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A sandwich is just a sandwich

Today I was making french toast (a.k.a. "eggy bread") when I realised we had sliced turkey and asiago cheese in the meat drawer. Sadly no ham, so my sandwich was only three-quarters of the way to being a monte cristo. What to call such a near-miss? A "Monte Battista"? An "Edmond Dantès"? A "Pianosa"?

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Ick. Sorry, even after three years in the US I don't think I'll ever get used to the American habit of have sandwiches with three kinds of protein in them.

Blame the French, not the Americans. And then order a Cubano.

No - the most I ever saw growing up in Europe was one, maybe two slices of ham and cheese each. Here in the US I regularly have to pick out half an inch of random protein before I have an edible sandwich. I really hate the mouth feel of biting through those thick layers of cold cuts.

Whatever. You said three kinds, not slices.

Mazeltov! May over-filled sandwiches be the least of your worries.

Slice of cheese. Slice of ham. Two kinds of protein.

But I agree, life is pretty good when I'm complaining about an excess of food.

Croque Madame? I had something like that at a French Bakery, her ein SF 'cept it used swiss cheese....

Ed, you're a genius! The all-turkey version of a monte cristo is obviously a morcerf!

Surely, it's a Monte Kosher.

Nah: no meat and dairy together.

How about a "Christ Monty"? As in "Christ, Monty, did you forget to buy ham?" Or maybe a "Monte Criminy."

Most people I know wouldn't taste the difference between ham and turkey (I mean it)

BTW, for word of the day we could do cheese and ham sandwich... We have a civil war in spain going on between the mixto and the bikini terms. A similar word is happening for "sneaker" or "sport shoes" which are called playeras, playeros, tenis, zapatillas or even bambas!

"Sneaker" has as many designations in English, too. I grew up calling them that or "tennis shoes". "Gym-shoes" was a word I found in older American literature and "athletic shoes" was a term found in formal notices. When I went to Britain for the first time, a friend made reference to my "trainers" and I had no idea what he meant.

By contrast, I can't think of any designation for a ham and cheese sandwich except "ham-and-cheese". I suppose "croque monsieur", but that's a very specific preparation--at least to me. A would-be bistro near work has this on its menu, but I was sorely disappointed when I ordered it since they used crusty rustic bread.

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In our case, bikini is how we call it in Catalonia because it was "released" when the nuclear bomb tests over there. Mixto is the Madrid version, and it makes sense because it's a sandwich with two ingredients, like the former word we used for schools with boys and girls. Then you also have to remember that we make a difference between sandwiches and bocadillos, the latter being made with French bread (or the copy of it), or basically, bread with a had crust.

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