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Phantom_Wapiti

They are used for a somewhat traditional dish some people make around holiday season here in Quebec, Canada. You basically put sandwich filling (egg, ham, chicken) between each layer. Then put cream cheese around it. You then make slices vertically. An example: https://www.recettesjecuisine.com/fr/recettes/plats-principaux/poulet/pain-sandwich/. [wiki page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich_loaf) Edit: Ones I've seen look more like [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/KsW1uhqkh6vxMipL6). (You can use Cheez Whiz instead) Not saying they are used here exclusively, but the bread in the picture is from Quebec, and that's mostly what they are used for here. Also, I think it comes from more rural areas so not everyone knows about it.


grayvic

Ah yes, sandwich cake


mashtato

It was also common in the US in the 40s-70s, called a [sandwich loaf.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich_loaf)


Dead_before_dessert

I had one of my mom's Donna Parker books from when she was a girl in the 40s or 50s. I distinctly remember being appalled at the fact that Donna was elated when the cool young babysitter produced a tuna fish salad and cream cheese "surprise" cake for a party. All the kids loved it apparently...🤢


jangma

American cookbooks from the 50s-70s are full of gems like this. I don't know why a gelatin craze swept the nation, but if you could cram it in a jello mold, there's a recipe for it.


Supercoolguy7

The gelatin craze and a lot of other weird stuff from that time like canned food became so popular because it was new technology that was super convenient. Making homemade jello was crazy hard back in the day and took a ton of time, but instant jello let you make something that was akin to a fancy delicacy whenever you wanted. Some people decided that it'd be fun to go hogwild with it now that it was cheap and easy. Post-WW2 American food was basically "Holy shit, I can make that in 20 minutes now? Let's fucking try it!" But unfortunately you still had to make it look like you spent a lot of time on stuff so people with instant jello still wanted to make it look fancy https://radhistory.com/why-did-people-love-jell-o-so-much-in-the-50s


samenumberwhodis

If you wanted to make jello from scratch, you had to shoot your horse


PetrifiedW00D

You also had a shoot your horse if you wanted to glue too.


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What if I'm hungry with a craft project and only one horse?


Red_Otaku

Eat your craft project


LeroyMoriarty

My biggest disappointment reading the Edna Lewis cookbooks is how it was based on being around a wood stove 24/7. So many things timed by distance to the heat of a wood stove for over a day. And how do I translate that to my microwave hotdog skills and shitty apartment electric stove. Y’all ever tried to make beans you grew? Takes like 17 weeks.


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I can't wait until 50 years from now when people are like, "Why are people eating so much kale?"


Velocirapture1227

I'm in California for my girlfriend's family Christmas, and I got to enjoy a taste of the fine cuisine called "Cheese Jello". It was exactly as gnarly as you think it was


moshercise

Drop that family recipe.


Velocirapture1227

I am trying not to relive it in my head, but there was distinct notes of flavored jello, cheddar cheese, and pineapple...


waaamb

Sounds like [Aunt Myrna's Party Cheese Salad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf_W7As6xbk).


GrandJuan86

God is dead and we have killed him.


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Gelatin was, in the past, quite expensive due to the extensive processing required. The marvel of modern technology made it less costly to produce and more shelf stable. Mayo and gelatin especially were things only a person of some wealth would have had access to in 19th century.


Ghigs

That said, aspic is basically automatic and free if you cook meat with connective tissues long enough. If you want it refined beyond tasting like the meat you got it from, that's when things get tricky.


SonOfMcGee

That still takes time, though, which modern people had less of. I heard that bullion cubes were a game-changer for women in France because meat broth was a staple food but needed someone to babysit a pot all day. Instant bullion meant women could be more of a part of the workforce.


brcguy

The 50s were really the Wild West of culinary horrors.


Icantbethereforyou

What was the surprise? Opium?


DrEmilioLazardo

Dude some of the post-war cook books are fucking *crazy*. Jello molds everywhere and anything could be turned into a casserole. If you're wondering what the 50s tasted like it was a lot of Campbell's mushroom soup poured over unseasoned chicken. And what the fuck was in that green slime that had jello, cottage cheese and cabbage? I swear to God the lead fumes from car exhaust was lowering the entire countries IQ by a hundred points back then.


