The Magnificent Sandvich

Recently, I went to my friend Ian's house in Nashville, TN. While I was there, we spent several hours fusing together what may well be the crowning endeavor of our generation. We made a sandvich. And not just any sandvich, no, a beast of weight and consequence, forged of iron and cold-cuts and brawn. Behold our works, piteous beasts! Behold our works and tremble!





It contained the following ingredients from bottom to top, in order:

Bread, mayonnaise, Genoa salami, turkey, pastrami, ham, pepperoni, gouda cheese, horseradish sauce, the middle third of the loaf of bread, more horseradish sauce, three bratwursts sliced in half long-ways, onion, Tostino's Pizza Rolls, black olives, bacon, American cheese, lettuce, more mayonnaise, and bread.

It took us two meals to complete it...we ate half for dinner after we made it and half the next day. I think the pizza rolls really push it over the edge into crazy territory. It was possible to eat as a sandwich, which I think is an important point. A giant pile of food enclosed by bread can be called a sandwich, but it's not a sandwich unless you can actually pick it up and eat it. That said, it was absolutely huge. More pictures follow. Apologies for the somewhat poor image quality, a result of my Blackberry's somewhat poor camera.