After reading this post, meatloaf sandwich. Darn you! I bought some ground beef on sale and thought "meatloaf or meatballs"? I went with the meatballs but you have me craving meatloaf. :)

I have to admit that I've never made a meatloaf just to make sandwiches out of it, but I do love a good meatfloaf sandwich. Like most people I know, I like sandwiches and/or salads for lunch most days. Maybe soup or stew in the Winter. Today it was deli style fancy sliced chicken with smoked gouda on a whole wheat flat bun. In other words, I like it when it's all in one thing, veg, meat and starch. :) If there's not enough veg in a sandwich, I'll have some on the side or a salad, but I'm really not into side dishes at lunch.

Love a meatloaf sandwich!! But I want mayo on it....and some iceberg lettuce!
Giggling remembering one time years ago making a meatloaf sandwich for my guy friend....he looked at it....got his nose down close and said "WHAT is on that??" Seems that a proper Jewish meatloaf sandwich only has mustard! LOL!

LOL! Linda, that's pastrami. There is no such thing as a proper Jewish meatloaf sandwich (meatloaf isn't really a Jewish thing), so he must have said so by analogy. I don't know why mayonnaise is so reviled by the Jewish deli set, unless it's because it's white people don't want to mistake it for dairy... (Not using one thing because it looks sort of like something else is a Jewish thing.)

Yeahbut....he wanted his potato salad with just potatoes a little onion and mayo....and it could be on the same plate with that meatloaf sandwich....with only mustard...go figure!

Yeah, I just meant there was a possibility of where the deli tradition of no mayonnaise on sandwiches may have come from, so that when extending to meatloaf sandwiches, which is more of an Americana thing, it was still just the way things were done. OTOH, mayonnaise with pastrami sounds awful. Fat on fat. It's not like a BLT where the meat might be fatty but the mayo is for the salad. Mustard on pastrami is key for the vinegar flavor cutting through the fat just as much as for the sharpness of the mustard seed standing up to the flavor of the meat.

I tried looking it up, but there's just a piece from Slate making the rounds talking about mayonnaise in Jewish humor, and about it being what the other ate. That's not about food, though, so it may just be as simple as pastrami and brisket don't need the fat, so neither does meatloaf. :) And leaves the potato salad question totally open to druthers. It's an interesting thing to consider.

OTOH, back to Shielajoyce's lunch question, I was recently introduced to a greaseball kind of delicious sandwich. It's hot (physical heat) with Korean style spicy sausage and melty cheese and sriracha. I've tried it without the cheese--the sausage certainly doesn't need more fat, and is kind of dripping to begin with--but the flavor depends on a piece of good cheese (like Swiss or aged gouda). It's a disgusting mess, but delicious. Also small, and necessarily so!

Muffuletta sandwich is probably my favorite, although I do not generally have the right kind of bread for it, but I do buy Mortadella frequently and bought some this week-end. I never make meatloaf sandwich, and I seldom have catsup on hand. I almost always add mushrooms to meatloaf when I make it, and then I add the leftover meatloaf to a marinara sauce - instead of meatballs. When I lived in Houston, I used to get really good Po' Boy sandwiches at Antone's Armenian delicatessen. Falafel is another lunch favorite, but I only make that a dinner, as it takes some time to make. I found some split fava beans at a Syrian deli that are really good for falafel, but the store also sells fresh fava beans. I sometimes add some garbanzo powder to the mix, if it is too wet.

I actually like mayo on pastrami :-)

And ketchup on my meatloaf sandwiches.

Cold meatloaf with ketchup on white bread has been a standard sammich for me for as long as I can remember. That having been said, I probably eat more peanut butter and jelly sammiches than any other.

My favorite sandwich is a chicken salad, bacon, lettuce, and tomato from my garden. I dream of it all winter.

One of my favorite summer sandwiches is just a fresh, ripe, warm from the garden tomato on firm, grainy bread with salt, pepper and either mayo or butter. Greens are optional.

Alas I have to limit my tomato consumption as they aggravate my arthritis

While I don't cook meatloaf just for sandwiches, the leftovers ARE highly prized for that purpose. In fact, meatloaf is on the menu for tonite's dinner so I will be enjoying a meatloaf sandwich tomorrow ;-)

I favor sandwiches for lunch - doesn't matter what kind. Quick and easy to prepare, one can be extremely creative and no cooking involved. In fact, I often cook extras of various things just to have the leftovers available for lunch sammies - the breakfast bacon, grilled or roasted veggies, always extra chicken.

