There is nothing quite like a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.

[ishmael]

I just made what I'm sure is the last of the season.

Lightly toasted bread slathered with a generous helping of real mayonaise. Crisp bacon. Two slices of the center of a large tomato, and a healthy helping of fresh lettuce leaves.

Is this an American invention? I put it on par with jazz.

[Donn]

Substitute Miracle Whip for the mayo, and I'm in. I also like a taste of cheddar cheese, either shredded, or spreadable.

I invented it. :D

[ishmael]

It is indescribe-able. Those who aren't sexual should try it as a substitute. No one has ever made a better sandwich. The concatenation is miraculous. It is smoky, salty, rich, warm, cool, fruity, spicey, likeable, crisp. I would sell my sister for one, if I had one, a sister that is. ;)

[imported_Steven Bauer]

Miracle Whip?! :eek: :( !!
Wow, Donn, I'm shocked. I never woulda thunk it of you.

Steven

[Donn]

Yes....I'm known as a man of taste. A microthin layer of MW on lightly toasted whole wheat bread. The sandwich must then be assembled correctly.

Bread, MW, shredded cheddar, bacon, tomato, lettuce (not iceberg), MW, bread.

Slice diagonally, and insert fuzzy toothpick in each half.

[MickeyLane]

Donn writes:
Substitute Miracle Whip for the mayo, and I'm in. I also like a taste of cheddar cheese, either shredded, or spreadable.
Miracle Whip? Spreadable Cheese?

"Hey look, Martha! There are barbarians."

Look, it's a BLT. If'n you're gonna go for the 'B', you're already off the diet chart so why the fake mayo? As for the "spreadable cheese" well ... words fail me.

[ishmael]

No iceberg!?

There are only two months in which this sandwhich can be properly made; bib lettuce, a slicing tomato ripe as a sixteen year old girl. We're coming to the end of the last month because the frost is coming.

No microwave, no nuthin' 'cept a toaster. All has to be fresh, and right off the grill. It's a seasonal treat. Oh, people make it all year these days, but it's not the same.

Edit: CHEESE, What, are you outa your fooking mind? Look, I gave ya a pass on the Miracle Whip, but CHEESE? That crosses the line.

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[Ron Williamson]

Field tomatoes have been crappy this year.I been waitin' an' waitin' and gettin' mealy,mushy ones.
I don't do mayo or MW,and sometimes not even lettuce,tomato or bread(brown with lots of birdseed into it). :D
R

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Actually, I think America's greatest gift to cuisine is the club sandwich. Mind you, there is all the difference in the world between a real one and the attempts at a club sandwich that are served in the average four star hotel.

The Hong Kong Club does a particularly good one, IMHO.

[Larry P.]

Back when I used to dig clams fr a living my favorite lunch was a garden tomato sanwich with mayo, along with 1/2 dozen of the clams on the 1/2 shell and an ice cold beer.

Man life was good back then

[ishmael]

Andrew,

I'm curious, did the BLT originate in America? You call it a club?

In its highest expression it is fine, oh god, so fine. Though our various students of cuisine would doubt it is the 'best' of American gastronomy. But who are you to comment, you Englishman, with your notoriously blase cuisine.

In fun.

Jack

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Jack, a Club sandwich, which I am sure is an American invention, is a more elaborate affair than a BLT, albeit constructed on similar principles.

Bacon, lettuce, tomato, chicken breast and fried egg, constructed as a triple decker i.e. three slices of lightly toasted bread, with two layers of filling, is one recipe but other variants use turkey, mayonnaise, and so on.

[MickeyLane]

Speaking of bacon sandwiches, have you ever tried peanut butter and crisp bacon? Yum.

[Cap'n R an R]

My mother would never,never,never eat pork....but she ate bacon,lettuce and tomato sandwiches several times a week....bacon was NOT PORK!!!....and she could prove it and no one could convince her otherwise.....I never doubted her for a moment...

[km gresham]

My sister in law who is a vegetarian declared bacon a vegetable ;)
And Dukes mayonaise is the only way to go on a BLT. And you can leave off the B and the L and it's still delicious :D

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Donn, Miracle Whip? :rolleyes: Your showing your Midwestern roots :D . True NYer will only touch HELMANS Mayo. My father in law just dropped of the last bunch of wonderful beefsteak tomatoes he grows guess what I'm making today smile.gif . My own dad would pair down the BLT to a fine art. Fresh white bread from the bakery NOT Wonder bread. Deep red ripe tomatoes from the garden sliced paper thin, he had this long slightly curved serrated tomato knife used only for this purpose. The bread would not be toasted and slathered with Helmans mayo and then the tomatoes would be added salt and pepper yum the perfect cool high summer sandwich.

