So I just got an Italian sandwich

[chipperkwah]

Dude I worked at a Big Town Hero for about a year and I could not believe how many people asked for extra mayo, people ate that shit like it was goin outta style. We had 2 huge 5 gallon buckets in the fridge that were always filled with mayo, I wanted to fuckin puke every time I had to refill the bar up front, and I had to refill it OFTEN. I almost lost faith in humanity...

[Limewater]

Nothing wrong with mayonaise in moderation. With just the meat and bread the sandwhich is often dry. I have been getting more into mustards but still get it with mayo. If the tomatos are good it might make up for it moisture wise, but I haven't really strayed away from the mayo.

I'll also raise my hand as a mayonnaise hater. I don't even like to be in the same room as an open jar. Fortunately, my wife feels the same way. We don't eat fast food very often, and when we do we're pretty picky, so we minimize out exposure.

But I really don't understand why mayo is a default topping for ANYTHING. The number of people who can't stand it is quite substantial.

Also, I'm not trying to pick on molotovwars, but I really don't understand the whole "dry sandwich" thing. Dry sandwiches are great. Do people really prefer soggy bread? And besides, it's not like they ever use anything healthy to "moisten" a sandwich.

Does someone care to explain this to me?

[puke_face]

good 'ol mayo. turns this



Into this

[Harvey]

I love Undercover Brother!

I'm as white as powder and from the south and I hate mayonnaise. I don't like mustard either. On my sandwiches, just give me some meat and veggies and I'm set.

I love ranch dressing, and until I worked in a restaurant, I had no idea ranch was made mainly from mayonnaise and buttermilk, both terrible creations. I had to mix that junk together about twice a week. Squeezing a gallon of mayo out of a plastic container and watch it plop down was enough to make me dry heave.

[vejita]

Mayo isn't great. I usually take a napkin and sweep it off the sandwich if I get it- but what really makes me heave is cole slaw. I had to make it at Zaxby's when I worked there briefly and I mixed tubs of mayo or whatever the hell made up the smelly, revolting mess and slopped a bunch of sliced lettuce into it (which I also hate, cuz lettuce was never supposed to be sliced beyond recognition-it's only done so that they can quickly fit portioned amounts onto the sandwiches). Cole slaw is disgusting, yet so many people like it..

"Don't have enough french fries? Have some soggy shit!"

[Cronson]

zOMG Ack what the fuk? Derrr, this isn't related to gamingz. Dos not belong! Can't beliefs mod like yu showing suck bad exampel1

As for me, on the rare occasions when I do pay for an overpriced italian type sub from wherever, I tell them to throw everything on it. It's all good.

WTF? Mozgus crack a joke?! I never thought I'd see that.

[marurun]

I like good mayo, which is not, largely, what you get at sandwich and fast food joints. They sold Duke's mayo in grocery stores here for a while and that's the best mayo I ever had. No modified corn starch in Duke's. Still, too much is gross. Burger King likes to throw too much on their chicken sandwiches. It's kinda disgusting.

[lordofduct]

grrrr

mayo

The publix down the street from me makes subs for really cheap. I go up there randomly and reluctantly for a grinder and red bull.

I've come to notice everyone who works there either thinks all its customers are fat slobs who want all the fixings and as much as possible OR they hate their employers and "hook everyone up".

Now don't get me wrong, I like cold cuts and the sort. Not so much the mayo, but I like a LITTLE mayo... and when say little I mean I smear maybe one squirt across a grinder.

So I go up and ask what I'd assume to be simple:

"Publix 12 inch Italian with out the sweet ham, very light on the mayo, very light on the deli mustard, all the fixings"

Well they take no sweet ham as meaning twice the salami and capicola. And very light on the mayo as pour the whole God Damn bucket on, and light on the mustard as don't put any mustard on at all. All the fixings to them is merely 'lettuce and tomato"??? Where's my peppers, olives, onions, salt&pepper, etc????


Drives me freakin' bonkers. I've tried 80 different ways of explaining that I don't like a pound of meat and 3 pounds of mayo on my sandwich. I just don't like it. When mayo is squirting out the ends, and the meat can't stay in the sandwich... there is something wrong. I also don't have a giant mouth... you see I'm NORMAL.

Who ever can fit this fucking sub in their mouth could suck off a whale, and probably get less mayo out of it.



On the inverse I once went to a grinder shop to get my sister and I some sandwiches. When I asked for my sister's "roast beef, american, and a LOOOOOOT of mayo", the guy looked at me with a grossed out face and then said "ohhhh, you're Ashley's brother aren't you?"

That's gross, when the grossness of your sandwich can identify you as a person... that is disgusting. I swear I don't think my sister has ever ingested a vegetable in her life.

[MrPopo]

Mayo is on a long list of shit I don't want on my sandwich. When I get a sandwich, there are three things involved (at most).

Meat
Bread
Cheese (possibly, depending on the sandwich)

Which actually makes it easier to avoid shit like mayo. I order a cheeseburger plain and all I get is the above three. Not even the densest employee can figure out how to add mayo to a plain sandwich and still call it plain.

[molotovwars]

Nothing wrong with mayonnaise in moderation. With just the meat and bread the sandwhich is often dry. I have been getting more into mustards but still get it with mayo. If the tomatos are good it might make up for it moisture wise, but I haven't really strayed away from the mayo.

Also, I'm not trying to pick on molotovwars, but I really don't understand the whole "dry sandwich" thing. Dry sandwiches are great. Do people really prefer soggy bread? And besides, it's not like they ever use anything healthy to "moisten" a sandwich.

Does someone care to explain this to me?

That may just more be my rational for it, whether a sandwich is actually dry would depend on who makes it I guess. If all the ingredients are good it probably wouldn't matter, but I see the mayo as providing balance, and its light mayonnaise on both sides of the bread not heaping globs. Having mayonnaise does not mean you will have soggy bread. Large amounts of mayo is disgusting and there are times when I have to intervene and take most of it off, or specifically ask for light mayonnaise as many as you do.

Also consider, chipotle mayonnaise (not from the restaurant chiptole, but a mayo with a little bit of a spice to it), that shit is amazing whenever I have had it. Quiznos comes to mind.

If this makes any difference I am allergic to dairy products, so that rules out cheese on my sandwiches, which changes the dynamic of my sandwich, but regardless of cheese or my like for mayonnaise I'm confident I could make a good sandwich for anyone here.

Someone mentioned coleslaw earlier. Now, I had never had it or had any interest for trying it before I worked in a Barbecue restaurant, and I don't know if I've really had any coleslaw other that from my work, but homemade coleslaw is very good. Essential on a pulled pork sandwich, but not bad on the side either. Now that is all about balance for the sandwiches. Barbecue is all about balancing the flavors, having something hot, but then also having that bit of sweet and change in texture. For those that have had Peking duck, it (coleslaw) would compare to the cucumber that you have in the small wraps with the duck and the sauce.

Lastly, how does everybody feel about horseradish sauce? Just like the coleslaw it was something I had never had until it was somewhere I worked. I was always fond of wasabi though. Working at Panera Bread I had horseradish for the first time on their roast beef sandwich (I had always been cautious before on part of the dairy allergy and working there let me look over the ingredient list) and now I can't get enough of it. I don't have it often, but when I go to Panera or Arbys I'm the guy that puts a lot of it. I just really love the taste of horseradish now.