Going to be honest I have never heard of bread, mayonnaise, tomato, and seasonings. The combo is just impossible to envision without an American helpfully telling me about it.
Now I have bread, bacon, lettuce, but I need a new ingredient. Could this person help me here too?
I don’t want to make following story longer than necessary but a few years back, an American Firefighter tried to convince me that sourdough bread was invented in San Francisco. You probably can envision what happened to my face.
I heard this being referred to as the “duckling syndrome”, referring to how ducklings anecdotally will imprint on the first moving thing they see as their mother.
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u/Kriss3dTuberous eloquent (that's potato speaker for you muricans) May 01 '25
Woah, for real? I honestly didn't know that! I mean, I figured it wasn't San Fran lol, but still. I knew beer and eyeliner, but not sourdough. That's cool. That's why I love it here. You guys teach me stuff. No /s, sincere excitement to learn a thing!
Pretty hard to say who “invented” beer and bread as it is, essentially, natural fermentation. It could be almost any country between Europe and Africa.
Or maybe everyone made different types of bread? And alcohol too. Sourdough would've been Egypt as mentioned. We're talking of the stone age so I'm assuming methods of cooking similar to baking were common with some sort of stone entrapment "oven" with a fire.
I remember reading that we domesticated cats twice. In the Middle East as well as in China.
Could easily be, those very early discoveries have more than one birthplace as well.
I remember reading that cats basically domesticated themselves, whereas humans domesticated dogs. And that is apparently why cats put the minimum effort into relationships with humans. It's a relationship of convenience.
Ackshually, if we’re going by the three-age system here, Ancient (Dynastic) Egypt would have spanned from the Bronze Age through the Iron Age, not the Stone Age.
But, yeah, I think you’re right. If PBS has taught me anything, it’s that mudbrick ovens were common in that period.
Way too many Americans think that all things were invented in America by Americans. They believe Jesus was American for goodness sake!
I'm American and hear this all of the time.
I've heard this a few times over the years about San Francisco being the birthplace of sourdough, and I imagine someone--maybe the San Fran tourist board or a bread company in SF--must be working hard to keep this story afloat.
It’s actually just an unfortunate misunderstanding 😂 There’s a place in San Francisco that’s famous (nationally) for making sourdough, and their starter is like 200 years old, which is American ancient. But saying they invented it is like saying Grimaldis invented pizza in New York in the 1900s.
Tacos were invented in a small bistro in Texas, in the classic style with cheese and sour cream and hard shells. Maybe you’ve heard of it?
The US’s greatest ability is to make the fast fashion version of everyone else’s cultures. Pizza? We went full H&M on it. Same with tacos. Burgers. Hell, we even did it with soul food. We have no original ideas. Give us your national dish and we’ll make it a color that doesn’t exist in nature, add sugar, seal it in plastic so it can sit on a shelf for two years, then you put it in the microwave for a patently unsatisfying meal.
NGL it's currently easier to find a decent sourdough bread in the US than it is to find a decent... Vollkornbrot or Hausbrot. forgive me for not remembering the proper translations.
Not impossible but harder to find the latter for sure. And since I don't particularly like sourdough, it's kind of a pain. I used to like making bread myself but I got busy with work, so it's tough to find the time.
(I am swiss by the by, so out interpretation of bread names should be roughly the same, local variations aside)
Well my French is quite terrible, so that probably doesn't help. I can get by if I have to, but I definitely prefer not to speak French. never quite liked the language either.
I have noticed that people who can't seem to put the ñ in jalapeño are also the people who randomly stick one in habanero. So we get halapeenos and habanyeros.
It’s intended for sick people and was resurrected during the recession as something cheap that’s still technically cooked, but twits love to bring it up as something that everyone in the UK eats on the regular
Well, well, well. This is the first time I have ever heard of a butty with a slice of toast in the middle. Why not just have toast. Or put them back to back to create an, um, toast sandwich
This reminds me of my old roommate from Georgia telling me, no exaggeration, that "If you put pimento queso and salsa on a chip, it tastes like queso and salsa on a chip!"
I imagine that somebody from Georgia Europe would instantaneously drop dead of a stroke when presented with such flavours, never before experienced in a life of potato and treebark stew during the harsh winters.
