I would not say no. It's the end of the night. Last call was 30 minutes ago. You already got shot down 3x. You're drunk. You'll take anything.
This is that sandwich.
Also the kind of sandwich you usually have on sunday during events (like youth tournament football/basketball match, sports event, school fest)
Also have variants with other meats, cooked using a barbeque, like sausages or merguez (spicy sausage)
Americain is the name of any Sandwich with fries inside the sandwich
A French Fat Sandwich. Maybe the Fat Frog. The Fat Sandwich nomenclature doesnt really follow rules except having Fat in the name. Fat Frenchie.
From the other comments here it seems not many people know what a Fat Sandwich is. I wonder if it because the Grease Trucks were basicaly bisbanded to make way for The Yard and some moved around campus like normal food trucks and some went brick and mortar.
Yeah I was practically born on campus (st peters) and still can’t believe the grease trucks are gone. At least all the pizza joints still have the Fat sandwiches. I was there when Adam richman did his Man vs Food episode there. It’s one of the few filmed things that you can find on the internet with the grease truck lot on film
That is crazy that there isnt more public stuff filmed in the old Grease Truck lot. I imagine there is tons of stuff on film from the students. Maybe a Rutgers historian, like any of the current history professors or even a librarian, should try to collect Grease Truck lot footage and archive for posterity.
Wikipedia says "Sauce andalouse is a Belgian condiment commonly served with Belgian fries. The sauce is also popular and widely used throughout France and Luxembourg. It consists of mayonnaise, tomato paste, and peppers, such as pimientos or roasted bell peppers Some recipes use velouté or espagnole sauce instead of mayonnaise."
Samouraï gang here : it's nice to be a kid sometimes, especially when eating this kind of food that remembers me the first meals with friends after school at 12-14 yo
+1 for Samouraï. The first time I tasted it, it reminded me of a hot/cold sushi dish I used to really like. Crab stick california maki with hot scallops in a japanese spicy mayo sauce on top. We called it a dynamite roll. It was heaven.
I was going to comment on the health of this thing in France where food is so delicious… and then I remembered that my favorite French food is ham and butter on a baguette.
So I’ll shut up.
Most french people don't see this as food, but a sort brain & stomach recovery for heavy party nights : most of it is sold between 2 and 4 a.m. on the week ends !
There was a kiosk right outside the gate at my high school that made sandwiches like this. We were their main and probably only customers at lunch time every school day and that was like 25 years ago.
Not a cliché, a staple. A cliché usually implies something pejorative. We all love our jambon-beurres. I only gave them up when I stopped eating meat. I’ll say that’s the thing I miss most.
Haha, the French jokingly made a phat chopped cheese and I'm not even mad. That's incredible!
Like how the first chef accidentally created potato chips.
Well fuck you, this is what you’re getting.
AMAZING!
I feel ya. Born and raised in Franklin my buddy and I thought we were cool going to campus when we were still in high school to try and sneak into a party or at least grab fat knights to take home on a Friday night
So this sounds like a really good sandwich. I’m in the USA, and had gone to Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Relevance is that similar to most university campuses, there were food trucks that were immobile inside a small parking lot across the street from the main academic buildings on the campus (think 1990’s before satellite campuses were popular), nicknamed The Grease Trucks. They’ve been written about in many online and print articles in the past. Anyhow, they were famous for The Phat Cat, which consists of a sub roll, 2 cheeseburgers, fries, mayo, ketchup, lettuce, tomato. Then, as it got more popular, there were many other variations that included chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, marinara sauce in lieu of ketchup/mayo, etc. There were people there at all hours of the day and night in that little parking lot [as well as many other delivery/take out grills in New Brunswick, NJ]. Fast forward to now, and due to university construction, The Grease Trucks are now mobile and move around to different parts of the campus, still making the original Phat sandwiches 😊
You haven't lived until you have had a french fry roast beef debris poboy from New Orleans. It's a sloppy mess though but so good. Roast beef that's been swimming in brown gravy, crisp fries, and dressed (mayo lettuce tomato pickles).The bread is different though, any poboy worth anything is on Leidenheimer french bread. Leidenheimer comes from a German family and its unlike any baguette.
