History Main / SatiatingSandwich

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMfzUZNXRbE Meet The Sandvich!]]

* ''Film/BackToSchool'': Creator/RodneyDangerfield, not satisfied with the hors' dervoues at a school function, grabs a loaf of bread and turns the buffet into an impromtu sandwich, containing among other things, deviled eggs, meatballs and spinach puffs.

* ''Film/BackToSchool'': Creator/RogerDangerfield, not satisfied with the hors' dervoues at a school function, grabs a loaf of bread and turns the buffet into an impromtu sandwich, containing among other things, deviled eggs, meatballs and spinach puffs.

* In ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' when the stranded astronaut arrives in Danny and Walter's house, one of the first things he does is make himself a sandwich.

** Some VideoGame/GarrysMod videos will take this gag even further, depicting the Heavy as being absolutely obsessed with sandwhiches to the point where he refuses to eat anything else.

** Don't forget Hermes and his Manwich.

* ''[[Series/TheElectricCompany1971 The Electric Company]]'': The sandwich featured in the "And Sandwich" skit starts out like a delicious, mouth-watering delicacy. But, as the waiter (Jim Boyd) exchanges glances with the cook (Luis Avalos) and names the ingredients – "ham and cheese and tomato and bacon and lettuce and baloney and cream cheese and celery and chopped meat and soy sauce and coleslaw and meat loaf and pot roast and olives and tuna fish and turkey and shrimp and corned beef and peanut butter and liverwurst" – it soon becomes an inedible, nauseating mishmash of randomly thrown-together ingredients. In the end, the customer (Rita Moreno) declares she doesn't want the oversized sandwich: The restaurant doesn't have salami ... causing Boyd to collapse in frustration.

* ''[[Series/TheElectricCompany1971 The Electric Company]]'': The sandwich featured in the "And Sandwich" skit starts out like a delicious, mouth-watering delicacy. But, as the waiter (Jim Boyd) exchanges glances with the cook (Luis Avalos) and names the ingredients – "ham and cheese and tomato and bacon and lettuce and baloney and cream cheese and celery and chopped meat and soy sauce and coleslaw and meat loaf and pot roast and olives and tuna fish and turkey and shrimp and corned beef and peanut butter and liverwurst" – it soon becomes an inedible, nauseating mishmash of randomly thrown-together ingredients. In the end, the customer (Rita Moreno) declares she doesn't want it: The restaurant doesn't have salami ... causing Boyd to collapse in frustration.

** Subverted in ''PokerNightAtTheInventory''. The Heavy might express a desire for a sandwich, but when he mentions that it puts him on a killing rampage, [[Webcomic/PennyArcade Tycho]] just tells him to have a glass of water.
* The NES game ''DragonPower'', an old {{Macekre}} of the very first ''Franchise/DragonBall'' home game, replaced Master Roshi's demand for underwear with one for sandwiches.

** Another episode has the "Silly Songs With Larry" segment hijacked by Mr. Lunt, who sings an [[EarWorm obnoxiously catchy]] love song about Jimmy Gourd's desire for a cheeseburger.

* ''VideoGame/TheSims2'': Grilled cheese aspiration.

* 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?" (Already established is the lack of sandwiches in Scotty's vicinity, since he works on an ice moon in the middle of nowhere and nobody's bothered to send food in some time.)

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': In the 1st season episode "The Hub" before Fitz goes off on his first field assignment, Simmons makes his favorite sandwich for him; prosciutto and buffalo mozzarella with a hint of homemade pesto aioli. Regrettably he never gets a chance to eat the thing, as Ward throws it out to distract some wolves from attacking them, but he assures Simmons later that it was delicious.

* The NES game ''DragonPower'', an old {{Macekre}} of the very first ''DragonBall'' home game, replaced Master Roshi's demand for underwear with one for sandwiches.

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[[folder:Anime And Manga]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'': Smiley Bone thinks the most beautiful sound in the world is a sandwich being born.
* In the ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' story where Carnage first appeared, he was hiding out in a former victim's apartment, planning his next move, and decided to make a sandwich first; he was upset that the refrigerator had no Grey Poupon mustard.

