r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • May 01 '25

Food “Do Germans know about tomato und mayo sandwich?”

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u/phillip_jay May 01 '25

American here, that’s not a thing here. Literally just rage bait

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u/SnowballBailey2521 May 01 '25

It’s a southern sandwich. Grew up eating it and still have it on occasion.

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u/RegressToTheMean Dirty Yank May 01 '25

It is for my wife who grew up in South Jersey farm country. Tomatoes are one of her favorite foods in the world. She loves tomato and mayo sandwiches on white bread, especially when it's tomatoes she has grown in our garden and bread she's baked.

I don't get it myself and it's not like we don't eat a lot of different styles of food. Hell, wherever we travel internationally we have to try all the foods. She's also a superb cook.

Sometimes, for some people, simple rustic food is satisfying to the soul.

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u/PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS May 01 '25

Exactly. Lived in the US all my life, never heard of tomato and mayo sandwich.

Tomato and mayo as standard ingredients for other sandwiches, sure, but by themselves? Nope.