Posted on 03/04/2021 6:08:55 AM PST by mylife
There is little to look forward to in the sweatiest days of summer—the days when it feels like you can’t cool down even if you peeled your skin off—except for the pleasure of a peak summer tomato and putting that perfect tomato in a sandwich.
People have many thoughts on how to construct a tomato sandwich, my preference: squishy white bread, lightly toasted; mayo (Hellmann’s is fine with me, though I know fans of Duke’s mayo have strong feelings here); salt and pepper; and thick slices of the plumpest, juiciest tomatoes I can find—the ones you feel tempted to cradle home for fear that they’ll burst en route. This sandwich, it should go without saying, is best eaten over the sink or with an ample supply of paper towels, because if you do it right, it’s messy as hell. I look forward to the scarce few weeks per year when I can eat this sandwich; in my opinion, a November or March tomato is just not good enough to carry something so simple. Luckily, the pro-tomato sandwich coalition has logged onto to defend our maligned icon. As some Twitter users have pointed out, the anti-tomato sandwich sentiments seem like rude digs at the South and to the idea of struggle meals. If the tomato sandwich grosses you out, perhaps the problem isn’t the sandwich itself or even the messy video, but your tomatoes.
Southern Living suggests this treat any time of year, but to really understand the tomato sandwich, I’d suggest setting a reminder for July or August; buying the best, ugliest heirloom tomato you can find; cutting that sucker into slices; then enjoying the experience, drippy mayo and all. If that doesn’t convert you, well, at least you tried it and didn’t just give in to petty Twitter outrage.
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It’s a structural thang for me.
What you got against toast Willis?!!
Or going to the garden with a salt-shaker .....mmmmmm
Tomatoes and Hellman’s mayonnaise salad. Period! (Adding cucumbers is GREAT, but that is a DIFFERENT salad). No salt, no pepper, no NOTHING ELSE! Don’t try to improve on PERFECTION.
Then, mop up the leftover mayonnaise/tomato juice sauce with a slice of that squishy white bread and butter. Mmmm, mmm
No salt? on tomato’s? Dude!!
going to the garden with a salt-shaker .....mmmmmm
Welcome to My World.
I get it. I LOVE BLTs. THEY have toast!
Hey, make your sandwiches anyway you want to. I won’t come into your kitchen or trailer and try to stop you.
I just meant the “PURE” tomato sandwich. (as I see it)
An aside: consider yourself “special” as I NEVER respond to comments to me.
Those tomatoes look fantastic, but I’d rather just go with a plate of tomatoes with hot buttered toast on the side.
Wow—sounds like you found a unicorn: the way to ruin a dill pickle!
“It’s a structural thang for me”
That’s why God gave us TWO hands.
OR cut it in half, NOT TRIANGLES, just in half.
(Top to bottom, but side to side is acceptable)
Skip the tomatoes. Double the bacon.
Amen brother...nothing better that a ‘mater sammich.
Might try a tomato and onion salad. Sliced tomatoes and sliced Vidalia onions with blue cheese crumbles on top smothered in blue cheese dressing.
Cheap store brand white bread, cheap store brand mayo aka salad dressing, thick sliced red juicy tomato straight off the vine and warm from the sun and a bit of salt.
Pure heaven.
It is a simple pleasure.
Half the fun is having to eat it over the kitchen sink while the juice drips off your chin.
As a city kid, growing up I hated tomatoes. Then one summer my grandmother grew some in the back yard, and I realized that I had simply never tasted a ripe fresh tomato.
From that moment, I’ve been hooked. Summer is that season with ripe tomatoes and green zucchini for a few glorious weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TWwyhCVBDg
Homegrown tomatoes by Guy Clark.
There used to be a condiment called Sandwich Spread. It was sort of like 1000 Island dressing. When I was little a friend of mine in the neighborhood used to eat those sandwiches. Now that I think back on it, his family was probably poor. Or maybe he just liked them. I liked them. I would put Sandwich Spread between two pieces of bread and eat it just like that.
Yep, a little salt is a must!
You got to be a “yankee”....
In the south, it’s “heathurn”...
And NOT toasted...PERIOD!!!!!
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