[[folder:Fanfic]]

[[folder:Film]]
* 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?" (Already established is the lack of sandwiches in Scotty's vicinity, since he works on an ice moon in the middle of nowhere and nobody's bothered to send food in some time.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' the first thing Flint has the FLDSMDFR make is a cheeseburger, which ends up being a shower of cheeseburgers that kicks off the plot. Later, when the mayor asks him to "do lunch," he makes it rain sandwiches, and [[spoiler:during the Perfect Food Storm, the [[MonumentalDamage Eiffel Tower becomes a toothpick]] for a giant BLT]].
* In ''Film/{{Troll 2}}'', Joshua eats a double-decker bologna sandwich and so becomes powerful enough to defeat Creedence and the goblins.
* Subverted in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' (TheMovie), 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.
* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'' featured a restaurant that sold the diablo sandwich. While there is no definitive source for the composition of it, the program ''Reel Eats'' made one resembling a sloppy joe-with seasoned ground beef, corn and sour cream, while the Hickory House restaurant in Georgia has their version, a pulled pork and hot sauce sandwich on a hamburger roll.
* In ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' when the stranded astronaut arrives in Danny and Walter's house, one of the first things he does is make himself a sandwich.
* The gamer kid in ''Film/{{Gamer}}'' is introduced spreading green stuff onto bread and making a sandwich out of it before kicking ass in his video game. Later he recommends the "pistachio butter sandwiches" to some police.
* In ''Film/IronMan3'', Tony Stark is using a kid's garage to repair his damaged suit and bunk down. He gives the kid a LongList of supplies he needs, ending with a tuna fish sandwich.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Miracle Max thinks an MLT, a mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, is better than true love.
* In ''Film/BadSanta'', The Kid is ''obsessed'' with making people sandwiches. Carried over into the sequel where he now works at a sandwich shop.

[[folder:Literature]]
* Subverted in ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass''. When the White King feels faint, he asks his messenger for a ham sandwich. It doesn't help much, and when he asks for a second one, the messenger only has hay left, so the King settles for that. The hay seems to make him feel a lot better.
* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
** In ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', 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.
** Subverted, though, in another ''Hitchhiker'' book, when Douglas Adams takes up a good chunk of narration explaining that the English eat sandwiches (specifically, the sort of sandwiches you get in pubs and British Rail buffet cars) to atone for their collective sins.
* After ''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[spoiler:saves the world and has closure with Dumbledore]], he just wants to go up to his bed and wonders if Kreacher will bring him a sandwich there.
* In ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'', one of the first things Mrs. W does when she visits Meg's home is to ask for a tuna salad sandwich. Though Meg isn't exactly thrilled that a complete stranger just arrived uninvited, she nonetheless makes the sandwich and even adds some diced sweet pickle.
* In ''Literature/{{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.)
* Roland, of ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series, is a big fan of "tooter fish" (tuna fish) sandwiches and soda after starving in the desert for a few days. Hot dogs are still only tolerable.
* ''Literature/TheAmyVirus'': The first meal Cyan has after [[spoiler: she runs away from her AbusiveParents]] is a Subway sandwich with pretty much everything on it.
* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Literature/SirAproposOfNothing'' when the protagonists are forced to act as servants at a warlord's banquet: since they're only allowed bread and water, they hide as many meats and other more filling ingredients between slices of bread as possible, thereby inventing the sandwich in their world. Sir Apropos still thinks that ItWillNeverCatchOn.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Although Joey from ''Series/{{Friends}}'' was always a BigEater, the episode with the trivia contest confirmed that his favorite food is "sandwiches". Other episodes have people distracting him with specifically a meatball sandwich.
** In "TOW The Ride Along", when the boys think they hear a gunshot, Joey covers Ross instinctively, which bothers Chandler. At the end of the episode, Joey reassures him that he wasn't protecting Ross over Chandler: he was protecting the sub sandwich he bought in an earlier scene.
* Wilder from ''Series/TheLatestBuzz'' was obsessed with creating the perfect sandwich.
* Horne Brothers in ''Series/TwinPeaks''!
* In one ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' linking animation, a bacon, lettuce, [[SistineSteal Michelangelo's Adam]] and tomato sandwich is constructed.
* Nothing would make [[Series/ElChavoDelOcho El Chavo]] happier than a ''torta de jamón'' (ham sandwich).
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', [[BigEater Dean]] loves a good sandwich, with a fondness for cheeseburgers, but in the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E20WhatIsAndWhatShouldNeverBe "What Is And What Should Never Be" (S02, Ep20)]] Dean declares a sandwich made by his mother "the best sandwich, ever!"
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'',
** Tim plugs [[LocalHangout Big Mike's Tavern]] on his show, which has a sandwich called a Stinky, which includes Limburger cheese, sauerkraut, Bermuda onion and hot mustard. (Apparently it's better than it's name suggests, although Tim declines to order one the second time he goes there, claiming he's still digesting the first.)
** Tim finds Al's sandwiches rather satisfying in one episode, even though they're "only" ham and cheese. (Of course, in the episode in question, they had been working on the hot rod a long time, and were pretty hungry.)
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': In the 1st season episode "The Hub" before Fitz goes off on his first field assignment, Simmons makes his favorite sandwich for him; prosciutto and buffalo mozzarella with a hint of homemade pesto aioli. Regrettably he never gets a chance to eat the thing, as Ward throws it out to distract some wolves from attacking them, but he assures Simmons later that it was delicious.

