on YOUR cheddar cheese sandwich

for inspiration, here is a preview of the delicious cheese and marmite sandwich i will be having for lunch today:

http://i.imgur.com/H2Kqktd.jpg

my default mode at home is cheddar and tomato ketchup but for preference i'd probably go cheese and onion

Tempted by the fancy chutney (non-M&S) but it was always going to be pickled onion in the end.

what, just ONE of those?

god in fact just saying it you now, you cannot wack a decent cheese and raw onion sandwich, it's been way too long

i was going to break out types of onion but i was wary of diluting the onion vote. my dad swears by spanish onion. i would use any onion on hand but by preference maybe red.

Ham

tend to just keep frozen chopped onions for convenience so i only do a cheese and onion sandwich with spring onion, which isn't the best

often engage in peanut butter/cheese/pickle shenanigans too

i would probably just end up nibbling on the hunk of cheese by itself

which reminds me, i actually have some in the fridge! that will be my lunch today :)

Branston pickle (small chunks)

btw we yanks eat these too, and some of us even like them

you don't butter your bread though, admit it

chutney but not M&S - Patel's ffs

Many of these would be good options for me, but the baseline is mayo. An ideal sandwich IMO would also include tomato, some kind of salad green (arugula or spinach would be best), along with sliced onion, pickles and alfalfa sprouts. A few slices of avocado would not go amiss. Bread should be some kind of fresh multigrain.

I am N American but love cheddar cheese sandwiches and was super excited to see cheddar cheese and pickle sandwiches at Pret when I went to London that one time, so I'm voting for relish because I think that's the closest to,what I had. If we were talking toasted cheese, I'd say Marmite.

I honor your cheddar cheese sandwich tradition.

And the whole Brit buttered-bread and cheese thing never really won me over, tho I ate a good number of them. Unlike mayo, butter does nothing for the bite of good cheddar.

xp pret cheese and pickle sandwich would be 'chutney - non m&s', but relish will do

Sandwich posted itt isn't grilled. Very perplexing.

i should've made it explicit that we are talking neither grilled nor toasted

Ditch the bread, eat the cheese.

tbr tho this is white mature cheddar, yp sauce prob

fancy chutney i guess but i'm not really cray about cheese and rarely eat these

Just the cheese, ma'am.

Tomatoes
Mayo
Mustard
Roast beef, sliced
Pile of rocket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePaHG6g7uFw

I haven't had a crisp sandwich in years, I might go and make one right now.

(any of tomato/any variety of pickle or chutney/onion is good with cheddar though)

i like cheese sandwiches, how can i make them british somehow, my grocery store doesn't have chutney

why dont you guys grill these? that would be recognizable to me

also, surprising absence of "bacon" as an option

you mean 'bacon om nom nom nom'? everyone's putting that on sandwiches these days

some kinda french thing i think

im just going by classic grilled cheese toppings

feel like i could revolutionize england by teaching you guys how much better it is when you grill your cheddar cheese sandwich

Jalapenos. But sometimes I just like a good mature cheddar with generous butter.

people who haven't spent a lot of time in England don't really get what this sandwich is about I think. I partly get it but I feel like the M&S version I'm used to from gas stations while traveling is, like, the version you only like because you've had decent versions of it at home throughout your life. still, enough of them and you end up making yourself non-grilled cheese-and-one-add'l sandwiches (I went with red onion after reading this thread; it was delicious) for yourself at home.

grilled cheese is the American equivalent I think but it's just totally different really

if i was gonna have a grilled cheese i wd probly go for a croque any day of the week but it is a different thing. that said i am going to make a grilled cheese in a minute.

cpl of months ago I had a cheese and onion sandwich from a midtown manhattan pret a manger that was (unsurprisingly) p much identical to a Britishes cheese sandwich, fyi

Despite loving cheese and bread in the vast majority of formulations, I don't really like a plain old cheese sandwich. TOASTED cheese sandwich and I'm in heaven.

Voted Marmite, anyway.