Oh and right now my favorite lunch is the shawarma on a fluffy pita topped with all the yummy pickles, tahini, salad and hummus as I had it on my recent trip. That was my main meal daily and I miss it so!

Rarely is a sandwich on my lunch menu. Normally it's a hard boiled egg or slice of cheese and fruit . If I have a sandwich it would more likely be egg , salmon or tuna salad or a toasted tomato.

Having said that, I love a cold meatloaf sandwich with mustard. ..but it has to be a certain type of meatloaf I make two different types of meatloaf and only one cuts it for sammies.... fine, not coarse... dense , not loose, savory not, spicy sweet

A really, really long time ago what I did was toast some bread, put sliced tomatoes in it, and then secret ingredient: pats of butter on top of the tomatoes. Not sure why I liked that.

Now, though it's probably pasta salad. I'm gluten free so I use GF pasta.

My favorite lunch? It's same as everyone's favorite lunch.

Cold lobster roll + garden fresh tomato of the vine.

dcarch

Lobster rolls!! I could murder for one of those! We have tons of seafood available here but lobsters are a relatively scarce and very expensive commodity. I have to settle for an oyster po'boy!

I will say that there is little more satisfying than a sandwich made with a fresh picked tomato with just mayo and a bit of salt and pepper. But in my climate, you have to wait until late July or early August for that.

Not many sandwiches for me because of gluten. Favorite lunch depends on time of year. In the winter, it's soup. In the summer I like guacamole & tortilla chips or chicken salad on a lettuce salad w/ cranberries & raspberry vinaigrette. Or just tuna, onion & mayo salad. Or whatever is leftover in the refrigerator.

I do love cold meatloaf sandwiches but rarely have them because the rest of the family is meatloaf averse. My meatloaf recipe has tomato sauce as an ingredient & before I bake it, I put a generous squirt of catsup in a well down the center. For the sandwich, I prefer Miracle Whip.

I made a meatloaf last week and yes, cold sandwiches the next day are truly one of life's gustatory pleasures.

My favorite lunch recently has been Thai red curry rice noodle soup. I also like a "chef" salad with protein of choice.

Sandwiches are always great for keeping me full for hours.

I have so many favorites I couldn't just say one but meatloaf is a top ten. I have a quirk though. I enjoy meatloaf with celery, onions, pepper and even carrot in them but do not like chunks in there if I'm going to eat it cold. For some reason, it just gags me. Heat it up, put it on toast, it's fine but not cold, so if I'm planning it for cold sandwiches, I use seasonings rather than chunks of veggies in there.

I avoid bread - lunches are salads or abbreviated forms of dinner. Or, leftovers. Lettuce wraps work.

I even make meatloaf without grains/breading. Sub in veggies of the right sort - suddenly I like something I used to run from!

I'm not a morning person so I usually eat breakfast about 10 am, then have supper about 5 pm. Elery then wants a snack at 9 pm with the dogs, but I usually don't. I seldom eat lunch.

However, one of those lobster rolls from dcarch could very easily draw me out of my lunchless existence, I love them!

I haven't made meatloaf in a long time, although I did make meatballs recently. For some reason Elery will eat meatballs but doesn't like meatloaf, even if I make them both from the same mixture. Very odd indeed....

Annie

Yes, Annie, very odd indeed! Men are weird, and they think we are too.

I've tried to like meatloaf sandwiches, but perhaps because I didn't grow up w/ them, I've always preferred cold meatloaf & ketchup sans any bread. I definitely cannot make or eat meatloaf w/o ketchup on top!

TBH, I haven't eaten any sandwiches other than BLT for quite some time now, tho I do often make broiled tomato & cheese on bread, when my tomatoes are in season.

So the other day I was taken out to dinner at one of those "home cooking" places with traditional comfort foods and portions big enough for three. I had the meatloaf, which had a weird flavor that I'm thinking was the gravy. The vegetables were great so a lot of meat came back with me (at the time I was thinking I'd better take it so they wouldn't feel insulted). Anyway, I made a meatloaf sandwich at noon which was quite good. Scraped the gravy off first! Thin, heavy rye bread, condiment style barbecue sauce, sour dill pickle chips and non-plastic american cheese. The removal of the gravy, addition of counterpoints, and general sandwichiness made it rather good. :)