Using Science To Choose The Best Sandwich Ever 

35:41 “The falafel pita has one principal problem. It’s the pita.” 36:43 “Can I tell you another weakness with the falafel pita? It’s the falafel.” NL ragged on both integral parts to the falafel pita, and I still honestly thought he was about to pick it. Love this kind of content.

"This looks like a work schedule" - Ryan attacking the Liverwurst sandwich without mercy

16:20 "The Reuben, on the otherhand, it's as if made by God." My sentiments exactly.

I just watched this man run a bracket on sandwiches for 41 minutes at 1 AM. I don't know what my life has become, but I have no regrets. Yessir.

damn repentance looks tight

No one: NL: Caprese, what can I say. I like a Capri Sun.

I overestimated how much he cared about bread integrity and was completely blindsided by his love for falafel lol.

The 18 hour pita vs cubano argument had me enthralled

29:00 Liverwurst contains its self as an ingredient, It's a fractal sandwich.

I fucking lost it at the Cucumber Tea vs Kentucky Hot Brown fight.

"If you rearrange the letters in caprese you get 'ecapers'!" This man's thoughts and motivations are beyond our understanding.

Whoever set up these starting brackets is insane

Im saying this a former manager at many delis and sub restaurants. Cuban is solid no doubt, but I want to sell you on something I bet you've never had. Take some honey ham, sliced how you like it. Lay some out like a bed, add a layer sliced provolone, fold that once to the size of the sandwich and drop it on a hot pan. Let it sizzle for a bit, flip it. You know you are nailing it when the ham is browning in parts on the cooked side. Have a good sub roll prepared with mayo and lettuce. Drop the hot ham and provolone on that, add white onions and sliced tomato. Just a dash of oregano to the top, close that and enjoy! I wasn't a fan of ham until I tried it with melted provolone and all the fix. Add yes sirs to your liking 😉 Big respect to NL for not dissing the grilled cheese. He is right, you can do fantastic things to them. Lately I've been melting cheddar on ciabattas with slices of roma tomato added after taking out of the toaster oven. Another favorite is melted mozzarella on thin focaccia with roma, basil leaves and a dash of Italian red oil and pesto.

NL calls himself a Seinfeld fan but cant even recognize a marbled rye when he sees it

If you go to a restaurant that has Thanksgiving sandwiches you will understand that it is good in march, june, and especially september, the biggest push back against a Thanksgiving sandwich is the sheer amount of work and different uncommon parts that are needed to comprise it, not the enjoyment of eating it

I still revisit this video. This is a certified northern lion classic

NL being the egg, it makes perfect sense that the smashed egg sandwich is your worst nightmare.

"That could be paper, it wouldn't change the quality [of a bologna sandwich]" Great sandwich burn

Was eating a grilled cheese sandwich while NL was describing the power of the fried bread and I could relate on a spiritual level with what he was saying

I think this format is a lot stronger than the tier list format but idk why

this video is the best thing since sliced bread

my man out here getting nostalgic for ham edit: cubano gang let's goooo

Not to backseat, but you accidentally didn't end with reuben vs. gyro.

Egg's patty melt take made me feel similar to how Caesar felt when Brutus stabbed him

I really just watched a grown man critique sandwiches for 40 minutes, what a world.

"I would rather have a falafel Pita than a Gyro" This man is insane

Dude I love my grandma to death but when she brings egg salad sometimes I consider asking her to leave

This is definitely march madness

I have eaten like 3 to 4 of these sandwiches at most and NL is over here saying "... I've eaten some of these in my time"

The Italian beef is basically a French dip but they’ve pre-dipped the entire sandwich for you. I agree that there’s no question but the answer is the Italian,

My man spent 40 minutes doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but discussing the relative merits of sandwiches, and it's a contender for a Top Ten All-Time NL Vid for me.

This man really eliminated the blt, the pulled pork, and the party melt all in the first round. Three of the greatest sandwiches of all time. The audacity.

Blt vs fried chicken sandwhich is like setting the first and second seeds against eachother in the first round, my god.

