Yucky Sandwiches

Photo: flickr user tm_lv

Ingredients

Chances are, you are not alone, no matter how weird your secret sandwich

sounds.

Preparation

Lots of peanut-butter-and-pickle fans who wrote to us said they'd never met anyone else who liked the same sandwich they did. But as it turns out, there are nearly enough of them to support a fast-food chain. And it's the same with many others all across America.

These are some responses from Michigan. Perhaps you've had some of these in California (with occasional testimonials from the perpetrators):

"Leftover spaghetti, cold, on white bread. Best eaten for breakfast beforeanyone gets up."Sliced radish and onions and mayo on toast.

Scrambled egg and dill pickle on Polish bakery rye.

Heat Bush's brand baked beans, mix with ketchup and Miracle Whip, eat with crisp lettuce on buttered white bread. "My family thinks I am certifiable."Chunky steak fries with salt, vinegar and condiment of choice - ketchup, A.1., etc. - on buttered white bread.

Fried bologna and pineapple on a bun, "really delicious." Pineapple rings and Miracle Whip.

"A favorite of Dad's is a cucumber, onion, butter, salt, pepper and vinegarsandwich!"Sliced green peppers fried in vegetable oil, salted, in white or wheat bread. "Delicious!"Peanut butter with onion. "I have never heard of anyone else with this craving. Can you imagine?"

"Peanut butter with cold, leftover creamed corn."

"Grilled cheese with grape jelly spread on top."

"Tuna salad, cream cheese, lettuce and tomato on pumpernickel. YUM YUM."Ham on raisin bread, cheese optional.

Italian bread spread thickly with sour cream and lots of sugar.

"Delicious!"

"My favorite childhood sandwich was Limburger cheese and sliced onions onrye - a good Catholic girl's birth control." Blue cheese and sliced radishes on toasted bread.

Grilled cheese with oregano and tomato.

Cottage cheese and apple butter spread on Grandma's homemade bread, served open-faced. "I thought everybody's grandmother gave them this treat."Cream cheese and coarsely crushed barbecue-flavor potato chips.

Hot pepper cheese with orange marmalade on raisin bread.

"Best sandwich going is peanut butter and bacon." Fried chicken livers and fried egg on toast with ketchup and black pepper.

Fried green tomato and onion with Hellmann's on whole wheat, "a unique Southern sandwich."Fried bologna and fried egg, sunny-side-up, yolk unbroken, with Miracle Whip and mustard on two slices of white bread. "Eat it with the yolk running between your fingers. Yummy!"

"Try blueberry preserves with Cheez Whiz. Good for kids; grown-ups prefer abetter grade of cheese."Two slices of warm buttered toast encasing fresh orange slices sprinkled with a little sugar, for breakfast.

"Strawberry jelly on white bread with a slice of American cheese . . . Onlymy baby-sitter and I appreciate the great taste." Cold beans on bread with lots of pepper.

Bread, butter and Hershey's syrup; as kids. "We really did enjoy those sandwiches."

"My Grandma Jane likes sardines with lemon juice on toast with lots of butter. I like peanut butter and honey on white bread, and my dad thinks that's really weird."

"The sandwich that tops it all is the one my nephew usually had when he camehome from school: a bread sandwich. A slice of white bread between two slices of white bread. Now that's strange."