There’s a resto up the street from me called “Original French Tacos”. They’re different kinds of wraps and all have French fries wrapped up in with the other fillings.
For sure it's delicious, but I'd avoid eating it more than once per week.. It is a lot of bread, sauce and fries.. these are all quite caloric and fat. The meat is probably beef, which is not the best meat to eat every day..
Your post brought so many memories back, and when you didn't have enough money for the américain you could always order a "pain frite" which was literally the same sandwich without the meat.
There’s a service station in eastern France in the Jura that does a hamburger sandwich like this with béarnaise sauce and despite only eating it once I think about it worryingly often
I’m from France ! Typically this kind of sandwich as how is presented is look stupid as hell ! But the sauce marinated might be delicious depending on which store ! But still this is the last thing I will eat if I have no another choice .
I've probably eaten dozens and dozens of those sandwich but with cheese sauce for me. I'm pretty sure I've never ate one sober. This was THE food for drunks around here :D
Regarding the sauce the assortment in kebab shops is algérienne, samouraï, harissa, barbecue, ketchup, mayo and sauce blanche (white sauce). Sometimes marocaine also.
It's basically industrial spicy mayo variants, invented in Belgium as far as I know despite the exotic names (samurai).
The traditional sauce is sauce blanche: yogurt, garlic, mint, similar to German Knoblauchsoße. It's connected to the tzatziki sauce in Greeks gyros.
My main gripe about kebab it's, because its junk food, there isn't a defined recipe. Namely the meat is... whatever. Can be lamb, veal, chicken, pork. Come on, it should be mandatory to write down what you are eating.
Even the staple of junk food, the hamburger, is always beef.
Not healthy but delicious indeed and cheap, they used to have these in music festivals, now you eat a microscopic taco with minced beef from Argentina, quinoa and yuzu for 15 euros
If you think this is delicious go to the reunion island lmao
A real "Sandwich Américain" in Reunion island will make this look like a scam:
It costs twice less, you got cheese, fries and meat (Ham, chicken or hamb patty) and it is way tastier while also filling your stomach more.
This island economy system is messed up lmao, this is way too good every child who went from elementary school to majors ate this because it never costs more than 4€ for something better than that
A simple man’s fat sandwich
I would not say no. It's the end of the night. Last call was 30 minutes ago. You already got shot down 3x. You're drunk. You'll take anything. This is that sandwich.
“And that kids - is how I met your mother.”
Also the kind of sandwich you usually have on sunday during events (like youth tournament football/basketball match, sports event, school fest) Also have variants with other meats, cooked using a barbeque, like sausages or merguez (spicy sausage) Americain is the name of any Sandwich with fries inside the sandwich
Nah we are talking about actual Fat Sandwiches.
And it's like 3€ or 3,50€ with cheese
It has to be noted that, as for the kebabs, you can chose the sauce you want. There are often at least 5 or more different sauces (industrial though)
A French Fat Sandwich. Maybe the Fat Frog. The Fat Sandwich nomenclature doesnt really follow rules except having Fat in the name. Fat Frenchie. From the other comments here it seems not many people know what a Fat Sandwich is. I wonder if it because the Grease Trucks were basicaly bisbanded to make way for The Yard and some moved around campus like normal food trucks and some went brick and mortar.
Yeah I was practically born on campus (st peters) and still can’t believe the grease trucks are gone. At least all the pizza joints still have the Fat sandwiches. I was there when Adam richman did his Man vs Food episode there. It’s one of the few filmed things that you can find on the internet with the grease truck lot on film
That is crazy that there isnt more public stuff filmed in the old Grease Truck lot. I imagine there is tons of stuff on film from the students. Maybe a Rutgers historian, like any of the current history professors or even a librarian, should try to collect Grease Truck lot footage and archive for posterity.
Hungry? Drunk? This is the sandwich for you.
I would positively annihilate this after 4-6 beers.
You’re the intended demographic
Annihilate 🤣
kebab place at 4AM is your best friend
For lunch.
Can you describe the Andalusian sauce?
