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Nothing will ever beat it: tomato soup and grilled cheese!
kjgibson at 12:05PM on 04/11/08
Tomato soup and grilled cheese was my first thought too.
However, my favorite soup is lentil w/andouille sausage and my favorite sandwich is a grilled reuben. I could eat them together, but they don't really "marry". I'm going to have to cogitate on this a little longer.
PerkyMac at 12:13PM on 04/11/08
Nothing will ever beat it: tomato soup and grilled cheese!
Oh ... oops, drat ... kjgibson beat me to it ... ;-)
LunaPierCook at 12:15PM on 04/11/08
I just can't get into plain tomato soup....I try to like it, but it's just "ok" for me.
I do however have a serious thing for brocc cheese soup and a ham sandwich (strange, I know).
When I was a kid, my parents would always do the tomato/grilled chz and I would have ckn noodle and grilled pb&j. I still eat it sometimes when I'm feeling nostalgic.
jcrisco at 12:18PM on 04/11/08
All-time favorite is the combo first mentioned by kjgibson, but if I had to come up with a second-favorite, it would be a fish-a-ma-jig and New England clam chowder from Friendly's.
For those unfamiliar w/ Friendly's, a fish-a-ma-jig is a fried fish sandwich on grilled bread, I guess kind of like a fish patty melt? The combo w/ NE chowder is delicious, but seriously can only be eaten about once every 5 years. And you can only eat dry salad for the other four years and 364 days.
Kerosena at 12:25PM on 04/11/08
Definitely tomato soup and grilled cheese. I'm also not opposed to a nice, spicy gumbo and grilled cheese. Or spicy chili and half a grilled cheese. (I love the grilled cheese!)
Chicken soup and a turkey club is a comfort food favorite and I frequent a deli that serves really good matzo ball soup that usually precedes a rueben. And I'm officially starving.
bitchincamero at 12:26PM on 04/11/08
My husband and I have had soup and sandwich combos for our past two Sunday lunches - last Sunday was BLAT (bacon, lettuce, avocado, and tomato) sandwiches with New England Clam Chower (my first time making it, it was delicious!); and the Sunday before was egg salad with potato leek soup .. both good combos. :)
mrsbao at 12:36PM on 04/11/08
Soup and sandwich is one of my favorite meal combinations after pho+summer roll.
Let's see...
Rare roast beef, alfalfa sprouts, and cucumber, with a little mayo, on sour dough bread. Manhattan clam chowder. Napoleon for dessert. It was my staple every Friday after school with my mother when I was in high school.
Another favorite, because it's impossible to just have ONE favorite, is at a neighborhood sandwich shop. Grilled eggplant, boccicini, tomato, with pesto mayo, on a rosemary foccacia, as well as their smoked salmon BLT on a bagel my favorites. It goes great with our own soup beef-vegetable.
Cassaendra at 12:41PM on 04/11/08
MANY MANY years ago when TS & GC were first part of the Friday public school non-meat lunch, I used to push the entire grilled cheese sanwich to the bottom of the bowl (after I ate some so there'd be room). By the time I finished the soup there was the grilled cheese all gooey and delicious. I grossed out my little friends but DAMN that was good!
RichardCrystal at 12:44PM on 04/11/08
Grilled cheese and tomato soup - first
Chicken noodle and toasted turkey and cheese - second
Barely soup and a BLT - third
French dip sandwich with au jus - does that count? If so, that's first. :)
Traveller at 12:52PM on 04/11/08
I like a turkey n fixins sandwich (roast turkey, stuffing, lettuce, sprouts, cucumber, cranberry relish on toasty bread) with a light cream of asparagus soup.
Damn. now I wish I was having that for lunch.
unarata at 12:53PM on 04/11/08
Another vote for tomato soup and grilled cheese. I have the luncheon soup-and-sandwich special at a local restaurant several times a week during the winter months -- one of my favorite combos there is lentil soup and a patty melt. Comfort city!
hatlady at 12:57PM on 04/11/08
Roast ham sandwich with potato, leek and bacon soup. Also, roast beef sandwich with spring vegetable soup...oh so good!
brooke29 at 12:59PM on 04/11/08
I don't think there's ever been a combo as good as Grilled Cheese and Tomato. Ummm. I've been eating them ever since I was a kid and I don't see it stopping anytime soon.
