Breakfast ssndwich has to consist of 3-4 components to make it a breakfast sandwich imo.
Egg (I feel like this is a must and without it, it becomes something different. For instance as above a bagel with lox is simply that, but a bagel lox with egg is a breakfast sandwich)
Some kind of breakfast meat.
Some kind of bread (obv)
A cheese of some sort (optional but pretty neccesary imo)
man we’ve all been there and by there I mean at some point we’ve all made some completely backwards decision that we knew deep down was probably wrong, which just made us stubborn, so we fucking doubled down on that shit and by shit I mean our goddamn lousy opinion about whatever the thing was, the thing when we became our own worst enemy and we showed our bare ass on the world stage. For example, take a normal person’s first bite into a pork belly bahn mi, the flavor and the glory of it, the fat and spice and umami in a smashup with freshness and zing and baked bread, and then try to imagine thinking of that erotic cannonball as potentially “the perfect representative of a bad sandwich,” and in that braindead situation then sure, the best thing to do would be to just ride it out, to hunker down, to make a home of our tremendous error, knowing that eventually someone will change the subject and everyone can stop focusing on this glitch, this minor autobiographical canker, that would really just be a goofy personality quirk if it wasn’t so chilling, and so destructive
Something seems off that “breakfast sandwich” is in the final four. Virtually nobody would answer that to the question of “I’m making sandwiches…what kind you want?”
Maybe next time we do this we have some primaries to pick the best “beef on bread” sandwich, and best “breakfast Sandwich.” Like, if we were going to do a pizza draft, we wouldn’t just start with all comers, we’d narrow it down to best thin crust pizza, best thick crust pizza, best Detroit pizza, best Chicago casserole, etc. Then put those into brackets and vote on them.
Just because it is easy to imagine the set of breakfast sandwiches doesn’t mean there is a similar set of lunch or dinner sandwiches. The only thing that really separates most of them is what time they are eaten…
I would strongly recommend trying to seek out a place that specializes in bahn mi instead of getting one from a place that does rice/pho. in my experience, the places that are exclusively bahn mi are just out of this world - baking their own bread, making their own meats, home made mayo and liver pate, etc. Restaurant bahn mi is often just average.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing here of the sort (KC) other than a chain called “Paris Banh Mi” that opened maybe a year ago. There were rumors of it opening for like a year before it actually did so I was thinking about it nearly every day. It’s really not that great in my opinion; the two places I mentioned above blow it out of the water.
You have to go north or the river. Little Saigon is on North Oak trafficway with three sandwich shops. That sandwich I posted Wed was from from another shop south of there.
I always forget about those and yeah, you’re right, some good places there; I seem to remember liking San’s and another place a few doors down. That said, they’re almost as far North of the river as I am South so, unless I’ve got something other to do up there, I’m not hitting it. Same with the Italian Sausage Company which, if you’re a general sandwich fan, is well worth a stop.
Breakfast sandwich is any combination of things including bread/egg/meat/cheese that can be found on the mcds breakfast menu. Think of the best version of this.