli Sandwich, but substitute good pastrami for the turkey, and oh my, heaven.

I also can't get over my childhood delight of thinly sliced turkey, sharp cheddar cheese and pickles on plain old wheat bread. Add some Sun Chips, and yum!!

I don't know if I could pick just one but I do love a peanut butter, banana and honey sandwich on ww bread, lightly toasted. My husband can make some killer sandiwches though so I pretty much enjoy everything he makes.

BLTs, grilled veggie, leftover Thanksgiving turkey and cranberry-they are all good!

Vegetarian banh mi, all day, every day.

My favorite sandwich ever, the one that turned me on to the awesomeness of sandwiches, was a double decker turkey and roast beef with munster on pumpernickel/rye swirl bread.

It was our senior trip to NYC, and our bus was driven by a mean-ass driver who refused to stop for dinner, even when a traffic snarl kept us from NYC until nine. We stopped at a deli, and starving, I asked for whatever was fastest and filled with the most protein. I was shaking, in the middle of a hypoglycemic attack, so the waitress just grabbed the first thing out of the kitchen and gave it to me.

I learned several things:

Double deckers rule
Mixing meats is AWESOME
Even if they just kept you from passing out, waitresses in NYC do not want hugs

Hands down, the best sandwich I have ever been blessed to eat is at Hattie's in Oak Cliff's Bishop Art District (Dallas, TX).

The fried green tomato sandwich with pimento cheese, roasted pepper, basil mayonnaise, and crispy bacon on sourdough bread. . . and the sweet potato fries make it even better.

Best sandwich ever would have to be the conquistador sandwich at Zunzi's in Savannah, Georgia. I had it last year on a quick trip and fell in loveee. Unbelievably tender chicken with two secret sauces on soft chewy bread...amazing!!!

My fav sandwiches are:

-Vietnamese beef sandwich, which looks exactly like the one pictured above.

-Blt with avocado and blue cheese on good french bread.

-Fish sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and extra tarter sauce on a roll.

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Lord help me, the fried green tomato and pimento cheese sandwich sounds absolutely DIVINE!!

I love Zingerman's Corned beef sandwich with Brinery kraut.

BLT's from when I was a kid--We grew the tomatoes and lettuce and my mom would purchase Pepperidge Farms white bread and toast it for just such summer occasions.

Summer tomato sandwiches with Miracle Whip.

Natural peanut butter and honey on Brownberry original whole wheat bread. The honey soaks into the bread and crystalizes and by lunch time it's crunchy. Again, Divine!

My first Cuban Pork Sandwich . . . it was from a Cuban restaurant in Chelsea, NYC. I'm sure I could easily find better, but it's more of a memory thing.

Oooh, tough. I love sandwiches of all stripes. I think my faves are pretty low brow though. ;)

All-time favorite: lebanon bologna (Seltzer's), white american cheese, and miracle whip (not mayo) on white bread. I eat this every time I visit my grandmother's house. It's got the nostalgia factor, the low nutritional value, and the combination of tart, tangy, salty, and sweet that I love.

BLT - there's nothing better than bacon, lettuce, and tomato on white or sourdough slathered in mayo

Brisket sandwich - chopped beef brisket, lots of pickles, extra bbq sauce, and a swipe of mayo

A toss up between a Classic Banh Mi and a Shrimp po'boy. Something about that french bread makes everything all better.

When I was in high school a friend and I walked several miles in the rain to see a movie, we were cold and broke and fantasized about all the food we were passing, and when we got back to her house, we made tuna fish sandwiches with sweet pickle relish on toasted rye with chopped green olives and iceberg lettuce. After several hours of not eating, it's still the best sandwich I've ever eaten!

Love good sandwiches- favorite "every day" is just a great turkey club w/o tomato & mayo and loaded with russian.

This NYC chain called Lenny's also makes a great sub that I call Thanksgiving on a roll- it's got Turkey, stuff, & cranberry sauce- yum.
Of course there's also a great Bahn Mi and anything from a good jewish deli. This is such a hard decision

I love a hot genoa salami sandwich with goat feta cheese and some mustard on a fresh-baked Italian roll. Mmmmm. Simple-but-oh-so-good!

Used to be a place in Soho (before it became an open-air department store) called Food. They served an open faced smoked mozzarella sandwich that was seriously inspiring. A great roll, the smoked mozz, thin-thin red onion slices (not much), perfect slab of tomato, dressed with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt, and pepper. Simple and perfect.

