Who gets into the club club?

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Posted by Cary, January 5, 2009 at 1:01 PM

The avacado/sprout club sandwich in Dinner Tonight last week got me thinking....what makes a club a club? To me it has to at least have bacon, tomato, and three slices of toast as well as another meat and cheese. (I don't LIKE sandwiches on toast, but that says club to me).

If you order a club sandwich, what minimum requirements do you expect?

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I expect it to be a double decker sandwhich of some sort, usually with at least one layer consisting of lettuce, tomato, bacon and mayo and the other layer being a protein and/or cheese.

Amandarama at 1:37PM on 01/05/09

If I have a club, it's 3 pieces of white toast, mayo, bacon, lettuce, tomato, cheese and (shrimp salad, tuna salad, ham, roast beef ~ you pick) While turkey is said to be the traditional meat, you won't find that at my house. It must be cut into quarters and be secured with the frilly toothpicks, with a pile of potato chips in the middle.

izatryt at 1:40PM on 01/05/09

I think, at this point, 3 slices of bread is more or less the minimum level for entry into the club. I think bacon probably used to be required, but in the last few years that seems to have been left behind, too.

ccbweb at 1:43PM on 01/05/09

To me, the ultimate club is a blt club. Three slices of toast, as you said. Bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayo. Cut diagonally into four triangles, and probably speared with a toothpick to hold it together. I really don't want anything else on it, but it seems like most clubs that I see in restaurants have turkey or avocado or something else on them.

Give me the blt, a pickle spear, and some fries, and I'm a happy camper.

dbcurrie at 1:44PM on 01/05/09

3 slices of toast, bacon, turkey, thin slice of colby cheese, lettuce, tomato and mayo-- that's it.

finsbigfan at 1:52PM on 01/05/09

There's gotta be bacon and mayo on there for it to be a true club. IMHO.

juliebugsmama at 3:47PM on 01/05/09

Three slices of toast and bacon is the minimum, but honestly, the only sandwich I really consider a club is a Turkey club - White toast, turkey, lettuce, tomato, bacon, plenty of mayo. Perfection.

chisai at 4:06PM on 01/05/09

If I order a club sandwich, I expect a 3 decker on white toast w/mayo, lettuce, tomato, bacon and turkey. Maybe provolone cheese, maybe not. Cut in triangles, held together with fancy toothpicks.

Anything else needs to be specified, i.e. roast beef club, chicken club w/or w/out _____. The standard that I've seen is the turkey club.

Personally, 3 pieces of bread is too much and I don't like toasted sandwiches, unless I'm melting something and grilling the bread. Just my $.02.

PerkyMac at 4:25PM on 01/05/09

Not cheese. I can't believe how many places put cheese on them. And on everything else, too. I like cheese, but I don't think it belongs on every sandwich and appetizer on a menu.

lemons at 4:29PM on 01/05/09

I meant double decker - not triple. Three slices of bread.

PerkyMac at 4:44PM on 01/05/09

I love a club sandwich it recalls for me a different time, one of post clubbing eats. Like today as back then I pick the bread apart. I used to consolidate the middle and pull out most of the bread. If the toast was not tasty I often would just pile it up on the side of my plate. I know sandwich blasphemy. I am a bread purist. If the bread is not good why waste the carbs?

JerzeeTomato at 5:59AM on 01/06/09

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