My sandwich lady.

Varkov

So, I work in Belfield industrial park, and was getting rather sick of the rubbish food in the canteen. So the other day I ventured out to Berman and Walace to try and get a sandwich.
I am greeted by a short chinese woman behind the deli counter.
"Wa you wan?"
"Uh, brown bread with butter and swiss cheese?"
"An then?"
"Uh, coleslaw?"
"An then?"
"Some chopped peppers?"
"An then?"
"Thats it"
So I get my sammich and scuttle off back inside. I sit down at my desk and unwrap it.
Dear god. It was majestic! The single most amazing sandwich I had ever seen. Thick, pale brown bread. Cheese corners peeking out from between the slices. Not a drop of coleslaw dripping on the classy grease proof paper. And the rainbow splash of chopped peppers nestled firmly, but gently in place.
This woman, no. This was a godess of sandwich making. And I cannot even descibe what a joy it was to eat.

Needless to say, I have been back everyday since. I have built up a small relationship with this ancient oriental sambo master, to the point she has even made suggestions for enhancing the sandwich even further.

But anyway, Im quite bored so have decided to post about my best sandwich ever. Anyone else remember their finest sandwich, and man or woman responsable?

watna

That's wierd. I used to work out there and Berman and Wallace was always horrible!

Rob_l

watna wrote: »

That's wierd. I used to work out there and Berman and Wallace was always horrible!

"An then"

Steve_o

I did get a sandwich made for me once that turned my life on its head...then i fell asleep, woke up hungry and forgot where i got the sandwich, it was nice while it lasted!!

biko

My answer is the same as last time/thread.
McCambridges make great sandwiches. Mayo, onion, carrots, Swiss cheese and bacon. Yummy!

patrickc

my sandwich making girl (girl who worked in the deli at the time) , is now my girlfriend of a few years, says alot about her sambos...

cooperguy

Last year I used to go to the same place for lunch and like you OP built up a bit of a relationship with my Sambo Lady. She ended up piling so much stuff into the sambo Id barely be able to finish it. If I asked for cheese she would give me some of the 3 different types, if I asked for ham she would layer it on. That was a good summer, I definatly got value for my money and to top it all off I was gauranteed a half decent 5 minute conversation while getting my sambo as oppossed to the usual "Wha do u wan" and nothing else as they throw it together.

beerbaron

Berman & Wallce in Belfield Office Park ?

How much for the Sambo ?

Femelade

i got a sandwich in the wholy grain in washington street in cork one time. it was heavenly. i went for the red cababge coleslaw instead of the normal coleslaw..delicious! they cut the bread off the loaf there infront of you..nice thick slices..

jester77

biko wrote: »

My answer is the same as last time/thread.
McCambridges make great sandwiches. Mayo, onion, carrots, Swiss cheese and bacon. Yummy!

+1 Best sandwich's I've ever had!

ciabatta, pesto, sundried tomatoes, mozzarella and lots & lots of bacon

Varkov

beerbaron wrote: »

Berman & Wallce in Belfield Office Park ?

How much for the Sambo ?

3 squid, not the best, but not the worst. Worth every penny imho.

Binomate

Sounds like a pretty disgusting sandwich. What you need is a southern chicken fillet sandwich with some hash browns, white pudding and lots of mayo.

Equally, pieces of chicken breast, with stuffed turkey, cheese, tomato and taco sauce.

Another is Potato salad and bacon with a few tomatoes or else bacon and egg mayonnaise with out the tomatoes.

They're real sandwiches.

cooperguy

Binomate wrote: »

Sounds like a pretty disgusting sandwich. What you need is a southern chicken fillet sandwich with some hash browns, white pudding and lots of mayo.

Now thats a disgusting sandwich

Binomate

Don't knock it till you've tried it. It's delish.

DonalN

nothing beats a bag of cheese and onion Tayto between 2 slices of white bread that have been layered with ketchup!!!

of course you must remove the taytos from the bag for optimum deliciousness !!!...Oh yea!!!!

yossarin

a bit out of the way for the Dublin based, but HT Harris of 41 Great Titchfield St, London, W1W 7P make the greatest sandwiches ever.

It's run by an Italian family with an eye for quality. If you order badly they will tell you what you should have.