1.)TOGO's turkey avocado sandwich sprinkled with pepper 2.) a combination banh mi from a little bakery in Houston 3.)a chicken cordon bleu sandwich from a hospital cafeteria 4.)the ham stack at Marie callendar's

Ooh, that banh mi looks great! There's a banh mi place near me and their pork chop sandwiches are at the top of my list.

But I think my two favorite sandwiches are at Cafe Gitane in Soho. Both chicken sandwiches, but they just rise so above and beyond that humble base. One is smoked chicken with mango and arugula mayo on cranberry walnut bread. The other is roasted chicken with roasted tomato, shaved parmesan, and chipotle mayo on toasted baguette. Both are just utterly utterly perfect.

Oh, and I also LOVE a good tuna melt.

Pulled chicken from Bigfoot Barbecue in Flagstaff, Arizona or the Chicken Parmesan sandwich from Azure Cafe in Freeport, Maine.

Two that come to mind are 1) tuscan blt on hearty white, applewood bacon, fresh spinach, sundried tomatoes and goat cheese (sans bacon for me) at the Farm Basket in Lynchburg VA; 2) the Shrimp Po'Boy at Diprato's in Columbia SC (w/their amazing pimento cheese dip and homemade pitas).

Sentimentally, I always loved when my husband (then boyfriend) would make me a turkey and cheese sandwich (w/butter and lettuce) after a long waitressing shift. So nice to be waited on after work!

Wow way too hard! But any well-made sandwich with avocado is fab in my book, especially if it involves a crusty baguette and summer ripe tomatoes! I've also made some really good panini with hummus, eggplant, roasted red peppers, and of course good quality EV olive oil. And another cheer for banh mi love-- vegetarian Lan Cafe in NYC makes the most delicious seitan one.

Two sandwiches for the ages:

- A baguette with rounds of brie, olives, arugula, and olive oil, slathered with a thick walnut/sundried tomato pesto. In a sandwich shop near the train station in Annecy, France.

- The "Green Goddess" sandwich at Canteen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This sandwich ... i can't even describe how insanely good this is. Here's the description from their menu:

"Basil Walnut Pesto, fresh baby spinach & asparagus, zucchini & broccoli, avocado & fresh chopped herbs tossed in a creamy cilantro lime vinaigrette! Warmed on ciabatta."

EAT IT!!

BLT from Max's Wine Dive in Houston, TX. Omg.

Mole salami sandwich from Foster and Dobb's in Portland, OR. Mole Salami (made by Mario Batali's pop at Salumi in Seattle), thin slices of sharp cheddar, tomato chutney, greens on a fresh baguette. I crave this quarterly.

@smooshmallow where in Houston? And my fave is Austin's Portabla Aubergine Panini, a sandwich that was raved about for years and totally lived up to expectations (Thanks Lauren!)

http://www.portabla.com/menu_sandwiches

Pretty easy to recreate, too...

• Tortas from a truck in Rosarita

• The meatball sub from Salumi in Seattle

Also I just gave up meat but am DYING for a homemade ham sandwich on good honey wheat bread. Le sigh.

oh, also: any tuna melt, anywhere.

a blt with avocado on crusty chewy bread at the coffee shop in my college town :)

cubans from chez henri in cambridge, ma
the bleu cheese brisket sandwich in cashiers, nc
banh mi from anywhere

Leberwurst on dark bread with pickle slices... smooth, with a bite, mild and a bit sour.

August, 1989, Midnight, outside a disco in Kavala, Greece, a little drunk on ouzo. Shaved lamb rubbed with wild oregano, tucked into a hot, pillowy pita bread, topped with garlicky tzatziki and greasy french fries. Juices running down my wrist.

baguette, jamon serrano, and ripe tomato sandwich.
a special treat that my special someone would fix for me when I would go to work.

Beef shawarma pita with lettuce, onions, pickled turnips, tabouleh, and spicy garlic sauce, hands down. Now that I've gone veg, falafel is an okay stand in for the beef.

Also... http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/vegetarian/recipe-farmers-lunch-sandwich-085363

Omnomnom, so good.

god i love sandwiches. i eat meat, but i've started compiling a list of the best vegetarian ones in LA on my blog:

http://theactorsdiet.wordpress.com/food/l-a-area-eats-2/bvsla/

good sandwich ideas there!