But my number two is vegetarian lentil soup along with a split grilled kielbasa sandwich on a hard roll w/mustard. Oh my goodness. It is absolute heaven. Which I now have to go buy the ingredients for, because as I typed it I could taste it, and I'm totally lost after that.
chisai at 1:27PM on 04/11/08
its not exactly a sandwich, but someone (mentioning no names) ;) stole my tomato soup and grilled cheese ;) Rhode Island clam chowder and a clam fritter! yummm
huney_bumper at 1:59PM on 04/11/08
I'm with jcrisco...Nothing better than broccoli cheese soup and a ham or turkey (if it's turkey-then add avocado)sandwhich.
However, I can't leave out Grilled Cheese and Chili. They are wonderous together.
Could someone tell me what pho is? I've read that other's like this on the site, but I do not know what it is. It's Vietnamese, correct?
Butrflygirly at 2:11PM on 04/11/08
Ditto for the nth time on the tomato soup/grilled cheese combo.
I used to go to a little place called Zuppa for their tomato soup with griiled cheese (fresh mozz slices, pancetta, basil, tomato, & pesto, all grilled on italian bread).
If the sandwich has meat in it, I like my soup to be meatless and vice versa.
If the soup is super thick and creamy or thick and chunky, I prefer having a salad with it instead of a sandwich.
wookie at 2:15PM on 04/11/08
I confess to not being much of one for soups. I basically never crave them and never make them. But sometimes I do love dipping the edge of my vegetarian BLT into a clear vegetable broth...
Christina at 2:33PM on 04/11/08
Haha, also, bread and butter isn't really a sandwich, but I gotta say a good crusty bread with fresh, sweet butter on it and almost ANY kind of brothy soup = heaven.
Christina at 2:33PM on 04/11/08
How about a soup that almost has a sandwich in it? I for one think the cheesey little piece of toast floating atop french onion soup counts. MMMmmm....
feriorrenna at 2:48PM on 04/11/08
I love vegetable noodle soup with grilled cheese sandwich and pigeon-pea stew (asopao de gandules) with toasted garlic bread - YUM!!!
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MadelynRodriguez at 2:52PM on 04/11/08
RichardCrystal, you are some kind of genius.
renzata at 3:13PM on 04/11/08
Does a taco count as a kind of sandwich?
I love a nice bowl of hot pozole with a taco on the side...
modysoul at 4:00PM on 04/11/08
OBVIOUSLY tomato and grilled cheese.
embolini9 at 4:15PM on 04/11/08
HOLD IT CASSANDRA!!! Did I actually read that as a lox and bagel BLT??? Oy, I could plotz!!!!
RichardCrystal at 4:44PM on 04/11/08
I gotta go with Christina here.....good crusty buttered bread.....and homemade chicken noodle soup....but i gotta ask....whats a vegetarian BLT?....thanks
onepercent99 at 5:52PM on 04/11/08
Righty-o, Richard, lox and bagel BLT, grill pressed. It comes with onions, but I always order it w/o. It is easy to make at home, but they make it so perfectly, and there's no bacon clean-up.
Butrflygirly, pho is a Vietnamese rice noodle soup dish. The broth is made with star anise, ginger, cinnamon, onions, beef bones, and other spices. It has a very deep, earthy and, depending on the restaurant, floral flavor. Not heavy at all.
The bowl of noodles will often come with fresh cilantro and onions inside, and very thinly sliced rare beef (there are other varieties like tripe, beef balls - no not testes, but ground beef rolled into balls - and flank. Since I hate onions and cilantro, I order mine "plain." Since I like my beef rare, I order my beef slices raw, so I control the doneness.
A platter of fresh Thai basil, bean sprouts, chili peppers, wedge of lime, and saw grass is usually served (not always). Thai basil is torn from the stem and placed in the soup, along with the bean sprouts, and mmm chili peppers. The squeezed lime spikes the flavor of the soup.
It really hits the spot for me because of the fresh crunch of the bean sprouts, the roundness of the Thai basil and anise, the zip of the lime, the chili pepper zing, and I love beef. The coolest part is that you can tailor it to your mood or the soup's flavor that day, because you add the fresh ingredients.
I'll use the summer roll dish, if the restaurant doesn't have dipping dishes available, and place some sriracha and hoisin to dip the beef so I don't taint the broth, since they're very strong flavors.
I'm enjoying my lox BLT at the moment, but now I want a bowl of pho. :\
(wow this turned out long!)
Cassaendra at 7:29PM on 04/11/08
I LOVE clam chowder and sandwiches, so whenever I have a chance to pair the two, you better believe I will. Clam chowder would be kind of gross with egg salad or chicken salad, but just about any other sandwich will do.
PumpkinBear at 11:56PM on 04/11/08
@Cassaendra: Thank you very much! This site had me wondering...And now I want some-badly. Mmmm...Sriracha. But minus onions-HATE them.
Butrflygirly at 3:13PM on 04/12/08