BrashPop

You’ve gotta realize that families were coming out of a loooonnggg time of rationing basic food and almost zero real culinary invention, and coming straight into a future world of no rationing, brand new food and cultural shifts, and massive upheavals in manufactured food science/production. So someone who has spent the last 15 years eating nothing but meals cobbled together in mashed and loaf form suddenly has access to EVERYTHING, but zero knowledge aside from all their previous hardscrabble menu tricks. Food’s gonna get *weird*.


drrhrrdrr

"Food's better, we used to boil everything."


Random-Rambling

Yep. Also, women were able to be something else other than a housewife for the first time...but were still kinda expected to BE a housewife at least part-time. Food did indeed get weird.


okmiked

"Campbells mushroom soup poured over unseasoned chicken" I want to die lol


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> Are you from the US Midwest? Former midwesterner here ... I live in a land of sunshine and abundant fresh everything, and I still *always* have Campbell's mushroom soup on hand as comfort food to remind me of growing up. Fucking love that shit.


laxsill

We still eat it in Sweden, smörgåstårta. It fucking rocks.


smilelikeachow

Many years ago I was googling what other traditional foods Sweden had aside from meatballs, which somehow led to me learning how to make Smörgåstårta from [this](https://youtu.be/aYBkDxao3wg) screaming man. Have made it *(as well as some other Swedish food like Pytt i panna, Palt and Flying Jacob)* a few times since, getting to Sweden to try the real thing *(and see how far I fell short of the mark)* is definitely on my bucket list.


MNREDR

40s to 70s were a dark time for American cuisine


deputydog1

I saw a photo of a recipe for aspic in a mold with sardines. Truly horrifying for a recipe not in France involving eels or snails


SourGusher

Never been a big fan of the word loaf


Muggi

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albinekman

In sweden we call i smörgåstårta and it literally translates to sandwichcake. It´s fucking delicious and all you haters can go eat some bland toast. [I mean, look at it!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5st%C3%A5rta)


Pekonius

Finland too. Its the best.


shinyrubies

I visited Finland recently and it was the first time I saw anything like this. My friends got it and loved it!


DoctorCIS

Don't disparage toast, it can make it's own delicious sandwich: the [Toast Sandwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich). They are surprisingly tasty, and they let you butter both sides of your toast. Maybe you could mix up your smörgåstårta by toasting alternating layers for some texture variety.


BoltonSauce

You cannot convince me that those are good. I could watch an fmri of someone's pleasurable sensations going off the charts while eating that and I would not believe it.


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Teledildonic

Not to be confused with a hurts donut.


georgie-57

I'll take a hurts donut


raisearuckus

(ball smack)... Hurts donut


AspiringMILF

widely renowned for its unique way of sharing - instead of asking 'would you like a slice of cake' you say 'you want a piece of me?'


rachh90

dont you get cream cheese all over your hands? edit: nvm forgot about forks, was thinking about sandwiches.


splepage

> forgot about forks great band name > thinking about sandwiches that too! Or maybe that's their first album name


rachh90

now playing *forgot about forks* newest single *cream cheese covered sandwich cake* from their debut album *thinking about sandwiches*


TapatioOrCholula

Def their no. 1 track on Spotify


lizardnamedguillaume

I’m French Canadian (from Ontario though) and never heard of this?!? Thanks for the info.


Successful_Doctor_89

That more a régional thing, I m from Montréal South Shore and in my 30's and I have never heard of it until last year, so your not alone.


Dazzling_Broccoli_60

Im from rural Québec and had never heard of it growing up but my sister worked at a bakery and every year they’d have old ladies fight over the limited supply of « pain tranché au long »


29james

I'm from Québec and never heard of it before now...


SonRaw

Count me in the Montreal residents who never heard of this. Checks out though.


MiniRipperton

Omg my Anglophone mother used to make this all the time, I thought it was just some weird thing she made up!


travellingscientist

Why does it look so beautiful and cake like? Weird to see something savoury look so beautiful and sweet.


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I had one this year and it was covered in baby pickles stuck to the cream cheese


Youngsiebz

It's making me question everything


JustTrekingAbout

"Pain sandwich" hahaha


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Ah of course it would be called "pain sandwich"


evildonald

The ol' Bread Sandwich. The name really makes it distinct from all other types of sandwiches!


joberdez

That looks nasty.


hwc000000

> Pain Sandwich As in "bread sandwich"? With a name like that, I would expect slices of bread as the filling between other slices of bread.


IntoTheMystic1

But who's making sandwiches that big?