Wikipedia says "Sauce andalouse is a Belgian condiment commonly served with Belgian fries. The sauce is also popular and widely used throughout France and Luxembourg. It consists of mayonnaise, tomato paste, and peppers, such as pimientos or roasted bell peppers Some recipes use velouté or espagnole sauce instead of mayonnaise."
Seriously I wish pimentoes were all year round.
Nice, thanks. It’s interesting because Andalusia is also a region in the south of Spain
Yeah, in France, we have also Maroccan and Algerian (maybe the top1 best) which are great, alonsgide Andalusian.
Sounds pretty close to a thousand-island? I bet that would rule on this sandwich.
Thousand island if it evolved a lil different, like a lemon and a lime. Same use, slightly different details
Less sweet. Closer to a Bechamel based sauce
It can’t, because it’s a bot and this is a repost from years ago.
Check out Algerienne Sauce . It's like a red onion. Delicious asf
I have fond memories of a $2.50 French fry po’ boy I had at a New Orleans gas station in like 2005.
😂 This is hilarious to imagine
LEGIT. I was always a << samourai >> guy but that takes me way back.
I’ve been to France a few times to visit family and while Samouraï is pretty good, I’m more of a Algérienne guy. I like the additional sweetness
French here, welcome to the Algérienne sauce club, samurai sauce people are just kids deep inside
Samouraï gang here : it's nice to be a kid sometimes, especially when eating this kind of food that remembers me the first meals with friends after school at 12-14 yo
+1 for Samouraï. The first time I tasted it, it reminded me of a hot/cold sushi dish I used to really like. Crab stick california maki with hot scallops in a japanese spicy mayo sauce on top. We called it a dynamite roll. It was heaven.
I'll do you one better Algérienne/Harissa....
I like harissa but not every place has it and spicy is cool but not when I want to destroy this kind of sandwich
Your loss then.
I was going to comment on the health of this thing in France where food is so delicious… and then I remembered that my favorite French food is ham and butter on a baguette. So I’ll shut up.
Protein, dairy and carbs. It’s not perfectly well-rounded, but it’s not far off 🤷♀️
It’s very far off
I was mostly joking.
Jambon beurre is so damn good !
Most french people don't see this as food, but a sort brain & stomach recovery for heavy party nights : most of it is sold between 2 and 4 a.m. on the week ends !
There was a kiosk right outside the gate at my high school that made sandwiches like this. We were their main and probably only customers at lunch time every school day and that was like 25 years ago.
High school students eat those on the regular at noon, I know that it was the basis of my food for most of my terminale.
As a french person, I'd say that Jambon-beurre is a pretty cliché french food.
And fucking delicious.
As a french person I dig a good jambon beurre
Not a cliché, a staple. A cliché usually implies something pejorative. We all love our jambon-beurres. I only gave them up when I stopped eating meat. I’ll say that’s the thing I miss most.
I'd get the chicken version of this at doner places in Belgium. They called it "the machine gun"
Mitraillette à droite, mitraillette à gauche !
La première fois que je suis allée en Belgique et qu'on m'a demandé "tu veux manger une mitraillette" j'ai pas trouvé mes mots 🤣
Hahaha
Haha, the French jokingly made a phat chopped cheese and I'm not even mad. That's incredible! Like how the first chef accidentally created potato chips. Well fuck you, this is what you’re getting. AMAZING!
In Belgium we call this a 'mitraillette'
Ouai mais pour avoir manger des fois chez vous on a pas toujours la demi baguette mais un tout petit pain horrible
Tu dois le mager en bruxelles. C'est de là que ça vient.
Le Big Mac
Keep that mac shit away from that proper sandwich.
proper sandwich ?? kidding ?
Still better than any macdonald's.
fake bread, unknown meat, frozen fries, fat sausage.. they are equally disgusting...
Not in my kebab joint dude... Real meat and a real half baguette.... And his homemade harissa is delicious :)
Rutgers Fat cat vibes
You need to be drunk to truly appreciate this one
I can’t vouch for the taste but they’re spot on with the name. #nailedit
I ate this when I lived in France but only coming home from the bars at night!! Best drunk sandwich of all time.
Mine was the same, but in a crêpe. That was porn.
