Diner/Coffee Shop Classics: Best Sandwich poll

I cannot believe that so many people  chose BLT's.  I have never had a BLT in a restaurant which  had nice fresh  tomatoes on it.  For my taste,  a great  BLT  has to have  ripe  home-grown tomatoes on it.   The only place  that I can be certain of that is to have it at home.

but then---FRIED tomatoes ---GREAT sandwich !!!!---and if there is enuff GOOD bacon as long as they are red ---but there was one time in a Jersey dinner that i dont recall the name of-in August--real good toms---real good blt!!!

I had to choose BLTs (even though I never get them with tomatoes as I can't stand them...mine come with cheese instead) because it was the closest option.  I wouldn't order any of those things from a diner, to be honest.  Who pays for grilled cheese?
 
I'd have chosen patty melt, or tuna melt, or reuben, but those weren't options.

I couldn't figure it out either.  When I think "coffee shop", the first thing that comes to my mind is a club.  I'd love to have one right now, too.

For Diners, the only option is an Open-faced Roast Beef or Turkey Sandwich with Gravy & Mashed Potatoes. Second Choice--A Cheeseburger.
For Coffee Shops, I guess a Club.
 
 

I chose club, but my last visit to a coffee shop was years ago, and I ordered egg salad, which I often did back then.

Hot beef with gravy would have been my choice but I chose BLT because I haven't had a decent one in years.

I love a classic club sandwich, which I define as thinly-sliced freshly roasted turkey (or chicken), bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayo (if you must) on three slices of toasted white bread, cut into four triangles, with one of those toothpicks with the cellophane frills on it, stuck into the sandwich quarters.
 
I do not think that cheese belongs on a classic club sandwich, but these days, most places seem to include it. It's not that I don't like cheese  (I would have chosen grilled cheese as my second option in the poll) -- just not on a club sandwich.
 
In a restaurant in an airport hotel in Beijing several years ago, their club sandwich included a fried egg, but no cheese.

 I chose the classic BLT. I also would have chosen the open faced hot roast beef if it had been on the poll. That being said, I had the best BLT in Palmer, AK.  Not a coffee shop but a family owned and operated burger shack. The bacon came from a local processor, the lettuce and tomatoes from the garden in the back of the restaurant.
 
JMHO
 
David O.

I agree, rumaki.Cheese does not belong on a club sandwich, imo.

boyardee65

I also would have chosen the open faced hot roast beef if it had been on the poll. 

Now I'm craving a roast beef sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy!
 
Twenty years ago, I used to go to a place that for lunch on Fridays had a prime rib sandwich with au jus.

 Used to be the lunch special on Monday's where I worked in Alaska. Saturday night we put prime rib french dip on special because we always had some left over from Friday night.
 
David O.

I chose BLT, but two places near me have really, really, good BLTs.
 

 Well, it looks like BLT won by just a few votes!! Kaszeta, that is one good looking sammy!!! I want mine with double bacon please!! (not too crisp)
 
  David O.