38 thoughts on “‘Mater sammiches… Sandy, make me one?”
We grew up calling them the po’ boys BLT. lots of T and L but no B, Still love them myself. Its a gourmet sandwich if you got bologna to slap on it, too
And just for the record at our house we just as often got a pork & bean with mayo on white bread. It tastes better than it sounds. You just have to roll up your sleeves first.
Grandad, born 1893, Saltillo, Tennessee, was a slab of onion on white bread and two fingers of whiskey, everyday after work. I don’t know he ever got over the trenches in WWI.
My boys cringe when I make macaroni with catsup for myself.
I’ve also come a long way from those poor days long ago, but doing this reminds me of where I got because of hard work and determination, something to be proud of.
I ate tomato and Miracle Whip (not mayo) sandwiches as a kid. No cooking required and I could make one myself if I got hungry. I ate a lot of tomatoes straight out of the garden too.
Tomatoes straight out of the garden are the best! A little bit of salt and you got a gourmet meal!
tried to pick and bring in cherry tomatoes from the garden and ended up with only a small amount. I have eaten 2/3 of them out there while picking them. god. never had cherries that tasted that good before ! better than grapes !
tried doing a garden here, but the damn deer eat everything !
need to install a 6 foot fence around the garden.
I suspect the deer will regard a six foot fence as light exercise before eating. I saw one, from a standing start, jump from the bottom of a ditch that was a bit over three feet deep and go over a four foot tall fence built along the ditch line.
It’s the same as picking berries, one for the basket one for me, one for the basket two for me, and so on.
Grew up on PB&J, mator and Miracle Whip, fried egg, onion and butter and fried Spam sandwich, all on white bread or upgrade it if we had a extra hamburger bun around. They were also hard to come from but at least we had two bakeries in town and could buy day old products. Now the bakeries and two breweries are gone. and the smells they produced. Half the town smelled like beer and the other side like fresh out of the oven bread.
I to grew up eating tomato w/mayo , I’ll still come home and if the wife ain’t hungry (late lunch) I’ll put together 2 tomato samiches.. does nobody add salt?
Buddy worked for years in Saudi. Airplane work. Said Brits steadily ate onion and butter samwiches like it was expected of them. A zillion funny relatable stories.
Good peanut butter and Bermuda onion on whole wheat make a tasty sandwich.
I’ve made plenty over the years.
My Dad but with Mayo his slice was pretty thick as well.
ps He still loved beans and cornbread as well for a depression era kid.
Never trust anybody who doesn’t like cornbread.
Dad grew up poor, as in sharecropper’s-son poor, but he never got tired of pinto beans. We had them at least 3 or 4 nights a week (not as the entree, a word I didn’t even know back then). He ate them in luxury, though–with store-bought loaf bread.
I grew up on pinto beans and fried potatoes 2 meals a day. We called it dinner and supper.
Fred I intentionally use the word supper, not used much any more.
I like olde school
skip the bread n mayo…sliced tomato w salt n pepper has always been a favorite
I remember as a kid, ’50’s Tennessee, running out to the street when the vegie wagon rolled by and buying a tomato for a penny or nickle, depending on the size of the tomato. The wagon was drawn by a donkey.
I had black eyed peas with cornbread last night for supper. No ‘maters though, not in season. I liked my ‘mater sammich with mustard.
I ate more than a few “Sandwich Spread” sandwiches for lunch. Kind of like thousand island dressing but a little thicker. If I was lucky I got a slice of velveeta about half the size of the bread on it and if I was REALLY lucky I had a fruit pie from the Wonder Bread Store. IIRC they cost about 10 cents in the early 70’s. Pop? I could MAYBE drink one bottle per week, and only after helping with household chores for about an hour. Otherwise it was unsweetened tea or half-sweet kool-aid. (My mom mixed up a gallon from what was supposed to make a quart)
One of my earliest memories, being allowed to pick and eat ripe tomatoes at my aunt’s farm, back in ‘63. Truly one of the most useful fruits.
My father LOVED mayo on his tomatoes, he’d really slather it on. Since I had to sit next to him, and since I HATED tomatoes, it would turn my stomach. I thank God Mom or Dad did not insist that I ate that…garbage.
But, I’m older now. If y’all grew up on it, and ya like it, good on ya. Just still ain’t gonna eat it.
Ever had watercress sandwiches?
I grew up in genuine poverty in the north (PA), although we didn’t consider ourselves to be poor. I ate many tomato and Miracle Whip with black pepper on white (Wonder) bread sandwiches. I still love them, if I can grow my own tomatoes. The store-bought ones are tasteless. As a kid, I used to pick a ripe tomato, cut a face, like a jack-o-lantern, in it, fill it with mayonaise, then eat it like an apple. Only two things that money can’t buy, and that’s true love and home grown tomatoes.
Nope, the old man like pimento cheese sandwiches. If he was living large there would be a can of sardines also.