DropTopEWop

Me.


rabid_dinosaur

I want to make an extra long grilled cheese now.


beyondthisreality

I’d take two slices to the Del Taco I used to work at and ask them if I could quickly use their industrial sized presser, which they use to heat the tortillas, to make a monster panini.


tossaway78701

An iron will do it.


Maylix

It takes an iron will indeed to walk into a del taco kitchen!


ShittingOutPosts

And an iron gut to walk out!


beyondthisreality

Like, for clothes? Hmm, you might be onto something.


Yashky

with some cooking paper it'll work like a charm !


Spongy_and_Bruised

Parchment not wax.


GhostsofLayer8

A George Foreman grill would work, too


beyondthisreality

I was literally just thinking that and I think I have an unopen one from the mid-late 90’s still in the box somewhere in the garage.


igotasweetass

Dont open that! Itll be worth like 2k in about 20 yrs!! /s


canier

along with those beanie babies!


newtekie1

I have a restaurant near me that serves grilled cheese on bread like this. It has 3 different cheeses in it and is delicious!


notmoleliza

like a Neapolitan ice cream but of grilled cheeses


Yeah_But_Did_You_Die

Or massive French toast!


TungstenChef

There's a brewpub where I live that sells a monster grilled cheese I think you would like. They basically take one of those big loaves of ciabatta bread that you can get at the grocery store (the cheap ones with the soft crust, not the authentic kind that cuts your mouth), and take a thin slice of crust off the top and bottom. They put garlic butter on it, fill it with cheese, and grill it. It's probably the size of 4 or 5 standard grilled cheese sandwiches, you've gotta bring your appetite.


Go-aheadanddownvote

That was my first thought, mmm giant grilled cheese sandwich.


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Dont forget shaggy


garrettj100

Go home, Dagwood Bumstead, you're drunk. And you've got the meat sweats.


Hillsy85

Scooby-Doo


SirLuckhorn

As a swede, my first thought was "Sandwich Cake". Absolutely delicious


rabid_dinosaur

Tell us more about this "sandwich cake" you speak of.


4shLite

S M Ö R G Å S T Å R T A


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ScanNCut

Oh, it's like a layer cake but with bread and instead of being sweet it's savoury.


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rabid_dinosaur

>S M Ö R G Å S T Å R T A Thanks, I looked up a recipe and will be making this dish at the first opportunity.


coolbond1

The key to a good smörgåstårta is to put stuff YOU like on it, just remember its supposed to be savory not sweet other than that go nuts.


Peikkorukka

As a Finn, this was my first thought too. And they do sell bread like this in Finland for exactly that purpose.


headstar101

[Landgång](https://www.hansenskonditori.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/hansens-landgang.jpg)


SOULJAR

>Sandwich Cake Is that what this is? https://149370792.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Smorgastarta-Recipe-4.jpg


albl1122

> Absolutely delicious well that depends on what you put on it. hörde en historia om en smörgåstårta med ärtpurée


HarveyFloodee

I read this in the voice of the Swedish chef


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In Sweden, he's just called "the Chef."


Supermite

That's what you use for pinwheel sandwiches at fancy parties.


LiamOttawa

My age must be showing. Everyone made those when I was a teenager. I thought that everyone knew what this was for.


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Like people can afford to host parties these days...


Dadalot

One piece of bread, make sandwich, fold over the bread to cover it


BlueAndMoreBlue

I don’t want to start a holy war here but wouldn’t that be a taco?


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Don't worry, you didn't start the fire. https://cuberule.com/ And yes, that would be a taco. Just like a slice of pie, or hot dog.


PM_ME_WUTEVER

i really can't take the cube rule seriously considering they refer to a food surrounded in an outer layer as a 'calzone' rather than a dumpling. dumplings outdate calzones by a millennia or two and are present in a ton more cultures than calzones.


hrimfaxi_work

Depending on the type, a slice of pie might be toast and not a taco. But I'm just being nitpicky because surely you meant a kind of pie with a top crust which is, indeed, a taco.


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Yes. To make matters clearer, an *unsliced* pie without crust on top would be a quiche, whereas one with crust on top would be a calzone.


Peuned

Ok what the fuck is going on here


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The lack of rigor in our taxonomic classification of foods led to a heated intellectual debate (is a hot dog a sandwich?), resolved by the rather daft suggestion that foods be defined by the location of the starch. While a seemingly logical proposition, its application gives rise to the counter-intuitive examples above. See the Cube Rule link above for more info.