The Teca pressed Italian sandwich at Bar Teca in the U of A's Hub Mall. Still the best pressed Italian sandwich I've ever had (they opened in '92, so they were way ahead the NY trend).

A wedge of a mortadella, lettuce, tomato, cheese and special sauce in a huge round onion loaf at Patria, also in HUB Mall.

An All Day Breakfast sandwich at an early (c. 2000) Pret a Manger in London -- with organic eggs, old cheddar, artisanal bacon...

The classic Bahn Mi at our favourite Bahn Mi joint on Somerset. Mmmmm...

A Chicken/Garlic (shwarma) at Marroush (the best was on Sparks). Your breath would reek of garlic for hours, but so, so, so good (and since we would do lunchtime chicken garlic runs at work, everyone reeked the same, so it didn't matter).

Bb Sandwich Bar's Cheesesteak in the West Village. (oh those caramelized onions...)

cream cheese, lox, red onion and capers on an everything bagel; chicken salad club sandwich, cheesesteak sub from Cousins in Milwaukee, egg salad from Miller's bakery....

One of the best sandwiches that I have eaten came from the Corner Wine Bar. It was a grilled cheese and bacon with Brie, pepper bacon with a crunchy brown sugar crust and thinly sliced green apples. It was absolutely divine.

Another great one is the turkey melt at Zest. Real Thanksgiving style turkey breast, brie, cranberry chutney, and some grainy mustard all on a good crusty roll. Yum. Sadly it's no longer on the menu.

2 Favorites:

First is a simple Chicken Salad Sandwich from Angelo's Wine Country Deli just south of Sonoma. This place is the perfect pit stop when heading to wine country and the sandwiches are amazing.

Second is a Shawarma from Obee's in Austin, TX. They are closed now but man they made a mean beef Shawarma.

One night in college, my roommate (and still close friend) and I made sandwiches in our dorm room. They were standard turkey with lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayo on bulkie rolls, but they were soooo good! Maybe it was that we were tired of eating cafeteria food or maybe it was just hanging out together, but they were delicious and more than 10 years later we still remember.

Two of my favorites are from childhood.

I don't normally like ham, but whenever Mom baked a ham for dinner, the next couple of days she would thinly slice the left overs and pan fry in butter until crispy. She then placed it on soft white bread with yellow mustard. The contrasting textures of soft bread and crispy ham, and the contrasting tastes of the sharp mustard and the salty sweet ham were simple perfection.

The other is a specialty from my hometown in upstate New York: Spiedies. Bright, citrusy, herby marinated lamb or pork, skewered and grilled, served on Italian bread or roll. Again, simple perfection.

Zingermann's. Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you've been there, it's the only answer and this conversation is over.

my current favorite is one i don't know the name of... but my boyfriend calls it the summer sandwich. i call it the picnic sandwich, because it's my favorite one to bring on a hike. my mom says it's just a classic combo but i swear it is the greatest thing ever.

it's ham, genoa salami, and provolone, on a giant ciabatta that's been scooped out and spread with fresh basil pesto (no pine nuts). roasted red peppers are on the bottom, too... and i like to dice them so they stay in there and you get one in every bite. you can use lettuce or baby spinach or both. then it's pressed, and when it's done, well... it is oh so delicious.

I'm not big on donairs but give me a chicken shwarma any day of the month. Yummo!

I had a sandwich the other day that I won't soon forget. It was turkey and prosciutto with fontina cheese and a pesto aioli on focaccia. I will definitely be going back to that restaurant.

Hmm, I love many sandwiches from Specialty's, especially the Caprese one (with ciabatta instead of focaccia!). You mentioned European Kebabs, but Australian Kebabs will always be #1 in my book - chicken with cheese and sweet chili sauce!!!! oh man, I wish I was there to eat some...

Grilled PB&J or PB and honey + banana sandwiches are great, easy comfort food.

I love anything with avocado - maybe with some shaved turkey, sprouts, brie, tomato, and lettuce (maybe some hummus too!) on toasted whole wheat bread ... sounds kind of like a Jimmy Johns sandwich, but it really does hit the spot sometimes.

Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, MI (like a couple others have mentioned) makes sandwiches to die for. Or make any sandwich on Zingerman's bread and it's going to be fabulous!

