Chicago Sandwich Canon: Breaded Steak
The flavors are good but the proportions excessive, the kind of sandwich that you end up wearing as much as eating.
Category: Local Favorites
These are sandwiches–or sandwich-adjacent items–that are beloved in a limited geographical area and may be unknown outside that area. They are often brought to our attention by readers or friends, though sometimes an item from The List may turn out to be a Local Favorite that someone snuck past the Wikipedia squad
Steak Sandwich of Southwest Suburbia: The Poorboy
The bread dripped with garlic butter; it gushed each time I lifted the sandwich, spouting its aromatic allium oilslick all over the plate, the tablecloth, my shirt, my hands, my beard.
Pork Roll Sandwiches of New Jersey
The hot, soft folded egg, the firm, salty, crisp-edged pork roll, the oozing, melted American cheese all came together into what we later learned might be the best pork roll sandwich in New Jersey.
Kissaten and Tell: Japan’s Pizza Toast
Pizza toast is satisfying, the sour, salty salami with the mild sweetness of the cooked onion and green pepper, the cheese and the sauce, all supported by the crisp-edged but still pillowy-firm shokupan.
Iceland’s Convenience Store Classic: Pepperoni Taco
If there’s one thing we here at the Tribunal understand, it’s this type of overwhelming passion for a sandwich, even such an obscure Icelandic gas station offering.
A Taco in the City of Sandwiches
In a stroke of brilliance, Jeff Barg wrote the Philly Taco up as if it were a thing people actually did. Before long, people actually started doing it. Art imitates life, they say, and often life returns the favor.
Canadian Fakin’: Peameal’s the Real Deal
It’s a simple sandwich, a combination of 2 good quality complimentary ingredients enveloped in a bread that intrudes neither with showy quality nor with an obnoxious lack of it.
Peameal Bacon: Toronto’s Sandwich
All told, while the peameal bacon sandwich is hardly what you’d call fine dining, I think it’s a fine sandwich to grab when you’re looking for something simple, quick and tasty.
Walla Walla Wha? Peanut Butter and Sweet Onion
The word “sweet” when used to describe a raw onion does not denote the same quality of sweetness one experiences biting into an apple or a pastry.
Polish Kanapki
For someone who likes Polish cuisine and wants to try a lot of it, there are few better places to live than the Chicago area.
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