You know what’s better than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich with bacon! You know what’s even better than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with bacon? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich with bacon and bananas!
How did this amazing sandwich come about you ask? Simple, I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and I was going to eat one when I noticed that I had some bacon in my refrigerator. It had been sitting in there for about a week, so I decided to fry it up and add it to my sandwich before it went bad. Then I noticed that I had some bananas sitting on top of my microwave so I added those as well.
After all, Elvis ate peanut butter, bacon and banana sandwiches all the time and he lived a nice long healthy life right? Oh…. he didn’t? Good thing I used wheat bread…
My buddy Jeff and I drove down to Chicago recently to see Matt Skiba of the Alkaline Trio and Brendan Kelly of the Lawrence Arms play a show at the Bottom Lounge. Since traffic around Chicago is usually pretty ridiculous we left Milwaukee fairly early, and ended up getting to the show about an hour before the doors opened. Luckily the Bottom Lounge has a pretty cool bar and restaurant so we grabbed a booth, ordered some beers and checked out the menu.
One of the specials that night was poutine, which is a dish consisting of fries topped with gravy and cheese curds. I’d never tried poutine before and the only thing I really knew about it was that its pretty popular in Canada, so I figured I’d give it a shot. A whole country can’t be wrong about something right? I mean, Canada brought us Degrassi, which is easily one of the greatest TV shows ever. Then again they also brought us Celine Dion and Bryan Adams, so maybe their judgment is a little suspect after all…
Since the poutine at Bottom Lounge was only $5 I was expecting the order to be fairly small, so I was pretty surprised when the waitress walked up to our table with a plate containing a pile of fries that was nearly the size of a football. After digging in I’ve got to say that I’m definitely with the Canadians when it comes to poutine. This stuff is great. The hot gravy even melted the cheese curds a little bit, which made it even better.
The only downfall of eating so much poutine is how tired it made me. A giant pile of fries covered in gravy which is then washed down with a couple beers isn’t exactly a pick-me-up, and isn’t a very great idea when you’ve got a 12am two hour drive back to Milwaukee ahead of you. I even made a stop at White Castle on my way home to see if some delicious sliders could cure my tiredness, but they only seemed to worsen it. Weird…
I was making myself some lunch the other day and couldn’t decide between a grilled cheese sandwich and macaroni and cheese when I thought to myself “Why should I be limited to one or the other?” It was after that thought that I decided to make a macaroni and grilled cheese sandwich. A delicious grilled cheese sandwich on wheat bread with some homemade macaroni and cheese in between the two slices as well.
Oh yeah, I also added some bacon because bacon makes everything more delicious.
Yeah, the Walking Taco is great and all, but what are you supposed to do if you’re REALLY hungry? That’s how I came up with the idea for the “Walking Taco Supreme.” Instead of a snack size bag of Fritos I opted to go with a family size bag. Instead a few ounces of ground beef I went with almost three pounds of it plus a rotisserie chicken.
I then completed my Walking Taco Supreme by adding two tomatoes, a head of lettuce, chunky salsa, sour cream, nacho cheese, shredded Mexican cheese, green chilies and some homemade guacamole.
The only downfall of the Walking Taco Supreme? By the time you actually eat your way all the way to the bottom of the bag the Fritos are pretty soggy.
If you’ve never had the pleasure of trying an overstuffed sandwich you’re missing out. The sandwiches were made famous in cities like Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and Lucky’s brought the concept to Chicago in 2004. If you’re unfamiliar with what exactly an overstuffed sandwich is, it’s basically just a giant sandwich stuffed with your choice of meat and cheese along with french fries and coleslaw. In fact, an overstuffed sandwich could be the perfect example of a “dude food” just because of the simple fact that it involves taking everything that would normally take up an entire plate and shoving it all into one sandwich.
Lucky’s actually has an eating challenge as well where if you can finish three of their overstuffed sandwiches in under an hour the third sandwich is free and you get a free t-shirt and your picture on their wall, and if you can finish in under 30 minutes all three sandwiches are free. Considering that in the previous 36 hours I’d already done the “Big Timmy Challenge,” eaten a pile of sushi and dined at a couple other restaurants as well I decided to just stick with one sandwich and save this eating challenge for the next time I visit the windy city.
For my sandwich I went with the pastrami and cheese, and for an extra 50 cents Lucky’s also added a fried egg to it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it until the day I die (probably of a massive heart attack), anytime you can add an egg to your burger or sandwich it’s always a smart idea to do so. The sandwich was great, although quite messy as you can probably imagine. Plus since my wife could only finish half of her overstuffed turkey sandwich I got to eat the rest of that too. Score!
You know what’s better than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich with bacon! You know what’s even better than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with bacon? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich with bacon and bananas!