My Dad would grow delicious tomatoes every summer and make the most incredible BLTs for everyone in the neighborhood. There would be a line of people out my kitchen and around the block each August!

a fried oyster po boy dressed from domelise's in new orleans. hands down! best bread ever.

Anything at Ike's in SF :)

Also partial to a chicken shawerma from a little deli/bakery near my fiance's house, just divine with garlic sauce, lettuce, red onions, and slightly spicy pickled turnips.

My mom's ham, fried egg, and swiss cheese sandwiches, dabbed with a little mustard...

My absolute favorite, though, is a good reuben.

it is a toss up between the coconut curry chicken salad from Zuppa in Richmond and the meatloaf sandwhich from Noon here in Atlanta. I still crave the Zuppa sandwhich 5 years after moving away from Richmond!

so many sandwiches, so little time …

-corned beef on rye @ langer's in LA
-bobbie special @ capriotti's in las vegas
-drexel special @ koch's in philadelphia
- tuna and egg bahn mi @ top baguette in westminster, ca

guys, i love sandwiches SO MUCH. i'm probably going to name my first kid "sandwich."

pastrami on rye at Langers in LA

any bahn mi, anywhere, even lousy ones are still great

meatloaf sandwich with homemade 1,000 dressing on rustic white at Clementine in LA

fava bean puree, tomatoes, and proscuitto on rustic white

Plain and simple, my favorite sandwich growing up was avocado with a sprinkle of salt and queso fresco on a bolio.

@peaceofwestphila, the Drexel is totally on my list! I have great memories of standing in line before and Eagles game and snacking on the freshly sliced deli meats the counter guys would give out.

Also have fond memories of a tuna melt that a deli near where I worked as a teenager used to make, with bacon and served on a toasted bagel. SO GOOD.

#1: Bagel with cream cheese, avocado, lox, red onions and capers

#2: Fresh, dark, crusty bread with fresh, grass-fed butter, avocado, tomato and cheese (cheddar or gouda both work with this)

#3: Tuna melt my style - I had phases when I was young, single and living in Amsterdam when I had this three times a day - two slices of bread with fresh tuna (in oil), some fried onions, some salt and lot's of cheese. Put that in the toasty machine.

#4: Open faced sandwich made with fresh, dark Austrian bread, good butter and scrambled eggs.

#5: Another one of my staples when I was younger and single living on the cheap: Wholewheat bread (not toasted), with butter, cheese, lots of alfalfa, salt and pepper.

Now I am pregnant and not allowed to eat half of these sandwiches. So sad.

My favorite sandwich, and one of my favorite food memories, is (was) the Stagecoach, a grinder available at a now-closed sandwich shop in New Paltz, NY. My dad used to bring them home for us after a day of rock climbing in the Shawangunks. It's a very special memory.

My other favorite sandwich is a simple turkey grinder, with some extra fixins, that my ex-boyfriend used to bring me from his restaurant.

I guess another favorite would be the Reuben, which my mother introduced me to.

And the last is probably the sausage-egg-and-cheese on a bagel that my dad used to make.

So basically, all sentimental choices!

The best sandwich in the past month was an open faced one. I've never been a big one for sloppy joe meat but this one had hit home. Lightly toasted honey wheat, a bed of baby spinach, a touch of shredded colby jack cheese, sloppy joe meat (it was regular Manwich) sprinkled nicely with pepper. Mmmmm.

Peanut butter and bacon sandwich on toasted wheat, love it with a glass of milk.

A local sub shop that's far superior to Subway (not a stretch there), their crab salad with everything on it, except pickles, with avacado slices and bacon.

A cafe in Amsterdam where the sandwich had two different bread slices, smoked salmon slices, alfalfa sprouts, english cucumber slices, boiled egg slices and homemade mayo. So delicious!

Last summer, at The Lawyer and the Baker in Manchester, Vermont, I had a panini made of freshly baked white bread (the big, fluffy, rectangular country loaf kind), fresh mozzarella, fresh tomatoes, and pesto, accompanied by a delicately dressed mesclun salad. This was followed by a dessert of mini-eclairs. Best sandwich ever, bar none, even without the eclair chaser.

