Do you like Pizza or Burger or Sandwich?

Triple layer meaty club sandwich with fries , mayo dip and a coke mmm.

Well?

I guess if I'm at a food counter right now and they have all three, I might go for the sandwich or burger.

Sandwich if it's stacked with meats, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, pickles, mayonnaise, and american cheese.

Oh boy, this is a really unfair question as all three are kind of my favorite thing. Anyway, here is a long-winded response:

Pizza has a lot of tradition to it, and I really appreciate the different regional spins to it. From the New York style, to the various Italian variations (Sicilian, Neapolitan, etc), Chicago deep dish and Chicago thin crispy tavern style...you got Detroit with the crispy burnt cheese, you got the cracker-crispy thin crust St Louis. There's just a long, rich history that's really fascinating and you can spend a lifetime devoted to studying and making pizza.

Burgers, on the other hand, are glorious in their simplicity. Bun, patty, and toppings. That's essentially it. This allows the quality and technique to shine through, be it a nice thick tavern style burger patty or a thin and crispy smash burger. Grilled over coals or streamed. Done up as a patty melt with rye or sourdough bread, or put on a big fluffy brioche bun. Cheese or no cheese. Basic toppings or fancy truffle sauce and crispy onions.

Sandwiches fall somewhere in between. Theyre often simple, and regional, but there's really little to no restrictions and less pretentious. Got some food, pile it in some bread, and chow down. Likewise, you can have a burger-like sandwich (chopped cheese sandwich), you can have a pizza-like sandwich (take some meat, cheese, and marinara sauce and make a toasted melty sandwich). Or you can make a basic turkey sandwich, a simple and elegant BLT.

Anyway, my answer is.... sandwiches! I love all three pretty much equally but sandwiches have variety, most regionality, least constraints, most opportunity to get creative; there's an incredibly low bar of entry and yet the ceiling is infinite. Every culture has a sandwich subculture, of some kind.

Some of my favorites:

• Basic turkey club: turkey, lettuce, tomato, mayo, bacon, avocado, toasted sourdough.
• BLT: wheat bread with a heavy toast to it, thick pepper bacon, mayo, lettuce, tomato. Nice and simple.
• Italian beef: sliced beef, giardinara, fluffy roll, jus on the side
• Italian grinder: nice big italian roll, various cold cuts (big fan of mortadella, but I also like hot coppa), shredded lettuce, oil and vinegar, oregano salt pepper, provolone, tomato, onion...maybe some olives and peppers.
• Peanut butter and honey: don't knock it, such a simple and great sandwich. If you make it early and let it sit all day, the honey oozes out and crystallizes the bread a little bit, so when you eat it you get this honey-soaked crunchy bread and peanut butter.
• Crab sandwich: place near me on the water does a nice french roll (crispy crust, soft pillowy inside) and they stuff it with crab dressed with a bit of mayo, and that's it! Simple and elegant and delicious.

Pizza. This would make a good poll, though.

Burgers are sandwiches. Fight me!

Burgers are my favorite. They can be made in hundreds of styles, but the classic original flavor combo of charred beef, cheese, mustard, and onion is unbeatable. Add in some other toppings of your choice, and oh baby!

Sandwiches are also really good on the variety front, but we tend to play it too safe with them. The exceptions like a Cubano are top tier, though.

I love chicken burgers with mayo.

Pizza just not dominos.

Pizza -- it's my favourite dish. I like Italian sausage and goat cheese on it. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

@mrbojangles25: Wait, you're familiar with St.Louis pizza? It's the one kind of pizza I dislike. Like, if it's served and I'm expected to eat it to be polite, I have to choke it down.

It's that cheese. I HATE that provel cheese.

Dominos prices here are a ripoff.

Almost double the price of the local places.

Never had it legit, but I've had pizza sort of similar crust-wise. It was a frozen one, so not a true St Louis experience but ballpark maybe?

Yeah, the Provel cheese sounds...interesting.

You might like this article: in defense of St Louis-style Pizza by Kenji Lopez-Alt

It helps a lot if you think about Imo's not as pizza, but as a really big pizza-flavored nacho. And we can all agree nachos are delicious, right?

I'm serious about this nachos thing. A St. Louis-style pizza has more in common with nachos than it does with pizza

That sound about right?

Is Dominos seen as some American treat or something, then? You're in Scotland, right? Jus wondering if they're selling it for a premium because it is an import lol

Honestly if you take the low price away, Dominos loses all its appeal. I don't hate Dominos but the whole point of it is that it's just good enough to justify it's price point, as to get anything else is like double the price. You can get Round Table (California chain, not sure if outside) for like $35 for a large combo or you an get Dominos for like $15 or something.

Also we have Little Caesar's here, which I find to be much better than Dominos.

Pizza is just the easiest and the one with the most variety. Sandwich, great for lunches but I'm not ever really like "I want a sandwich" if I'm given the option of pizza. Burgers, it can be a real mixed bag. There can be some really disappointing and bad burgers, and I have to be in the mood for one. Overall, pizza is king.

@mrbojangles25: That sounds about right, but it's not my issue with it. I'm pretty open to styles of pizza (although I naturally have toppings I like and dislike), so I'm fine with that thin, crispy crust loaded with toppings. We have PLENTY of places like that around here that I enjoy Tobins, Monicals, Aurelio's. But all of those maintain the basic definition of Americanized pizza - crust, marinara sauce, cheese, toppings. St. Louis pizza ditches the cheese for this (excerpt from your source):

In reality, Provel is a processed cheese*** with the texture and melting qualities of American cheese, but with just a bit more nutty funk to it. When melted, it's outright gooey. I'm talking nacho-cheese-out-of-a-pump levels of gooey. Its origins are in the late 40s, when it was specifically invented with the intent to melt nicely on pizza while avoiding those long, unsightly, shirt-staining strands that mozzarella has a tendency to make as you pull off a bite.

***That is, a cheese product that has extra fat and moisture added to it, along with some chemical salts to help it melt more easily.

Is it "real" cheese? Nope.

It's like a buttery, toned down Velveeta. And I hate Velveeta. It's the polyester of the cheese world. A fake imposter made from oil rather than dairy.

When it comes to pizza, don't **** with my toasted mozzarella!

Homemade burger, swiss/provolone, relish, mustard, ketchup, tomato, ~cm thick slice of red onion. My dad often gets people dropping off gift cards/booze or homemade stuff when he sells them a car (he's semi-retired) and one customer gives him a banger homemade relish.

Yes

Yes.

I don't see how this one is any less or more trivial than talking about games.

I can always appreciate a good sandwich, as simple as a burger can be it exceed expectations when made well ... Pizzas are godly though

Usually pizza, I just made a couple homemade ones tonight. Way cheaper than ordering in, and a lot of fun to make. I make my own dough as well, I used to buy pizza dough from a bakery or grocery store but I enjoy doing it all from scratch.

@ratchetclank92: "I make my own dough"

Isn't that time consuming?

Burger and pizza, in that order. Sandwiches, not so much.