Have you ever eaten a spaghetti sandwich?

I’ve had a Manwich. Sloppy Joe sauce with hamburger. I like pbandj banana sandwiches.

No, but butter + potato chips is awesome.

not yet

Miracle Whip and Doritos is awesome, too @longgone.

Pencil spaghetti in the menu, @stanleybmanly, so you have leftovers.
Better to eat 2 spaghetti sandwiches hot-dog style (folded over slice) than as a 2-slice filling, FYI.

As I have stated before I am a dyed in the wool foodie. My wife is Sicilian.

She is revolted but tolerates my need to have the taste of childhood that is Boyardee sketti on toast.

It might interest the OP and others to check out /r/shittyfoodporn.

Not intentionally as a sandwich. But I have had a 6 inch piece of sourdough baguette sliced down one side, and then filled with spaghetti and sauce and eaten as as sandwich.

Almost as good as a Spaghetti Taco.

@SecondHandStoke I love Beans on Toast, that’s kinda like it sketti on toast.

On a toasted sandwich, yes.

No, but today I stood in line at the bank next to an insanely gregarious middle-aged American woman in bright, contrasting colors wearing a ball cap that said I Got De Fleured at Cafe de Fleur. Does that count?

@rojo

I also loved canned chili on toast.

With yellow mustard.

I have never had a starchystarchandstarch sandwich, unless you count Thanksgiving Leftovers (which is OMGcarby but gets a pass because Thanksgiving).

I like to make cream cheese and strawberry preserves sandwiches. And I still enjoy the occasional Fluffernutter.

@Espiritus_Corvus LOL…that was me. Okay, I am gregarious but not insanely so.I know when to be demure. haha

NO. I have had a meatball sandwich but pasta on bread sounds yucky, white carbs on carbs, gak!

Ha, funnily enough, we’re having meatball subs for dinner tonight. Ian asked for them, so he’s cooking them.

I do cream cheese, jelly and walnuts. I like it because it’s fiber, it’s protein, it’s a little sweet, a little nutty and the cream cheese cute the sweetness.

Not spaghetti but a meatball sub. Sounds interesting, will have to try it.

I do all the time. I don’t really eat it without heaping some spaghetti on a slice of toast and then fold the toast making a sort of spaghetti taco.

And If I am feeling fancy I cut off about six inches of the end of a loaf of french bread and pull out most of the soft dough and then fill with spaghetti.

No.

No.

I did have fried macaroni and cheese bites. Those were good.

Is the spaghetti just on top of a slice of bread, or does it have a bread lid? Spaghetti on toast was a regular simple meal when I was a kid. I haven’t eaten it for many years. I do occasionally have beans on toast.

Pretty much all the spaghetti I eat is an open-faced sandwich, since I pile every bit on a piece of garlic bread (or plain buttered bread if garlic bread isn’t available). But I don’t fold it over or add another slice on top.

True story, my favorite way to eat spaghetti is…without the actual spaghetti. I’ll just eat the delicious meat sauce with the bread. Saves on carbs, in my case!

I like my spaghetti sandwiches folded over on a single slice of untoasted bread, like a sausage. Taco style, if you like, but I don’t consider sliced bread a proper taco wrapper.

Isn’t eating things open-faced on toast a British/English thing? Beans and the like?

I love starch…nothing like a steaming pile of homemade noodles on mashed potatoes with a yeast roll or homemade biscuit!

@zenvelo Gourmet to grade school – now I’ll have to try the tacos.
@johnpowell How do you eat the end-roll filled with spaghetti?
@augustlan Eye-talian sloppy Jiacobbe?

@ibstubro said “Isn’t eating things open-faced on toast a British/English thing? Beans and the like?”

When you put it that way for some reason I picture peasants grubbing about with a platter of toast looking for things to put on it. Think of the Holy Grail scene with the old woman saying “Dennis, there’s some lovely filth down ‘ere” or the sketch about the Dead Bishop:

M: Whaddaya want with yer jugged fish?
K: ‘Alibut.
M: The jugged fish IS ‘alibut!
K: Well, what fish ‘ave you got that isn’t jugged?
M: Rabbit.
K: What, rabbit fish?
M: Uuh, yes…it’s got fins….
K: Is it dead?
M: Well, it was coughin’ up blood last night.
K: All right, I’ll have the dead unjugged rabbit fish.

Mmmmmm! Dead unjugged rabbit fish on toast!

It may well be a holdover of earlier times. Before plates became common, and for that matter, ovens, people used the charred or (if you were rich or lucky) stale bottoms of loaves of bread as “plates”. They would soak up the juices of the meal and be eaten as well.

beans and toast

@rojo

Injera still serves that purpose, @Seek, although I’ve had a hard time getting a handle on it without being an eyewitness to people eating it.

Joe Jackson on beans

LOL @rojo.

Well I was born and raised in GB, so perhaps it is @ibstubro. Don’t people in the US put beans on toast? You don’t know what you’re missing.

People who are more “southern” than me eat things like cornbread and beans. I’ve never made it, myself. It sounds terrible.

What does cornbread and beans look like?

