History Main / SatiatingSandwich

* Heavy in Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG, in keeping with his TF2 inspiration, is depicted as being absolutely obsessed with sandwhiches. The only way to get him to eat anything else is to tell him it is a sandwhich.
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Occasionally characters may comment on its simplicity, use wacky ingredients, or overstuff their sandwiches, but it's all the same basic food item.

Also see DagwoodSandwich. See also InherentlyFunnyWords, WastefulWishing, as a common part of that trope is the character wishing for a sandwich.

** He can also throw it to allies, and if he's killed anyone else can pick it up for 50 HP, except for the Scout, who gets 75 HP because he's shown knocking out a Heavy for his Sandvich in his Meet the Team video. One of the Scout's [[BondOneLiner one-liners]] for killing the Heavy is: "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! Eat! Your! Sandwiches!]] [[ThereWillBeBlood I eat 'em up]]!" Killing enough Scouts using the Natascha also alludes to Sandvich with the achievement title "Don't Touch Sandvich".

* In the ninth season of TabletopGames/TechInfantry, William Bishop eats quite a few sandwiches, to the point that it became a RunningGag.

* In ''{{Troll 2}}'', Joshua eats a double-decker bologna sandwich and so becomes powerful enough to defeat Creedence and the goblins.

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* In {{Discworld}}, Vimes likes bacon sandwiches, with lots of extra-crisp bacon and as little lettuce and tomato as he can get away with. (A wizard in ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' also liked bacon sandwiches enough to ask the Cabinet of Curiosity for one. This was a really bad idea.)

* ''TheFairlyOddparents'': When Timmy makes a sandwich [[HistoricalInJoke in colonial times]], he's hailed as a genius. He also once wished for a triple decker peanut butter and jelly sandwich in his lunch.

* ''SpongeBobSquarePants'': The Krabby Patties.

* TimeSquad once met the Earl of Sandwich himself as he came up with his invention. Unfortunately, he gave it the unfortunate name "Stinky Pile of Poo".

* The ever joyous and optimistic Mr Simmons on ''HeyArnold'' is pushed over the edge when Harold eats his sandwich. Up until that point nothing else truly bothered him while all the kids caused him a hard time. However, [[spoiler: Harold makes him a new sandwich as a way of saying he's sorry, and all is forgiven]].

* Village Bridge from ''PokemonBlackAndWhite'' has a mini-game where the player character recieves orders from customers and delivers berry sandwiches to them for a local baker.
* In ''KingdomOfLoathing'', there is a skill called Demand Sandwich available to players under the [[SelfImposedChallenge Avatar of Boris path]], because apparently Boris could demand sandwiches, "and somebody would do it, if somebody knew what was good for somebody".

* Nothing would make [[ElChavoDelOcho El Chavo]] happier than a ''torta de jamón''(ham sandwich).

* Nothing would make [[ElChavoDelOcho El Chavo]] happier than a Tortas de Jamón.(Ham Sandwich)

With the aid of a handy [[FourTermsFallacy logical fallacy]], one can prove that a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness: nothing is better than eternal happiness, and a ham sandwich is better than nothing.

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* Subverted in ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' ({{The Movie}}), when Harry asks Ron on the train if he'd like anything from the trolley. His expression and tone of voice when he pulls out his squashed corned beef sandwich and says "I'm set" is priceless.

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* In ''H2G2/{{Mostly Harmless}}'', Arthur has an existential crisis where, among other things, he faces the depressing fact that about the only thing he's any good at is making sandwiches. After Arthur's ship crash-lands on Lamuella, stranding him there among the bronze-age inhabitants, he ends up becoming a tribe's Sandwich Maker. The book spends three solid pages of a ten-page chapter describing how this is an [[SeriousBusiness exalted position]], and Arthur's unparalleled skill at making sandwiches is [[CrystalDragonJesus regarded as literally divine]], and he actually gets more respect than the village chief.