Heard about someon making a grilled cheese sandwich with cheddar and boxed macaroni & cheese

is that sort of the same thing orrrr

feel like i coulda closed a door ahead of time here by addressing this in op but regular cheese sandwich vs grilled cheese vs toastie, these are all different things with their individual merits. don't be fooled by the superficial similarity.

i eat a fair amount of grilled cheeses. sometimes it is the only veggie option here (new england) in e.g. seafood restaurant. i like 'em. maybe it's how i wuz raised, but i would take a reg cheese sandwich or toastie over them in a heartbeat. that's another poll 4 another time.

also re aero's mention of gas station sandwiches, whenever i go back i always get a wh smith cheese and onion sandwich from the same motorway services on the ride up from heathrow.

i like this kind of cheese sandwich and i also like grilled or toasted ones but they are quite different. i mostly eat these with little sliced sweet tomatoes (grape or heirloom) but i also like them plain or with vegemite or with slices of granny smith apple (apple is best on very fresh white bread or baguette). and i always butter the bread.

the one thing i'd insist on above all else would be cold, sliced dill pickle. not on your list, sadly ("relish" being a very different thing).

mustard = sadface runner up

Voting for branston with some small sense of shame. Maybe one day I will try some of these mysterious 'fancy' pickles.

xp pret cheese and pickle sandwich would be 'chutney - non m&s', but relish will do

Ah. I was confused by the m&s and non m&s designations.

Pickled onion sounds like it would be wonderful.

pickled gherkin = a 'cold wally' in the uk

really not enough love for the cheese and vegemite (or, if you must, marmite) ITT

My preference is; grated mature cheddar cheese + grated hard-boiled egg + small amount of mayo on granary. On the poll I'd go for Branston, I'd usually add lettuce, tomato + cucumber.

first instinct said chutney just because I love chutney but after this morning's in-house thread-inspired sandwich I have to go with onion. specifically red onion, yellow or white is just not the same. if this were a grilled cheese sandwich, tomato would win this going away, but it's not, so onion. vegemite a close second

also I must renew my objection to all mentions of the foul condiment mayonnaise which plagues good sandwiches throughout the world

cheese + mayo = all caps disgusting. cheese + mayo + vegetables = delicious. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Itisamystery.gif

pickled gherkin = a 'cold wally' in the uk

?????

pickled gerkin = wally, a cockney thing?

sorry = gherkin

Jesus fuck i just realised this is a vegan thread on the low, u sonsabitches

sneaky having a vegan thread about cheese

& with a meat product option

non-toastie - cheese and onion
toastie - cheese, marmite and peanut butter

Thank yous for the basic reading comprehension boosts both, but at intermediate reading comprehension level (youse may or may not have attained idk) the thread has clearly set off in a vegan direction.

xpost to emil.y

http://www.ask.com/question/why-is-a-gherkin-called-a-wally

i threw the meat product option in there just to try to account for my own personal biases but i don't understand what kind of meat would result in a "cheese and x" sandwich as opposed to "x and cheese". us style bacon i can see i guess. is someone out there putting potted beef paste on a cheese sarnie?

Gherkins are vegetables similar to cucumbers, both in shape and nutritional value. The basic reason as to why gherkins are called wallies may be because they have a similar shape.

This answers NONE of my questions.

I think it's an East London chip-shop thing. The etymology seems to be a mystery though.

anchovy spread maybe

is there anchovy spread? there better be anchovy spread. would be good w cheddar cheese.

xxp

i did miss apples and gherkin/dill pickle, which both get a thumbs up of approval from me. also tried and tested but sadly absent are hot sauce, worcester sauce, and pickled beet(root).

I feel like a fake Britisher now. Trying desperately to make sense of it... "well, it's a similar shape to a WILLY?!"

further down on that Ask page someone claims that British colloquial term for Gherkin, slang corruption of Olive. Both Gherkins & Olives sold in barrels which were referred to as wallies. but who knows eh? The 'cold' prefix appears to be a Dartford Chip Shop variant, which is where I first encountered the term.

is someone out there putting potted beef paste on a cheese sarnie?