1. dad's home-smoked pulled-pork with coleslaw

2. Monte Cristo from the Blue Bayou at Disneyland

3. 4 goat cheese panini from Tartine in San Francisco (i don't even like goat cheese)

4. peanut butter and jelly with barbecue chips in the middle, but only if someone makes it for me

It's a tie: The Schlotsky's Original on Dark Rye or my Mom's open face hot beef with a side of mashed potatoes...both make me gain 5 pounds just thinking about them!

Joey K's in New Orleans- Roast Beef Debris sandwich. To my celibate-for-years mom, it was the release she'd been waiting for since her divorce.

1. From a hole in the wall deli in suburban CA, a Chinese family turns out the bad-assest sandwiches with paper thin slices of homemade deli turkey. Great with all the veggies on dark rye.
2. Banh mi, from any street stand in Vietnam.
3. Lucca Deli in SF makes the best tuna sandwich.
4. The Whole Foods in Palo Alto used to have this awesome hot tofu sandwich with melted cheddar and tons of green veggies. I was devastated when they got rid of it.

the ham and cheese sandwich on a baguette that ate for lunch on my first day of the camino de santiago in spain. so simple, yet so delicious.

Boring but classic: grilled cheddar cheese on sourdough with sliced tomatoes. Love it.

I'm not a huge sandwich person (I prefer hot meals) but I made the BEST sandwich ever last night (IMO anyways): Tuna mixed with mayo, Granny Smith apple chopped in small cubes, and chopped walnuts served on a Parisian-style baguette. Sooo good :)

I also like doing a baguette with sliced tomatoes, soft mozarrella cheese, fresh basil leaves, a little drizzle of EVOO and a few slices of genoa salami.

Or replace the mozza with triple cream brie and the EVOO with white truffle oil. Wow, I guess I am becoming a sandwich guy after all LOL

A grilled chicken and cheese sandwich with toasted spelt bread. Soo good.
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Leftover french toast + chunky peanut butter + sliced bananas + honey

Cuban mixto from Kenny & Zuke's Sandwichworks

Toasted tomato sandwich with Grand Central Como

Leftover turkey & cranberry relish on wheat bread with a generous slathering of cream cheese.

Non-deli ham, brie & asparagus.

Mozzarella, pesto mayo, thick tomato slice, maybe some bacon.

Kraft grilled cheese w/ tomato soup.

The Veg Master from a now-defunct juice-bar/gym in Bar Harbor, Maine. My spouse and I picked it up and threw it in our bike pack just before cycling our tandem up Day Mountain. Sweet red cabbage, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, and who knows what else, held together with hummus between a couple of slices of pressed, sprouted whole grain bread. We don't remember the sandwich exactly, only that we inhaled it after finishing that grueling trek. It seemed like perfection at the time.

Another vote for bagel with cream cheese, avocado, lox, red onions and capers (also good with sprouts and tomato).

I like a tuna or waldorf salad on toasted whole wheat bread. Or PBJ with banana slices. Simple.

Definitely the porchetta sandwich at Roli Roti in SF.

Submarine Special (they pretty much threw everything in the deli meat and cheese case at it, plus some mayo, some onion, shredded lettuce and tomato) at an Italian grocery on Taylor St in Chicago. Gyros sandwich (gyros, white sauce, raw onion, slice of tomato, on a flatbread). In my experience, only found this way in Chicago. Cuban pork sandwich from a restaurant on 7th Avenue in Chelsea in New York City. Probably from the same place as the commenter above. Cuban pork wrap from Whole Foods in NYC. Sonoma chicken wrap from Whole Foods in Chicago. Pastrami on rye with mustard from Katz's deli in NYC. Lean pastrami, spicy mustard -- so much meat you could eat it with a knife and fork. Toasted poppyseed bagel with cream cheese. Not strictly a sandwich, but just as good as one. Turkey with brie and honey mustard on a sub roll from a grocery on Broadway in the Village. Falafel on pita with tzatziki. I love sandwiches. I could go on all night.

The Brie Cheese from the Otherside Cafe in Boston: brie, sliced pear and granny smith, red onion, lettuce and tomato on sourdough with honey mustard. So tasty that even when I broke my temporary tooth while eating one, I finished the sandwich before bursting into tears and calling my dentist!

@crumanjm, I love those submarine sandwiches from the Taylor street deli as well.

I use to go there back in the 70's and 80's. The place was called Fontano's Brother and it was amazing the taste of those subs.

