The only thing better than pasta on sandwiches? Potatoes on sandwiches!
A few standouts quickly emerge –
First there is the breakfast variety – a little eggs, some cheese, maybe a little meat, and some AM potatoes. As recently reported by the Village Voice’s Fork in the Road blog, this type is well represented by the version at Torrisi Italian Specialties in New York’s Little Italy. Provolone, soft scrambled egg, and roasted red spuds. What’s not to like?
Fork in the Road
Next up, to India, where potato on bread is a fixture — from the sandwich-like masala dosa
(not really bread, but close…)
photo, su-lin
to the stuffed aloo sandwich (sort of like grilled cheese but with potato goes better than cheddar)
to the vada pav, a hugely popular vegetarian Indian fast food delicacy. This belly bomb marries a giant fried spicy potato ball (vada) on a squishy white bun (pav), and is then topped with any number of chutneys, shredded coconut, or even cheese. Last year Shiv Sena, the ultra-right wing Indian political party, launched its own chain of vada pav joints, called Shiv Vada, with the hopes of making the sandwich as globally ubiquitous as the Whopper.
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And lastly who hasn’t enjoyed a French fry sandwich?
In Paris’s Quartier Latin, one can’t walk three feet without a vendor imploring you to buy a sandwich grec (shawarma meat and fries on a baguette or pita)
photo, kais miled
The British chip butty — butty being a Britishism for sandwich, chip being a Britishism for fry; and using the powers of deduction, you’ve got a French fry sandwich on your hands (one so beloved by the Brits that there’s a song in its honor)
photo, judyboo
The famous Pittsburgh sandwich shop Primanti Bros knows that everything is better with spuds, and so from the sardines and cheese sammy to its knockwurst hero, the restaurants tops all of its sandwiches with fries.
photo, Kurt Komoda
Okay, this list could go on forever – Israeli falafel often has fries; there’s the Thanksgiving sandwich with mashed potatoes; the Danish open faced Smørrebrød featuring thin sliced boiled potatoes; and the Peruvian lomo saltado (steak and fries) on a bun. But all this carb club conversation is making me hungry, so instead I’ll leave you with one more –
A Japanese pork katsu sandwich that just looks like a baked potato…
photo, Sparklette.net
The Manolo’s favorite carb-on-the-carb potato sandwich is the Spanish bocodillo tortilla
Comment by Manolo the Shoeblogger — July 30, 2010 @ 1:02 pm
I like making a sandwich with fish sticks & mashed potatoes.
Comment by Gina — August 2, 2010 @ 6:18 am
I would like the Manolo’s Bocodillo tortilla for breakfast and Gina’s fish stick and mashed potato sandwich for lunch. Charge it please and thank you very much.
Comment by Katie R. — August 2, 2010 @ 5:33 pm
An exercise in fabulosity.
Comment by Keri — August 5, 2010 @ 11:05 am