In October, the Tribunal will be covering Palermo’s Panelle, Yorkshire’s Parmo, and Utah’s Pastrami Burger.
The main draws of the sandwich are a great pile of rare, juicy roast beef and that vinegary, savory, very mildly sweet James River barbecue sauce, but it wouldn’t be a 3-Way without the mayo and cheese.
Black-eyed peas have a nutty flavor that, combined with the cooked onions sweetness, extra umami from the seasoning cubes and tomato paste, and the slight kick of habanero spice, give the bean spread more than enough flavor.
It’s hard to beat juicy steak, melted Oaxacan cheese, sweet and spicy onions and peppers, and a tart, rich, pungent guacamole topped with a hot homemade salsa, regardless of the quality of the tortillas.
I got serious bánh mì vibes from this sandwich. The savory/sweet mixture of meats and slightly sweet pickles pointed in that direction. A good quality demibagutte would have helped; cilantro and hot peppers would have sealed the deal.
Laughing Cow has a mild, creamy flavor that along with the neutral bulk added by the egg and potato, helps offset the fiery heat of the harissa nicely.
The Tribunal has been writing about sandwiches for 10 years now, and if we’ve learned anything, it’s to eat more sandwiches.
There’s more to the merguez frites than just the fries: harissa, spicy and smoky, bright and earthy; merguez, salty, fatty, warmly aromatic, now brightly citrusy; sauce Algérienne, spicy, savory, citrusy and sweet.
The sausage is hot, HOT, and the crisp casing snaps and bursts as you bite into it. It’s salty, fatty, garlicky, smoky, pungent with mustard, sweet and aromatic with cooked onion, with a spicy-sour kick from the hot peppers.
What’s not to like? It’s well-seasoned sausage–coriander and mace are the basic spices behind a lot of the world’s great sausages, and the bread crumbs help the sausage crisp up nicely in the pan.
The savory meat and vegetable mixture, aromatic and pungent, spicy with paprika and cumin and dried chilies, glues itself to the flatbread as it bakes, remaining moist yet adhering itself to the surface.
I was right to go with the good quality franks–that snap made this sandwich, and the beef flavor was an excellent foil for the donut bun, the sweet heat of the mustard, the sour crunch of the pickle relish
The layer of hot sausage is blanketed in mild, buttery cheese enhanced by the juicy tomato, sweetish gherkins with just a hint of spice, and pickled chilies that make up for the lack of aggression with a pungent brininess and heat
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