[LeeG]

agreed on the club, BLT was the sandwich I had with my granddad,,club with the other grandma on the other side.
hey ish, if you can reprimand Donn for cheese and miracle whip,,you might re-think the description of a vine ripe 16yr old girl in a BLT.

[ishmael]

"As ripe as a sixteen year old girl."

What, are we becoming prudes that such a metaphor is out of bounds? Phah. Sixteen year old girls and vine ripened tomatoes are natural cognates; almost all the sixteen year old girls I've had the pleasure to meet, anyway. Yes it has sexual overtones: vine ripened tomatoes and sixteen year old girls. Intentional. ;) Relax a little Lee.

[Iceboy]

Fried egg on a club sandwich? Must be another uk type variant. Never heard of the like. Could be wrong though. Any U.S. types put egg on one?

[LeeG]

honestly it's the miracle whip that gets me,,,being a single dad with 15, and 16 yr old daughters it's amazing how things change, I was with you on the BLT until the 16 yr old tomato walked in. Could you make it a 31yr old tomato?

[Ken Hall]

I go romaine and maybe a bit of raw spinach.

Another good use for ripe tomatoes of the age of consensus ;) is a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich, with a bowl of really good New England clam chowder.

[ishmael]

honestly it's the miracle whip that gets me,,,being a single dad with 15, and 16 yr old daughters it's amazing how things change, I was with you on the BLT until the 16 yr old tomato walked in. Could you make it a 31yr old tomato? I'm not suggesting license, but any man who doesn't acknowledge what I'm speaking of is either half-dead, really old, or gay.

It's unfortunate, to me, that such metaphor has become both taboo and rife, in a weird morality dance; a very strange collection. As the father of daughters that age I can understand your consternation and confusion.

[Jim H]

I like BLT as long as they hold the "T". I never liked tomato's raw or baked, yeech. I only like them cooked down into sauce. Now substitute a slice of tomatillo and that becomes a horse of a different color.

[LeeG]

ish, thank you for your understanding my confusion and consternation, likewise I have friends your age without children and I can see how a certain spririted nature can be misconstrued as cluelessness.

[MJC]

Yummm. BLT's.

Can you tell the roadside tomato stand opened today!

[Donn]

What's wrong with Miracle Whip? Mayo has it's place, especially horseradish mayo on turkey, but bacon screams for Miracle Whip. And spreadable cheddar cheese, specifically WisPride, is a marvelous food. Take a sandwich size emuff, and lightly toast it. Spread half of it with WisPride, and sprinkle on some French's onion rings, while nuking a left over grilled chopped sirloin burger. When the burger is done, slather it with Poupon mustard, both sides, and set it on the onion rings. Ketchup on the other half of the emuff, and Bob's yer uncle!

[Wild Dingo]

Not to take this off tack... well okay just a wee bit ;)

Ive been gettin the munchies lately for toast with horseradish rings of radish finely chopped tiny chili {damned if I know the name of the things but theyre REALLY small and BLOODY HOT as buggary! :eek: } thin rounds of celery shaved or finely grated semi matured cheeze a teaspoon of parmesian throw on lashings of pepper and a tad of salt whack em under the toaster till top of cheeze is nice and browned... take em out slice into small squares lay on a bed of sliced lettuce... pick up a slice of lettuce with each peice of toastie and eat! ooooooooohhhhhhhh yeah... have 4 of these every arvo around 3 and by the lord harry you sure get nice and regular :D

Possumpoop tends to mutter about fumes while holding her breathe :rolleyes: and the hoons avoid me like the plaque for hours after but mates I tell yer pharts an all its tooo flamin die for! :cool:

[Alan D. Hyde]

Helman's or homemade mayo are an essential ingredient. Really good bread makes a big difference too.

Donn, make a BLT each way and compare.

Miracle Whip? That's like using Velveeta in place of cheese... :D

Alan

[Donn]

MMMM..Velveeta fondue with cubes of Spam! tongue.gif