History Main / DagwoodSandwich

** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1992/ga920424.gif One strip]] features a ridiculously tall sandwich falling on Jon. Another time he made a horizontal one that went all the way across the street.

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* [[http://www.springbok-puzzles.com/product/snack-stack-500-pieces-puzzle This]] Springbok jigsaw puzzle.

** The main difference is the lack of variety. These things are known as Bypass Burgers, and contain anywhere up to four eight-ounce patties (that's up to ''almost a kilo'' of beef), optional (greasy) bacon, cheese, red onion, sliced tomato and the special sauce. And then there's the '''Octuple Bypass Burger''', 8 patties stacked on top of each other with or without toppings.

* On ''TV Colosso'', a man made the world's tallest sandwich and would show it on television but two network employees ate so much of it the remains weren't taller than a regular sandwich.
* In the Creator/{{ITV}} SaturdayMorningKidsShow ''No. 73'', the daring, dazzling, delectable, delicatessable, dangerous, death-defyingly dull Sandwich Quiz kept score with these. Every time a contestant got a right answer they added another filling and slice of bread to their plate.

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The name is commonly believed to have originated with Dagwood Bumstead from the newspaper comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'', the character being famous for making a sandwich by filling an entire, long bread stick often referred to as a French Loaf[[note]]a baguette, in common tongue[[/note]] with various ingredients, hence this trope can also apply to ridiculously long sandwiches as well as to ridiculously tall ones.

* Dagwood Bumstead of ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' is the TropeNamer, although Dagwood originally created a ridiculously long sandwich rather than a ridiculously tall one by using a long loaf often called a French Loaf. Later, he began to build tall sandwiches as well. The term has entered the English language, as per the [[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Dagwoodsandwich.html Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.]] He was once shown using a hand drill to take out the center of one of these... and then inserting a frankfurter into the center as a dowel.

As the page image demonstrates, these often have an olive and toothpick in the top, ostensibly to hold the massive stack together. In animation, (WesternAnimation/{{Garfield|AndFriends}}, notably) the sandwich will be consumed in one gulp without removing said toothpick, since [[RubberOrifice the character's mouth can get as big as it needs to be]]. [[DontTryThisAtHome Don't try THAT at home]].

* Five Guys is a burger chain that does a downplayed version of this. You can have one or two patties, plus bacon and cheese, then add whatever other toppings they have on their menu at no charge: lettuce, tomato, onions, mushrooms, jalapenos, pickles, relish, green peppers, and a variety of sauces. It's common for the condiments to be spilling out of the bun when you get it.

* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'': For the Create an exotic sandwich task in "Tony Three Pies", Mel opts for a multi-decker sandwich with ingredients including Nutella chocolate spread, chocolate orange slices, various chocolate bars, M&Ms, Maltesers, and marshmallows. She describes the end result as a "Japanese pagoda" of a sandwich.

* To celebrate the Launch of Windows 7, Burger King Japan released the "Windows 7 Whopper", a Version of the Whopper Burger with a total of seven patties.

* As noted above, the [[https://goo.gl/rDGCnb Smørrebrød,]] Danish open-face sandwiches stacked pretty much anything. They're typically eaten with knife and fork rather than attempting to pick them up.

* To Celebrate the Launch of Windows 7, Burger King Japan released "Windows 7 Whopper", a Version of the Whopper Burger with a total of seven patties.

* One boss microgame in ''VideoGame/WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' requires you to put down the Wii remote and [[WaitingPuzzle wait]] as a multitude of ingredients fall onto a sandwich. You must pick up the remote as soon as the top piece of bread lands or you will fail.

* Played for Laughs in ''ComicBook/AlanFord'', where former Nazi Doktor Kreuzer makes a sandwich so full of ingredients they promptly pop out of the slices when he tries to bite it. Then this happens over his console, which causes him to push a button that accidentally turns his boss in a HumanPopsicle, while trying to recover the ingredients.

* One ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'' gag had the eponymous pre-teen and his friends eat at a fast food restaurant selling such sandwiches. Titeuf's friends eat their sandwiches one layer at a time, but Titeuf brags about taking a full bite in it. He ends up projecting the sandwich's content on one of his friends when trying to take a bite.

* In-N-Out Burger in the American Southwest allows hamburgers and cheeseburgers to be ordered this way. A cheeseburger with two slices of cheese and three hamburger patties is a '2x3'. Three slices of cheese and three patties becomes a '3x3', etc. Some people ordered a 100x100 mega-burger, and the restaurant actually made it. [[http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/20060125050438458 After the incident was posted about online,]] there arose concerns that the meat of such a large burger wasn't being cooked thoroughly. As a result, the burgers now have a limit of no bigger than 4x4. [[LoopholeAbuse (Though you can still order 25 of them at once.)]]

-->'''Cashier:''' "Watcha gonna have?"
-->'''Mitch:''' "A pastrami sandwich!"
-->'''Cashier:''' "Would you like anything with that?"
-->'''Mitch:''' "Yeah. A loaf of bread, and some other ''people!''"

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* In [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/3534506/chapters/7776995 Chapter 3]] of ''Literature/{{Discworld}} Sandwiches'' by [=BaronVonChop=] (which, as the title suggests, is about various Discworld characters having sandwiches) the wizards are making sandwiches for an expedition into L-Space, which, Discworld wizards being what they are, means "elaborate piles of food they were stacking between tiny slices of bread". Ridcully points out that the initial aim was for the sandwiches to be ''portable''. (His own creation is just as large but easier to carry; he began by taking a whole loaf of bread and slicing it ''horizontally''.)
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* One ''[=R/AITAH=]'' (Am I The [=AssHole?=]) post had a guy get yelled at because he ate three feet of a Party Sub (as the name suggests, a sub sandwich meant to feed a whole party) by himself. The Consensus was that yes, he was, because it was meant for everybody and he ate about half of it. [[FightForTheLastBite Worse yet, he finished it]].

As the page image demonstrates, these often have an olive and toothpick in the top, ostensibly to hold the massive stack together. In animation, (WesternAnimation/{{Garfield|AndFriends}}, notably) the sandwich will be consumed in one gulp without removing said toothpick, since the character's mouth can get as big as it needs to be. [[DontTryThisAtHome Don't try THAT at home]].

* Creator/MitchHedberg talked about how New York deli sandwiches are piled much too high with lunchmeats, with the results looking like "a cow with a cracker on either side".

-->'''Cashier:''' "Can I get you anything else?"