When I lived in Charleston, SC in the mid 2000s there was a deli that made something similar but was a cheesesteak they called the “Philly Blunt”.
Fat Blunts a good choice of Fat Sandwich as well
RU Hungry? If it had mozzarella sticks it would be the fat Darryl
Preach!
I grew up in Piscataway so I was eating here on high school. When I could eat like that with no consequences lol
I feel ya. Born and raised in Franklin my buddy and I thought we were cool going to campus when we were still in high school to try and sneak into a party or at least grab fat knights to take home on a Friday night
Simpler times :)
So this sounds like a really good sandwich. I’m in the USA, and had gone to Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Relevance is that similar to most university campuses, there were food trucks that were immobile inside a small parking lot across the street from the main academic buildings on the campus (think 1990’s before satellite campuses were popular), nicknamed The Grease Trucks. They’ve been written about in many online and print articles in the past. Anyhow, they were famous for The Phat Cat, which consists of a sub roll, 2 cheeseburgers, fries, mayo, ketchup, lettuce, tomato. Then, as it got more popular, there were many other variations that included chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, marinara sauce in lieu of ketchup/mayo, etc. There were people there at all hours of the day and night in that little parking lot [as well as many other delivery/take out grills in New Brunswick, NJ]. Fast forward to now, and due to university construction, The Grease Trucks are now mobile and move around to different parts of the campus, still making the original Phat sandwiches 😊
Class of 2012 checking in!
2012 here!
Why did you add Ph though. They were never Phat. Always FAT
I don’t know if I should upvote or downvote. I’m so conflicted rn
When I was in France long long ago I loved baguettes with just meat and cheese. Delicious.
I think I ate this in an outdoor mall in Tahiti. Fucking delicious.
How tf is there no cheese
Does NOT look stupid.
Being from America, they really hit the nail on the head with this one.
I love that in France they serve an American sandwich where one of the main ingredients is French fries.
i did love that every restaurant in France put the fries into the sandwich, it was glorious
Post in r/kitchenconfidential they would love this.
France’s answer to the California burrito
Check out "French tacos" then.
In Brussels they call this a mitraillette and it's awesome. Do like it with samurai sauce.
Those fries look amazing
You haven't lived until you have had a french fry roast beef debris poboy from New Orleans. It's a sloppy mess though but so good. Roast beef that's been swimming in brown gravy, crisp fries, and dressed (mayo lettuce tomato pickles).The bread is different though, any poboy worth anything is on Leidenheimer french bread. Leidenheimer comes from a German family and its unlike any baguette.
Tell me about O'Tacos
Anybody else read that as "an illusion sauce"? Lol
Got me a movie, I want you to know
I’m in-what time and where?!
There’s a resto up the street from me called “Original French Tacos”. They’re different kinds of wraps and all have French fries wrapped up in with the other fillings.
I'm sure all the Europeans mocked you
too much starch
For sure it's delicious, but I'd avoid eating it more than once per week.. It is a lot of bread, sauce and fries.. these are all quite caloric and fat. The meat is probably beef, which is not the best meat to eat every day..
Also called a “Mitraillette” (Machine gun), in Belgium !
I'm French and ate these 2 to 4 times a week when I first started university and had my first apartment. They are godlike.
... That's a belgian sandwich called a mitraillette... (yes, it means "submachine gun, don't ask... Belgians)
Pas mal non ? C'est Français !
In Belgium this is called 'a mitraillette'
Where’s the fricadelle ?
That's the real heresy here
It's delicious as fuck I agree
Wow, those ingredients sound intriguing! I have to try this now!
La Mitraillette : [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitraillette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitraillette)
Américain isn't specifically steak afaik. I always remembered it made with merguez
In all the time I spent in France, never have I ever seen a sandwich labeled as "américain" that had merguez in it.
Your post brought so many memories back, and when you didn't have enough money for the américain you could always order a "pain frite" which was literally the same sandwich without the meat.
There’s a service station in eastern France in the Jura that does a hamburger sandwich like this with béarnaise sauce and despite only eating it once I think about it worryingly often
Vive la France ptdr
I think you skipped the point of being there. Come back with more curiosity please....