I had their spicy salami every monday for 3 years, and i could have kept on doing it except my work moved away from the area. Anyone working in the centre of London should drop by here.

Prices vary with Maria's mood and if she knows you.

LouOB

Toast (batch),full fat butter (ahh kerrygold),marmalade (homemade or spanish gold is best) and then.... sausages.
Heaven plus.. cuppan tae

TheBigLebowski

There is no finer sandwich than a crip and cheese sandwich.

TheBigLebowski

TheBigLebowski wrote: »

There is no finer sandwich than a crip and cheese sandwich.

+1

Geff

That sandwich sounds weird and I'm a massive fan of coleslaw and peppers.

I'd never put peppers into a sandwich not that it wouldn't taste bad it just wouldn't be cricket.

ixoy

watna wrote: »

That's wierd. I used to work out there and Berman and Wallace was always horrible!

Aye, me too. It was never great and horribly over-priced. Often went to Statoil instead.

The Chessplayer

Binomate wrote: »

Sounds like a pretty disgusting sandwich. What you need is a southern chicken fillet sandwich with some hash browns, white pudding and lots of mayo.

Equally, pieces of chicken breast, with stuffed turkey, cheese, tomato and taco sauce.

They're real sandwiches.

Buying a sandwich in a petrol station is just something that has never appealed to me.

David Michael

About 3 years ago....St Stephens green shopping centre.

Quiznos.

Mesquite Chicken with Bacon


There is nothing more to say.

Sleepy

Two pieces of thick toast, rashers, fried tomato slices, mayonaise and a runny fried egg.

Have it every time I'm dying of a hangover and by all the gods combined it's the greatest thing in the world.

Best served with a tall glass of chilled cranberry juice for maximum 'feel like a human being again' goodness.

Lands Leaving

just dicovered fresh on wexford st. classiest newsagent ever, and great prices on great sambos, then you can sit down and eat it in the coffee shop within the shop. 3.80 for a panini with 3 toppings, toasted. mmmm. cheese, chicken and pineapple

Mrs. MacGyver

McCabes Deli on Tara Street does the most divine samos ever. I had a chicken tikka, lettuce and red onion sambo on brown wholemeal bread - delish indeed! Their food is heavenly.

Keyzer

Ancient Chinese Proverb -

Enjoy well made sambo while it lasts...

You never know when the all knowing sambo master will be fired and replaced with a total skanger who spits in your John Rambo....

Lands Leaving

Keyzer wrote: »

Ancient Chinese Proverb -

Enjoy well made sambo while it lasts...

You never know when the all knowing sambo master will be fired and replaced with a total skanger who spits in your John Rambo....

Ancient chinese proverb 2 - get all knowing sambo master to fall in love with you and every morning fine sambo in bed will be your reward.

DublinWriter

Varkov wrote: »

I am greeted by a short chinese woman behind the deli counter.
"Wa you wan?"
"Uh, brown bread with butter and swiss cheese?"
"An then?"
"Uh, coleslaw?"
"An then?"
"Some chopped peppers?"
"An then?"
"Thats it"

Isn't that the scene from Dude, Where's my Car?

Life imitates art yet again.

I'm partial to butter, sausages and coleslow in a roll from time to time.

Toto Wolfcastle

Cheese (sliced, not grated), sausages, and tomato sauce between two slices of toast. I can only make it at home though, wouldn't trust anyone else to make it for me. They'd ruin it.

I'm still trying to find a nice sambo place in Galway. 3 months and they've all been crap.

Schlemm

I was 'down the country' of late doing farm work and we were religously fed sliced pan sandwiches with an inch of butter and a lash of marmalade on tea break.

Cut horizontally, just to add to the whole effect.

BBBBBBBBLEURG.

Cheeky_gal

BMT Sub from Subway....mmmmmm! All that meat, red onion, lettuce, tomato, swiss cheese, aran island sauce....oh. my. god! Soooo good.....!! And if you really feel like pigging out, 6 inch meatball marinara on top...

_blank_

LouOB wrote: »

Toast (batch),full fat butter (ahh kerrygold),marmalade (homemade or spanish gold is best) and then.... sausages.
Heaven plus.. cuppan tae

Love the sausage and marmalade combo myself, it has to be said.

Lovely sammich.

