Insanewiches

August 18, 2009 3:04 PM

Fun with sandwiches.
posted by gman (31 comments total)

Hoagie crap, gyro my hero.
posted by Christ, what an asshole at 3:07 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

Awesome.
posted by maudlin at 3:27 PM on August 18, 2009

That poor boy!
posted by benzenedream at 3:30 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

I don't like cake. Most cake, anyway. One year, my team at work made me a special "cake" for my birthday lovingly crafted from packages of sandwich meat frosted with Cheez Whiz^(R). Those people were fucking awesome.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:31 PM on August 18, 2009

On snap. And here I thought the sandwich, in its simple beauty and perfectness, could not be improved upon.

How wrong I was.

Except for the hot dog sushi.
posted by Lutoslawski at 3:35 PM on August 18, 2009

I keep alternating between "COOL!" and "bleurgh, excuse me..."
posted by Diagonalize at 3:50 PM on August 18, 2009

Finally, a sandwich blog I can relate to.
posted by TwelveTwo at 3:55 PM on August 18, 2009

This is great fun, minus the sort-of weird anti-Italian tirades at certain points. (Maybe the guy's Italian-American himself, though. What do I know?)
posted by Navelgazer at 4:01 PM on August 18, 2009

Oh man, after awhile, everything began to look really, really good. I need to go eat something, NOW.
posted by Xoebe at 4:09 PM on August 18, 2009

This is a contributing factor to your metabolic imbalance.
posted by anthill at 4:12 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

I don't condone it, but I understand.
posted by cazoo at 4:45 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

Are these stunt sandwiches? Sandwich performance art? Conceptual sandwiches?
posted by idiopath at 4:58 PM on August 18, 2009

Most of these are silly or cute, although there's a few temptingly nice combos. The main bleurgh-factor (for me at least) seemed to come when chocolate was drizzled over Things On Which Chocolate Does Not Go. That and the food-colored eggs.
posted by luftmensch at 5:00 PM on August 18, 2009

I guess subway started it with that whole "sandwich artist" thing, it figures that we would get conceptual sandwich artists next. When it comes to food, the artless Thomas Kinkaid thing may be more my cup of tea I think, so to speak.
posted by idiopath at 5:01 PM on August 18, 2009

After a quick look at Fancy Fast Food, those sandwiches are looking quite appealing.
posted by pompomtom at 5:09 PM on August 18, 2009

I first read this as "Fun with shit sandwiches."

I don't like cake. Most cake, anyway. One year, my team at work made me a special "cake" for my birthday lovingly crafted from packages of sandwich meat frosted with Cheez Whiz(R). Those people were fucking awesome.

This I read in Andy Rooney's voice. I think I need a nap.
posted by dirigibleman at 5:09 PM on August 18, 2009

packages of sandwich meat frosted with Cheez Whiz

dear god
posted by hifiparasol at 5:22 PM on August 18, 2009

These are not sandwiches, these are silly stunts that happen to use foodstuffs as their mechanism. Sandwiches are delicious things that you can eat. And as the immortal Warren Zevon implored us, we must enjoy every one.
posted by jbickers at 5:23 PM on August 18, 2009

This is what I think it's supposed to be, right?

You've no idea how badly I want to be wrong.
posted by contessa at 5:28 PM on August 18, 2009

I really really want a Blueberry Hamcake Sandwich. Like, now.
posted by ubermuffin at 5:55 PM on August 18, 2009

contessa: "This is what I think it's supposed to be, right?"

Now I'm REALLY sorry I read this post!
posted by garnetgirl at 6:09 PM on August 18, 2009

Here I go, raining liberal guilt on the sandwich party, but anyway, I think one day future historians will look back at this moment in the early 21st century after electronic communication has enabled people to share with each other their deepest fantasies and they will consider how many of the most materially privileged, technically literate, and electronically capable of the people shared images of culinary decadence and whimsy while many of their fellows lived in abject poverty.

Bacon on cats, sandwiches in scanners, Julie and Julia, and food blogs on one side; cholera, malnutrition, starvation, and food adulteration on the other.

Oh, look! Sandwiches shaped like dominoes!
posted by mistersquid at 6:09 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

Hot Dog Sushi. My kids have been waiting their whole lives for some idea like that.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 6:24 PM on August 18, 2009

"Bacon on cats, sandwiches in scanners, Julie and Julia, and food blogs on one side; cholera, malnutrition, starvation, and food adulteration on the other"

If none of the things on the first side existed, none of the things on the second would in any way be assisted.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 7:28 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

Meh. I still prefer a good grilled cheese sandwich.
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:23 PM on August 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

I'm kind of surprised I've never seen the sentence "This is a straight-up bologna and cheese cupcake sandwich" on the internet before today.

And I would so eat a blueberry hamcake right this minute.
posted by lampoil at 8:34 PM on August 18, 2009

What! no Taiwan Burger?
posted by tellurian at 9:53 PM on August 18, 2009

It is hard for me to take seriously a sandwich specific blog, which does not even have a "Dagwood" category.
posted by paulsc at 11:25 PM on August 18, 2009

There are more of those that I would eat than there are those that I wouldn't.
posted by Shohn at 4:45 AM on August 19, 2009

This site is right up my daughter's alley. She's been working out the plans to create a pirate ship cake, with Swiss roll cannon and candybar plank and whatnot, as well as coming up with various forms of mock-sushi, alternative presentations of hot dogs, and sandwiches that defy convention. I blame it on the litter box cakes we made when the kids were little.
posted by notashroom at 9:30 AM on August 19, 2009

I have no idea how sandwiches got stuck in these people's scanners, or why.
posted by idiopath at 7:39 AM on August 31, 2009