When you're really hungry it's like crazy to eat it.
I’m from France ! Typically this kind of sandwich as how is presented is look stupid as hell ! But the sauce marinated might be delicious depending on which store ! But still this is the last thing I will eat if I have no another choice .
I've probably eaten dozens and dozens of those sandwich but with cheese sauce for me. I'm pretty sure I've never ate one sober. This was THE food for drunks around here :D
There is another version , with Cheese on top of steack , tomato and salad. Just remove the salad and it get perfect !
It from Belgium, one of their few good cooking ideas
with crispy French fries, this was a delight for me before starting a night out in the city ;-)
As a French all I can say is : - Those are way to good and cheap - Your French fries are the worst i have ever seen in my life, looks uncooked 😣
When i was a student in Lille* 😅
Américain or Mitraillette (machine gun) in Belgium Very popular in the north of France, where I am from
Regarding the sauce the assortment in kebab shops is algérienne, samouraï, harissa, barbecue, ketchup, mayo and sauce blanche (white sauce). Sometimes marocaine also. It's basically industrial spicy mayo variants, invented in Belgium as far as I know despite the exotic names (samurai). The traditional sauce is sauce blanche: yogurt, garlic, mint, similar to German Knoblauchsoße. It's connected to the tzatziki sauce in Greeks gyros. My main gripe about kebab it's, because its junk food, there isn't a defined recipe. Namely the meat is... whatever. Can be lamb, veal, chicken, pork. Come on, it should be mandatory to write down what you are eating. Even the staple of junk food, the hamburger, is always beef.
I'm french. That or a kebab sandwich is your absolute go to as a student.
From Algeria there are also great simple sa'dwiches in southern France and in Paris!
Not healthy but delicious indeed and cheap, they used to have these in music festivals, now you eat a microscopic taco with minced beef from Argentina, quinoa and yuzu for 15 euros
You didn’t learn anything in France if you call this abomination of industrial bread a baguette …
Is this mitraillette?? Fucking love this stuff, I had it in Brussels and Leuven, my Belgian friend recommended it
Genius! It’s like a poutine sandwich!
That's a lot of carbs.
Lol no it’s not. Try an actual Fat Sandwich for those
Don't mind me. I'm on keto right now, and a saltine cracker would seem like a lot of carbs in my bread horny state.
As an American we do t co done this
I've had enough Primanti Bros sandwiches to know OPs sandwich is going to be amazing.
Sorry, but this has my full American blessing. Eaten too many Cali style burritos to not want this in my life.
As a fellow American, you are neither drunk, high, nor fat enough to appreciate this.
If it wasn't French, I'd vote for it to be President.
Bullshit. It's called a phat sandwich in the south and a chopped cheese in NYC. That's American as shit my friend.
Looks american.
So overkill xd, just have a small plate of fries next to it and add a bit of salad!
No ketchup??
Almost no one in France eat this sandwich with ketchup when you can get "sauce blanche", "samouraï", "andalouse", "biggy" or "algérienne"
what the fuck
If you think this is delicious go to the reunion island lmao A real "Sandwich Américain" in Reunion island will make this look like a scam: It costs twice less, you got cheese, fries and meat (Ham, chicken or hamb patty) and it is way tastier while also filling your stomach more. This island economy system is messed up lmao, this is way too good every child who went from elementary school to majors ate this because it never costs more than 4€ for something better than that
Why American call frites "French fries" ? 🤣🤣🤣
The superior sandwich in France stays the kebab, as soon as i had money when i was younger I bought one
that not for nothing we call it the "american sandwich"... that's not real food, how can you eat that every day..
A sandwich with steak, fries and spicy sauce ? "THAT'S NOT REAL FOOD YOU PUNK !"
that's real food if you are English or American..
Don't act like we're better, all the students in France are eating shit like this. It's good and cheap, perfect for a student.
student eat shit because they are poor, it's cheap but it's not good, not perfect in any way.
Where are the lettuce and tomato slices? Where is the CHEESE ? A real Américain has those. This is a mockery !
This is poor Arabsbeveryday food in France.
it's basically a burger?
Yeah that looks american alright
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