OPENROAD

My sandwich girl is crap! she really got to me today, I was getting some grated cheese, only a small amount left in the tub,it really didn't look the best,particularly the bit on the left, so asked her could I have some fresh cheese to which she replied their was enough left for one roll, so asked her could she give me the cheese from the right of the tub, it looked better, she rolled her eyes and laughed at me and said its all the same, I took it, and yes some of the chasse was hard, so that's it, I'm back in Wednesday and am going to complain to her manager.

Lands Leaving

OPENROAD wrote: »

My sandwich girl is crap! she really got to me today, I was getting some grated cheese, only a small amount left in the tub,it really didn't look the best,particularly the bit on the left, so asked her could I have some fresh cheese to which she replied their was enough left for one roll, so asked her could she give me the cheese from the right of the tub, it looked better, she rolled her eyes and laughed at me and said its all the same, I took it, and yes some of the chasse was hard, so that's it, I'm back in Wednesday and am going to complain to her manager.

Stick it to her. I'm always arguing with sandwich people since I hate mayo and they never, ever clean off the mayonnaise covered knife they cut the roll with. And thats if they don't just throw it on anyway without asking. 'Not everyone likes mayonnaise you know' -'You should have asked for none' - You should have put what I said on the bloody roll'

IDIOTS

leninbenjamin

janeybabe26 wrote: »

Cheese (sliced, not grated), sausages, and tomato sauce between two slices of toast. I can only make it at home though, wouldn't trust anyone else to make it for me. They'd ruin it.

I'm still trying to find a nice sambo place in Galway. 3 months and they've all been crap.

you didn't try McCambridge's then. or Morton's in Salthill. you truly haven't gotten around Galway much.

also: i can't believe people would mention subway as the best sandwiches?

Toto Wolfcastle

leninbenjamin wrote: »

you didn't try McCambridge's then. or Morton's in Salthill. you truly haven't gotten around Galway much.

also: i can't believe people would mention subway as the best sandwiches?

And where pray-tell in McCambridges? If I have to walk for more than 10 minutes, I'm not going!

(In fairness, Subway is a 3 minute walk away from me, maybe I should try there )

leninbenjamin

janeybabe26 wrote: »

And where pray-tell in McCambridges?

Shop street. in fact the place is so good that shop street was riginally built around it.

janeybabe26 wrote: »

If I have to walk for more than 10 minutes, I'm not going!

now that's just sheer laziness. you don't deserver a McCambridges roll. in fact i lied to you when i told you where it was. it's not actually anywhere near shop street. in fact it's not even in Galway...

Toto Wolfcastle

leninbenjamin wrote: »

Shop street. in fact the place is so good that shop street was riginally built around it.


now that's just sheer laziness. you don't deserver a McCambridges roll. in fact i lied to you when i told you where it was. it's not actually anywhere near shop street. in fact it's not even in Galway...

LOL you lie! I know where it is now. I've always been slightly scared to go into the place! Sure I might try it sometime. Thanks for the tip!

(Re: laziness: McCambridges is in fact about 25-30 minutes walk from my house, and I am willing to try it! I win! )

ergonomics

It may not be fancy but boy was it nice. I work in Subway and last night I made a footlong sub with TRIPLE cheese, turkey, lettuce, onion, peppers, mayo and southwest sauce. The cheese made it. Yum yum yum

leninbenjamin

janeybabe26 wrote: »

(Re: laziness: McCambridges is in fact about 25-30 minutes walk from my house, and I am willing to try it! I win! )

pffft... that's nothing. in my day we walked 8 miles just to borrow the knife to gut the chicken with we would put in our sandwiches. then we had to walk another 6 miles to borrow a clean knife to butter the bread with.

kids these days...

Toto Wolfcastle

leninbenjamin wrote: »

pffft... that's nothing. in my day we walked 8 miles just to borrow the knife to gut the chicken with we would put in our sandwiches. then we had to walk another 6 miles to borrow a clean knife to butter the bread with.

kids these days...

pffft that's nothing, I starred in a video about my Granddad having to walk 6 miles to school six days a week in the snow with no shoes and no chicken and no knife and no butter and no bread.*

*May have made up the part about the chicken and the knife and the bread and the butter

I want a sandwich now, but I don't keep bread in the house due to my fear of day old food.

connundrum

Teh sangich.

