Sandwich Archive Selections and Winnipeg Wackyness

Unfortunately exam crunch time has got be to bogged down for one of usual verbose, William Faulkner meets Fred de Luca posts where a rhapsodize lovingly about all aspects of Sandwich lore (wait I'm starting to do it).

Instead here are a cpl of Sandwiches which were decent but did not merit entire posts:

Egg Salad from MBCO (Montreal Bread Compnay)'s now defunct Rosedale Location.

Note that the Egg Salad is really more of a "deconstructed hardboiled egg"

Comments: A little heavy on the mayo, great pumpernickel bread, mixed feelings about use of lettuce (added crunch bet well a little foreign), could have used better spicing of Egg Salad

Judgment: 6/10 OPAs


Here are some Sandwiches and Quasi-Sandwiches I consumed during last August's Great Canadian Sandwich Meet n Greet, aided in large part by noted fresser Daniel Julian Palitsky

First Sandwich consumed was an early morning Sausage n Egg from regional Fast Food Joint: Salisbury House  aka Sal's

Comments: Processed Cheese, Breakfast Sausage and Fresh Cooked Eggs w/ a side of Hash Browns is like the VIP version of most fast food breakfast. Also, the greasy breakfast sandwich represents one of the few times that I believe processed cheese is superior to the real thing. Pillow-y  soft bun gave this a very nurturing feel for first thing in the morning

Comment's 7/10 opas.


In the realm of  Quasi-Sandwiches, I consumed (or at least attempted to consume) this ill-advised, Thisiswhyyourefat-esque monstrosity at Johnny G's in Winnipeg, after a Bar Mitzvah reunion type night at local watering hole Alive:

The Chili-Burger is just what it sounds like: A burger, smothered/covered/sandblasted with Chili Sauce (of the  smoky ground beef variety, I don't recall seeing a kidney bean anywhere near this thing)


5 bites later I think all I could achieve was this

Comments: Chili sauce could have had more flavor be it smoky, spicy, etc (adding ground beef flavor to burgers seems like redundancy of the highest order). Burger itself was dry and overcooked.

Comments: 5/10 (though I have heard that this particular restaurant pales in comparison of other Chili burger Meccas in Winnipeg)


Finally my favorite Sandwich of the Winnipeg trip had to have been from Lovey's BBQ  .  A young upstart trying to bring real southern BBQ (and clearly succeeding) to the 10 time Slurpee Capital of the World .

and they succeeded, making one of the tastiest Pulled Pork Sammies I have ever eaten:

Comments: Perfectly sour cole slaw, equal parts sweet & tangy barbeque sauce served as perfect compliments to Stellar Pulled Pork. Clearly this pork had been through a serious journey to get to my plate. Meat was succulent, and had great levels of smoke to it (which tends to separate truly divine pulled pork from the pretenders). The bun served as an adequate conduit the aformentioned elements and thus served its role.

Judgment: 9/10 Opas