[[folder:Music]]
* Per Bob King:
-->''Sandwiches are beautiful,''
-->''Sandwiches are fine.''
-->''I like sandwiches, I eat them all the time;''
-->''I eat them for my supper and I eat them for my lunch;''
-->''If I had a hundred sandwiches, I'd eat them all at once.''
** Fred Penner and the crowd at the The Pit Pub would [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FetuiDle3rc agree.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUDqQSwdBjM Sandwich, sandwich, I'm in love with you...]]

[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* The TrademarkFavoriteFood of Hobbes from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' is tuna sandwiches (Watterson established that fact in the very first daily strip of the comic).
** In one strip, Calvin asks Hobbes what he'd wish for if he could have anything in the world. Hobbes says, "A sandwich." Calvin accuses him of being unimaginative: ''he'd'' wish for "a trillion billion dollars, my own space shuttle, and a private continent!" Hobbes may not be all that creative, but at least he gets ''his'' wish.
** When Calvin and Hobbes attempt to emigrate to Alaska, the only food Calvin packs is two sandwiches. He puts chocolate syrup on one, and marshmallows in the other, cramming as much sugar in the sandwiches as possible to get as much energy they can.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' has the tall, multi-layered [[DagwoodSandwich Dagwood sandwiches]].
* ''ComicStrip/PopeyeTheSailor'': Wimpy will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
** Charlie Brown always has peanut butter sandwiches for lunch while at school, but the fact that he tends to think about his troubles during lunch break tend to keep him from enjoying it. In one strip, when he sits alone while watching the Little Red Haired Girl, he says "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter like unrequited love!"
** In one week-long series of strips, Charlie Brown ran out of dog foot, so he made Snoopy a ''really'' big hoagie that took him the whole week to eat (which he finished on the strip that ran on Christmas Day, where he left the crumbs for the birds, using them to spell out "Merry Christmas"). In one of the six strips, he goaded the mean cat next door, saying that if he came near him again, "I'll hit you with my sandwich!" And in another one, he was dozing, and then heard footsteps, and then saw Woodstock when he opened his eyes. "I knew I heard someone walking on my sandwich!" he mused.
* NewspaperComics/{{Garfield}} makes a "dessertwitch" in [[https://garfield.com/comic/2016/08/27 this strip.]]

[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
* Mike Wilmot had this bit at the Just for Laughs festival:
-->I think a fair way to judge any race of people is to try their sandwich. If you have a problem with the Lebanese, go get a chicken shawarma. Only sweet people make a good sandwich. If you have a problem with Jews, go down to Schwartz's Deli, get a smoked meat sandwich. The only problem you'll have with Jews after that is that you don't know enough of 'em. Now, the ''Chinese''... no sandwiches. That's all I'm sayin'.

[[folder:Roleplaying Games]]
* In Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG, in keeping with his ''Videogame/TeamFortress2'' inspiration, Ivan "Heavy" Tzenovich's favorite food is sandwiches. Atton Rand tends to [[{{Flanderization}} flanderize]] this to the point where Ivan will refuse to eat anything else.[[note]]Unless he is told that it is a sandwich.[[/note]]

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

* ''WesternAnimation/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.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseWorks'' cartoon "Mickey Tries to Cook," Mickey is a OneNoteCook who only makes sandwiches with ham, tomato and cheese in any assortment.
** At the end of the cartoon, Jose Carioca has brought ''the exact same thing'', but [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench described it to Minnie in Portuguese.]]

[[NoIndoorVoice VATS DAT,]] [[HuskyRusskie SANDVICH?]] [[KillEmAll KILL ZEM ALL?]] [[CloudCuckoolander GOOD IDEA!]]

** ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': In the 1st season episode "The Hub" before Fitz goes off on his first field assignment, Simmons makes his favorite sandwich for him; prosciutto and buffalo mozzarella with a hint of homemade pesto aioli.

** Subverted in ''PokerNightAtTheInventory''. The Heavy might express a desire for a sandwich, but when he mentions that it puts him on a killing rampage, [[PennyArcade Tycho]] just tells him to have a glass of water.

* Thanks to awkward phrasing in its source fic, the ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum Video Game Division once had to hunt down a walking zombie-killing sandwich.

[[caption-width-right:241:OM NOM NOM, NOM NOM. [[LargeHam MOIST AND DELICIOUS! HA HA!]]]]