"The Best State Sandwiches" Topic

"The best official state sandwiches are a cross-section of everything delicious and sandwich-like the United States has to offer. Leave it to the nation that created the Cronut to go far beyond picking simple things like official state animals and state flowers to go and designate official state foods that we can associate with every US State.

There are some expected choices on the list: the Italian beef sandwich representing Illinois and the Cuban as a choice for Florida make plenty of sense given the population centers of said states. There are also glorious state sandwich choices like Tennessee's delegate, "The Elvis", a combination of peanut butter, banana, and bacon; it's food porn at its best…"
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Armand

I'll have to file a protest on behalf of Indiana. IOWA gets our beloved breaded pork tenderloin, and WE get a catfish sandwich? With slaw, at that? Born and raised here--entirely too long ago--and never heard of such a thing.

Wisconsin, since when is a brat a sandwich? It's a SAUSAGE fer crying out loud!!?.

I 2nd Iowa's pork Tenderloins !!

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Russ Dunaway

A brat placed on a bun, or between two slices of bread, and with other fixings, or not, IS a sandwich.

Haven't had a chance to review the list.

One of my favorites is…….oh, there are so many, it's hard to choose.

Medium rare, smoked tri-tip on a French or Sourdough roll is right up there. Many, many more.

I believe I saw on the news it is "National Sandwich Day" today ! Seriously I'm not making that up.
And IIRC there is a National Donut Day and National Taco Day !

This list has issues. Another glaring one that jumps out is North Dakota.

North Dakota with a Summer Sausage Sandwich? So the North Dakota Hot Beef State Competition doesn't appear on radar? What idiot wrote this list? Hot Beef, opened face, with gravy is classic and everywhere in North Dakota.

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Amicalement
Armand

Don't forget National Pizza Day – there are two of those.

One in the Spring and one in the Fall, IIRC. I forget the differentiations. One is just for the pizza, but can't recall the second one.

A pepper steak sandwich on a French or Sourdough roll is delicious. Doesn't even need cheese. Onions, green bell peppers (or other colors if you like, but green has the best ooomph) and round steak all sliced thin, grilled, and seasoned with soy sauce, ginger, and garlic, and served on a buttered and toasted roll. Deeeeeeeelicious!

Association is a factor too. No pizza will ever taste better to me than Lord Munchy's, smuggled into OCS Barracks at Fort Benning--before they canned me, of course. And I doubt I could ever find a cheesesteak to match my memory of the ones some German vendor sold us as we were doing night railheads out of Bad Kissingen.

But breaded pork tenderloins are home.

Am I the only non-American who finds the idea of an "official state sandwich" completely bizarre? I mean, why? Don't state governments have anything better to do? Do you get arrested for serving a peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich without bacon in Tennessee, or only if you associate it with the name Elvis?

And should one serve a fish finger sandwich with mayo, or ketchup? ( link )

GurKhan: State governments have a lot they need to do, but state sandwich declarations are so much easier.

pzivh43 +1 Yes, it appears so much needs to get done at any level so in turn then nothing gets done…

breaded pork tenderloins

The Schnitzel Sandwiches the local [West] German farmers sold to us was so much better than an MRE !

GurKan,

Fish sandwiches are served with tartar sauce, preferably with a hint of horseradish where I come from. Never ketchup, bleah.

Wallye sandwiches are not "fish" sandwiches, they are "WALLYE" said with solemnity and reverence. Served with cole slaw, on the side. NO tartar, ketchup, or mayo, maybe a little salt.

I'm gonna go and salivate quietly inna corner now.