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* Horne Brothers in ''{{Twin Peaks}}''!
* In one ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' linking animation, a bacon, lettuce, [[SistineSteal Michelangelo's Adam]] and tomato sandwich is constructed.

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* The TrademarkFavoriteFood of Hobbes from ''CalvinAndHobbes'' is tuna sandwiches (Watterson established that fact in the very first daily strip of the comic).

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* Experiment 625 from ''{{Lilo and Stitch the Series}}'' was obsessed with sandwiches, and was even named after one: Reuben.

* ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'': The Krabby Patties.

* In one ''USAcres'' segment of ''GarfieldAndFriends'', Orson starts a diner and offers free food for a month if he can't make an order. [[JerkAss Roy]] naturally takes him up on it, ordering several strange items, including an extremely specific sandwich that turns out to be a special of the diner. They finally get tripped up by an elephant foot sandwich with mustard ''because they're out of mustard''.

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** He can also throw it to allies, and if he's killed anyone else can pick it up for 50 HP, except for the Scout, who gets 75 HP because he's shown knocking out a Heavy for his Sandvich in his Meet the Team video. One of the Scout's [[BondOneLiner one-liners]] for killing the Heavy is: "[[ThisIsSPARTA I! Eat! Your! Sandwiches!]] [[ThereWillBeBlood I eat 'em up]]!" Killing enough Scouts using the Natascha also alludes to Sandvich with the achievement title "Don't Touch Sandvich".

* ''{{xkcd}}'': [[http://xkcd.com/762/ "Analogies are like sandwiches in that I'm making one now."]]

* ''CommanderKeen : Aliens Ate My Babysitter!'' has a titanic floral obstacle with snapjaws and the biting of the people of the OH FLAYVEN, and Blaskowitz has to find him a similar sized, being titanic, sandwich in order to feed him and get the past of the plant creature you know of the being.

* ''CastleCrashers'' has sandwiches as a powerup item, which [[{{HyperactiveMetabolism}} don't restore any health]], but instead make you [[StealthPun beefier]] for a short time.

** He can also throw it to allies, and if he's killed anyone else can pick it up for 50 HP, except for the Scout, who gets 75 HP because he's shown knocking out a Heavy for his Sandvich in his Meet the Team video. One of the Scout's [[BondOneLiner one-liners]] for killing the Heavy is: "[[ThisIsSPARTA I! Eat! Your! Sandwiches!]] [[ThereWillBeBlood I eat 'em up]]!" Killing enough scouts using the Natascha also alludes to Sandvich with the achievement title "Don't Touch Sandvich".

* The ''VeggieTales'' story ''Esther: The Girl Who Became Queen'' has King Xerxes banish his queen at the beginning for refusing to make him a sandwich. Immediately afterward, he demands the same of his treacherous adviser Haman.

* In ''Film/StarTrek'', Scotty's first response to meeting Spock Prime is "You're from the future? That's brilliant. Do they have sandwiches there?"

** He can also throw it to allies, and if he's killed anyone else can pick it up for 50 HP, except for the Scout, who gets 75 HP because he's shown killing a Heavy for his Sandvich in his Meet the Team video. One of the Scout's [[BondOneLiner one-liners]] for killing the Heavy is: "[[ThisIsSPARTA I! Eat! Your! Sandwiches!]] [[ThereWillBeBlood I eat 'em up]]!" Killing enough scouts using the Natascha also alludes to Sandvich with the achievement title "Don't Touch Sandvich".

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* The [[http://www.steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/sandvich.htm Sandvich]] in ''TeamFortress2'' is an unlockable edible device for the Heavy. He must forsake having a secondary weapon to carry it, and must stand still and vulnerable for four seconds as he eats it with a hearty OM NOM NOM, but its delicious lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, meat and triangular slices of bread will [[HyperactiveMetabolism give him a healing boost of up to 300 HP]].