If we’re going Portuguese, we could also put up the Bifana. I think it is also kind of overrated, but I didn’t go to what was supposedly the GOAT place, because whoever runs it, as is common with Euros apparently, took the entire month of August off so it was never open when I was there.
Bourdain’s favorite sandwich is super tasty and takes five minutes to make:
it’s a mortadella sandwich, long story short you lightly fry the mortadella, melt some cheese (he recommended provolone), spread mayo/kewpie + spicy mustard on a toasted bun, done. He went with sourdough or a kaiser roll but I like it on a brioche too. The mortadella is thin and fries up nice with little crispy carmelized ridges, and mortadella has bits of pistachios and some have little flares of chili peppers too, but who cares, this is a basic meat & cheese combo that is basically a leveled-up fried bologna sandwich. LOL BLT
In a past life I managed a subway (back when they cut the subs with the canoe cut to give you an idea how long ago) and one year I won the provincial speed sub making contest. Lost in nationals though. lol.
But Subway sandwiches are the absolute most brutally boring sandwiches I’ve ever encountered.
It’s about impossible to concoct a something good from those dull ingredients they offer without throwing a ton of banana peppers at it.