Talk:Club sandwich

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Contents 1 Terrible picture 2 "General" Section 3 Ingredients 4 Toasted 5 Name? 6 How often

[edit] Terrible picture

thats a terrible picture, its mostly fries. someone fix this, now!

Perhaps I am mistaken, but I have always understood that the canonical "club sandwich" contained turkey, lettuce, tomato, and bacon.

See, for example: http://www.foodtv.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_15658,00.html http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/SandwichHistory.htm

Dominus 08:43, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

There's now a better picture in the article, so I've removed the one with the fries obscuring the sandwich. boffy_b 18:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "General" Section

Most of the information here is so general as to be nearly completely useless. Fries are commonly served with many sandwiches, and parsley is a common decoration for any type of food. I also can't say I've heard of eating club sandwiches with ketchup. I'm skeptical that this happens any more for clubs than for any other type of sandwich. It'd also be nice to get a better photo; you can hardly see the club under all those fries. Pimlottc 13:14, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ingredients

The ingredients are almost universally turkey, bacon, lettuce, and tomatoes, however, I have seen club sandwiches with ham and roast beef as well as turkey. I didn't really know if these are "true" clubs, or just some poor facsimile, so I included these ingredents as alternatives. Does anybody know for sure?

In my (US) experience, those are the standard ingrediants. If there is a variance, it's most commonly the use of another meat instead of turkey, which is added a modifier to the name. For example, a "chicken club" would be chicken, bacon, lettuce and tomato. Pimlottc 12:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I should note that it is almost universally served on three slices of bread. 67.136.242.106 04:44, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

This is also my understanding. It's also the most obviously visual distinction between a club sandwhich and other types. Pimlottc 12:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Does nobody think cheese is a common ingredient? I don't eat a clubhouse without. I have heard either way is still a club, anyone know?

[edit] Toasted

I noted that the bread is toasted when I edited the article. If someone wants to write a paragraph about how the bread should always be toasted, go ahead.

[edit] Name?

Why is it called a club sandwich?--Primal Chaos 17:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I came, because i was confused because of its name. My guesses were: It was named Clubsandwich because it was served in clubs like it is today. For example in between a golf session or on a beach "club", it was a welcomed, easy prepared and fast meal, a more modern version of a hamburger (and not as heavy). (I did my own research and noticed that many of those clubs were serving those kind of sandwiches. An indicator is that i is sometimes also called clubhouse sandwich...

Second, club can also be ment as a wooden chunk used as a weappon, and its obiously big size can be understood as eating a club, of course just colloquial. (I know it sounds stupid)

User:Queen-Max18:35, 7 April 2007 (GMT +1:00)

[edit] How often

as anyone ordered a club sandwhich and been brought the sandwich described in this article?

Most of the "clubs" I've had were turkey, ham, bacon, cheese, tomatoe, and lettuce. The second most common has been turkey, ham, roast beef, cheese, tomatoe, and lettuce. At Subway I'd get turkey, ham, roast beef, bacon, cheese plus veggies. I've seen the sandwhich on this page plus cheese sold as a "turkey club" but I can't think of a restaurant where a "club" is used to describe a sandwhich with turkey, bacon, tomatoe, and lettuce only. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.140.244.90 (talk) 01:27, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

The unsigned comment above is a good point. The sandwich currently described in the article is a standardized item. There are lots of variations also called club sandwiches.

The article version from last September better recognized the diversity of things that are called club sandwiches. Wanderer57 (talk) 16:26, 16 March 2008 (UTC)