Mine was radish sandwiches. One day while helping my uncle put up hay, my aunt came out to the hay field with sandwiches and coffee. I bit into the sandwich expecting lunch meat and had to look at the filling. Radishes which I like on home made bread and home churned butter. Never had better before or since. And tomatoes on home made bread with home churned butter is in the same category.
CederQ, if I make you a mater sammich, it’s gonna also contain lettuce and copious amounts of bacon. On toasted bread. With a garden fresh tomato. But seeing as I don’t think your arms are broken, you can make your own mater sammich. And make me one while yer at it. I’ll do my part and pop the MGD, ice cold and in a bottle.
Well, damn! ya got a deal! You bring the beer, I bring the bread, ‘maters, bacon, mayo and a monokini… Oh, and a toaster.
Have always been partial to the phrase you buy I’ll fly
One of our neighbors, when I was a kid, had a large garden with 15-20 tomato plants. When they were ripe, we’d sneak into his garden at night, hide among the plants and eat his tomato’s.
We had a large garden too, but we saved our tomato’s for canning and some fresh.
Sandwich’s were salt, pepper and olive oil on crusty bread.
sounds good.
do you also say basketti?
In England at any working class home if you had a desert it was typically something like tinned sliced peaches with Carnation evaporated milk on top, but you would always have a slice or two of bread and butter to bulk it out.
My dad would sometimes have Cornflakes for breakfast, he’d first of all dous them with almost boiling water to soften them up, then only a dash of milk.
well, mom always liked baked beans on bread. home made bread, wheat, brown
dad it was pea soup with a ham bone. or navy beans with a ham bone.
the whole house was happy when he found out a pinch of baking soda with the beans reduced the GAS that always came after eating it.
before that happen,, he would rip some long and loud ones !
We used to have home made baked beans (Boston style with molasses, salt pork and a chopped large onion) with a topping of fresh chopped onion and a little splash of apple cider vinegar, canned brown bread and hot dogs on Sat. in the winter for supper. Dad always asked Mom if she had taken the “snappers” out before he took the first bite.
One of my uncles used to repeat this little ditty when he had gas, “Beans, beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot.”
…”The more you toot, the better you feel! So, let’s have beans for EVERY meal!”
I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about…
;P
I love these “poor people” food squawks. Makes me head for the kitchen. Fine assortment of samwiches. Beans, onion and cornbread. Dadgum. Let’s eat!
Cornbread made with sorghum molasses! Good ol’ Southern Cornbread, cooked in an iron skillet!
Here is a blast from my childhood past amped up, and I will have to do these soon.
We grew up calling them the po’ boys BLT. lots of T and L but no B, Still love them myself. Its a gourmet sandwich if you got bologna to slap on it, too
And just for the record at our house we just as often got a pork & bean with mayo on white bread. It tastes better than it sounds. You just have to roll up your sleeves first.
Grandad, born 1893, Saltillo, Tennessee, was a slab of onion on white bread and two fingers of whiskey, everyday after work. I don’t know he ever got over the trenches in WWI.
My boys cringe when I make macaroni with catsup for myself.
I’ve also come a long way from those poor days long ago, but doing this reminds me of where I got because of hard work and determination, something to be proud of.
I ate tomato and Miracle Whip (not mayo) sandwiches as a kid. No cooking required and I could make one myself if I got hungry. I ate a lot of tomatoes straight out of the garden too.
Tomatoes straight out of the garden are the best! A little bit of salt and you got a gourmet meal!
tried to pick and bring in cherry tomatoes from the garden and ended up with only a small amount. I have eaten 2/3 of them out there while picking them. god. never had cherries that tasted that good before ! better than grapes !
tried doing a garden here, but the damn deer eat everything !
need to install a 6 foot fence around the garden.
I suspect the deer will regard a six foot fence as light exercise before eating. I saw one, from a standing start, jump from the bottom of a ditch that was a bit over three feet deep and go over a four foot tall fence built along the ditch line.
It’s the same as picking berries, one for the basket one for me, one for the basket two for me, and so on.
Grew up on PB&J, mator and Miracle Whip, fried egg, onion and butter and fried Spam sandwich, all on white bread or upgrade it if we had a extra hamburger bun around. They were also hard to come from but at least we had two bakeries in town and could buy day old products. Now the bakeries and two breweries are gone. and the smells they produced. Half the town smelled like beer and the other side like fresh out of the oven bread.
I to grew up eating tomato w/mayo , I’ll still come home and if the wife ain’t hungry (late lunch) I’ll put together 2 tomato samiches.. does nobody add salt?
Buddy worked for years in Saudi. Airplane work. Said Brits steadily ate onion and butter samwiches like it was expected of them. A zillion funny relatable stories.
Good peanut butter and Bermuda onion on whole wheat make a tasty sandwich.
I’ve made plenty over the years.
My Dad but with Mayo his slice was pretty thick as well.
ps He still loved beans and cornbread as well for a depression era kid.
Never trust anybody who doesn’t like cornbread.
Dad grew up poor, as in sharecropper’s-son poor, but he never got tired of pinto beans. We had them at least 3 or 4 nights a week (not as the entree, a word I didn’t even know back then). He ate them in luxury, though–with store-bought loaf bread.
