Sad meal competition: $30 Italian Meal vs. Butter & Cheese Sandwich vs. Brooklyn BBQ
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The yanks cannot grasp the notion of eating a sandwich like that. They only understand sandwiches with enough calories to serve as the sole thing you eat on a full meal.
$30 Italian Meal because the price is way out of proportion.
Butter and cheese is semi common for lazy food. If it was wonder bread(aka dandruff) and American cheese it would be a massive step down.
The BBQ looks like someone took a few pieces of food and displayed them in a silly way.
Butter and cheese is semi common for lazy food. If it was wonder bread(aka dandruff) and American cheese it would be a massive step down.
The BBQ looks like someone took a few pieces of food and displayed them in a silly way.
I'm Dutch and that butter and cheese sandwich is a very common breakfast or lunch item. And it's delicious.
I vote for the Brooklyn BBQ. That Italian meal atleast gets you (kind of) full from the looks of it. The Brooklyn BBQ just looks pretentious.
I vote for the Brooklyn BBQ. That Italian meal atleast gets you (kind of) full from the looks of it. The Brooklyn BBQ just looks pretentious.
Butter & Cheese Sandwich is based, inexpensive, not pretentious, humble, yet tasty and filling.
Brooklyn BBQ, some hipster caricature of food.
Voted $30 Italian Meal, that's a Trump level con job.
Brooklyn BBQ, some hipster caricature of food.
Voted $30 Italian Meal, that's a Trump level con job.
Americans hate on the cheese sandwich because they dont know real cheese. Good, european cheese dont need grilling to be tasty. In fact, many quality cheeses are much better before cooking. Sure, the bread would be better if toasted, but it's fine without as a quick snack.
Sometimes, I like to toast the two slices of bread and have the cheese cold in-between them. You get a light melting effect on the edges of the cheese, and the difference in sensation between the temperatures of the two items.
Makes sense. To make it less dry I'd butter the bread slices too. After toasting, of course.
Considering the likely cost of the butter and cheese sandwich, it has by far the best value. It's completely fine as a quick snack. And the "Italian" meal looks... overpriced but not actually awful.
But if I ever ordered barbecue in a restaurant and got a mostly-empty tray with a few slices of meat and two pickles, I would not be happy.
But if I ever ordered barbecue in a restaurant and got a mostly-empty tray with a few slices of meat and two pickles, I would not be happy.
Brooklyn really will attempt to pay homage to anything and in the process embarrass themselves.
We need a Taki thread explaining the difference in concepts of how bread is being used in the US compared to Europe. These countless discussions of Europeans failing to understand what's so weird about a slice of bread with butter and a slice of cheese while US Americans fail to understand that the concept of the sandwich as a big dinner as the only utilisation of bread is pretty specific to their culture are killing me.
The long and short of it:
The piece of bread you are seeing there isn't what people in Europe would call a "Sandwich". A Sandwich is a big meal, the one you have probably during the middle of the day in exchange for something like pasta, pizza, salad or whatever. That slice of bread is part of a smaller breakfast or dinner (In Germany, it's literally called "Abendbrot" or "Evening Bread" - though there you'd have to explain that dinner is, more often than not, actually only a small meal, eg. with 1 or 2 slices of bread and some cheese, yoghurt or whatever. Typically, in germany: 1 small meal as breakfast, one big meal during the middle of the day, 1 small meal at evening)
This is a sandwich:
This is Abendbrot:
The long and short of it:
The piece of bread you are seeing there isn't what people in Europe would call a "Sandwich". A Sandwich is a big meal, the one you have probably during the middle of the day in exchange for something like pasta, pizza, salad or whatever. That slice of bread is part of a smaller breakfast or dinner (In Germany, it's literally called "Abendbrot" or "Evening Bread" - though there you'd have to explain that dinner is, more often than not, actually only a small meal, eg. with 1 or 2 slices of bread and some cheese, yoghurt or whatever. Typically, in germany: 1 small meal as breakfast, one big meal during the middle of the day, 1 small meal at evening)
This is a sandwich:
This is Abendbrot:
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That BBQ looks so bad and overpriced that it is the worst one.
Cheese and bread doesn't look bad, it is something people eat everyday in Europe because it is quick to make and cheap.
That Italian foOOOOOOOOOOOOD doesn't look bad but is expansive. Saying that, what kind of food is it? I have always wondered about that.