I am not opposed to this idea.

my dad used to make me cheddar and onion sandwiches and they were soooo good. I voted onion. But vegemite would be a close second (obv)

my mom used to put braunschweiger on hers

i voted for secondary meat product but honestly cheddar on its own is of the gods.

j.'s mom OTM. Cheddar braunschweiger onion mustard on brown bread = one of my top three fave sandwiches

if I can't pick at least four of these things I'm not eating the sandwich

Is pickalilli "some kind of relish"?

i love pickles but for some reason can't stand pickle relish.

Voted tomato. It's really the only way I, as an American, would eat an otherwise cheddar only sandwich, except maybe if I had pickalilli in the fridge.

xp second word there should clearly have been "relish"

what do you put in tuna salad then, get bent—celery?

piccalilli is a relish. i nearly added it as its own option.

All I put in tuna (packed in olive oil) these days is lemon and pepper and cornichons.

piccalilli is a relish.

It's about the only English condiment I unreservedly adore.

food is so weird, i can't think of anything more wrong than buying tuna packed in oil

that's how the capitalists get us!!

i'll say this much for piccalilli - it has cauliflower in it, which is ballsy. it seems like something you would put on ham.

i can't think of anything more wrong than buying tuna packed in oil

Mediterranean ppl with lots of tuna and olive oil on their hands...

I friggin love pickled cauliflower

food is so weird, i can't think of anything more wrong than buying tuna packed in oil

that's how the capitalists get us!!

― j., Friday, August 2, 2013 8:36 AM (4 minutes ago)

was the standard until fairly recently. generally tastes better.

I know food trends tend to make some people apopleptic but the whole diy and housemade pickling craze fills me with joy.

generally tastes better.

And you can skip the mayo since it's already got oil

what do you put in tuna salad then, get bent—celery?

celery in tuna salad is great. i like to add a little pickle juice. also: a hint of dried mustard, maybe a small sprinkle of caraway seed.

lately i have stopped adding anything. tuna, salt, pepper, bread. i feel like i ought to be herding sheep or fighting for the glory of sparta.

Marmite or

Pickled onions or

Piccalilli (stoked when I found it in the commonwealth food aisle at my local supermarket) or

Jam (preferably blackberry)

Voted marmite

Why no jam option? Is that just a new zealand thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgpaytdDIaA

Whoops that youtube is for the asmr thread

j, tuna on its own, if it's any good, is sufficient.

for a while, i was mixing water-canned tuna with balsamic vinegar, minced garlic, black pepper and a bit of olive oil. then i got sick of it. wasn't great to begin with.

Is that just a new zealand thing

Nah, we used to have jam or honey on cheddar when I was a kid. I preffered marmalade.

i can't get with jam and cheese

though I will rep for:
granny smith apple
sharp cheddar
dijon mustard
+ turkey or ham

I'm confused. Seems like many of these are just... sandwiches. Maybe I'm a cheese sandwich purist.

things that go well with cheese, is the tone of the comversation iirc

Sandwiches in which the primary ingredient is cheese.

All I put in tuna (packed in olive oil) these days is lemon and pepper and cornichons.

this plus get bent otm: lemon/mayo/mustard powder/pepper/chives/cornichons. No other kind of pickle acceptable in tuna.

I will then cover the tuna and bread in cheese and throw under broiler, then top with cold sliced tomato. This is clearly the perfect meal.

Two kinds of savory protein and a minimum of green vegetables, this is my sweet spot exactly.

I like my strong, mature cheddar sandwich w/ cucumber slices, ketchup, salad and ham (though bacon is always nice too, because bacon)

Voting cucumber

If other non-bread ingredients outnumber the cheese, then it ceases to be a cheese sandwich.

not if you keep adding cheese

I think as long as the single thing with the most volume is cheese, it is a cheese sandwich even if the combined volume of other ingredients exceeds that of the cheese.