I grew up on pinto beans and fried potatoes 2 meals a day. We called it dinner and supper.
Fred I intentionally use the word supper, not used much any more.
I like olde school
skip the bread n mayo…sliced tomato w salt n pepper has always been a favorite
I remember as a kid, ’50’s Tennessee, running out to the street when the vegie wagon rolled by and buying a tomato for a penny or nickle, depending on the size of the tomato. The wagon was drawn by a donkey.
I had black eyed peas with cornbread last night for supper. No ‘maters though, not in season. I liked my ‘mater sammich with mustard.
I ate more than a few “Sandwich Spread” sandwiches for lunch. Kind of like thousand island dressing but a little thicker. If I was lucky I got a slice of velveeta about half the size of the bread on it and if I was REALLY lucky I had a fruit pie from the Wonder Bread Store. IIRC they cost about 10 cents in the early 70’s. Pop? I could MAYBE drink one bottle per week, and only after helping with household chores for about an hour. Otherwise it was unsweetened tea or half-sweet kool-aid. (My mom mixed up a gallon from what was supposed to make a quart)
One of my earliest memories, being allowed to pick and eat ripe tomatoes at my aunt’s farm, back in ‘63. Truly one of the most useful fruits.
My father LOVED mayo on his tomatoes, he’d really slather it on. Since I had to sit next to him, and since I HATED tomatoes, it would turn my stomach. I thank God Mom or Dad did not insist that I ate that…garbage.
But, I’m older now. If y’all grew up on it, and ya like it, good on ya. Just still ain’t gonna eat it.
Ever had watercress sandwiches?
I grew up in genuine poverty in the north (PA), although we didn’t consider ourselves to be poor. I ate many tomato and Miracle Whip with black pepper on white (Wonder) bread sandwiches. I still love them, if I can grow my own tomatoes. The store-bought ones are tasteless. As a kid, I used to pick a ripe tomato, cut a face, like a jack-o-lantern, in it, fill it with mayonaise, then eat it like an apple. Only two things that money can’t buy, and that’s true love and home grown tomatoes.
Nope, the old man like pimento cheese sandwiches. If he was living large there would be a can of sardines also.
Mine was radish sandwiches. One day while helping my uncle put up hay, my aunt came out to the hay field with sandwiches and coffee. I bit into the sandwich expecting lunch meat and had to look at the filling. Radishes which I like on home made bread and home churned butter. Never had better before or since. And tomatoes on home made bread with home churned butter is in the same category.
CederQ, if I make you a mater sammich, it’s gonna also contain lettuce and copious amounts of bacon. On toasted bread. With a garden fresh tomato. But seeing as I don’t think your arms are broken, you can make your own mater sammich. And make me one while yer at it. I’ll do my part and pop the MGD, ice cold and in a bottle.
Well, damn! ya got a deal! You bring the beer, I bring the bread, ‘maters, bacon, mayo and a monokini… Oh, and a toaster.
Have always been partial to the phrase you buy I’ll fly
One of our neighbors, when I was a kid, had a large garden with 15-20 tomato plants. When they were ripe, we’d sneak into his garden at night, hide among the plants and eat his tomato’s.
We had a large garden too, but we saved our tomato’s for canning and some fresh.
Sandwich’s were salt, pepper and olive oil on crusty bread.
sounds good.
do you also say basketti?
In England at any working class home if you had a desert it was typically something like tinned sliced peaches with Carnation evaporated milk on top, but you would always have a slice or two of bread and butter to bulk it out.
My dad would sometimes have Cornflakes for breakfast, he’d first of all dous them with almost boiling water to soften them up, then only a dash of milk.
well, mom always liked baked beans on bread. home made bread, wheat, brown
dad it was pea soup with a ham bone. or navy beans with a ham bone.
the whole house was happy when he found out a pinch of baking soda with the beans reduced the GAS that always came after eating it.
before that happen,, he would rip some long and loud ones !
We used to have home made baked beans (Boston style with molasses, salt pork and a chopped large onion) with a topping of fresh chopped onion and a little splash of apple cider vinegar, canned brown bread and hot dogs on Sat. in the winter for supper. Dad always asked Mom if she had taken the “snappers” out before he took the first bite.
One of my uncles used to repeat this little ditty when he had gas, “Beans, beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot.”
…”The more you toot, the better you feel! So, let’s have beans for EVERY meal!”
I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about…
;P
I love these “poor people” food squawks. Makes me head for the kitchen. Fine assortment of samwiches. Beans, onion and cornbread. Dadgum. Let’s eat!
Cornbread made with sorghum molasses! Good ol’ Southern Cornbread, cooked in an iron skillet!
Here is a blast from my childhood past amped up, and I will have to do these soon.
https://kentrollins.com/smoked-and-fried-bologna-sandwich/
Mine was basic baloney, MW on Wonder Bread. This one looks divine.
One I cannot stand from then was the liverwurst.
This man has scads of great ideas. I bought one of his books. Check out his videos. Stupid good grilled chicken breasts.