Two Thick Slices Brown Bread.
Mayo (light spread)
Chicken Pieces
Small Bit of Stuffing
Cucumber Slices
Grated Cheese
Stick Under grill for 1.2 minutes
Eat.

Failing that:
Banana and Chocolate Spread Sangich.

Failing that:
A Ham sangich out of the boot of a car at half time of a GAA games. Best fookin sangich evar.

leninbenjamin

i have to say i'm quite disappointed at people's responses in this thread. many seem to clearly not understand the art of making a sandwich. you see, when making a sandwich you must accept that that sandwich only exists in that short moment in which you eat it. there will be other sandwiches like it, there will be other sandwiches unlike it, there will be sandwiches that don't actually appear to be sandwiches, but that one sandwich only exists for that one point in time.

And you see, this is the thing, at each point in time that "one" sandwich, the one that makes you feel fulfilled, the one that makes your life seem like one of purpose, the one that makes you tremble at it's sensational bombardment, that one sandwich is perfection at that point in time.

Understanding this you, the sandwich maker must accept that it is the sandwich who seeks you. you must open yourself up to the universe and let yourself be filled with the knowledge of that sandwich, that sandwich may be grilled, it may be filled only with salads, it may only have one kind of cheese, it may have 10 kinds of cheese, it doesn't matter. the only thing that does is that there is only one sandwich that is THE sandwich at that point in time. focus your senses, open your minds and let that sandwich come to you....

only then will you ever truly know what it is like to have a great sandwich.

Lands Leaving

leninbenjamin wrote: »

i have to say i'm quite disappointed at people's responses in this thread. many seem to clearly not understand the art of making a sandwich. you see, when making a sandwich you must accept that that sandwich only exists in that short moment in which you eat it. there will be other sandwiches like it, there will be other sandwiches unlike it, there will be sandwiches that don't actually appear to be sandwiches, but that one sandwich only exists for that one point in time.

And you see, this is the thing, at each point in time that "one" sandwich, the one that makes you feel fulfilled, the one that makes your life seem like one of purpose, the one that makes you tremble at it's sensational bombardment, that one sandwich is perfection at that point in time.

Understanding this you, the sandwich maker must accept that it is the sandwich who seeks you. you must open yourself up to the universe and let yourself be filled with the knowledge of that sandwich, that sandwich may be grilled, it may be filled only with salads, it may only have one kind of cheese, it may have 10 kinds of cheese, it doesn't matter. the only thing that does is that there is only one sandwich that is THE sandwich at that point in time. focus your senses, open your minds and let that sandwich come to you....

only then will you ever truly know what it is like to have a great sandwich.

Thou art wise. And now I art hungry.

sweetie

ergonomics wrote: »

It may not be fancy but boy was it nice. I work in Subway and last night I made a footlong sub with TRIPLE cheese, turkey, lettuce, onion, peppers, mayo and southwest sauce. The cheese made it. Yum yum yum

they call that cheese? its worse than easy singles.

my fave, brasilia cafe irish life centre 3 euro

thick sliced wholemeal brown
bacon
egg mayo
sundried tomato or occasionally beetroot or olives

mmmm, can't wait till tomorrow

Varkov

I remember when I was a wee lad, before I turned veggie.

Philidelphia buttered hotdog roll with an easy single and a slice of Billy-roll.

Delish

Miss Fluff

biko wrote: »

My answer is the same as last time/thread.
McCambridges make great sandwiches. Mayo, onion, carrots, Swiss cheese and bacon. Yummy!

You sure (with cabbage) that you are not referring to an exotic thing known in these here parts as "coleslaw"?

Mahatma coat

Varkov wrote: »

I remember when I was a wee lad, before I turned veggie.

Philidelphia buttered hotdog roll with an easy single and a slice of Billy-roll.

Delish

thats still veggie, Billy-roll aint meat,

they make a nice sandwich in the place across the road from me here, they know me now so its

Roll, avocado, (they don't have real butter), ham, cheeses, tomatoes, black olives,wholegrain mustard, sometimes capsicums if they have em.

lovley, get it n a bag of chips and a 1.25L bottle of coke + some random greasything from the hot counter for about a tenner ($10AUD)

Femelade

DublinWriter wrote: »

Isn't that the scene from Dude, Where's my Car?

Life imitates art yet again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8S5BqaNlw