Cheese and bread doesn't look bad, it is something people eat everyday in Europe because it is quick to make and cheap.
That Italian foOOOOOOOOOOOOD doesn't look bad but is expansive. Saying that, what kind of food is it? I have always wondered about that.
That cheese "sandwich" (not really a sandwich in the European sense of the term, in Belgium we'd call this a tartine) looks perfectly fine for breakfast or a light midday meal. Slices look a bit thin but the cheese looks at least decent.
What ? Butter and cheese on bread is a perfectly fine way to eat cheese, what else do you actually get when you order the cheese tray after a meal at a restaurant (besides maybe some kind of sweet like honey or Sirop de liege to balance a very strong cheese)
I voted for the butter and cheese sandwich because if you spent 3 minutes cooking it on a skillet you could make a grilled cheese out of it and improve the taste 100x.
Imagine living in a country where your cheese is so shit you can't enjoy a cheese sandwich.
This all boils down to American food snobbery, where you can't enjoy a humble snack without being branded a poor so must pile cake-bread with 5 feet of pastrami just to prove you're not struggling.
That's a toasted cheese sandwich. It's something completely different. There's a dedicated contraption for it:
This all boils down to American food snobbery, where you can't enjoy a humble snack without being branded a poor so must pile cake-bread with 5 feet of pastrami just to prove you're not struggling.
That's a toasted cheese sandwich. It's something completely different. There's a dedicated contraption for it:
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You Americans need to head to a place that sells European cheese because this is truely embarrassing. The cheese I'm the screenshot is really tasty compared to what the hell cheese you guys have.
We have entire aisles dedicated to different kinds of cheeses, the quality and variety isn't an issue. It's just that all of our sandwiches have either meat, veggies, sauce, or something on them to give it some taste/filling.
Butter and cheese sandwiches are actually very common and popular here, but we grill them on a skillet
that is a sad butter and cheese sandwich because of low quality bread
scandinavian hard cheese is generally a lot higher quality than the cheese americans put on their sandwiches though, so a butter and cheese sandwich with good quality bread is great
scandinavian hard cheese is generally a lot higher quality than the cheese americans put on their sandwiches though, so a butter and cheese sandwich with good quality bread is great
Well then either quality or varity IS an issue, because there are kinds of cheese that are virtually ruined by grilling.We have entire aisles dedicated to different kinds of cheeses, the quality and variety isn't an issue. It's just that all of our sandwiches have either meat, veggies, sauce, or something on them to give it some taste/filling.
Butter and cheese sandwiches are actually very common and popular here, but we grill them on a skillet
Also, as a swede that visits US 3-4 times a year - my experience with US cheese is that it's pretty bad.
Oh dear. I often eat my cheese rolls alone at work while reading a library book.
I just want somewhere to read quietly while eating a cheap lunch, never realised how sad and struggling I apparently looked, can't even afford my own book.
Although I sometimes have tomatoes on it so maybe that wins respect.
I just want somewhere to read quietly while eating a cheap lunch, never realised how sad and struggling I apparently looked, can't even afford my own book.
Although I sometimes have tomatoes on it so maybe that wins respect.
No it wasn't. The topic about that was anything but simple. It was made by a snotty european thumbing his nose about how Americans didn't have great cuisine like that. It was presented as an amazing treat that Americans simply couldn't understand.
Europeans are so arrogant about food that they think some thin slices of cheese and butter on some plain ass untoasted whitebread is a culinary masterpiece that you certainly couldn't create in America.
This. Iconic thread haha. A lot of us (Americans, I guess) were in pure shock. I actually was trying to remember the exact name of that damn sandwich a few weeks ago but couldn't, so thanks OP!
Nothing I've seen since on here has topped it.
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Why is this struggle
But this is not?
The way the uncooked cheese and butter are on bread implies the struggle of not having means to make the grilled cheese.
Sometimes people want some cheese + butter on bread, it's good.
I'd be ashamed of myself paying top dollar for that BBQ or Italian meal, whereas the cheese-on-bread combo is something I'd probably have with a cup of tea at home as an afternoon snack.
At least with the Italian meal being delivered, I can hide my shame at home (or post it on the Internet) but the BBQ is restaurant fare so I think I'd feel the saddest eating it. BBQ gets my vote.
At least with the Italian meal being delivered, I can hide my shame at home (or post it on the Internet) but the BBQ is restaurant fare so I think I'd feel the saddest eating it. BBQ gets my vote.