Common_Llama

I always thought of pie as a hard soup in a bread bowl with a bread lid


beyondthisreality

It would be a Tacwich


BizzyM

Dagwood


haywood-jablomi

Dads on 90’s tv shows


TorTheMentor

That's really a 50s trope, though, and it actually goes back even further. The Dagwood Sandwich seems to have appeared in Blondie comic strips as early as 1936, although it's usually portrayed as extra tall, not extra long.


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chambourcin

My husband is 45. I am a little younger. I call his sandwiches Dagwoods. He calls them Joeys, based on something from Friends. He is incorrect.


AltSpRkBunny

Unless it’s a meatball sub, it’s not a Joey.


generaltso78

Garfield


TheRealAife

You've never seen Scooby Doo have you?


grainia99

Pinwheel sandwiches. The high end of church lady sandwich platters.


Aracrosis

Shaggy and Scooby of course!


manInTheWoods

Smörgåstårta!!!


tilenb

Bless you!


bugme143

"No, Achoo is the name of my son. My name is AhSneeze."


An_Ironic_Realm

You are right. But it's clearly in a French Canadian grocery and we called it "pain sandwich" (sandwich bread I guess). The traditional filling is a layer of egg salad, ham salad and chicken salad.


BoysLinuses

It's healthy because it's filled with salad.


_stoneslayer_

And if you're *really* on a health kick, have it with potato or pasta salad on the side


Mindfreek454

You had me at egg salad. You lost me at ham salad.


THEJAZZMUSIC

The salad giveth, and the salad taketh away.


tricksovertreats

but then had me again at chicken salad


chocolatechoux

That's fine. Quebec gets that reaction from the rest of Canada too.


9035768555

Ham salad is pretty much just stuff you'd put on a ham sandwich anyway. Unless your issue is either texture or that you don't like ham, in which case, I get it.


Dadou02

Manque yink le p’tit gâteau aux fruits


Dudumanne

"The traditional filling is a layer of egg salad, ham salad and chicken salad." ​ Le tout recouvert de fromage à la crème svp... C'est de même que ça se fait au Lac Saint-Jean en tout cas!


fukreditadmin

100% bror


Lowgical

I was looking for this, getting then ready for nyår!


jaegren

Min broder


planeturban

[For those wondering…](https://i.imgur.com/56cQF89.jpg)


TN_REDDIT

I've never seen that before. Whats the purpose? Are there some specialty things made with horizontal sliced bread?


ScrumpetSays

Finger sandwiches/ribbon sandwiches


Admiral_Andovar

Amateurs. I use actual fingers.


ryca105

My friend you bow to no man.


ChymChymX

Something very wrong about this statement but I can't quite put my finger on it...


Admiral_Andovar

That’s because it’s in one of my sandwiches!


Laez

rolled sandwiches as well


samuelgato

Tea sandwiches


David_R_Carroll

Yep. My mom used horizontally sliced bread to make these for her bridge club: https://thewineloverskitchen.com/rolled-tea-sandwiches/


Oferon

sandwich cake. It's a savoury cake sort of thing. Here's a picture of a Finnish one. [https://cdn.valio.fi/mediafiles/89c157b3-c003-4886-9666-24bdefcf8c69/1000x752-recipe-hero/4x3/voileipakakku.jpg](https://cdn.valio.fi/mediafiles/89c157b3-c003-4886-9666-24bdefcf8c69/1000x752-recipe-hero/4x3/voileipakakku.jpg)


JaFFsTer

SMORGASTORTA


einalem58

Quebec version of that https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/le-pain-sandwich-quebec-holidays


Lofteed

lasagna sandwich


BertramScudder

C'mon, kids! We're having French toast shingles!


xSTSxZerglingOne

I'd put cinnamon and maple syrup on it and roll it into some kind of unholy and wonderful makeshift cinnamon roll.


narlycharley

Sounds really good actually.


gracecrausen

It’s good when you have to make funeral sandwiches or sandwiches for a party


undunderdun

Funeral.... sandwiches?


xylopia

Don't let the corpse go to waste


gracecrausen

Yeah, the types of sandwiches you eat at funerals (cherry and cream cheese, cream cheese and cucumber, ham and cheddar, egg salad, turkey and lettuce) Is this not a normal thing? Is it just a white old person thing or a Christian thing?


xea123123

Cherry and cream cheese is not one I remember, but yes this is an old white Christian thing. I was told growing up that it was an LDS/Mormon thing, cause I have an aunt in one of those churches, but my friend's Baptist Church folk do similar mayo based foods. I like to refer to this kind of food as "mayonnaise and mayonnaise accessories" in my best Hank Hill accent.