I don't think I could name another person that could talk about sandwiches and keep me entertained the entire time

Man disrespects the meatballs for being round but falafels are immune and almost won!

I just want to point out that if you order a Reuben in Montreal, you will get Montreal style smoke meat instead of corn beef. It makes it a much more flavourful sandwich. Once you've had a Reuben in Montreal, it is hard to order one in any other city because it just isn't as good.

The rueben disrespect hurts. At its peak it might be unrivaled

The grilled cheese over the gyro had me in shock, heated even.

im 23 and i just had ham the other night, mom makes a good ham, pair it with some pineapple and im absolutely pogged outta my gourd

I never thought someone would think so deeply about this- i mean it’s beautiful quite frankly

Gotta say, the po'boy was done super dirty there because of NL's ignorance. NL *has* to try those things out. Like a bad po'boy is a good sandwich, but a good po'boy (like in the heart of nola) is transcendent.

Yessssssss! I caught this live but I really wanted to send this to a few of my friends! Thanks for uploading this :)

The purpose of the cucumber sandwich is something to be politely quiet with while someone else is talking.

This is actually an insanely good bracket.

I'm 23, my mom makes some great maple ham!

NL: Spends the first 3 minutes talking about how much he loves ham Also NL: Picks Reuben over Monte Cristo

My mental health wake-up call was when NL said "this is a depression sandwich" as Im actively digesting a bologna...

Bocadillos are amazing! Good Spanish bread, you rub the cut side of the bread with tomato, maybe lard, maybe olive oil, and put some jamon serrano (Spanish ham) on it. More than the sum of its parts!

I may not agree with every choice, heck, I may have even become enraged once or twice, but I respect the hell out of this guy's sandwich opinions

Just wanted to add that I'm 20 and I eat ham for dinner just depends for me which meat I haven't had for a while. Can also agree that I miss ham as I think it has been about a month since I had any.

ryans never had a better take than his one for the meatball sub, meatloaf sub comments included

8:32 I've never seen a man so proud to have eaten a sandwich. Golden content NL.

NL looking strung out on the thumbnail lmao. That peloton life got him looking healthier than ever now, it's like night and day.

oh my god you made me crave ham, scalloped potatoes, and green beans

bruh I ate that bologna sandwich basically every day of my childhood and then chef boyardee for dinner

Not what I expected to watch Christmas morning, but here we are.

Ham & Kielbasa are my two favorite meats. if i could have the big hams my family gets at thanksgiving every couple months, i'd be a very happy man.

@Northernlion A Bocadillo is a Spanish sandwich. Typically, it's made out of Jamón Serrano (the Spanish equivalent of Parma ham) and with some Spanish hard cheese (similar to Parmesan cheese, but typically a little softer and less intense, especially the one you would put on a sandwich), on a Spanish baguette (Spain has some of the world's best bread btw). In short, it's normally as good as a sandwich gets... just supreme ingredients on a great bread. Also, super easy/great for bringing with you; just wrap it in some plastic foil, and it will stay fresh for a couple of days in room temperature.

the e-capers joke is fucking divine

I dig the falafel obsession. The grilled cheese beating stuff, that was bazaar.

Now I really am craving a holiday spiral ham.

Oh yeah this is the content we're all here for. Praise Lord NL for the poggest content ever.

"This looks like a work schedule" had me dying

I love meatball subs and egg salad bagels, that side of the bracket hurt me emotionally

Monte Cristo vs reuban is an insane first round match up and it's so unfortunate. Whoever won that match up would win the western conference for me.

Nothin like a nice thick ham slice during the holidays.

I've never been so emotionally conflicted on these choices. I can respect the bread integrity arguments, as well as specific ingredients preference.

the ending monologue is one of the best in all of cinema

A few of these had no wrong answer, but this man picked the right answer every. Single. Time. He cannot be stopped.

