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.

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.

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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.