History Main / DagwoodSandwich

* 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. (Though you can still order 25 of them at once.)

* Perry and Heinz Doofenshmirtz accidentally creates one on ''PhineasAnfFerb'' during a deli meat food fight in "Mommy Can You Hear Me?".

* In the HonorHarrington short story ''Miss Midshipwoman Harrington'', Honor makes one of these while on a break. Unfortunately, an alert forces her to report to the bridge before she can eat it.

* Dagwood Bumstead of ''{{Blondie}}'' is the TropeNamer. The term has entered the English language, as per the [[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Dagwoodsandwich.html Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable]].

As the page image demonstrates, these often have an olive and toothpick in the top, ostensibly to hold the massive stack together. In animation ([[GarfieldAndFriends Garfield]] notably) the sandwich will be consumed in one gulp without removing said toothpick. [[DontTryThisAtHome Don't try ''that'' at home]].

* In RobertAHeinlein's ''Glory Road'', Oscar mentions how he creates a "Dagwood" and offers a bite to a pretty girl at a party.
* Heinlein also has characters enjoying "Dagwood" sandwiches in ''The Number of the Beast'' and ''To Sail Beyond the Sunset.''

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* Sealab 2021 had a good example of this, with Stormy miraculously making one underwater after fixing a submarine in near-freezing temperatures.

* Peter from ''{{FoxTrot}}'', being a BigEater, has made several such sandwiches. One is dubbed "The Leaning Tower of Peter".

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* Dagwood Bumstead of ''{{Blondie}}'' is the TropeNamer. The term has entered the English language, as per the [[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Dagwoodsandwich.html Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable]].
* {{Garfield}} occasionally has these. [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1992/ga920424.gif One strip]] features a ridiculously tall sandwich falling on Jon.
* Peter from ''{{FoxTrot}}'', being a BigEater, has made several such sandwiches. One is dubbed "The Leaning Tower of Peter".

* There's a ''{{Zits}}'' comic out there where Jeremy ''unhinges his jaw'' to eat one of these.

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* ScoobyDoo and Shaggy both enjoy these. Not to be confused with the other trope "ScoobyStack".
** In newer cartoons, however, these sandwiches never contain meat, since voice actor Casey Kasem (who does Shaggy) became a vegetarian recently and insisted that all his characters eat vegetarian, too. Interestingly, Kasem's favorite kind of sandwich is apparently ''eggplant''.
* Tom of ''TomAndJerry'' also eats them on occasion.
* Sealab 2021 had a good example of this, with Stormy miraculously making one underwater after fixing a submarine in near-freezing temperatures.
* Happened to be Mickey Mouse's favorite in ''MickeyMouseWorks'' episode, "Mickey Tries to Cook."

* Mentioned by name in sci-fi children's book adaptation {{Zathura}}. The visiting astronaut immediately ransacks the main characters' fridge upon being rescued, and although the sandwich he makes isn't ludicrously huge, it's still pretty sizable.

* In RobertAHeinlein's ''Glory Road'', Oscar mentions how he creates a "Dagwood" and offers a bite to a pretty girl at a party.

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* 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. (Though you can still order 25 of them at once.)

* 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 on a bet ordered a 100x100 mega-burger, and the restaurant actually made it. 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. (Though you can still order 25 of them at once.)

You know, those ludicrously tall sandwiches that a BigEater makes. Often in WesternAnimation a common gag will be for a character to swallow it whole, only for it to expand and leave his neck in the shape of the towering sandwich.

* 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 two hamburger patties is a '2x2'. Three slices of cheese and three patties, '3x3', etc. Some people on a bet ordered a 100x100, and the restaurant actually made it. 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. (Though you can still order 25 of them at once.)

* After some drunken people ordered a 100×100, In-N-Out made a rule limiting burger size.