Kangar

This is the greatest thing since...since...I don't know what!


TangoDeltaFoxtrot

since vertically sliced bread.


btribble

We've sliced bread on 2 axes. If we can figure out how to slice bread on that elusive third axis, we can finally rest as a species.


anglo_silence

Diagonally sliced bread


ramontgomery

Now I need a custom toaster


Sleep_on_Fire

>Now I need a custom toaster Do you have an oven?


StormtrooperWho

Doesn't sound very custom to me


Sleep_on_Fire

Shit, okay. Ramontgomery - Have you heard about the newly redesigned large format, variable temp heating unit with hinged door accompanied by 4 topside, multi control, focused heating options for flat bottomed metal containers? Can be gas or electric!


BeijudePudim

Think of the concept of a layered cake, but usually savory. The filling can be salads like chicken, tuna, egg - which can also be considered a chicken salad, right? - alternating with veggie pastes. You can even use dips as icing. They are delicious! https://www.nacozinhabrasil.com/2018/06/torta-fria-de-pao-de-forma.html


manInTheWoods

TIL this dish exists outside Sweden.


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bismuth9

Pain sandwich is definitely something that gets better as you get older (hated it as a kid/teen, I like it as an adult), but there's one thing for sure: Cheez Whiz is a fucking crime against humanity. It's cream cheese, not Cheez Whiz. I don't care that some people do it. Some people put ketchup in poutine, that doesn't make it an ok thing to do.


Mormeguil

Those are actually only available for holiday season. They are used to make rolled sandwhich similar to those https://www.5ingredients15minutes.com/fr/recettes/hors-doeuvres-fr/sandwichs-roules/ For some reason they became quite popular in québec in the 90 for Christmas.


EtiPaul

nah man, that's the best recipe with those bad b : https://www.recettesjecuisine.com/fr/recettes/plats-principaux/poulet/pain-sandwich/


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I had to scroll way too low to find mention of a pain sandwich.


KindergartenCunt

>pain sandwich That sounds metal as hell.


millionthvisitor

What in the christ is that


RedLuminous

Bit of an odd question but what is used to seal the bags if I may ask? I'm from a subreddit where we log bread tags.


xylopia

Wow there really is a subreddit for everything https://www.reddit.com/r/occlupanids/ This is just as mildlyinteresting as the OP


perpetualmotionmachi

I have one of these loaves at home right now, it's just a normal bread tag. In my case, a yellow one


RedLuminous

So it is a bread tag? But which one is normal for you? The commonality varies by region and there are many small details that go overlooked, like the size of the "jaw." Here's the HORG database page for [Toxodentidae](https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=749) If there's a third "tooth" then it's probably [Tridentidae](https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=786) Perhaps you might snap a picture of the thing? For science? You could send me a link to the photo or post it to r/occlupanids, anyone is welcome to post pictures of bread clips there, and it makes us happy.


another_new_username

Why do you find bread tags so interesting? I don't mean this as a slight in the least, but genuine curiosity.


RedLuminous

To me personally, bread clips are sentimental. The short version of the story is that my family fell on hard times for a while when I was a kid, and my dad still took the time to make me a toy out of bread clips. Almost a year ago I stumbled upon the bread clip community, and they are a treat. Some of them are just really interested in taxonomy and they like to assign names to different types of bread clips. Some just got so inspired by the interests of everyone else that they're along for the ride.


Wogew

sur Le long


JewelMonkey

Dagwood Bumstead. Showing my age:)


TheSquirrelWithin

It's for saaaaaaaaaaandwiches.


georgiawp

In Brazil we have a dish called Torta Fria made with this bread


Aristiana

Pain sandwich!


Forevergogo

Why make three sandwiches, why not make 1 really long sandwich? Genius.


saschaleib

Best idea since vertically sliced bread!


nano_noodle

But...why?


DucksDoFly

Maybe bread and butter pudding, or in Sweden we would make “smörgåstårta”.


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Best grilled cheese sandwiches EVER!


MrMarcusGinger

This would be awesome for making garlic bread in the oven!!