This is what beans on toast looks like. It’s just a simple, fairly healthy meal for brekkie, lunch or even dinner. Great for when you’re on your own and don’t have to worry about anyone else.

This is cornbread and beans, I suppose. Cornbread itself is pretty mushy, then the beans are mushy, and it just looks like a carbariffic mess of textureless muck.

Well, it would be pretty carby even with ordinary bread. Your cornbread looks more like cake to me. However, beans are also high in protein and an excellent source of fibre. You can add in tomato or other veggie matter to give it a bit more healthy. I like to add an egg too.

@Earthbound_Misfit: Our cornbread is pretty cake-like. It’s good, I think.

There’s nothing mushy about cornbread, @Earthbound_Misfit. You’re right that it’s more like cross between bread and cake – a quickbread texture. Unless really fresh and hot, traditional cornbread won’t ball if you roll a small piece between your fingers. It will crumble.

This is ham and beans with cornbread as I grew up with it. I prefer my cornbread slightly sweet, and the beans are salty.
When down south I tried corn pone or hoecakes and I wasn’t too impressed, but it wasn’t fresh and I only tried it once. Corn sticks are a particularly crunchy version.

My personal best (invention) is cornmeal waffles covered in ham and beans.
Delicious!

@Seek When I was living “down south” they were obsessed with biscuits and gravy. Yuck. What even was that gravy stuff?
Anyways, I also started eating omelets when I was down there, so now up here I’m left stranded whenever I ask for a side of salsa with it.

Gravy is a universal, @dxs, from Canada’s Poutine, to the South’s red eye gravy.

Sausage gravy, another Southern favorite, is now a staple served throughout the US, popularized by chain restaurants that serve breakfast.

Now grits I never really got.

I, too, am anti-grits, but I do like sausage gravy.

You brown the sausage, and drain off the fat, leaving a few tablespoons behind. Mix that with some flour to make a roux, then whisk in milk. Let it boil to thicken, then season it how you like. Usually lots of pepper is the preferred way. Hubby likes to add Tabasco.

Do you seriously think I don’t know what gravy in general is?

I’ve had to explain exactly what sausage gravy is to two people this week already. It was too much a coincidence to make the assumption.

I’m just remembering being online in the supermarket in KY I think, maybe TN, and the cashier telling the woman in front of me she is trying to be a vegetarian, but the hardest thing to give up is sausage gravy. Lol. Blech. Then she explained to the customer what it is, because the Californian wasn’t familiar with it.

Grits seem to be a Southern tradition that never really spread.

My Great Grandmother was a great cook in the Southern tradition and the only good grits I ever had were baked with as much commodity cheese as there were grits. My family were pioneers in the government commodity food distribution program and there was a push to develop tasty recipes that recipients could make from the free ingredients.
Cheese Grits Casserole might not have been a Southern tradition, but it was in the style of and tasty!

Now you can buy Morningstar Farms veggies sausage crumbles and make a decent lacto-veggie sausage gravy, @JLeslie.

I was talking to @ibstubro. @ibstubro For the record, I’ve had Thanksgiving dinner on every Thanksgiving day since I’ve been living, and there’s been some form of gravy involved, be it Stove Top or the actual home-made stuff right from the turkey fat. I’m from RI, where people even call pasta sauce gravy (allegedly).

“Yuck. What even was that gravy stuff?” @dxs
Sausage gravy. I thought @Seek spoke to that nicely.

I didn’t even mention that omelets are a French tradition dating back to the 1400’s but appear in some form in virtually every culture and are, as far as I can tell, pretty much universal.

I had no idea what the specific type of white-greyish gravy that they put on the biscuits was since I’d never seen or tasted it before in my life. I did not mean any type of gravy in the universe. Also, I have never encountered biscuits and gravy in any restaurant here in New England. I hadn’t even heard of it until I went to the south. I’m also well aware that omelettes are also very popular around the world (and probably French given the spelling). In that sentence, I meant to say that I had previously not liked omelettes, but began eating them when I was in Florida. There, they would serve them with salsa. Back in New England where I am and am originally from, they do not do that. So whenever I ask if they have salsa here, the response is that they don’t have any. So, I am left to eat my omelette sans salsa. Hope that cleared some things up.

@dxs I always find it interesting what is different around the country. I never was offered sweet tea growing up in the northeast. Now, with so many chain restaurants, the regions are getting blurred a little.

@JLeslie Someone at work is from North Carolina and wishes there was sweet tea. I say why not just add sugar but he says it’s not the same. What he does now is puts some sugar in a cup with water and steams it on the Latte machine, and then mixes it with his tea.

Cracker Barrel aims to change that, @dxs

Honestly, I’d thought Bob Evans had already covered the nation in sausage gravy. Or IHOP

Maybe you’re not fond of chain breakfasts. I am not. But I’ve been dragged into the restaurants enough to scour the menus for something worth eating.

I think sweet tea is disgusting. Like a dessert, IMO.

@dxs There have been at least two Q’s where I tried to tell a particular jelly, who liked to argue with me, that sweet tea and sweetened tea are two different things. She would not accept my explanation. LOL.