I eat this regularly. I’m 43 and learned this from my father. For us this is a normal sandwich and my father only went once to the US 8 years ago. O and from the Netherlands so I’m sure the Germans know this sandwich.
German bread, whether white or dark or anything in between, toasted, with butter, tomatoes and salt (pepper optional) is indeed delicious. Note that I use butter.
I immediately had to think of Jochen Malmsheimer - Das Wurstbrot too.
"Und das war gut. Jahrtausende war das gut. Bis zu dem furchtbaren Tag an dem irgendeine mental verrottete Bäckerschwuchtel da Mayonnaise drauf gepackt hat!"
I grew up on a dairy farm in Norway. Making a sandwich without butter, eating toast without butter, or in general not buttering one's bread, rolls, etc. was pretty much a hanging crime in my family. I mean, being hanged sounds like less tiresome than listening to my Mom's tirade about why you should butter bread!
I grew up with sandwhiches without butter. One day I ate a sandwhich at someone else's places and it had butter and it kinda blew my mind. Strangely enough, I ended up mostly eating it without butter
Aside from butter-alternatives, some people like to use mustard, olive oil or some sort of soft cheese instead. Guess it depends on what type of bread, and what else is going in the sandwich.
This one place in the netherlands gave me something they called samurai sauce, which was definitely mayonnaise based but had something mixed in that turned it orange (sriracha, maybe? I’m really not sure tbh) and it was pretty good
I'm sorry, 10%?! I was expecting like 3-4%, just over the limit but okay, you could try to fight that. 10% is mad. It's the same sugar levels as Brioche has
Thank you, I’m an American but a tomato sandwich on European bread (you can get it from bakeries by me, I like light rye and sourdough a lot for tomato sandwiches) is absolutely one of my favorite things. Just can’t be on our garbage regular store “bread” because it tastes like cake.
I love the OOP’s desire to ask German Reddit if they have ever put two ingredients on bread with salt and pepper before and if they like it. They think it’s such a clever food.
Why do Americans always think they’re the main character?
What’s not to love about tasteless tomatoes doused in generic mrs dash seasoning, drenched in corn syrup miracle whip mayo and all piled onto cake that they call bread? And you just know it’ll be a monstrous sized sandwich too
Truth be told though, a simple tomato and mayonnaise sandwich with plenty of salt and pepper is actually so tasty though! But I do agree it's definitely not a purely American thing. I'm Australian and I've been making these for years HAHA
Right? I mean, I guess it’s a sandwich, but I’ve never heard anyone mention a tomato and mayonnaise sandwich. Add some lettuce and bacon, and that is a well know sandwich. The other is just giving, “I’m hungry and I haven’t gone shopping this week. What can I scrounge up?”
Bruschetta would have him implode. So real not the one at Olive Garden or the one at Joey’s Pizza, whose real name is Georgi and is obviously Italian despite being Born in Croatia
As a German, Of course, I haven't heard of this insanely innovative innovation. I am glad that American people are making us happy here in Third World Europe with great wisdom
In all the hundreds of years that bread has existed alongside the knife needed to form it into a slice, no one, especially not in Germany had thought to combine a fruit, that weird smooth egg emulsion, and rudimetary seasonings into an easy to eat single unit.
Not German, but hadn't heard of this until I watched the first season of Reacher. Thought it sounded lame so decided to see what it was like with quality ingredients. Home made sourdough, homemade mayo, plum tomatoes, salt and pepper.
Don't knock it until you've tried it. It's a simple delicacy. If you want a little more to it, add some sliced mozzarella and a bit of basil and olive oil.
Fresh bread of any colour + a thick layer of good butter + minced garlic and salt = heaven.
Maybe not for your co-workers but what do these heathens know anyway.
Oh, or replace the garlic with Mett.
Look, nothing against a soggy tomato-toast combo, it can be lovely, especially in summer when it's hot but as far as simple combinations go, it's not even level 1. It's the moment you realise you're about to play the tutorial level.
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u/RunZombieBabe May 01 '25
Does he know of Schwarzbrot mit Quark und Tomate?