Sometime in the late seventies, i was working in Shaker Heights, Ohio. I had lunch at a little hole in the wall. The sandwich:

Excellent Lilverwurst, sweet vidalia onion, hard- boiled egg, horseradish, and a little mayo, on very good rye.

Though I love the good old ham and cheese, that sandwich from way back is still the best I've ever eaten.

1. Muffaletta from Central Grocery in New Orleans
2. Smoked meat from Schwartz's in Montreal
3. Any hamburger from Mr. Bartleys in Cambridge, MA
4. My own cream cheese, ginger marmalade, and smoked almond tea sandwiches on raisin bread!

In that order! Followed by a 5. a fried softshelled crab po-boy from Felix's in New Orleans

Creamy gorgonzola spread thickly on white crusty bread. Season with fresh black pepper and coarse salt. Drizzle with a slight hint of extra virgin olive oil.

Few leaves of rocket (arugula) optional

Poor Conan to be deprived of the joy of a good sandwich. My love of all things between bread is too numerous to list, but I'd have to say that my absolute all time favorite was a cross between a turkey club and a pastrami on rye that I used to get at a deli back home in Massachusetts. Sadly, the place is gone now, but MAN! that sandwich could transport me to nirvana every time!

I adore deli ham and muenster cheese on pumpernickel bread, with crisp iceberg lettuce, thin sliced tomates and a good smear of mayo. Sometimes I change it up and put a tiny bit of Dijon mustard too.

My other favorite is the "Blimpie Best" sandwich from the Blimpie chain restaurant. It has ham, salami, cappacola, prosciuttini, provolone with tomatoes, lettuce, onion, vinegar, oil and oregano. I have them add sweet peppers to mine - nothing better.

Ooh. So easy. Fried egg sandwiches with spinach and tomato. It's almost nutritious ;)

Since the last good sandwich I've had is always my favorite sandwich, ever... I give my vote to Urban Standard in Birmingham, AL for their grilled chicken panino - the balsamic jam was an absolutely fabulous touch and the bread - grilled with real butter - still makes my mouth water remembering it. Yum.

(And I don't mind advertising for them, because the sandwich was THAT good.)

Seconding the kebabs with chips in them! We used to eat them in the middle east when I was little and every chip was just the biggest treat.
Also, a roast beef and horseradish sandwich made with a baguette. SO good -I was telling people about it for days to follow. YUM!

I'm not big on sandwiches, or bread really. But m favourite sandwich is not fancy at all. Its the prawn and mayonaisse sandwiches I used to get from a department store cafeteria with my Mum when I was a little kid.

daylight, Fontano's, that was it. For the life of me I couldn't remember it. My girlfriend and I used to take a break in the middle of a 3 hour design class at UIC in the mid-70s and go over there, order the sandwiches, then find a grassy, shady place on campus to eat. Grassy, shady places at UIC were few and far between in those days.
Oh, yeah! The turkey, brie and honey mustard on a sub roll from the deli on Broadway in the Village was actually on a baguette, not a sub roll. Now that I've got it right, it's even better than I remembered it.

Chicken schnitzel is the undeclared Israeli national dish, and there are a few places that sell schnitzel in a roll, schnitzel in a pita, and other variations. You go up to one of these stands, pick your toppings, get a hot schnitzel straight from the deep fryer, and find a little piece of happiness. Yum!

Hmm, favorite chain sandwich is the Beach Club at Jimmy John's.

Non-chain favorites include:
1) Eggplan Parmesan at Little Gourmet in El Segundo, CA
2) Anything at Panino in Santa Barbara, CA
3) A grilled chicken, caramelized onion, herbes de provence, and cheese panini from a bakery in Toulouse, France, which I ate for many a meal while studying abroad. Sadly, on a recent return trip to Toulouse I discovered that they no longer make this sandwich.

Roasted Turkey, swiss cheese, red onion, spicy giardineira, blackberry jam on a toasted baguette...YUM!

Just about every sandwich at Grey Dog in Manhattan (all of them) is worth mentioning. Bahn-mi from Nicky's in the LES. a Thanksgiving-esque wrap in Provincetown that had stuffing, cranberry sauce, the works. the italian sub back home at Alpine Foods and the italian beef (juicy, hot peppers) in Elmwood Park, IL (SERIOUSLY). And, I have to say, I love the pork, cabbage and jalapeno sandwich with horseradish from 'wichcraft.

on second thought, sandwiches might be my favorite kind of food...