History Main / DagwoodSandwich

* 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. [[FightForTheLastBite and 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]].

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.

-->-- '''Dean Winchester''', ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

** WebVideo/BingingWithBabish ''tried'' to make the order, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome but found it was unstable and pretty much impossible to build without falling apart]].[[labelnote:*]]Note that in the picture above, the creator has the sandwich laying ''horizontally'' instead of standing straight up.[[/labelnote]]

* In one episode of the cartoon adaptation of ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', Emily Elizabeth tells Clifford the story about how a dog named Speckle made this type of sandwich out of pumpernickel bread, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, etc. But a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs when he can't fit it into his mouth, so he shares it with his friends.
* In the producer's segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' episode "[[Recap/TheMagicSchoolBusS1E4GetsEaten Gets Eaten]]" Liz the lizard builds one out of the sandwich the producer had begun making...then takes it away, leaving the producer hungry.

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* The ultimate example is the "Earth Sandwich," in which two people travel to antipodal points in different countries, and each lay one slice of bread on the ground. Thankfully, no one has ever actually eaten the resulting sandwich.

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* Taken UpToEleven in the 1981 picture book ''The Biggest Sandwich Ever'' by Mort Gerberg. Two children join a bearded man in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin making a giant sandwich]]. It is [[GiantFood indeed giant]], requiring cement trucks to put butter on the giant bread, airplanes to drop meat and cheese, etc. The three characters even eat it all up!

* The [[http://www.heartattackgrill.com/ Heart Attack Grill]] in Las Vegas is an extreme hamburger joint that only serves these types of monstrosities. Considering some of the controversy surrounding them and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin having two spokesmen succumb to heart attacks]]... it's hard not to admire them for their sheer ''gall''.

** A memorable issue of ''Fantastic Four Adventures'' involved the [[Comicbook/{{Inhumans}} Inhumans']] giant teleporting dog Lockjaw stealing a cartoonishly enormous sandwich of Ben's, then getting indigestion and uncontrollably teleporting the team to random locations all over the world for the rest of the issue until his tummy felt better.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' Flash game ''VideoGame/SixTwoFiveSandwichStacker'' has you, playing as sandwich connoisseur Experiment 625/Reuben, try to build the biggest sandwich possible to [[ScoringPoints score more points]]. However, if you make your sandwich too tall, it will fall over, leading to an automatic GameOver.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The Medic is seen gifting the Heavy one in a [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:HolidaySandvich.jpg promotional Christmas card.]]

* The "Lunch Break" minigame from ''Fisher Price Big Action Construction'' allows you to create such a sandwich, even with non-food items like hard hats and hammers!
* The mobile phone game ''Sandwich!'' is a puzzle game where you build one of these by flipping one component onto another to make a an ever-growing stack of ingrdients.
* The "hot dogs" which Shaggy and Scooby make during Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''. They hardly even resemble hot dogs due to the amount of toppings (and the fact that they are topped with bread rather than buns).

* The "hot dogs" which Shaggy and Scooby make during Episode 2 of VideoGame/''ScoobyDooFirstFrights''. They hardly even resemble hot dogs due to the amount of toppings (and the fact that they are topped with bread rather than buns).

* So UsefulNotes/McDonalds is test-running a "Create your Taste" kiosk-based order. Simply put, you order your burger and customize what you want on it and how much at the touchscreen kiosk. So naturally, someone had the idea of ordering [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlf2qej33eU a burger with 10 of everything.]]
** Some gluttonous [=McDonald=]'s patrons invented something called the "[=McGangbang=]" (or the "Bababooey Burger" for those who don't wish to be vulgar) which consists of a [=McChicken=] placed inside a double-cheeseburger. A variant is the Mc10:35, which replaces the chicken burger with a breakfast sandwich (an [[TheArtifact Artifact]] of when breakfast stopped being served at 11:00 so hamburgers started being prepped at 10:30, meaning you had to get there at [[MeaningfulName 10:35]] to get one).

* ''Feast of Fiction'' [[{{Defictionalization}} made a few fictional examples IRL]], such as the Utimeatum [[note]]a burger inside a giant meatball, with regular-sized burgers as buns[[/note]] and the Death Sandwich [[note]]a ham-and-meatball sub made from a lengthwise-sliced loaf of bread[[/note]] from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. Both are predictably honking big. They also did the Vegan Cheesesteak (another size-of-a-child example) and the El Burdigato Supremo[[note]]An open-faced cheeseburger topped with hot dogs, and with a personal-pan pepperoni pizza, although F.O.F. used a tortilla with cheese and saussage slices-as the top of the bun[[/note]] from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''.

* Downplayed on Joshua Weissman's "...but Better!" series, which has him do this with a reverse-engineered Big Mac, which manages to stand many times taller than it's namesake despite still only being a double-decker sandwich, simply by virtue of being made with wholesome store-bought ingedients, such as home-made buns. He also did a philly cheesesteak sub (in another feature, titled "...at Home!,") that's about the size of a baby, out of an entire baguette sliced lengthwise, and massive ammounts of steak, cheese, onions, and peppers. Dagwood would be proud.
* ''Feast of Fiction'' [[{{Defictionalization}} made a few fictional examples IRL]], such as the Utimeatum [[note]]a burger inside a giant meatball, with regular-sized burgers as buns[[/note]] and the Death Sandwich [[note]]a ham-and-meatball sub made from a lengthwise-sliced loaf of bread[[/note]] from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. Both are predictably honking big. They also did the Vegan Cheesesteak (another size-of-a-child example) and the El Burdigato Supremo[[note]]An open-faced cheeseburger topped with hot dogs, and with a personal-pan pepperoni pizza as the top of the bun[[/note]] from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''.