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t1_j04jabr wrote

C’mon really?! Gtfo- It’s literally 5 ingredients! What is there to excel at???

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OP t1_j05l6mc wrote

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t1_j06cu6l wrote

Seriously though- that’s like saying hey which hardware store has the best nails? Oh wait I bet you also wanna know which bank in your area has the nicest cash.

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t1_j06lzec wrote

There's a BLT challenge where you grow your own lettuce and tomatoes, cure and smoke your own bacon, make homemade mayonnaise and bake your own bread

Each of those ingredients can be elevated from shitty supermarket basics to something really amazing

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t1_j07w6z5 wrote

riiight, but that's not what's at question here. OP asked where to find a good sammich.

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All's I'm saying is that it's stupid... Even if you were to dress it up with home grown wheat, starter from a 200 year old sourdough culture, the ripest heirloom tomatoes & lettuce, mayo from virgin hens, 1000 mother of vinegar culture and hand pressed olives with only the most fragrant hand picked garlic, turmeric, and finely milled salt accompanied by thick cut cherry and apple smoked bacon directly from the smokehouse.... It'd still be a BLT! Next you're gonna tell me there's whole-ass restaurants that specialize in bologna or PB&J sammiches and they only source the finest imported hand crafted blah blah blah.

I like a good BLT don't get me wrong. It's just the premise of asking for a specific place that makes one that's got me laughing.

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t1_j07ytzs wrote

You're one of those 'why pay for a diamond when a rhinestone is just the same' guys aren't you?

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t1_j085ykg wrote

nah I prefer higher quality thanks. I'm betting you're one of those - if you can't handle me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best types though.

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t1_j08c7q5 wrote

Nah, I'm more of a 'if you don't have anything nice to say come sit next to me' to be honest

But seriously, BLT Challenge is a fun summer project. Give it a go!

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t1_j08m6vk wrote

Have an upvote - I’m married to that type.

Honestly, I do- every year with the first early tomatoes from my garden in late July. I’ve got a sourdough bread recipe I actually bake in a Dutch oven on my charcoal grill too. Which is also why I can quote that recipe.

It’s like that grilled cheese fad from 5 years ago… all over the board walk in huge letters on everyone’s menu… GRILLED CHEESE!! Hard pass- moving on.

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t1_j08zu5b wrote

This shitty tomatoes far too many places use are enough to make a BLT sub-par.

And the bread is also super-duper important, of course.

And then there's proportions of ingredients, as well as total amounts -- too much of a good thing is usually a bad thing.

And yes, I'm talking about the bacon here -- I ordered a BLT once that must've had at least half a pound of bacon on it, and it was not a positive thing.

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t1_j0914sr wrote

Right- and what you get at any restaurant is toasted wonder bread, ice burg lettuce, helmans mayo, stock photo bacon, and bland ass tomatoes that were picked when they were grass green. You’re not getting a good blt outside your own kitchen

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t1_j091j7p wrote

> stock photo bacon

LOL

You're not far off as to the average BLT... which is why there is very much a need to call out the places that excel at making them.

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t1_j091uyk wrote

I can see it now on NJ.com top ten BLT restaurants in the garden state - blegh

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t1_j0952r6 wrote

NJ.com ... so nine of them will be utter shit, and the 10th won't actually be a BLT at all. ;)

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