I'm glad we're working this out, though. Important cheese sandwich summit.

you know when the cheese is the base and the rest is fixings, even a cheese salad sandwich hinges round the cheese

Carl Agatha and NV OTM. Cheese is the base

If I don't get to grill it, then my answer would have to be apple slices.

Went for onion, naturally, but disappointed there wasn't a pesto option.

that is funny, i literally just now thought to myself, shit i forgot pesto. i went through a phase of putting stripes of pesto and coleman's mustard on one slice of bread.

Plus anytime you add meat, it automatically becomes a sandwich of that meat. Add bacon, it's a bacon sandwich with cheese.

who moved my cheese sandwich

Cheese... salad? sandwich?

salad sandwich = anything with more than one salad veg on it like lettuce, tomato etc.

i don't make the rules

I was thinking of the USA type of ingredient-salad sandwich, like tuna salad or chicken salad or egg salad, which is the ingredient plus mayo or similar binding agent plus seasoning/aromatics. Although I guess cheese salad wold just be pimento cheese, which don't knock it until you've tried it.

i have never knocked any sharp/processed cheese spread in my life, i cd sit and eat that on crackers til i exploded

Yes, kraft American slices are my preferred cheese sandwich cheese.

deliciouis simplicity of a good ham and cheese sandwich is v underrated

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Patak's Lime Pickle, Hot?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

well, you can't fuck with those results. great day for onions everywhere.

my friend in high school used to eat cheese sandwiches.

hi5 markers' friend. how do you think he would've voted?

Voting for branston with some small sense of shame. Maybe one day I will try some of these mysterious 'fancy' pickles.

― click here to start exploding (ledge), Friday, August 2, 2013 2:39 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fancy chutney - non M&S 0

fuck it i ain't gonna blaze a trail here.

I looked for and went for plain butter, which is the truth, almost always. Didn't notice 'crisps' in my haste to vote. I have always loved Walkers Smokey Bacon in a cheese sandwich. A childish comfort food,but I rarely indulge now. It is unhealthy and shameful. I am a grown man!

My last day in London and I decided to take a huge gamble and try this cheese sandwich with pickled onions, mayo, sprouts on it from Pret. Not bad, but still doesn't have the feel of a cheese sandwich.

by sprouts I'm sure you don't mean sprouts

alfalfa probly

do we have alfalfa in the uk? i don't remember. maybe we call it something else. maybe we just eat cress instead.

It's something that looked sprout like. But it could have been anything. Anything!

Cress. Too tempting even for Jesus.

been so into cheddar/mustard/branston sandwiches lately.
i am having one now. with beer.

the only real problem is that wifey accidentally bought non-sharp cheddar instead of the usual english stuff i love so much.

Off with her head.

cheese and pickle and beer is perfect combo

been eating a fair bit of cheese and onion lately and it's down to this poll i think

non-sharp cheddar - or "mild" in our parlance - takes the shine off it a bit tho

i thought about slicing some onion too but i decided i didn't want to get too wild.

yeah i think onion + Branston wd probly be overkill

Cheese and tomato sandwich is sublime

I think the reason non grilled cheese sandwiches aren't as popular in the USA is because the bread is too sweet

I thought it was because the cheddar isn't that great

i thought it was because we like actual sandwiches

Actual American Sandwich

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/03/10/3/299/2993211/fe6b0c8ae44fbda6_montecristofull.jpg

mmhmm quite

Ha I do want to try a Monte Cristo one day

i take it all back

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Baked_bean_sandwich.jpg/398px-Baked_bean_sandwich.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sandwiches

No choice for dill pickles?

had a cheese and egg (both grated) w/ mayo the other day. Still fav.

whoa that sounds good. what kind of cheese?

grated… egg??

Grate some mature cheddar cheese, grate a hard-boiled egg on top. Mix them up a bit. I quite often add a small amount rapeseed mayo to bind, and finely chopped chives. Use as sandwich filling. Nice.