World’s greatest sandwich invented minutes ago
Monday, January 19th, 2009
Chicken Salad Sliders.
This sandwich puts extra chicken to work for you. The English muffin succeeds where more notable breads fail. A sourdough places too much of a masticatory burden on the eater, ejecting chicken salad out the back of the sandwich. A toasted English muffin offers a perfect combination of sandwich structure and ease of chewing.
For the Chicken Salad
1 roasted chicken. I highly recommend Alice Waters’s method, described in The Art of Simple Food
Some mayonnaise
A mustard you like
Any combination of: diced apples, diced pears, chopped celery, olives, diced pickles, chopped banana peppers, chopped walnuts — really, whatever you like in your chicken salad. I went with celery and apples; in the future I’ll substitute something saltier for apples, as the finished product was a tad too close to Waldorf salad for my taste.
Salt and pepper to taste
Chicken Salad Preparation
Roast the chicken and eat it for dinner. Don’t worry, there will be plenty left over. Pick off any remaining chicken from the carcass and tear into bite-size chunks (this is easy, but somewhat messy). Add mayo, mustard, and any additional ingredients you’d like in your chicken salad. Exact measurements aren’t really necessary—just add ingredients until it looks and tastes right to you.
For the Slider
1 English muffin, toasted
Mustard to taste
Slider Preparation
Toast the English muffin. Pile the chicken salad high atop the sturdier half of the muffin, add mustard to the other half. Combine and serve for $4 each at the letterpress-studio-slash-brewpub you plan to open “in your 30s.”
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January 19th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I particularly enjoyed this post for three reasons.
A. Kickass Throwback Edition
B. Use of the word “masticatory”
C. The last line.
Kudos on the post. Methinks it was better than the actual sandwich.
January 19th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Ha, thanks! Honestly, the best part was re-reading those other three posts and comments. We were, if not kings, definitely the Original Princes of Comedy.
January 19th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
RIP Bernie Mac.
I think that’s why we forgot Scott’s bottled courage and had to drive around the block. Whilst making fun of the parade for that one black dude. On the south side. In a liquor store. With a VW Jetta parked outside. brilliant.
Wait, you weren’t even there. Oh well, good times nonetheless.
Speaking of parades for black dudes…
January 21st, 2009 at 8:03 pm
I wonder how your best sandwiches compare to Esquire’s list of best sandwiches in America -
http://www.esquire.com/features/food-drink/sandwiches
(a Zingerman’s sandwich made it, btw)
January 26th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Ha, I’m going to guess “not well” without having looked at the list yet. Sorry about the overzealous spam filter!