I also for a long time subscribed to adding banana to the PB&J, but after a couple years I grew tired of it. Now I think it's too sweet that way, which isn't what I'm looking for in a breakfast. With that said, falafel pita is the best sandwich, and nothing really comes close for me.

there is absolutely variance in pita, you can get some incredible pita bread at the right place

The content I have waited 10 years for

The Cubano is genuinely my favorite sandwich, I even ran it as a special at my last job at a restaurant on st pattys day(that had many of these sandwiches on its menu already) and we sold so many they put it on the new menu. The only thing we sold more that day was Reubens. I think you underrate banh mi and reuben and need to treat yourself to a real jambon beurre but regardless I don't think I've ever agreed with an opinion bracket more.

The meatball sandwich disrespect breaks my heart

I have never eaten a banh mi even though I am so curious. The only reason is because there is no way in hell I am ever passing up a chance to eat Pho instead.

They were too afraid to put a shredded chicken on this list.

I don't know if it's always been the case, but the sub highlight around the cam is not centered and now I cant unsee it. there's a thin black vertical strip still visible on the left

That caprice (kha-pray-zay) pronunciation is on point!

Cucumber tea sandwiches are great... but whoever wrote that book had never had one. Take your wheat bread, make sure it's nice and fluffy and fresh. Cut it into slices. Cut the crusts off the slices. Slice your cucumber into decent sized chunks about 3mm to 6mm thick. Spread salted butter on one side, cream cheese on the other with a layer of cucumber in between. Cut into triangles. Amazing sandwich that is incredibly light and refreshing. Great at afternoon teas alongside petite fours.

just listening to him say sandwich over and over is weirdly calming

Giardiniera is a mixture of vegetables (peppers, celery, carrots, cauliflower, cucumber) marinated in oil and vinegar with herbs and spices. Chicago style is chili-spicy and has olives. Either way it's a hard to beat as an additional filling in a meat sandwich.

As someone from the UK I get your cucumber tea statement that it's very us but I also think it sounds depressing af and would never eat it

you've lost your god damn mind taking grilled cheese over gyro

Italian beef is just a better French Dip. It has au jus, but also giardiniera which is pickled vegetables, most notably sweet peppers.

I may not agree with some of these decisions but dammit do I respect you for the courage to put this up. *Jeremiah Johnson gif*

It's good to know you would make the right decision with the Cubano

Blasting the Monte Cristo in round one... Very sad he's never had it with jam, that's the part that makes it stand out as great. There's this local place that serves it on special raspberry bread and then slathered in a homemade raspberry jam.

As a New Yorker I'll be judging your choices very heavily. Edit: You failed the test, mister

I tackled this bracket thinking about the best version of these sandwiches I've ever had

A po'boy is absolutely delicious. Theres a place near me that serves them with alligator meat, and let me tell you, cretaceous critters have never tasted so good. Edit: NL, nobody eats a thanksgiving sandwich at other times of year because nobody wants to cook an entire thanksgiving dinner when they could just throw some cold cuts and cheese on some bread and call it a day. There’s an extraordinary labor cost associated with the thanksgiving sandwich that makes it impractical unless the labor has already been supplemented, as it has on thanksgiving when you have leftovers, but this does not lower its value. It’s a delicious thing, and one of the best side-benefits of the holiday, it’s just a pain to cook a whole turkey and a whole bunch of side dishes, so most people won’t bother unless it’s a special occasion.

You would enjoy a Swedish Christmas buffet, ham is the centerpiece.

"...It's insulting... still got it everytime"

This video felt like a fuckin fever dream.

38:48 The hardest decisions require the strongest of wills

Bologna sandwich as depression sandwich is pretty good description. Good thing I exclude the piece of paper and mustard, thus technically having a different sandwich and not depression.

the absurdity of the torta and the fact that nl had it truly baffles me

I don't know who this boomer is or why RU-vidr recommended this video but I am enjoying watching this guy rate sandwiches

NL if you ever find yourself in Iowa City or Omaha, you must stop at Oasis to experience the truly sublime falafel pita. It is a truly transcendental experience that may just be powerful enough to singlehandedly reverse your final decision.

Nothin beats a cucumber sandwich with a big glass of warm water! 😂

the only thing i was struggling to accept was how strong an oppinion you had against egg sald sandwich