Tomato Sandwich (1959) on Sandwiches of History⁣ 

There is something so pleasing about the bread matching the size/shape of the tomato slice 😍

When you mentioned the classic tomato sandwich with mayo from the South (I'm in Bama), it reminded me of my Mother. When I was a kid she died from breast cancer, and when she was in the hospital on chemo, one of the few things that she could think of that she could eat (or wanted to) would be a tomato sandwich. She would bring tomatoes to the hospital, chill them on the AC unit and slice up her own and make sandwiches in the hospital bed.😂 She loved those! Me...not so much.

00:26 Reminds of when Adrienne Monk was given square tomatos by a scientist. The slices were perfect for sandwiches. "There's no overhang!"

When our heirloom tomatoes are ready at the end of the summer, I have tomato sandwiches almost every morning. We have Beefmaster this year, can't wait!

Thank you for the recipe✨ Tomato sandwiches are one of my favorites! 🍅 Sprinkling some smoked paprika adds some depth to the flavors as well. I’m going to check out the other tomato sandwich recipes you’ve posted~ 🍅 🥪 Be well, stay kind and blessings to all~

The building of the Milwaukee Gas Light Company is still downtown. It has a light at the top that looks like a blue flame. I think it's a museum now {I'll have to investigate}. Their Christmas cookie book was very popular I hear.

Purple Cherokee tomato instead of what you get from local Grocery. The black pepper is a key to the wonderfulness of the sammich. Still like Roman Meal bread over your whitebread. The taste of the Cherokee Purple, or it's variants, will make a HUGE difference in the sammich.Fresh thyme is always better than dried, but you use what's ya gots.

I’m a French baker (in Tennessee) and one the bakers that works with me brought me a ton of tomatoes from her garden, so I brought home a baguette I made today. About to go make one now.

Headed to the Farmer's Market this weekend. This will be on the menu now. Grated onion, hmmm.

hard to beat the combo of mayo and a really good tomato

Finally, a good dose of black pepper.

I grew up eating tomato sandwiches and still do. That’s a very basic version. To plus up you can use Ranch dressing instead of mayo and add any or all of the following: thin slices of cucumbers, bell pepper and/or onion with black pepper, maybe garlic powder and a touch of mustard.

Your merchy merch is uber cool and very reasonably priced. I just ordered two T-shirts. Plus up: I’ve never done business with a cartel before. Very exciting.

I love these simple videos and your thoughts on sandwiches. Cheers mate

That looks delicious! Without any plus ups!

Cutting bread rounds is a great idea! I’ve been cutting the tomatoes to fit the bread all these years 🙄 That absolutely could be lunch, plussed up with a slice of cheddar. Of course you’d need two or three of them. The black pepper + thyme is perfect with tomato.

Cutting the bread round seems like such a British tea sandwich thing to do😂

From the south here... Pretty much any way you put tomato, mayo, onion, and black pepper together it's GONNA be good.

I wonder what celery salt would've been like

My favorite summer sandwich is a thick slice of summer tomato that I put salt, pepper, sugar and cream of tarter on. Put it between two slices of bread spread lightly with Duke's mayo, and you're in heaven.

"Some black pepper"= ALL THE BLACK PEPPER!

I would have added a burger patty, cheese, mustard, pickles and lettuce.

This is literally the tomato sandwhich ive been making for years, everything except the ahapped bread and and thyme

sometimes simple is all you need for a sandwich.

You should have play lists by main ingredient (tomato, anchovy, etc)

Grillos now has a cookbook. Just so you know.

Have you ever done a cucumber sandwich?

Another great plus up would be thin slices of red onion!

Oh yeah. Yummy.

Oh yeah, it's finally that time of year when Barry makes all the sandwiches with tomato on them.

I expected fresh basil instead of thyme :O

Hard to improve upon a Tomato Sandwich - perhaps Japanese Milk Bread and Kewpie Mayo (the one WITH MSG) - honorary mention for Dukes.

It's almost like this guy eats one sandwich everyday

Some tomato with your black pepper sandwich? 😊

This is similar to am Italian tomato sandwich with the thyme swapped for fresh basil and celery salt.

there is always thyme for plus-ups

i'm starting to be convinced that the gaslight company has been purposely confusing me with their sandwich recipes....

Have you tried the Dale Earnhardt Jr banana and mayo? It’s pretty good, just a thin layer of may with banana sliced into rounds.

My first thought was to add dill and garlic. I approve of the thyme and pepper though.

I would probably make it a proper lunch sandwich by adding sliced ham and round provolone or Swiss cheese.

Dainty as well as tasty.

Id probably add a slice of cheese, but that sounds amazing. or a runny egg.

Chunky blue cheese dressing instead of mayo.

Needs a tin of soup pouring over it 😂

Just a pinch more salt please 😊 Found you because of my local news show.

Looks Tasty

Isn't really the only difference between this tomato sandwich and others is just the circular cut of the bread? Break it down it's still basically mayo, salt and pepper. We've seen that before right? Does the added shredded onion make that much difference?

It looked like basil to me. Maybe that would work too.

love me a tomato sammy

I think Milwaukee is trying to gas light me. Pepper always, pepper often. Fresh tomato in the summer is a pleasure, at least the ones that grow in Maryland, salt, pepper, mayo, hold the onions and leave that bread alone.

"Some" black pepper

➕⬆ Garlic powder!

Talk about a tomato sandwich!

Sandwichs for tea service

Tea sandwich?

Is there a wrong tomato sandwich?

Based on their name, is the cookbook publisher gaslighting us?

Really not all that different than Southern/Appalachian tomato sandwich... grated onion is the outlier. Definitely needs black pepper! Thanks Barry!

Barry do you think the Milwaukee Gas Light Company and the Vancouver Gas Company were at war with each other trying to make the best cookbook?

I grew up in actual poverty in the 1960s and a tomato sandwich was an easy and cheap stomach filler for us kids. None of this wasteful cutting the bread to be the same shape as the tomato, sliced tomatos in bread and butter. We also had banana sandwiches and pickled beetroot sandwiches, also flipping delicious and I still eat them now.

Good thing you didn't use a cherry tomato.

Like if you just made a similar sandwich using the first maters from your garden. That's the only way this sandwich actually works.

There's no Milwaukee Gaslight company, you're making it up for attention.

What's festive about it?

too mar toe.. get it right

Tomatoes are nothing more than sauce that isn't done yet. Nice sauce that isn't done yet sandwich.